Author : Martin Hewitt
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ISBN : 0191056529
The Victorians
Martin Hewitt
The Victorians A Very Short Introduction
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The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction
Martin Hewitt
Author : Martin Hewitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191056536
The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Hewitt Pdf
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Contemporary Britain is still in large part Victorian in its transport networks, sewage systems, streets, and houses. Victorian cultural legacies, especially in art, science, and literature, are still celebrated. The first to have to grapple with many of the challenges of modern urban society, we continue to look to the Victorians for inspiration and solace. And we are increasingly aware of the ways their global actions shaped, often for ill, the world around us. Much mythologised, inexhaustibly controversial, the Victorians are an inescapable reference point for understanding the modern histories not just of Britain and its empire, but of the world. In The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction Martin Hewitt offers a guide through the thickets of judgement and debate which have grown around the period and its people, to offer a historical overview of the Victorians and their legacies. He seeks to answer five crucial questions. Why have the Victorians continued occupy such a prominent place in the cultures of not just the anglophone world? How far does it make sense to think of a 64-year period arbitrarily given an identity by the longevity of the Queen as an identifiable historical period in a general sense? How justified are the value-laden versions of the Victorians which argue for the existence of a particular world view called 'Victorianism'? Beyond ideology, what was Victorian Britain actually like – and in particular, what was distinctive about it? Who were the Victorians – not just the eminent few, but the population as a whole? And finally, how far and with what results did the Victorians and their culture spread across the globe? In answering these questions, Hewitt cautions against some long-held orthodoxies, throws a light on some less well-known aspects of the period, and urges the importance of understanding the Victorians on their own terms if we are to effectively engage with their legacies. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Contemporary Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
Robert Eaglestone
Author : Robert Eaglestone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199609260
Contemporary Fiction: A Very Short Introduction by Robert Eaglestone Pdf
In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the major themes, patterns, and debates of contemporary fiction.
Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
Julia Annas,Julia (Professor of Philosophy Annas, Professor of Philosophy University of Arizona),Professor of Philosophy Julia Annas
Author : Julia Annas,Julia (Professor of Philosophy Annas, Professor of Philosophy University of Arizona),Professor of Philosophy Julia Annas
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192853578
Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Julia Annas,Julia (Professor of Philosophy Annas, Professor of Philosophy University of Arizona),Professor of Philosophy Julia Annas Pdf
Presents fundamental philosophical questions as posed by ancient philosophers, comparing and contrasting modern differences in approach and perspective.
James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction
Colin MacCabe
Author : Colin MacCabe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192647245
James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction by Colin MacCabe Pdf
James Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man laid down the template for the Coming of Age novel, while his collection of short stories, Dubliners, is of perennial interest. His great modern epic, Ulysses, took the city of Dublin for its setting and all human life for its subject, and its publication in 1922 marked the beginning of the modern novel. Joyce's final work, Finnegans Wake is an endless experiment in narrative and language. But if Joyce is a great writer he is also the most difficult writer in English. Finnegans Wake is written in a freshly invented language, and Ulysses exhausts all the forms and styles of English. Even the apparently simple Dubliners has plots of endless complexity, while the structure of A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man is exceptionally intricate. This Very Short Introduction explores the work of this most influential yet complex writer, and analyses how Joyce's difficulty grew out of his situation as an Irish writer unwilling to accept the traditions of his imperialist oppressor, and contemptuous of the cultural banality of the Gaelic revival. Joyce wanted to investigate and celebrate his own life, but this meant investigating and celebrating the drunks of Dublin's pubs and the prostitutes of Dublin's brothels. No subject was alien to him and he developed the naturalist project of recording all aspects of life with the symbolist project of finding significant correspondences in the most unlikely material. Throughout, Colin MacCabe interweaves Joyce's life and history with his books, and draws out their themes and connections. Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction
John Guy
Author : John Guy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199674725
The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction by John Guy Pdf
Looks at the reigns of each of the Tudor monarchs.
Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction
Adrian Poole
Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780192802354
Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction by Adrian Poole Pdf
What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists, story-tellers, critics, philosophers, politicians, and journalists? This work shows the relevance of tragedy to the modern world, and extends beyond drama and literature into visual art and everyday experience.
The Victorians
Aidan Cruttenden
Author : Aidan Cruttenden
Publisher : Evans Brothers
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 023752256X
The Victorians by Aidan Cruttenden Pdf
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.
Dining with the Victorians
Emma Kay
Author : Emma Kay
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445646558
Dining with the Victorians by Emma Kay Pdf
Journey through Britain’s food history and discover the fascinating, gruesome and wonderful culinary traditions of the Victorians.
Shakespeare and the Victorians
Stuart Sillars
Author : Stuart Sillars
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199668083
Shakespeare and the Victorians by Stuart Sillars Pdf
Shakespeare and the Victorians explores the place of Shakespeare in Victorian culture, and shows how the plays and the man became central to all levels of Victorian life and thought.
How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information
Jillian M. Hess
Author : Jillian M. Hess
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192648488
How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information by Jillian M. Hess Pdf
Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection "Fly-Catchers", while George Eliot referred to one of her commonplace books as a "Quarry," and Michael Faraday kept quotations in his "Philosophical Miscellany." Nevertheless, the nineteenth-century commonplace book, along with associated traditions like the scrapbook and album, remain under-studied. This book tells the story of how technological and social changes altered methods for gathering, storing, and organizing information in nineteenth-century Britain. As the commonplace book moved out of the schoolroom and into the home, it took on elements of the friendship album. At the same time, the explosion of print allowed readers to cheaply cut-and-paste extractions rather than copying out quotations by hand. Built on the evidence of over 300 manuscripts, this volume unearths the composition practices of well-known writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, and their less well-known contemporaries. Divided into two sections, the first half of the book contends that methods for organizing knowledge developed in line with the period's dominant epistemic frameworks, while the second half argues that commonplace books helped Romantics and Victorians organize people. Chapters focus on prominent organizational methods in nineteenth-century commonplacing, often attached to an associated epistemic virtue: diaristic forms and the imagination (Chapter Two); "real time" entries signalling objectivity (Chapter Three); antiquarian remnants, serving as empirical evidence for historical arguments (Chapter Four); communally produced commonplace books that attest to socially constructed knowledge (Chapter Five); and blank spaces in commonplace books of mourning (Chapter Six). Richly illustrated, this book brings an archive of commonplace books, scrapbooks, and albums to the reader.
The Routledge Companion to William Morris
Florence S. Boos
Author : Florence S. Boos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351859004
The Routledge Companion to William Morris by Florence S. Boos Pdf
William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice. This Companion draws together historical and critical responses to the impressive range of Morris’s multi-faceted life and activities: his homes, travels, family, business practices, decorative artwork, poetry, fantasy romances, translations, political activism, eco-socialism, and book collecting and design. Each chapter provides valuable historical and literary background information, reviews relevant opinions on its subject from the late-nineteenth century to the present, and offers new approaches to important aspects of its topic. Morris’s eclectic methodology and the perennial relevance of his insights and practice make this an essential handbook for those interested in art history, poetry, translation, literature, book design, environmentalism, political activism, and Victorian and utopian studies.
Key Concepts in Victorian Literature
Sean Purchase
Author : Sean Purchase
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-27
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780230204195
Key Concepts in Victorian Literature by Sean Purchase Pdf
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.
Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England
Alison C. Pedley
Author : Alison C. Pedley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350275348
Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England by Alison C. Pedley Pdf
Tracing the experiences of women who were designated insane by judicial processes from 1850 to 1900, this book considers the ideas and purposes of incarceration in three dedicated facilities: Bethlem, Fisherton House and Broadmoor. The majority of these patients had murdered, or attempted to murder, their own children but were not necessarily condemned as incurably evil by medical and legal authorities, nor by general society. Alison C. Pedley explores how insanity gave the Victorians an acceptable explanation for these dreadful crimes, and as a result, how admission to a dedicated asylum was viewed as the safest and most human solution for the 'madwomen' as well as for society as a whole. Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England considers the experiences, treatments and regimes women underwent in an attempt to redeem and rehabilitate them, and return them to into a patriarchal society. It shows how society's views of the institutions and insanity were not necessarily negative or coloured by fear and revulsion, and highlights the changes in attitudes to female criminal lunacy in the second half of the 19th century. Through extensive and detailed research into the three asylums' archives and in legal, governmental, press and genealogical records, this book sheds new light on the views of the patients themselves, and contributes to the historiography of Victorian criminal lunatic asylums, conceptualising them as places of recovery, rehabilitation and restitution.
Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Victorian Literature
Laurence W. Mazzeno
Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442232341
Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Victorian Literature by Laurence W. Mazzeno Pdf
Victorian literature’s fascination with the past, its examination of social injustice, and its struggle to deal with the dichotomy between scientific discoveries and religious faith continue to fascinate scholars and contemporary readers. During the past hundred years, traditional formalist and humanist criticism has been augmented by new critical approaches, including feminism and gender studies, psychological criticism, cultural studies, and others. In Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Victorian Literature, twelve scholars offer new assessments of Victorian poetry, novels, and nonfiction. Their essays examine several major authors and works, and introduce discussions of many others that have received less scholarly attention in the past. General reviews of the current status of Victorian literature in the academic world are followed by essays on such writers as Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, and the Brontë sisters. These are balanced by essays that focus on writing by women, the development of the social problem novel, and the continuity of Victorian writers with their Romantic forebears. Most importantly, the contributors to this volume approach Victorian literature from a decidedly contemporary scholarly angle and write for a wide audience of specialists and non-specialists alike. Their essays offer readers an idea of how critical commentary in recent years has influenced—and in some cases changed radically—our understanding of and approach to literary study in general and the Victorian period in particular. Hence, scholars, teachers, and students will find the volume a useful survey of contemporary commentary not just on Victorian literature, but also on the period as a whole.