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Author : Tanya Agathocleous
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521762649
Traces the development of cosmopolitanism and the growing importance of the city in nineteenth-century literature.
Author : Nicholas Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107095595
Provocative account exploring how a population explosion transformed nineteenth-century European and American culture, creating shared narratives of urban life.
Author : K. Sasser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137301901
Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism details a variety of functionalities of the mode of magical realism, focusing on its capacity to construct sociological representations of belonging. This usage is traced closely in the novels of Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Cristina García, and Helen Oyeyemi.
Author : Matthew Ingleby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137546005
This study explores the role of fiction in the social production of the West Central district of London in the nineteenth century. It tells a new history of the novel from a local geographical perspective, tracing developments in the form as it engaged with Bloomsbury in the period it emerged as the city’s dominant literary zone. A neighbourhood that was subject simultaneously to socio-economic decline and cultural ascent, fiction set in Bloomsbury is shown to have reconceived the area’s marginality as potential autonomy. Drawing on sociological theory, this book critically historicizes Bloomsbury’s trajectory to show that its association with the intellectual “fraction” known as the ‘Bloomsbury Group’ at the beginning of the twentieth century was symptomatic rather than exceptional. From the 1820s onwards, writers positioned themselves socially within the metropolitan geography they projected through their fiction. As Bloomsbury became increasingly identified with the cultural capital of writers rather than the economic capital of established wealth, writers subtly affiliated themselves with the area, and the figure of the writer and Bloomsbury became symbolically conflated.
Author : Isabel Vila-Cabanes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527519398
The flaneur is a cultural and literary phenomenon usually associated with nineteenth–century Paris, but the type also exists in the artistic and literary panorama of other major European capitals, such as London, Berlin, and Moscow. Despite massive recent interest in the figure of the flaneur in scholarly studies, analyses about the nineteenth–century British analogue are often fragmentary, appearing in the form of isolated articles. However, there is an abundant amount of nineteenth–century novels, sketches and journalistic essays which offer remarkable and hitherto overlooked accounts of the British metropolis, and which frequently include the figure of the flaneur as a central character or the topic of flanerie as a theme. This book explores a great array of texts, making an essential contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the prehistory or, rather, history of the British flaneur from the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, with a special focus on the nineteenth century. The flaneur is looked at as a figure in which the development and dynamics of the modern metropolis and its impact on the literary discourse are manifested from a formal, as well as thematic, perspective.
Author : Lauren Gillingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781009296564
Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.
Author : Juliet John
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191082092
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (on 'Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology', 'Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief', and 'Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures', the volume is sub-divided into 9 sub-sections each with its own 'lead' essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today's Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume's essays: that is, the nature and status of 'literary' culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students and established scholars.
Author : Hosanna Krienke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108844840
This interdisciplinary study examines how holistic aftercare became a crucial supplement to scientific medicine in nineteenth-century Britain.
Author : Aviva Briefel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107116580
A fascinating study that explores the power of the racially identified hand as a narrative symbol in Victorian literature and culture.
Author : Hilary Fraser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107075757
This book examines women's art writing in the nineteenth century, challenging the idea of art history as a masculine intellectual field.
Author : Jonathan Farina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107181632
This book explores the ordinary turns of phrase by which major nineteenth-century British writers created character.
Author : Ross G. Forman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107013155
What happens to our understanding of 'orientalism' and imperialism when we consider British-Chinese relations during the nineteenth century, rather than focusing on India, Africa or the Caribbean? This book explores China's centrality to British imperial aspirations and literary production, underscoring the heterogeneous, interconnected nature of Britain's formal and informal empire. To British eyes, China promised unlimited economic possibilities, but also posed an ominous threat to global hegemony. Surveying anglophone literary production about China across high and low cultures, as well as across time, space and genres, this book demonstrates how important location was to the production, circulation and reception of received ideas about China and the Chinese. In this account, treaty ports matter more than opium. Ross G. Forman challenges our preconceptions about British imperialism, reconceptualizes anglophone literary production in the global and local contexts, and excavates the little-known Victorian history so germane to contemporary debates about China's 'rise'.
Author : Jason Finch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000467529
Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It is the first textbook in literary urban studies (LUS). It illuminates and investigates this exciting field, which has grown since the humanities’ ‘spatial turn’ of the 1990s and 2000s. The book introduces city literature, urban methods of reading, classics in LUS and new directions in the field. It outlines the located qualities of literary narratives, texts and events through three units. First, the concept of the city and the main methods and terms needed as tools for investigating city literatures are introduced. A second section, ordered historically, shows how notions like pre-modern, realist, modernist, postcolonial and planetary actually work in nuanced explorations of actual writers, texts and places. The third unit covers literary urban modes: fictional and non-fictional prose in multiple genres; poetry and the idea of the city; dramatic city representation and the theatre as urban place. Multiple key categories of place are explored: the sacred spaces of religion; entry points such as railway stations and junctions; residential areas such as the ‘slum’, suburb and mass housing district; hubs of publishing and performance; categories of city such as the port and resort. In each chapter key terms, reflection questions and tasks labelled ‘Research It’ support reference and learning. Some Research It tasks enable readers to enter new areas of LUS by engaging with neighbouring disciplines like human geography, cultural history, sociology and urban studies. Others equip users by sharpening particular skills of writing or documentation. A thorough glossary of key terms and concepts aids the reader. Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It is designed for application to literatures and cities in any period and part of the world. Armed with it, humanities researchers at any career stage can develop their interdisciplinary skills and ability to participate in activism and public debates while becoming specialised in LUS. The book is a gateway to practicing LUS and spatial literary research.
Author : Daniel Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009436113
Daniel Williams shows how, in a profoundly numerical age, Victorian novels imagined thought and action in the face of uncertainty.
Author : Stefano Evangelista
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198864240
The fin de siècle witnessed an extensive and heated debate about cosmopolitanism, which transformed readers' attitudes towards national identity, foreign literatures, translation, and the idea of world literature. Focussing on literature written in English, Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle offers a critical examination of cosmopolitanism as a distinctive feature of the literary modernity of this important period of transition. No longer conceived purely as an abstract philosophical ideal, cosmopolitanism--or world citizenship--informed the actual, living practices of authors and readers who sought new ways of relating local and global identities in an increasingly interconnected world. The book presents literary cosmopolitanism as a field of debate and controversy. While some writers and readers embraced the creative, imaginative, emotional, and political potentials of world citizenship, hostile critics denounced it as a politically and morally suspect ideal, and stressed instead the responsibilities of literature towards the nation. In this age of empire and rising nationalism, world citizenship came to enshrine a paradox: it simultaneously connoted positions of privilege and marginality, connectivity and non-belonging. Chapters on Oscar Wilde, Lafcadio Hearn, George Egerton, the periodical press, and artificial languages bring to light the variety of literary responses to the idea of world citizenship that proliferated at the turn of the twentieth century. The book interrogates cosmopolitanism as a liberal ideology that celebrates human diversity and as a social identity linked to worldliness; it investigates its effect on gender, ethics, and the emotions. It presents the literature of the fin de siècle as a dynamic space of exchange and mediation, and argues that our own approach to literary studies should become less national in focus.