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Author : Fortuné Du Boisgobey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112089053034
Author : Mathilde Vialard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003845348
Drawing on the recent academic interest in approaching health and wellbeing from a humanities perspective, Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds investigates how the Victorians dealt with questions of mental health by examining literary works in the genre of sensation fiction. The novels of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, two prominent writers of the genre, often portray characters suffering from mental illnesses commonly diagnosed at the time, among which are monomania, moral insanity, melancholia and hypochondria. By studying the fictional works of Braddon and Collins alongside medical texts from the nineteenth century, it sets out to investigate how these novels fictionally represented real mental sufferings. This book considers the different mental illnesses the characters of sensation novels develop inside and outside the home as they struggle to define their own identity against Victorian social expectations. It demonstrates how these novels fictionalised the crisis of the leisured upper classes, who spent most of their time at home, and found themselves at odds with a society that increasingly separated the domestic and working environments, while also considering the impact that a lack of a sense of domestic belonging could have on their mental health. Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds further analyses the extent to which domesticity—in its excess or lack—could afflict the mental health of Victorian men and women through the fictional representation of suicidal thoughts and acts in the novels of Braddon and Collins.
Author : Lyn Pykett
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780746312124
This clearly written and wide-ranging study identifies the main features of the sensation novel, analysing its broader cultural significance as well as looking at it in its specific cultural context.
Author : Pamela K. Gilbert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444342215
This comprehensive collection offers a complete introduction to one of the most popular literary forms of the Victorian period, its key authors and works, its major themes, and its lasting legacy. Places key authors and novels in their cultural and historical context Includes studies of major topics such as race, gender, melodrama, theatre, poetry, realism in fiction, and connections to other art forms Contributions from top international scholars approach an important literary genre from a range of perspectives Offers both a pre and post-history of the genre to situate it in the larger tradition of Victorian publishing and literature Incorporates coverage of traditional research and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship
Author : Nicholas Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521833922
Industrial modernity takes it as self-evident that there is a difference between people and machines, but the corollary of this has been a recurring fantasy about the erasure of that difference. The central scenario in this fantasy is the crash, sometimes literal, sometimes metaphorical. Nicholas Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on, arguing that such scenes dramatize the modernization of subjectivity. This book will be of interest to scholars of moderinism, literature and film.
Author : Fortuné Du Boisgobey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3048120
Author : Fortuné Du Boisgobey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112089053091
Author : Fortuné Du Boisgobey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112089053075
Author : Fortuné Du Boisgobey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112089053109
Author : Fortuné Du Boisgobey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112089052994
Author : Laura Marcus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107044968
This volume addresses the question of how 'the moderns' understood the conditions of their own modernity.
Author : Fortuné Du Boisgobey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112089053000
Author : Fortuné Du Boisgobey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112089053083
Author : Jenny Bourne Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827331
Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone, one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 novels, plays and short stories during a career that spanned four decades. This Companion offers a fascinating overview of Collins's writing. In a wide range of essays by leading scholars, it traces the development of his career, his position as a writer and his complex relation to contemporary cultural movements and debates. Collins's exploration of the tensions which lay beneath Victorian society is analysed through a variety of critical approaches. A chronology and guide to further reading are provided, making this book an indispensable guide for all those interested in Wilkie Collins and his work.
Author : Matthew Rubery
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190451424
Arising in the 1800s and soon drawing a million readers a day, the commercial press profoundly influenced the work of Brontë, Braddon, Dickens, Conrad, James, Trollope, and others who mined print journalism for fictional techniques. Five of the most important of these narrative conventions--the shipping intelligence, personal advertisement, leading article, interview, and foreign correspondence--show how the Victorian novel is best understood alongside the simultaneous development of newspapers. In highly original analyses of Victorian fiction, this study also captures the surprising ways in which public media enabled the expression of private feeling among ordinary readers: from the trauma caused by a lover's reported suicide to the vicarious gratification felt during a celebrity interview; from the distress at finding one's behavior the subject of unflattering editorial commentary to the apprehension of distant cultures through the foreign correspondence. Combining a wealth of historical research with a series of astute close readings, The Novelty of Newspapers breaks down the assumed divide between the epoch's literature and journalism and demonstrates that newsprint was integral to the development of the novel.