The Victorian Gentleman

Author : Robin Gilmour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Michael Brander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : England
ISBN : UOM:39015005690204

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The Victorian Gentleman by Michael Brander Pdf

Author : Catherine Robson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691187709

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Men in Wonderland by Catherine Robson Pdf

Fascination with little girls pervaded Victorian culture. For many, girls represented the true essence of childhood or bygone times of innocence; but for middle-class men, especially writers, the interest ran much deeper. In Men in Wonderland, Catherine Robson explores the ways in which various nineteenth-century British male authors constructed girlhood, and analyzes the nature of their investment in the figure of the girl. In so doing, she reveals the link between the idealization of little girls and a widespread fantasy of male development--a myth suggesting that men become masculine only after an initial feminine stage, lived out in the protective environment of the nursery. Little girls, argues Robson, thus offer an adult male the best opportunity to reconnect with his own lost self. Tracing the beginnings of this myth in the writings of Romantics Wordsworth and De Quincey, Robson identifies the consolidation of this paradigm in numerous Victorian artifacts, ranging from literary works by Dickens and Barrett Browning, to paintings by Frith and Millais, to reports of the Royal Commission on Children's Employment. She analyzes Ruskin and Carroll's "high noon" of girl worship and investigates the destruction of the fantasy in the closing decades of the century, when social concerns about the working girl sexualized the image of young females. Men in Wonderland contributes to a growing interest in the nineteenth century's construction of childhood, sexuality, and masculinity, and illuminates their complex interconnections with a startlingly different light. Not only does it complicate the narratives of pedophilic desire that are generally used to explain figures like Ruskin and Carroll, but it offers a new understanding of the Victorian era's obsession with loss, its rampant sentimentality, and its intense valorization of the little girl at the expense of mature femininity.

Author : Sarah A. Chrisman
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781634500005

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True Ladies and Proper Gentlemen by Sarah A. Chrisman Pdf

Regardless of time period, some things hold true: kindness is timeless. Invasion of privacy; divorce; relationship issues; encounters between people from different places and cultures; new technologies developed at dizzying speeds . . . the hectic pace of life in the late nineteenth century could make the mind reel. Wait a minute—the nineteenth century? Many of the issues people faced in the 1880s and ’90s surprisingly remain problems in today’s modern world, so why not take a peek at some Victorian advice about negotiating life’s dizzying twists and turns? Gathered from period magazines and Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms, a book on social conduct originally published in 1891, this volume provides timeless guidance for a myriad of situations, including: The husband’s duty: Give your wife every advantage that it is possible to bestow. Suggestions about shopping: Purchasers should, as far as possible, patronize the merchants of their own town. (Buy local!) Suggestions for travel: Having paid for one ticket, you are entitled to only one seat. It shows selfishness to deposit a large amount of baggage in the surrounding seats and occupy three or four. Unclassified laws of etiquette: Never leave home with unkind words. This advice is accompanied by watercolors and illustrations throughout. Though these are tips originate from nineteenth-century ideas, you’ll find that they certainly do still apply.

Author : Anon.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473336902

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Altar of Venus by Anon. Pdf

After his introduction to the delights of desire at an early age, a wealthy gentleman embarks on a life-long sexual adventure progressing from the charms of schoolgirls to those of older women, in particular mothers and other people's wives. His search for ultimate pleasure takes him from the brothels of London to the exclusive and aristocratic pleasures of Paris, and eventually to the upper echelons of sexual satisfaction. "Altar of Venus" is a thrilling and action-packed tale of sensuous delights, highly recommended for fans of vintage erotic literature. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality, edition complete with the original text and artwork.

Author : Tara MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Peter P. Garretson
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 184701044X

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A Victorian Gentleman & Ethiopian Nationalist by Peter P. Garretson Pdf

Hakim Wärqenäh Eshäté (Dr Charles Martin), born into a family of Ethiopian aristocrats but adopted by a British officer and raised in India, played a significant role in influencing medicine, education and economic development in Ethiopia throughout the first half of the 20th century.

Author : Professor Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786830050

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William Robert Grove by Professor Iwan Rhys Morus Pdf

William Robert Grove is one of the forgotten giants of nineteenth-century science. The improvements in battery technology developed by him helped power the Victorian telegraph; his essay On The Correlation of Physical Forces was widely recognised as a major contribution to natural philosophy; and he was the driving force behind the mid-century reform of the Royal Society. This book follows his scientific career and the culture of Victorian science within which he worked, to explore the ways in which he contributed to forging a distinct Welsh scientific identity in the nineteenth century.

Author : John Tosh
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300143683

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A Man's Place by John Tosh Pdf

divDomesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions. Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century—illustrated by case studies representing a variety of backgrounds—and then contrasts this with the lives of the late Victorian generation. He finds that the first group of men placed a new value on the home as a reaction to the disorienting experience of urbanization and as a response to the teachings of Evangelical Christianity. Domesticity still proved problematic in practice, however, because most men were likely to be absent from home for most of the day, and the role of father began to acquire its modern indeterminacy. By the 1870s, men were becoming less enchanted with the pleasures of home. Once the rights of wives were extended by law and society, marriage seemed less attractive, and the bachelor world of clubland flourished as never before. The Victorians declared that to be fully human and fully masculine, men must be active participants in domestic life. In exposing the contradictions in this ideal, they defined the climate for gender politics in the next century. /DIV

Author : Christine Berberich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Joanne Ella Parsons,Ruth Heholt
Publisher : Edinburgh Critical Studies in
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474428606

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The Victorian Male Body by Joanne Ella Parsons,Ruth Heholt Pdf

The Victorian Male Body examines some of the main expressions and practices of Victorian masculinity and its embodied physicality.

Author : Robin Gilmour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317207429

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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 : Charlotte Brontë
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600053056

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Villette by Charlotte Brontë Pdf

Author : Forrest Leo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Barry Reay
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015055183811

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Watching Hannah by Barry Reay Pdf

Arthur Munby (1828-1910) was a Victorian gentleman from a respected family of Yorkshire lawyers. He left behind diaries that record his life-long obsession with working-class Victorian women, whom he interviewed, photographed and wrote about. This obsession led to his relationship with, and eventual secret marriage to, his maidservant Hannah Cullwick. Working women fascinated Munby because they disrupted his Victorian ideal of femininity: their bodies were altered by physical exertion and dirt, and they were also often deformed by disease. Drawing not only on the diaries but also on a vast, untapped archive of documents, photographs, poems and sketches, Watching Hannah is far more than an account of a compulsive observer of working women and a fetishist of hard-working female hands, however. The author analyzes Munby's obsessions in relation to changing definitions of gender, sexual identity and class to reveal wider male preoccupations with femininity, the body, deformity, masculinity and - most of all - sexuality, at a pivotal point in European history.