Hubert Crackanthorpe Selected Writings

Author : William Greenslade,Emanuela Ettorre
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781889664

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Hubert Crackanthorpe: Selected Writings by William Greenslade,Emanuela Ettorre Pdf

Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870-1896) made a critically significant contribution to the evolution of the modernist short story in Britain. His unexplained death in Paris at the age of 26 cut short a highly promising literary career. The striking realism of Crackanthorpe's first collection of short stories, Wreckage (1893), followed by the psychologically complex Sentimental Studies and posthumous Last Studies (1896), together with the prose poems of Vignettes (1896), were much admired by Henry James and his contemporaries, Dowson, Johnson and Symons, as the work of a leading, innovative writer of critical Decadence. Indeed his stories combine an unrelenting realism with a conscious aestheticizing of their often troubling, bleak subject matter. As co-editor of the short-lived periodical, The Albermarle and campaigning literary journalist, Crackanthorpe was a key critical participant in central literary and artistic debates of the early 1890s: 'facts' versus 'effects' in literature; the efficacy of realism/naturalism; questions of taste, 'reticence' and the handling of controversial subject matter. This fully annotated, critical text comprises the most extensive collection to date of Crackanthorpe's writing. As well as uncollected stories, the volume includes a short story never previously published in book form. This edition also contains a selection of Crackanthorpe's critical writings and a bibliographical survey of his work.

Author : Hubert Crackanthorpe
Publisher : Miniature Masterpieces
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1839677260

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The Yellow Book by Hubert Crackanthorpe by Hubert Crackanthorpe Pdf

Hubert Montague Crackanthorpe was born on 12th May 1870. Crackanthorpe began life in the literary world as an editor on The Albemarle periodical before authoring short stories some of which were published in the illustrated quarterly The Yellow Book in the years before his early death as well as several other periodicals. In 1893 Crackanthorpe married Leila Macdonald, another writer, and also published in The Yellow Book. Leila was financially astute and was the recipient of a large inheritance. Crackanthorpe appears not to have had his partner's financial acumen. The marriage began to fail rapidly after 1895. She miscarried in 1896 because of a venereal infection she contracted from Hubert and soon after she left Hubert and travelled to Italy. Crackanthorpe promptly began an affair with Sissie Welch, the sister of Richard Le Gallienne. Crackanthorpe attempted a reconciliation with Leila, who was now living in Paris with a lover of her own. They set up house once more with their lovers in tow. This complicated arrangement soon fell apart and Leila left him for good on 4th November 1896. Hubert Crackanthorpe's body was found in the Seine on Christmas Eve. It is unknown whether he was a victim of foul play, or if he succumbed to a suicidal impulse. He was 26 years of age. Crackanthorpe is usually associated with the literary movement of naturalism. His technique was based on a style rich in substance and texture with many of his characters speaking in rural British dialects. As well as his early career as an editor he also wrote essays, a small amount of literary criticism and three volumes of short stories. During the Victorian era the publishing of magazines and periodicals accelerated at a phenomenal rate. This really was mass market publishing to a hungry audience eager for literary sustenance. Many of our greatest authors contributed and expanded their reach whilst many fledging authors also found a ready source for their nascent works and careers. Amongst the very many was 'The Yellow Book'. Although titled as 'An Illustrated Quarterly' it was sold as a cloth-bound hardback and within were short stories, essays, poetry, illustrations and portraits. It was edited by the American author Henry Harland, who also contributed, and its art editor was no less that the formidable Aubrey Beardsley, the enfant terrible of illustration. Its yellow cover and name gave it an association with the risqué and erotic yellow covered works published in France. It was a visual shorthand for ideas that would push many boundaries of Society to more open interpretations. Being complete in each volume and slightly aloof it stayed away from serialised fiction and advertisements. Within each lavishly illustrated edition were literary offerings that included works by such luminaries as Henry James, H G Wells, W B Yeats, Edith Nesbit, George Gissing and many others from the ascetic and decadent movements of the time. The other notable inclusion was women both as contributors and amongst its editing staff, which was at odds with the then patriarchal gender norms. Although it only survived for 13 issues its reach and influence were second to none.

Author : Tom Hubbard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134978625

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The Selected Writings of Andrew Lang by Tom Hubbard Pdf

A novelist, poet, literary critic and anthropologist, Andrew Lang is best known for his publications on folklore, mythology and religion; many have grown up with the ‘colour’ Fairy Books which he compiled between 1889 and 1910. This three volume set presents a selection of his work in these areas. The first volume covers the general and theoretical aspects of Lang’s work on folklore, mythology and anthropology along with the tools and concepts which he used in his often combative contributions to these inter-related disciplines. As a companion to the first volume, the second is comprised of various case studies made by Lang, ranging from ‘The Aryan Races of Peru’ and ‘The Folk-lore of France’ to ‘Irish Fairies’ and ‘The Ballads, Scottish and English’. The third volume arranges his literary criticism, first by geo-cultural context and then chronologically. It begins with Lang’s views on the nature and purpose of fiction, then presents samples of his work on some of the most important authors in the respective canons of French, American, Scottish and English literature including Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Burns and Charles Dickens among many others, mainly of the nineteenth century. Collectively, the General Introduction to the set and the Introductions to the individual volumes offer a thorough overview of Lang’s work in an astonishing variety of fields, including his translation work on Homer and his contributions to historiography (particularly Scottish). The Introduction to Volume III sets Lang within the context of the literature of his times, comparing and contrasting him with significant contemporaries. Headnotes to the individual items are of varying length and provide more detail on specific topics, and explanatory notes supply unique intellectual comment rather than merely factual information.

Author : Paola Partenza,Özlem Karadağ,Emanuela Ettorre
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783847015284

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Different Voices by Paola Partenza,Özlem Karadağ,Emanuela Ettorre Pdf

The concept of the "human" has been broadly re-visited and modified, and the term "posthuman" has now become a term of continuous inquiry. Gender (representations) play(s) a critical role in works of literature, culture, and art, and focusing on gender is crucial to uncovering the anthropocentrism or androcentrism that may underlie the work and the times to which it belongs. While maintaining a solid literary emphasis, the ten chapters included in this volume focus on feminist debates about women, technology, and the body, on gender representation and the posthuman, on post-gender figurations, on gender and trans/post/humanism, biotechnology/biopolitics/bioethics, on feminist posthumanism, on animals, the human-machine, and ecological posthumanism. The aim of the volume is to analyse how useful these concepts may be for thinking about the subject, its definition and identity in a changing society.

Author : Michael Field
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781889732

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'For That Moment Only' and Other Prose Works, by Michael Field by Michael Field Pdf

Over the past thirty years the work of Michael Field - the penname of the couple Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper - has become established as one of the most important, and unique, literary voices of the fin de siècle. Although they are today remembered for their lyric poetry and verse drama, by sheer weight of volume alone, Bradley and Cooper wrote far more prose than poetry. Their diaries contain over a million words, and their letters and notebooks are extensive. Yet little of that prose has been made available to readers without access to the collections at the British Library, London, and the Bodleian Library, Oxford. For a significant period in the 1890s Bradley and Cooper concentrated their energies on prose. A number of the prose works completed between 1889 and 1894 were collected by them in two 'series' under the title For That Moment Only. Inspired by Walter Pater and the latest developments in French literature, these croquis - prose sketches or prose poems - are their most concerted attempt to be 'contemporaneous', to capture fleeting experiences in exquisite prose. Clearly intended at one point for publication, the sketches were abandoned following their decisive break with their mentor Bernard Berenson and his partner Mary Costelloe in 1895. Along with the entire text of For That Moment Only, this volume also brings together Michael Field's published stories and essays, other miscellaneous short prose located within their manuscripts, and their experiments with prose form found in 'Works and Days', their compendious diary. With an extensive scholarly introduction and authoritative notes, the volume places experimental short prose at the heart of Michael Field's creative project, opening Bradley and Cooper's work up to a readership which has hitherto associated them only with lyric poetry and verse drama.

Author : Valerie Sanders,Joanne Shattock,Joanne Wilkes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040129234

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part II Volume 5 by Valerie Sanders,Joanne Shattock,Joanne Wilkes Pdf

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.

Author : David Malcolm
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781474448376

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Hubert Crackanthorpe, Wreckage: Seven Studies by David Malcolm Pdf

Hubert Crackanthorpe was a skilful and technically innovative English realist/naturalist writer. This edition of his powerful first collection of short stories features a carefully contextualised introduction to the A01 and his work.

Author : Regenia Gagnier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226278549

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The Insatiability of Human Wants by Regenia Gagnier Pdf

What is the relationship between our conception of humans as producers or creators; as consumers of taste and pleasure; and as creators of value? Combining cultural history, economics, and literary criticism, Regenia Gagnier's new work traces the parallel development of economic and aesthetic theory, offering a shrewd reading of humans as workers and wanters, born of labor and desire. The Insatiability of Human Wants begins during a key transitional moment in aesthetic and economic theory, 1871, when both disciplines underwent a turn from production to consumption models. In economics, an emphasis on the theory of value and the social relations between land, labor, and capital gave way to more individualistic models of consumerism. Similarly, in aesthetics, theories of artistic production or creativity soon bowed to models of taste, pleasure, and reception. Using these developments as a point of departure, Gagnier deftly traces the shift in Western thought from models of production to consumption. From its exploration of early market logic and Kantian thought to its look at the aestheticization of homelessness and our own market boom, The Insatiability of Human Wants invites us to contemplate alternative interpretations of economics, aesthetics, and history itself.

Author : Patrick Brantlinger,William Thesing
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470997208

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A Companion to the Victorian Novel by Patrick Brantlinger,William Thesing Pdf

The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901. Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published during the Victorian period. Explains issues such as Victorian religions, class structure, and Darwinism to those who are unfamiliar with them. Comprises original, accessible chapters written by renowned and emerging scholars in the field of Victorian studies. Ideal for students and researchers seeking up-to-the-minute coverage of contexts and trends, or as a starting point for a survey course.

Author : Jane Desmarais,David Weir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190066956

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The Oxford Handbook of Decadence by Jane Desmarais,David Weir Pdf

Edited by Jane Desmarais and David Weir.

Author : John Graham
Publisher : William Morrow &Company
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0688000347

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The Writer's Voice by John Graham Pdf

Author : Hubert Crackanthorpe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UCAL:$B683198

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Wreckage by Hubert Crackanthorpe Pdf

Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107495135

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The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle by Gail Marshall Pdf

Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siècle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can be seen in action. In this, more than any previous decade, literature was an active and controversial participant within debates over morality, aesthetics, politics and science, as Victorian certainties began to break down. Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker and Olive Schreiner were among the most prominent, occasionally even notorious, writers and artists of the period, challenging establishment values and producing a distinctive literature of their own. This volume includes the main currents of radical and innovative thinking in the period, as well as the attempts to resist them. It will be of great interest to students of Victorian and twentieth-century literature, art and cultural history.

Author : Hubert Crackanthorpe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Europe
ISBN : UVA:X004090251

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Vignettes; a Miniature Journal of Whim and Sentiment by Hubert Crackanthorpe Pdf

Author : Hubert Crackanthorpe
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 102212143X

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Last Studies by Hubert Crackanthorpe Pdf

A collection of poignant and powerful stories, 'Last Studies' showcases Crackanthorpe's remarkable talent for capturing the complexities of human emotion. With its vivid prose and memorable characters, this book is a must-read for fans of classic literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.