The Idea Of The Gentleman In The Victorian Novel

Author : Robin Gilmour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317207436

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The Idea of the Gentleman in the Victorian Novel by Robin Gilmour Pdf

First published in 1981, this book represents the first comprehensive examination of Victorian society’s preoccupation with the ‘notion of the gentleman’ and how this was reflected in the literature of the time. Starting with Addison and Lord Chesterfield, the author explores the influence of the gentlemanly ideal on the evolution of the English middle classes, and reveals its central part in the novels of Thackeray, Dickens and Trollope. Combining social and cultural analysis with literary criticism, this book provides new readings of Vanity Fair and Great Expectations, a fresh approach to Trollope, and a detailed account of the various streams that fed into the idea of the gentleman.

Author : A. Young
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230377073

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Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel by A. Young Pdf

This book examines class and its representation in Victorian literature, focusing on the emergence of the lower middle class and middle-class responses to it. Arlene Young analyses portraits of white-collar workers, both men and women, who laboured under disparaging misperceptions of their values, abilities, and cultural significance, and shows how these misperceptions were both formulated and resisted. The analysis includes canonical texts like Dickens's Little Dorrit and Gissing's The Odd Women as well as less well-known works by Dinah Mulock Craik, Margaret Oliphant, Amy Levy, Grant Allen, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, and May Sinclair.

Author : Christine Berberich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317027850

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The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature by Christine Berberich Pdf

Studies of the English gentleman have tended to focus mainly on the nineteenth century, encouraging the implicit assumption that this influential literary trope has less resonance for twentieth-century literature and culture. Christine Berberich challenges this notion by showing that the English gentleman has proven to be a remarkably adaptable and relevant ideal that continues to influence not only literature but other forms of representation, including the media and advertising industries. Focusing on Siegfried Sassoon, Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh and Kazuo Ishiguro, whose presentations of the gentlemanly ideal are analysed in their specific cultural, historical, and sociological contexts, Berberich pays particular attention to the role of nostalgia and its relationship to 'Englishness'. Though 'Englishness' and by extension the English gentleman continue to be linked to depictions of England as the green and pleasant land of imagined bygone days, Berberich counterbalances this perception by showing that the figure of the English gentleman is the medium through which these authors and many of their contemporaries critique the shifting mores of contemporary society. Twentieth-century depictions of the gentleman thus have much to tell us about rapidly changing conceptions of national, class, and gender identity.

Author : Lisa Rodensky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199533145

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The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel by Lisa Rodensky Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essays on topics often overlooked.

Author : Forrest Leo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399562648

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The Gentleman by Forrest Leo Pdf

A funny, fantastically entertaining debut novel, in the spirit of Wodehouse and Monty Python, about a famous poet who inadvertently sells his wife to the devil--then recruits a band of adventurers to rescue her. When Lionel Savage, a popular poet in Victorian London, learns from his butler that they're broke, he marries the beautiful Vivien Lancaster for her money, only to find that his muse has abandoned him. Distraught and contemplating suicide, Savage accidentally conjures the Devil -- the polite "Gentleman" of the title -- who appears at one of the society parties Savage abhors. The two hit it off: the Devil talks about his home, where he employs Dante as a gardener; Savage lends him a volume of Tennyson. But when the party's over and Vivien has disappeared, the poet concludes in horror that he must have inadvertently sold his wife to the dark lord. Newly in love with Vivien, Savage plans a rescue mission to Hell that includes Simmons, the butler; Tompkins, the bookseller; Ashley Lancaster, swashbuckling Buddhist; Will Kensington, inventor of a flying machine; and Savage's spirited kid sister, Lizzie, freshly booted from boarding school for a "dalliance." Throughout, his cousin's quibbling footnotes to the text push the story into comedy nirvana. Lionel and his friends encounter trapdoors, duels, anarchist-fearing bobbies, the social pressure of not knowing enough about art history, and the poisonous wit of his poetical archenemy. Fresh, action-packed and very, very funny, The Gentleman is a giddy farce that recalls the masterful confections of P.G. Wodehouse and Hergé's beautifully detailed Tintin adventures.

Author : Tara MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317317791

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The New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel by Tara MacDonald Pdf

By tracing the rise of the New Man alongside novelistic changes in the representations of marriage, MacDonald shows how this figure encouraged Victorian writers to reassess masculine behaviour and to re-imagine the marriage plot in light of wider social changes. She finds examples in novels by Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot and George Gissing.

Author : Sarah Yoon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781003801368

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The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels by Sarah Yoon Pdf

The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels studies how the detective as a literary character evolved through the mid-nineteenth century in England, as seen in sensation novels. In contrast to most assumptions about the English detective, Yoon argues that the detective was more often tolerated than admired following the establishment of professional detectives in the London Metropolitan Police Force in 1842. Through studying the historical and literary contexts between the 1840s to the 1860s, Yoon argues that the detective was seen as a suspicious, even mistrusted and disdained, figure who was nonetheless viewed as necessary to combat rising levels of crime. The detective as a literary character responded to the often contradictory values and aspirations of the middle class, representing an independent masculinity and laying claim to scientific authority. This study surveys novels by Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Wilkie Collins, alongside lesser-known writers like William Russell, James Redding Ware (pseudonym Andrew Forrester), and William Stephens Hayward. This book contributes to the study of mid-nineteenth-century Victorian culture and connects with broader studies of the detective fiction genre.

Author : Karen Bourrier
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472052486

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The Measure of Manliness by Karen Bourrier Pdf

Sheds new light on the narrative importance of the disabled man in Victorian literature and culture

Author : Chiara Battisti
Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783732909599

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Tailoring Identities in Victorian Literature by Chiara Battisti Pdf

Tailoring Identities in Victorian Literature is a compelling exploration of the representation of clothing in Victorian literature. The author argues that the study of fashion and clothing can contribute to a deeper understanding of literary texts and their contexts. While fashion has often been associated with frivolity, this volume sheds light on the novel possibilities that can arise from the intersection of literary analysis with fashion theory, revealing fashion as a system of meaning that reflects deep social and cultural transformations, and offering new and innovative directions in research and literary analysis. Tailoring Identities in Victorian Literature draws on the conceptual framework of fashion theory to investigate novels in which the fashion system organises the signs of the dressed body, almost as if forging its own language. Focusing on the Victorian period, pivotal period in fashion history, the volume offers a rich and nuanced account of the complex relationship between clothing, literature, and identity, in nineteenth-century literature.

Author : Jennifer Beauvais
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476639628

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Domesticated Bachelors and Femininity in Victorian Novels by Jennifer Beauvais Pdf

Domestic issues, chastity, morality, marriage and love are concerns we typically associate with Victorian female characters. But what happens when men in Victorian novels begin to engage in this type of feminine discourse? While we are familiar with certain Victorian women seeking freedom by moving beyond the domestic sphere, there is an equally interesting movement by the domestic man into the private space through his performance of femininity. This book defines the domesticated bachelor, examines the effects of the blurring of boundaries between the public and private spheres, and traces the evolution of the public discourse on masculinity in novels such as Bronte's Shirley, Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This bachelor, along with his female counterpart, the New Woman, opens up for discussion new definitions of Victorian masculinity and gender boundaries and blurs the rigid distinction between the gendered spaces thought to be in place during the Victorian period.

Author : Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1WGC

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John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Pdf

Author : Michael Brander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : England
ISBN : UOM:39015005690204

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The Victorian Gentleman by Michael Brander Pdf

Author : Grace Moore
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847064899

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The Victorian Novel in Context by Grace Moore Pdf

Structured in 3-parts, this book focuses on immediate contexts, key texts, and wider contexts enables development from background issues through the actual literary texts to criticism and afterlives.

Author : Anna Jane Greenville
Publisher : dp DIGITAL PUBLISHERS GmbH
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783960872979

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The Girl who was a Gentleman (Victorian Romance, Historical) by Anna Jane Greenville Pdf

Love, courage and humour in Victorian London Can a girl find true love ... dressed up as a man? London, in the year 1872. In Victorian England, opportunities are scarce for Joanna and her sisters. Their only hope is to marry well, but who would take one of the penniless sisters as a wife? Joanna doesn’t believe in fairy tales or princes, but she fiercely believes in herself. She decides to pursue a career of her own – by attending the prestigious Oliver Kenwood Boarding School, disguised as a boy. There is only one issue: her cunning yet fascinating teacher Charles Hanson seems to dislike her with a passion – and she finds it increasingly difficult to hold up her disguise, especially when rich and confident Abigail sets eyes on Hanson, driving Joanna inexplicably furious. To make matters worse, Joanna begins to wonder whether her secret is really safe ... Readers’ impressions „The novel takes you right into Victorian times and the witty, lighthearted story will make you smile“ „A truly entertaining mixture of romance and comedy“ „Everyone who loves London will love the novel’s historical flair“ „I really enjoyed how Joanna challenges the conventions of her time“ „A charming, funny and heartwarming read for cold winter days“ About the author Anna Jane Greenville has written and illustrated her own tales from a young age. She is absolutely fascinated with storytelling and adores romantic, adventure, contemporary, and classic novels. She can spend a whole day at the bookstore browsing the shelves. Should she have a coffee to go in hand it is destined to turn cold once she sets eyes on the new arrivals section. Travelling the UK as far south as Saint Michael's Mount or all the way north to the breath-taking Isle Of Skye is how she finds her inspiration. But it isthe author’s time in London that has contributed most to the story of her first novel "The Girl Who Was A Gentleman". You can feel London’s rich history and culture pour into the pages. Literary influences on Anna Jane Greenville’s work include her favorite authors Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Johnston McCulley, Rainbow Rowell, and Nick Hornby.

Author : Louis James
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405152280

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The Victorian Novel by Louis James Pdf

This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel. Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts. Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing. Features short biographies of over forty Victorian authors, including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Offers close readings of over 30 key texts, among them Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), as well as key presences, such as John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Pt 1, 1676, Pt 2, 1684). Also covers topics such as colonialism, scientific speculation, the psychic and the supernatural, and working class reading.