Nineteenth Century Fiction

Author : Penny Fielding,Andrew Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316856932

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Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s by Penny Fielding,Andrew Taylor Pdf

What does it mean to focus on the decade as a unit of literary history? Emerging from the shadows of iconic Victorian authors such as Eliot and Tennyson, the 1880s is a decade that has been too readily overlooked in the rush to embrace end-of-century decadence and aestheticism. The 1880s witnessed new developments in transatlantic networks, experiments in lyric poetry, the decline of the three-volume novel, and the revaluation of authors, journalists and the reading public. The contributors to this collection explore the case for the 1880s as both a discrete point of literary production, with its own pressures and provocations, and as part of literature's sense of its expanded temporal and geographical reach. The essays address a wide variety of authors, topics and genres, offering incisive readings of the diverse forces at work in the shaping of the literary 1880s.

Author : Anna Burton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000367607

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Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction by Anna Burton Pdf

This is a book about a longstanding network of writers and writings that celebrate the aesthetic, socio-political, scientific, ecological, geographical, and historical value of trees and tree spaces in the landscape; and it is a study of the effect of this tree-writing upon the novel form in the long nineteenth century. Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction: The Silvicultural Novel identifies the picturesque thinker William Gilpin as a significant influence in this literary and environmental tradition. Remarks on Forest Scenery (1791) is formed by Gilpin’s own observations of trees, forests, and his New Forest home specifically; but it is also the product of tree-stories collected from ‘travellers and historians’ that came before him. This study tracks the impact of this accumulating arboreal discourse upon nineteenth-century environmental writers such as John Claudius Loudon, Jacob George Strutt, William Howitt, and Mary Roberts, and its influence on varied dialogues surrounding natural history, agriculture, landscaping, deforestation, and public health. Building upon this concept of an ongoing silvicultural discussion, the monograph examines how novelists in the realist mode engage with this discourse and use their understanding of arboreal space and its cultural worth in order to transform their own fictional environments. Through their novelistic framing of single trees, clumps, forests, ancient woodlands, and man-made plantations, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Thomas Hardy feature as authors of particular interest. Collectively, in their environmental representations, these novelists engage with a broad range of silvicultural conversation in their writing of space at the beginning, middle, and end of the nineteenth century. This book will be of great interest to students, researchers, and academics working in the environmental humanities, long nineteenth-century literature, nature writing and environmental literature, environmental history, ecocriticism, and literature and science scholarship.

Author : Dennis Walder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136750052

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The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities by Dennis Walder Pdf

The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores the place of fiction in constructing gender identity within society at large, considering Madame Bovary, Portrait of a Lady and The Woman in White. The book continues with a consideration of the novel at the fin de siecle, examining Dracula, The Awakening and Heart of Darkness. These fascinating essays illuminate the ways in which the conventions of realism were disrupted as much by anxieties surrounding colonialism, decadence, degeneration and the 'New Woman' as by those new ideas about human psychology which heralded the advent of psychoanalysis. The concepts which are crucial to the understanding of the literature and society of the nineteenth century are brilliantly explained and discussed in this essential volume.

Author : Tim Killick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317171461

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British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century by Tim Killick Pdf

In spite of the importance of the idea of the 'tale' within Romantic-era literature, short fiction of the period has received little attention from critics. Contextualizing British short fiction within the broader framework of early nineteenth-century print culture, Tim Killick argues that authors and publishers sought to present short fiction in book-length volumes as a way of competing with the novel as a legitimate and prestigious genre. Beginning with an overview of the development of short fiction through the late eighteenth century and analysis of the publishing conditions for the genre, including its appearance in magazines and annuals, Killick shows how Washington Irving's hugely popular collections set the stage for British writers. Subsequent chapters consider the stories and sketches of writers as diverse as Mary Russell Mitford and James Hogg, as well as didactic short fiction by authors such as Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Amelia Opie. His book makes a convincing case for the evolution of short fiction into a self-conscious, intentionally modern form, with its own techniques and imperatives, separate from those of the novel.

Author : Adelene Buckland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226079684

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Novel Science by Adelene Buckland Pdf

Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the “heroic age” of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice of science itself, as important to their efforts as mapmaking, fieldwork, and observation. The reading and writing of imaginative literatures helped them to discover, imagine, debate, and give shape and meaning to millions of years of previously undiscovered earth history. Borrowing from the historical fictions of Walter Scott and the poetry of Lord Byron, they invented geology as a science, discovered many of the creatures we now call the dinosaurs, and were the first to unravel and map the sequence and structure of stratified rock. As Adelene Buckland shows, they did this by rejecting the grand narratives of older theories of the earth or of biblical cosmogony: theirs would be a humble science, faithfully recording minute details and leaving the big picture for future generations to paint. Buckland also reveals how these scientists—just as they had drawn inspiration from their literary predecessors—gave Victorian realist novelists such as George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, and Charles Dickens a powerful language with which to create dark and disturbing ruptures in the too-seductive sweep of story.

Author : Jonathan M. Hess,Maurice Samuels,Nadia Vaiman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804786195

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Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature by Jonathan M. Hess,Maurice Samuels,Nadia Vaiman Pdf

Recent scholarship has brought to light the existence of a dynamic world of specifically Jewish forms of literature in the nineteenth century—fiction by Jews, about Jews, and often designed largely for Jews. This volume makes this material accessible to English speakers for the first time, offering a selection of Jewish fiction from France, Great Britain, and the German-speaking world. The stories are remarkably varied, ranging from historical fiction to sentimental romance, to social satire, but they all engage with key dilemmas including assimilation, national allegiance, and the position of women. Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars.

Author : Jason Marc Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317134657

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Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction by Jason Marc Harris Pdf

Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folkloric fiction. His analysis includes a wide range of writers, including James Barrie, William Carleton, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sheridan Le Fanu, Neil Gunn, George MacDonald, William Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Hogg. These authors, Harris suggests, used folklore to articulate profound cultural ambivalence towards issues of class, domesticity, education, gender, imperialism, nationalism, race, politics, religion, and metaphysics. Harris's analysis of the function of folk metaphysics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century narratives reveals the ideological agendas of the appropriation of folklore and the artistic potential of superstition in both folkloric and literary contexts of the supernatural.

Author : Jill Nicole Galvan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0814254748

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Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-century British Literature by Jill Nicole Galvan Pdf

Top scholars in Victorian studies reexamine questions about marriage and the marriage plot from cutting-edge perspectives.

Author : Daniel A. Novak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521885256

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Realism, Photography and Nineteenth-Century Fiction by Daniel A. Novak Pdf

An illustrated study of the interactions between photographic technique and literary representation in the nineteenth century.

Author : J. Herdman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230371637

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The Double in Nineteenth-Century Fiction by J. Herdman Pdf

Duality and the divided mind have been a source of perennial fascination for literary artists and especially for novelists, and this is particularly true of the Romantic generation and their later nineteenth-century heirs. This book deals with the double, or Doppelgnger, as a dominant theme in the fiction of the period, and with its relation to the problem of evil. It suggests that the literary double flourished best when psychological and religious understandings of human dividedness were in harmony, and declined when they began to grow apart. Writers analysed include E.T.A.Hoffmann, James Hogg, Poe, Dostoevsky and Stevenson; the final chapter relates the theme to the psychology of Jung.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:64942172

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Nineteenth-century Fiction by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Howard,John Lucas,John Goode
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317198970

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Tradition and Tolerance in Nineteenth Century Fiction by David Howard,John Lucas,John Goode Pdf

First published in 1966, this book collects six essays which discuss the experience of social change as it reveals itself in the work of several nineteenth century novelists. In the novels studied, and the discussion of fiction that follows, the authors argue that all these novelists’ attempts to confront social change — to connect old with new, past with present and the attempted inclusiveness of vision in a changing society — sooner or later fail. The essays are polemic in arguing against the contemporary critical consensus that this failure is a limitation of imaginative intelligence rather than an endorsement of a receding past which the process of change was charged with destroying.

Author : Barri J. Gold
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030686048

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Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction by Barri J. Gold Pdf

Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies draws on energy concepts to revisit some of our favorite books—Mansfield Park, Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, and The War of the Worlds—and the ways these shape our sense of ourselves as ecological beings. Barri J. Gold regards the laws of thermodynamics not solely as a set of physical principles, but also as a cultural and conceptual form that we can use to reimagine our historically vexed relationship to the natural world. Beginning with an examination of the parallel inceptions of energy and ecology in the mid-nineteenth century, this book considers the question of how we may better read and interpret our world, developing a recipe for experimental reading and insisting upon the importance of literary studies in a world driving to ecological catastrophe.

Author : Angus Calder
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015002270760

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Russia Discovered by Angus Calder Pdf

Author : John Lucas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005693440

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Literature and Politics in the Nineteenth Century by John Lucas Pdf

Investigates the relationship between 19th-century political events and attitudes and prophetic propagandistic, and revolutionary literary expression.