Tradition And Tolerance In Nineteenth Century Fiction

Author : David Howard,John Lucas,John Goode
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317198963

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Tradition and Tolerance in Nineteenth Century Fiction by David Howard,John Lucas,John Goode Pdf

First published in 1966, this book collects six essays which discuss the experience of social change as it reveals itself in the work of several nineteenth century novelists. In the novels studied, and the discussion of fiction that follows, the authors argue that all these novelists’ attempts to confront social change — to connect old with new, past with present and the attempted inclusiveness of vision in a changing society — sooner or later fail. The essays are polemic in arguing against the contemporary critical consensus that this failure is a limitation of imaginative intelligence rather than an endorsement of a receding past which the process of change was charged with destroying.

Author : David Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : American fiction
ISBN : LCCN:68076087

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Tradition and Tolerance in Nineteenth-century Fiction. Critical Essays on Some English and American Novels. Ed. by David Howard, John Lucas, John Goode. (1. Publ.) by David Howard Pdf

Author : John Lucas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317190172

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Literature and Politics in the Nineteenth Century by John Lucas Pdf

The intention of this collection of essays, first published in 1971, is to explore the political aspects of some nineteenth century English writers. Under the influence of the great revolutionary upheavals of the period almost all its most important writers were involved, explicitly or otherwise, in political ideas. This is an exploratory volume, and will be of absorbing interest to anyone studying the interaction between literature and ideas in the nineteenth century.

Author : J. Kilroy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230604353

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The Nineteenth-Century English Novel by J. Kilroy Pdf

Through analysis of eight English novels of the Nineteenth century, this work explores the ways in which the novel contributes to the formation of ideology regarding the family, and, conversely, the ways in which changing attitudes toward the family shape and reshape the novel.

Author : Josephine Guy,Ian Small
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136884467

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The Routledge Concise History of Nineteenth-Century Literature by Josephine Guy,Ian Small Pdf

Nineteenth-century Britain saw the rise of secularism, the development of a modern capitalist economy, multi-party democracy, and an explosive growth in technological, scientific and medical knowledge. It also witnessed the emergence of a mass literary culture which changed permanently the relationships between writers, readers and publishers. Focusing on the work of British and Irish authors, The Routledge Concise History of Nineteenth-Century Literature: considers changes in literary forms, styles and genres, as well as in critical discourses examines literary movements such as Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism and Decadence considers the work of a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writers discusses the impact of gender studies, queer theory, postcolonialism and book history contains useful, student-friendly features such as explanatory text boxes, chapter summaries, a detailed glossary and suggestions for further reading. In their lucid and accessible manner, Josephine M. Guy and Ian Small provide readers with an understanding of the complexity and variety of nineteenth-century literary culture, as well as the historical conditions which produced it.

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 2332 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315524047

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Routledge Library Editions: Social and Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century by Various Authors Pdf

This set reissues eight books that explore the social and political thought of the nineteenth century. The titles in this set, originally published between 1943 and 2001, examine several of the important figures of the time, including Jeremey Bentham and Thomas Carlyle, whilst also examining political movements and the emergence and growth of libertarian thought. This set will be of particular interest to students of social and political history.

Author : S. Malton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230619746

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Forgery in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture by S. Malton Pdf

Malton examines the literary and cultural representation of the financial crime of forgery from the time of massive executions of forgers during the early nineteenth century to the forger's emergence as the ultimate criminal aesthete at the fin-de-siècle.

Author : Barbara Leah Harman,Susan Meyer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081533589X

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The New Nineteenth Century by Barbara Leah Harman,Susan Meyer Pdf

This book includes essays on writers from the 1840s to the 1890s, well known writers such as Anne Bronte, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker, lesser known writers such as Geraldine Jewsbury, Charles Reade, Margaret Oliphant, George Moore, Sarah Grand and Mary Ward. The contributors explore important thematic concerns: the relation between private and public realms; gender and social class; sexuality and the marketplace; and male and female cultural identity.

Author : Grace Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351911054

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Pirates and Mutineers of the Nineteenth Century by Grace Moore Pdf

The first volume devoted to literary pirates in the nineteenth century, this collection examines changes in the representation of the pirate from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the late Victorian period. Gone were the dangerous ruffians of the eighteenth-century novel and in their place emerged a set of brooding and lovable rogues, as exemplified by Byron's Corsair. As the contributors engage with acts of piracy by men and women in the literary marketplace as well as on the high seas, they show that both forms were foundational in the promotion and execution of Britain's imperial ambitions. Linking the pirate's development as a literary figure with the history of piracy and the making of the modern state tells us much about race, class, and evolving gender relationships. While individual chapters examine key texts like Treasure Island, Dickens's 1857 'mutiny' story in Household Words, and Peter Pan, the collection as a whole interrogates the growth of pirate myths and folklore throughout the nineteenth century and the depiction of their nautical heirs in contemporary literature and culture.

Author : Christine DeVine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351161626

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Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells by Christine DeVine Pdf

This book argues that, due to political and ideological shifts in the last decades of the nineteenth century-a time when the class system in England was in a state of flux-a new depiction of social class was possible in the English novel. Late-century writers such as Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells question the middle-class Victorian views of class that had dominated the novel for decades. By disrupting traditional novelistic conventions, these writers reveal the ideology of the historical moment in which those conventions obtained, thereby questioning the 'naturalness' of class assumed by earlier, middle-class Victorian writers. The book contextualizes novels by these writers within their historical moment with reference to relevant maps, journalism, artwork or photography, and specific historical events. It illuminates the relationship between fiction and history in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction, and especially the relationship between changing depictions of class and the development of realism. Examining the nineteenth-century English novel through the lens of social class allows the twenty-first century critic and student not only to understand the issues at stake in much Victorian fiction, but also to recognize powerful present-day vestiges of this social class system.

Author : John Sloan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349199433

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George Gissing: The Cultural Challenge by John Sloan Pdf

Author : Barbara Weiss
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838750990

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The Hell of the English by Barbara Weiss Pdf

This book identifies and traces bankruptcy as an archetypal experience of the Victorian age and as a major metaphor in the language, imagery, and structure of the Victorian novel. With reference to selected works by Eliot, Bronte, Gaskell, Dickens, and Thackeray, it presents the range of symbolic meanings of the bankruptcy metaphor.

Author : Dennis Denisoff,Talia Schaffer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429018176

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The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature by Dennis Denisoff,Talia Schaffer Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and influential political, cultural, and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today. Scholars and students will find this collection both useful and inspiring. Rigorously engaged with current scholarship that is both historically sensitive and theoretically informed, the Routledge Companion places the genres of the novel, poetry, and drama and issues of gender, social class, and race in conversation with subjects like ecology, colonialism, the Gothic, digital humanities, sexualities, disability, material culture, and animal studies. This guide is aimed at scholars who want to know the most significant critical approaches in Victorian studies, often written by the very scholars who helped found those fields. It addresses major theoretical movements such as narrative theory, formalism, historicism, and economic theory, as well as Victorian models of subjects such as anthropology, cognitive science, and religion. With its lists of key works, rich cross-referencing, extensive bibliographies, and explications of scholarly trajectories, the book is a crucial resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, while offering invaluable support to more seasoned scholars.

Author : Joseph W. Childers
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812233247

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Novel Possibilities by Joseph W. Childers Pdf

Childers (English, U. of California-Riverside) considers the role of the novel, particularly the social-problem novel of the 1840s, in interpreting and shaping the cultures of the early Victorian period. The volume's nine essays address the political novel's influence; Edwin Chadwick's Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain; and religion, radical politics, and the industrial novel. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Regenia Gagnier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195362961

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Subjectivities by Regenia Gagnier Pdf

This comparative analysis draws on working-class autobiography, public and boarding school memoirs, and the canonical autobiographies by women and men in the United Kingdom to define subjectivity and value within social class and gender in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Gagnier reconsiders traditional distinctions between mind and body, private desire and public good, aesthetics and utility, and fact and value in the context of everyday life.