The Literary 1880s

Author : Penny Fielding,Andrew Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Marcus C. Levitt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0801422507

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Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880 by Marcus C. Levitt Pdf

In an event acknowledged to be a watershed in modern Russian cultural history, the elite of Russian intellectual life gathered in Moscow in 1880 to celebrate the dedication of a monument to the poet Alexander Pushkin, who had died nearly half a century earlier. Private and government forces joined to celebrate a literary figure, in a country in which monuments were usually dedicated to military or political heroes. In this richly detailed narrative history of the Pushkin Celebration and the developments that led up to it, Marcus C. Levitt explores the unique role of literature in nineteenth-century Russian intellectual life and puts Russian literary criticism, and Pushkin's posthumous reputation, into fresh perspective. Drawing on Soviet archival materials not readily available in the West, Levitt describes the preparations for the monument and the unfolding of the celebration. His sustained discussions of Turgenev's role and of Dostoevsky's famous "Pushkin Speech" shed new light on what was for both a culminating moment in their careers. In Levitt's view, the Pushkin Celebration represented the articulation of liberal, post-Emancipation hopes for an independent Russian intelligentsia and culture. His analysis of the problems faced by Russian liberalism illuminates the failure of concerted efforts to secure freedom of speech in nineteenth-century Russia.

Author : Patricia Pye
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137540171

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Sound and Modernity in the Literature of London, 1880-1918 by Patricia Pye Pdf

This book explores the literary representation of late Victorian and early Edwardian London from an auditory perspective, arguing that readers should ‘listen’ to impressions of the city, as described by writers such as Conrad, Doyle, Ford and Gissing. It was in this period that London began to ‘sound modern’ and, through a closer hearing of its literature, writers’ wider responses to modernity are revealed. The book is structured into familiar modernist themes, revisiting time and space, social progress and popular culture through an exploration of the sound impressions of some key works. Each chapter is contextualized by these themes, revealing how the sound of the news, social protest, music hall and suburbanization impacted on writers’ literary imaginations. Suitable for students of modernist literature and specialists in sound studies, this book will also appeal to readers with a wider interest in London’s history and popular culture between 1880-1918.

Author : Mary Hammond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351906463

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Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914 by Mary Hammond Pdf

Between 1880 and 1914, England saw the emergence of an unprecedented range of new literary forms from Modernism to the popular thriller. Not coincidentally, this period also marked the first overt references to an art/market divide through which books took on new significance as markers of taste and class. Though this division has received considerable attention relative to the narrative structures of the period's texts, little attention has been paid to the institutions and ideologies that largely determined a text's accessibility and circulated format and thus its mode of address to specific readerships. Hammond addresses this gap in scholarship, asking the following key questions: How did publishing and distribution practices influence reader choice? Who decided whether or not a book was a 'classic'? In a patriarchal, class-bound literary field, how were the symbolic positions of 'author' and 'reader' affected by the increasing numbers of women who not only bought and borrowed, but also wrote novels? Using hitherto unexamined archive material and focussing in detail on the working practices of publishers and distributors such as Oxford University Press and W.H. Smith and Sons, Hammond combines the methodologies of sociology, literary studies and book history to make an original and important contribution to our understanding of the cultural dynamics and rhetorics of the fin-de-siècle literary field in England.

Author : D.M.R. Bentley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442617681

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The Confederation Group of Canadian Poets, 1880-1897 by D.M.R. Bentley Pdf

As one of the formative periods in Canadian history, the late nineteenth century witnessed the birth of a nation, a people, and a literature. In this study of Canada's first 'school' of poets, D.M.R. Bentley combines archival work, including extensive research in periodicals and newspapers, with close readings of the work of Charles G.D. Roberts, Archibald Lampman, Bliss Carman, William Wilfred Campbell, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Frederick George Scott. Bentley chronicles the formation, reception, national and international successes, and eventual disintegration (after the 1895 'War Among the Poets') of the Confederation Group, whose poetry forever changed the perception and direction of Canadian literature. With the aid of biographical, political, and sociological analyses, Bentley's literary history delineates the group's political, aesthetic, and thematic dispositions and characteristics, and contextualizes them not only within Canadian history and politics, but also within contemporary intellectual and literary currents, including Romantic nationalism, 'Canadianism', and poetic formalism. Bentley casts new light on the poets' commonalities - such as their debt to Young Ireland, their commitment to careful workmanship, and their participation in the American mind-cure movement - as well as on their most accomplished and anthologized poems from 1880 to 1897. In the process, he presents a compelling case for the literary and historical importance of these six men and their poems in light of Canada's cultural and political past, and defends their right to be known as Canada's first poetic fraternity at a time when Canada was striving to achieve literary and national distinction. The Confederation Group of Canadian Poets, 1880-1897 is an erudite and innovative work of literary history and critical interpretation that belongs on the bookshelf of every serious scholar of literary studies.

Author : J. Wild
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230514669

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The Rise of the Office Clerk in Literary Culture, 1880-1939 by J. Wild Pdf

This innovative study investigates the emergence and impact of the lower middle class on British print culture through the figure of the office clerk. This interdisciplinary work offers important insights into a previously neglected area of social and book history, and explores key works by George Gissing, Forster and JB Priestley.

Author : Robert Lawson-Peebles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317870388

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American Literature Before 1880 by Robert Lawson-Peebles Pdf

American Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the projection of images of the East onto an as-yet unrecognised West; the cultural consequences of Viking, Colombian, and then English migration to America; the growth and independence of the British American colonies; the key writers of the new Republic; and the development of the culture of the United States before and after the Civil War. It is intended both as an introduction for undergraduates to the richness and variety of American Literature, and as a contribution to the debate about its distinctive nature. The book therefore begins with a lengthy survey of earlier histories of American Literature.

Author : Penny Fielding,Andrew Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107181908

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The Literary 1880s by Penny Fielding,Andrew Taylor Pdf

Explores the diverse forces that shaped developments in literature in the 1880s, an often overlooked literary decade.

Author : John McFarland Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:$B683809

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English Literature, 1880-1905 by John McFarland Kennedy Pdf

Author : Phillip Barrish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139431958

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American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995 by Phillip Barrish Pdf

Focusing on key works of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gaining intellectual prestige - that is, new ways of gaining cultural recognition as unusually intelligent, sensitive or even wise. Through extended readings of works by Henry James, William Dean Howells, Abraham Cahan and Edith Wharton, Barrish emphasises the differences between literary realist modes of intellectual and cultural authority and those associated with the rise of the social sciences. In doing so, he greatly refines our understanding of the complex relationship between realist writing and masculinity. Barrish further argues that understanding the dynamics of intellectual status in realist literature provides new analytic purchase on intellectual prestige in recent critical theory. Here he focuses on such figures as Lionel Trilling, Paul de Man, John Guillory and Judith Butler.

Author : Richard Menke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108492942

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Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900 by Richard Menke Pdf

Connects British and American literature to a changing media landscape in an era of innovation.

Author : Seth Whidden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317176985

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Authority in Crisis in French Literature, 1850–1880 by Seth Whidden Pdf

By the 1850s, the expansion of printing and distribution technologies provided writers with more readers and literary outlets than ever before, while the ever-changing political contexts occasioned by the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 brought about differing degrees of political, social, and literary censure and pressure. Seth Whidden examines crises of literary authority in nineteenth-century French literature, both in response to the attempts of the Second Empire (1852-1870) to restore the unquestioned imperial authority that had been established by Napoleon I and in the aftermath of the bloody Paris Commune of 1871. In each of his chapters, Whidden offers a representative case study highlighting one of several phenomena-literary collaboration, parody, destabilized poetic form, the substitution of one poetic or narrative voice with that of the man-that enabled challenges to the traditional status of the writer and, by extension, the political authority that it reflected. Whidden focuses on the play Le Supplice d’une femme (1865); the Cercle Zutiste, a group of writers, musicians, and artists who met regularly in the fall of 1871, only months after the fall of the Second Empire; Arthur Rimbaud’s Commune-era poems; and Jules Verne’s 1851 ’Un voyage en ballon,’ later reprinted as ’Un drame dans les airs’ in 1874. Whidden concludes with a futuristic look at authority and auctority as it pertains to midcentury writers taking stock of the weakened authority still possible in a post-Second Empire France and envisioning what kind of auctority is still to come.

Author : John Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571265107

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The Intellectuals and the Masses by John Carey Pdf

Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, W. B. Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate exponent in Hitler. Carey's assault on the founders of modern culture caused consternation throughout the artistic and academic establishments when it was first published in 1992.

Author : Lois A. Cuddy,Claire M. Roche
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838755550

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Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940 by Lois A. Cuddy,Claire M. Roche Pdf

Charles Darwin's theory of descent suggested that man is trapped by biological determinism and environment, which requires the fittest specimens to struggle and adapt without benefit of God in order to survive. Tthis volume focusses on how American literature appropriated and aesthetically transformed this, and related, theories.

Author : K. Macdonald,C. Singer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137486776

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Transitions in Middlebrow Writing, 1880 - 1930 by K. Macdonald,C. Singer Pdf

This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines.