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Author : Patrick Fessenbecker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474460620
Argues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content.
Author : Elaine Freedgood
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226261638
Presents an analysis of nineteenth-century English fiction, focusing on objects found in three Victorian novels, arguing that these items have meanings the modern reader does not understand, but were clear to the Victorian reader.
Author : Richard Daniel Altick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015035334872
Life in the Victorian period, focusing on the social, religious, scientific, and artistic movements that characterized the age.
Author : Sean Purchase
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-27
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781350310384
Key Concepts in Victorian Literature is a lively, clear and accessible resource for anyone interested in Victorian literature. It contains major facts, ideas and contemporary literary theories, is packed with close and detailed readings and offers an overview of the historical and cultural context in which this literature was produced.
Author : Wolfreys Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781474448000
A Festschrift honouring J. Hillis Miller and his contribution to Victorian Studies and nineteenth-century criticismProvides stheoretically informed critical essays on nineteenth-century and Victorian literature, by major internationally recognized scholarsChapters provide detailed close readings of the work of J Hillis Miller, Thomas Hardy, Walter Pater, William Michael Rossetti, George Gissing, Charles Dickens, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Joseph ConradShowcases a major new essay by J Hillis Miller, as well as a previously unpublished interview with MillerReading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad. At the same time, the assembled group of internationally recognised scholars engages with Miller's work, influence and significance in the study of that era. The volume includes original work by Miller and interviews with him.
Author : Sean Purchase
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-27
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781350310384
Key Concepts in Victorian Literature is a lively, clear and accessible resource for anyone interested in Victorian literature. It contains major facts, ideas and contemporary literary theories, is packed with close and detailed readings and offers an overview of the historical and cultural context in which this literature was produced.
Author : Leah Price
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400842186
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Author : Maureen Moran
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826488838
An introduction to Victorian literature and its context from 1837-1900 includes historical, cultural, political, and intellectual background.
Author : Juliet John
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317071327
What did reading mean to the Victorians? This question is the key point of departure for Reading and the Victorians, an examination of the era when reading underwent a swifter and more radical transformation than at any other moment in history. With book production handed over to the machines and mass education boosting literacy to unprecedented levels, the norms of modern reading were being established. Essays examine the impact of tallow candles on Victorian reading, the reading practices encouraged by Mudie's Select Library and feminist periodicals, the relationship between author and reader as reflected in manuscript revisions and corrections, the experience of reading women's diaries, models of literacy in Our Mutual Friend, the implications of reading marks in Victorian texts, how computer technology has assisted the study of nineteenth-century reading practices, how Gladstone read his personal library, and what contemporary non-academic readers might owe to Victorian ideals of reading and community. Reading forms a genuine meeting place for historians, literary scholars, theorists, librarians, and historians of the book, and this diverse collection examines nineteenth-century reading in all its personal, historical, literary, and material contexts, while also asking fundamental questions about how we read the Victorians' reading in the present day.
Author : Aidan Cruttenden
Publisher : Evans Brothers
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 023752256X
A discussion of the Victorians and their literature. It sets out the political, social and economic framework of the period, and then goes on to study the various influences on the novel, addresses the forms and styles of poetry and, finally, provides an overview of Victorian drama. Each chapter features a further reading list and there is a comparative time-line, a biographical glossary and a list of websites. The volume is part of a series which sets writers and literary works of different types and periods in their historical, social and cultural context and provides an introduction to various genres.
Author : Philip Davis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1444304623
Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionatedefense of Victorian literature’s enduring impact andimportance for readers interested in the relationship betweenliterature and life, reading and thinking. Explores the prominence of Victorian literature forcontemporary readers and academics, through the author’sunique insight into why it is still important today Provides new frames of interpretation for key Victorian worksof literature and close readings of important texts Argues for a new engagement with Victorian literature, fromgeneral readers and scholars alike Seeks to remove Victorian literature from an entrenched set ofvalues, traditions and perspectives - demonstrating how vital andresonant it is for modern literary and cultural analysis
Author : James Eli Adams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470672396
Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, with fresh consideration of both major figures and some of the era's less familiar authors. Part of the Blackwell Histories of Literature series, the book describes the development of the Victorian literary movement and places it within its cultural, social and political context. A wide-ranging narrative overview of literature in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, capturing the extraordinary variety of literary output produced during this era Analyzes the development of all literary forms during this period - the novel, poetry, drama, autobiography and critical prose - in conjunction with major developments in social and intellectual history Considers the ways in which writers engaged with new forms of social responsibility in their work, as Britain transformed into the world's first industrial economy Offers a fresh perspective on the work of both major figures and some of the era’s less familiar authors Winner of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award, 2009
Author : Sarah Allison,Sarah Danielle Allison
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781421425627
Introduction the syntax of Victorian moralizing: on choosing a proxy for style -- In defense of reading reductively -- The shockingly subtle criticism of the London Quarterly Review, 1855-1861 -- Relative clauses and the narrative present tense in George Eliot -- generalization and declamation : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's present-tense poetics -- A moral technology: speech tags in Charles Dickens's dialogue -- Conclusion : a grammar of perception
Author : William A. Cohen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816650125
"In these elegant engagements with literary works, cultural history, and critical theory, Cohen advances a phenomenological approach to embodiment, proposing that we encounter the world not through our minds or souls but through our senses."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Richard D. Altick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814252796
"The Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel" is the first comprehensive study of Victorian novelists' use of the era's everyday culture and common knowledge in their writings. Victorian novelists knew that the men and women who bought and borrowed their books had an insatiable appetite for reading books about people like themselves in the instantly recognizable world in which they lived. They catered to this appetite by, among other devices, scattering through their pages allusions to people, places, and events in the news at the moment a novel was published, as well as to objects, scenes, and fashions that were particularly characteristic of the present-day setting. References to this body of common knowledge helped, in addition, to strengthen the intimate rapport with their readers that authors so much prized in the period, and they also contributed to the realistic effect that authenticated characters and scenes and thus encouraged readers' imaginative assent to the fiction. "The Presence of the Present" has been derived from approximately 150 novels of the era, from Pickwick Papers to Trollope's last novels and "The Mayor of Casterbridge." All the "great names" of Victorian fiction are here-Dickens, Thackeray, Disraeli, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Hardy, Meredith-as well as a representative selection of the less-than-great-Charles Reade, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Samuel Warren, and the unjustly neglected Robert Smith Surtees. The many illustrations, drawn principally form the "Illustrated London News" and "Punch" and from the novels themselves, re-create for a reader at the end of the twentieth century the same images that were evoked in the minds of the novels' first readers. The book, therefore, surveys that manner in which Victorian fiction draws upon the observations and experiences of the readers for whom the novelists wrote-not "posterity," but readers of the daily press and riders on the new railways. Here we meet the half-legendary figure of Stultz the fashionable tailor; learn about the messages conveyed at different times and on different social levels by cigar smoking and the wearing of gloves; discover the jokey career of the crinoline, the humors and corrupt practices of parliamentary elections, and scores of other topics that, when fully explained, help us to read with better understanding the living book of Victorian fiction. Richard D. Altick is Regents' Professor Emeritus of English at The Ohio State University. He is the author of numerous books, including "The English Common Reader, The Scholar Adventures, Victorian People and Ideas, The Shows of London, Paintings from Books, " and "Writers, Readers, and Occasions.""