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Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s

Author : Penny Fielding,Andrew Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 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.

Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Author : K. Boehm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137283658

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Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture by K. Boehm Pdf

This book provides fresh perspectives on the object world, embodied experience and materiality in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Contributors explore canonical works by Austen, Brontë, Dickens and James, alongside less-familiar texts and a range of objects including nineteenth-century automata, scrapbooks, museum exhibits and antiques.

The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-century American Literature

Author : Jonathan Senchyne
Publisher : Studies in Print Culture and t
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1625344732

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The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-century American Literature by Jonathan Senchyne Pdf

The true scale of paper production in America from 1690 through the end of the nineteenth century was staggering, with a range of parties participating in different ways, from farmers growing flax to textile workers weaving cloth and from housewives saving rags to peddlers collecting them. Making a bold case for the importance of printing and paper technology in the study of early American literature, Jonathan Senchyne presents archival evidence of the effects of this very visible process on American writers, such as Anne Bradstreet, Herman Melville, Lydia Sigourney, William Wells Brown, and other lesser-known figures. The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature reveals that book history and literary studies are mutually constitutive and proposes a new literary periodization based on materiality and paper production. In unpacking this history and connecting it to cultural and literary representations, Senchyne also explores how the textuality of paper has been used to make social and political claims about gender, labor, and race.

Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

Author : David Atkinson,Steve Roud
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527502758

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Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century by David Atkinson,Steve Roud Pdf

For centuries, street literature was the main cheap reading material of the working classes: broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, prints, engravings, and other forms of print produced specifically to suit their taste and cheap enough for even the poor to buy. Starting in the sixteenth century, but at its chaotic and flamboyant peak in the nineteenth, street literature was on sale everywhere – in urban streets and alleyways, at country fairs and markets, at major sporting events and holiday gatherings, and under the gallows at public executions. For this very reason, it was often despised and denigrated by the educated classes, but remained enduringly popular with the ordinary people. Anything and everything was grist to the printers’ mill, if it would sell. A penny could buy you a celebrity scandal, a report of a gruesome murder, the last dying speech of a condemned criminal, wonder tales, riddles and conundrums, a moral tale of religious danger and redemption, a comic tale of drunken husbands and shrewish wives, a temperance tract or an ode to beer, a satire on dandies, an alphabet or “reed-a-ma-daisy” (reading made easy) to teach your children, an illustrated chapbook of nursery rhymes, or the adventures of Robin Hood and Jack the Giant Killer. Street literature long held its own by catering directly for the ordinary people, at a price they could afford, but, by the end of the Victorian era, it was in terminal decline and was rapidly being replaced by a host of new printed materials in the shape of cheap newspapers and magazines, penny dreadful novels, music hall songbooks, and so on, all aimed squarely at the burgeoning mass market. Fascinating today for the unique light it shines on the lives of the ordinary people of the age, street literature has long been neglected as a historical resource, and this collection of essays is the first general book on the trade for over forty years.

The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature

Author : Stefanie Markovits
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814210406

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The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature by Stefanie Markovits Pdf

"We think of the nineteenth century as an active age - the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, and railroads, of great exploration and the Great Exhibition. But in reading the works of Romantic and Victorian writers one notices a conflict, what Stefanie Markovits terms "a crisis of action." In her book, The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Markovits maps out this conflict by focusing on four writers: William Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Eliot, and Henry James. Each chapter offers a "case-study" that demonstrates how specific historical contingencies - including reaction to the French Revolution, laissez-faire economic practices, changes in religious and scientific beliefs, and shifts in women's roles - made people in the period hypersensitive to the status of action and its literary co-relative, plot."--BOOK JACKET.

Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature

Author : Jonathan M. Hess,Maurice Samuels,Nadia Vaiman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 48,5 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.

The Routledge Concise History of Nineteenth-Century Literature

Author : Josephine Guy,Ian Small
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136884450

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The Routledge Concise History of Nineteenth-Century Literature by Josephine Guy,Ian Small Pdf

Nineteenth-century Britain saw the rise of secularism, the development of a modern capitalist economy, multi-party democracy, and an explosive growth in technological, scientific and medical knowledge. It also witnessed the emergence of a mass literary culture which changed permanently the relationships between writers, readers and publishers. Focusing on the work of British and Irish authors, The Routledge Concise History of Nineteenth-Century Literature: considers changes in literary forms, styles and genres, as well as in critical discourses examines literary movements such as Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism and Decadence considers the work of a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writers discusses the impact of gender studies, queer theory, postcolonialism and book history contains useful, student-friendly features such as explanatory text boxes, chapter summaries, a detailed glossary and suggestions for further reading. In their lucid and accessible manner, Josephine M. Guy and Ian Small provide readers with an understanding of the complexity and variety of nineteenth-century literary culture, as well as the historical conditions which produced it.

Characters in 20th-century Literature

Author : Kelly King Howes
Publisher : Detroit, MI : Gale Research
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015038440106

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Characters in 20th-century Literature by Kelly King Howes Pdf

Provides essays on the most representative and most studied literary characters from international contemporary writers.

Literature and Politics in the Nineteenth Century

Author : John Lucas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002607526

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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.

Levinas and Nineteenth-century Literature

Author : Donald R. Wehrs,David P. Haney
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780874130577

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Levinas and Nineteenth-century Literature by Donald R. Wehrs,David P. Haney Pdf

Levinas and Nineteenth-Century Literature presents nine essays that reread major British, American, and European nineteenth-century literary texts in light of the post-deconstruction ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. The first section pursues in essays on Wordsworth, Coleridge, De Quincey, and Baudelaire connections between Levinas's radical rethinking of subjectivity and Romantic generic, aesthetic, and conceptual innovation. The second section explores how Levinas's analysis of totalizing thought may illuminate how Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Douglass, Susan Warner, and Melville grapple with American experience and culture. The third section considers the relevance of Levinas's work for reassessments of the realist novel through essays on Austen, Dickens, and George Eliot. Essay authors are A.C. Goodson, David P. Haney, E.S. Burt, Alain Paul Toumayan, N.S. Boone, Lorna Wood, Donald R. Wehrs, Melvyn New, and Rachel Hollander. Donald R. Wehrs is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University. David P. Haney is Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor of English at Appalachian State University.

A history of nineteenth century literature

Author : George Saintsbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:251330529

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Teaching Nineteenth-Century Literature

Author : Rachel Fenn,Anna McGlynn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351066419

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Teaching Nineteenth-Century Literature by Rachel Fenn,Anna McGlynn Pdf

Teaching nineteenth-century literature can be an incredibly rewarding experience, resulting in lessons which are exciting and engaging and enable amazing levels of student progress. This essential handbook guides teachers through the key events of the period, offering theoretical approaches and a wealth of practical ideas for teaching nineteenth-century fiction and poetry in the secondary classroom. Supporting and inspiring teachers as they introduce nineteenth-century texts to their students and nurture their interest and enthusiasm for the genre, Teaching Nineteenth-Century Literature provides a grounding in the major historical events of the nineteenth century, describes pedagogical approaches to teaching fiction and poetry, and offers step-by-step guidance on the use of literary resources. Chapters offer advice on overcoming the particular challenges of the genre, including unwieldy plots, complex vocabulary and unfamiliar sentence structures, and illustrate how texts from the period can be made fully accessible to even the youngest pupils. With a range of detailed activities, photocopiable lesson plans, case studies and extracts for use in the classroom, teachers will be able to quickly and easily build a scheme of work that is stimulating and beneficial for children of varying abilities. Equipping teachers with the knowledge, understanding and resources they need to teach nineteenth-century literature in an engaging, inspiring and intellectually stimulating way, this practical and accessible text will be an invaluable resource for secondary school English teachers, students and trainees.

Victorian Settler Narratives

Author : Tamara S Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317323136

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Victorian Settler Narratives by Tamara S Wagner Pdf

This edited collection from a distinguished group of contributors explores a range of topics including literature as imperialist propaganda, the representation of the colonies in British literature, the emergence of literary culture in the colonies and the creation of new gender roles such as ‘girl Crusoes’ in works of fiction.

The Nineteenth Century

Author : Brian Martin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349201594

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The Nineteenth Century by Brian Martin Pdf

The 19th century volume demonstrates the variety of English literature in an age of social, intellectual, religious and scientific ferment. The shift to Romanticism is portrayed with extracts from major figures such as Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge and the contribution of women writers is fully recognised, with selections from Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Elizabeth Gaskell. The anthology concludes with selections of Victorian poetry and extracts from Wilde and Stevenson and altogether offers a comprehensive sample of the vast treasure-house of 19th century literature.