Victorian Criticism Of American Writers

Author : Edwin M. Eigner,George J. Worth
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521275202

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Victorian Criticism of the Novel by Edwin M. Eigner,George J. Worth Pdf

By the end of the nineteenth century the novel unquestionably had become the most popular and influential of English literary forms. Yet it has not always been clear how the Victorians themselves regarded the nature of prose fiction. This volume is a collection of twelve 'landmark' essays that chart the development of English theories of fiction during the great age of the novel. Spanning the whole of the Victorian period, from Bulwer Lytton's 'On Art in Fiction' (1838) to Conrad's preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897), the volume also includes pieces by George Eliot, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and a number of the more important critics and reviewers of the time. The editors' introduction surveys the main issues, such as the debate between realism and romance, addressed by novel criticism throughout the period. Each of the selections that follow is set in its historical context by a prefatory essay and is fully annotated for the student. There is a helpful bibliography of further reading.

Author : Arnella Klug Turner
Publisher : Millefleurs
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034301874

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Victorian Criticism of American Writers by Arnella Klug Turner Pdf

Author : Nell Stevens
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735274211

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The Victorian and the Romantic by Nell Stevens Pdf

History meets memoir in two true-life love stories between two sets of writers--one unfolding in nineteenth century Rome, one in present-day Paris and London--both of which reveal the longings and ambitions of the very contemporary Nell Stevens. In 1857, English novelist Elizabeth Gaskell completed her most famous work: the biography of her dear friend, the recently deceased Charlotte Brontë. As publication loomed, Elizabeth was keen to escape the reviews and, leaving her wholesome, dull minister husband at home, travelled with her daughters to Rome. And it was there that she met the American writer and critic, Charles Eliot Norton. Seventeen years her junior, he was the love of her life. She knew they could never be together--it would be an unthinkable breach--but when she returned home to Mr. Gaskell, she discovered to her horror that while she was gone he had betrayed her--betrayed her work--in a way that she is not sure she can ever forgive. In 2013 Nell Stevens is in a PhD program in London, halfheartedly pursuing a post in academia to keep her afloat while she follows her true vocation as a writer. Her dissertation on the artistic expatriate community of nineteenth-century Rome isn't quite coming together. But scholarly questions take a back seat to her budding romance with Max, a soulful American with an unfinished screenplay. That is, until their relationship begins to founder, and the echoes between Nell's life and that of her historical subject become too strong to ignore. As these two storylines meet up in delightful, funny, and unexpected ways, The Victorian and the Romantic evokes the bittersweet ache of lost love and the consolations of female writerly ambition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Victoria
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172131984123

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The Victorian Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : H. Mortimer Franklyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092834803

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The Victorian Review by H. Mortimer Franklyn Pdf

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317002017

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Victorian Writers and the Environment by Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison Pdf

Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, at the same time that it critiques the general effectiveness of ecocritical theory. Interdisciplinary in their approach, the essays take up questions related to the nonhuman, botany, landscape, evolutionary science, and religion. The contributors cast a wide net in terms of genre, analyzing novels, poetry, periodical works, botanical literature, life-writing, and essays. Focusing on a wide range of canonical and noncanonical writers, including Charles Dickens, the Brontes, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Jane Webb Loudon, Anna Sewell, and Richard Jefferies, Victorian Writers and the Environment demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth-century authors engaged not only with humans’ interaction with the environment during the Victorian period, but also how some authors anticipated more recent attitudes toward the environment.

Author : Dallas Liddle
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813930428

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The Dynamics of Genre by Dallas Liddle Pdf

Newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals reached a peak of cultural influence and financial success in Britain in the 1850s and 1860s, out-publishing and out-selling books as much as one hundred to one. But although scholars have long known that writing for the vast periodical marketplace provided many Victorian authors with needed income—and sometimes even with full second careers as editors and journalists—little has been done to trace how the midcentury ascendancy of periodical discourses might have influenced Victorian literary discourse. In The Dynamics of Genre, Dallas Liddle innovatively combines Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogic approach to genre with methodological tools from periodicals studies, literary criticism, and the history of the book to offer the first rigorous study of the relationship between mid-Victorian journalistic genres and contemporary poetry, the novel, and serious expository prose. Liddle shows that periodical genres competed both ideologically and economically with literary genres, and he studies how this competition influenced the midcentury writings and careers of authors including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Harriet Martineau, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and the sensation novelists of the 1860s. Some Victorian writers directly adopted the successful genre forms and worldview of journalism, but others such as Eliot strongly rejected them, while Trollope launched his successful career partly by using fiction to analyze journalism’s growing influence in British society. Liddle argues that successful interpretation of the works of these and many other authors will be fully possible only when scholars learn to understand the journalistic genre forms with which mid-Victorian literary forms interacted and competed.

Author : Tracy Wuster
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826274113

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Mark Twain, American Humorist by Tracy Wuster Pdf

Mark Twain, American Humorist examines the ways that Mark Twain’s reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional humorist to national and international fame. In the late 1860s, Mark Twain became the exemplar of a school of humor that was thought to be uniquely American. As he moved into more respectable venues in the 1870s, especially through the promotion of William Dean Howells in the Atlantic Monthly, Mark Twain muddied the hierarchical distinctions between class-appropriate leisure and burgeoning forms of mass entertainment, between uplifting humor and debased laughter, and between the literature of high culture and the passing whim of the merely popular.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015007022968

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Literary Criticism by Henry James Pdf

Essays on literature -- American writers -- English writers.

Author : R. Reginald,Mary Wickizer Burgess,Mary A. Burgess
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780809512065

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BP 250 by R. Reginald,Mary Wickizer Burgess,Mary A. Burgess Pdf

An Annotated Bibliography of the First 300 Publications of the Borgo Press, 1975-1998

Author : Daniel Hack
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691169453

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Reaping Something New by Daniel Hack Pdf

How African American writers used Victorian literature to create a literature of their own Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals that Victorian literature was put to use in African American literature and print culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in much more intricate, sustained, and imaginative ways than previously suspected. From reprinting and reframing "The Charge of the Light Brigade" in an antislavery newspaper to reimagining David Copperfield and Jane Eyre as mixed-race youths in the antebellum South, writers and editors transposed and transformed works by the leading British writers of the day to depict the lives of African Americans and advance their causes. Central figures in African American literary and intellectual history—including Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Charles Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, and W.E.B. Du Bois—leveraged Victorian literature and this history of engagement itself to claim a distinctive voice and construct their own literary tradition. In bringing these transatlantic transfigurations to light, this book also provides strikingly new perspectives on both canonical and little-read works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Tennyson, and other Victorian authors. The recovery of these works' African American afterlives illuminates their formal practices and ideological commitments, and forces a reassessment of their cultural impact and political potential. Bridging the gap between African American and Victorian literary studies, Reaping Something New changes our understanding of both fields and rewrites an important chapter of literary history.

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137602190

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Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture by Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison Pdf

This collection includes twelve provocative essays from a diverse group of international scholars, who utilize a range of interdisciplinary approaches to analyze “real” and “representational” animals that stand out as culturally significant to Victorian literature and culture. Essays focus on a wide range of canonical and non-canonical Victorian writers, including Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Anna Sewell, Emily Bronte, James Thomson, Christina Rossetti, and Richard Marsh, and they focus on a diverse array of forms: fiction, poetry, journalism, and letters. These essays consider a wide range of cultural attitudes and literary treatments of animals in the Victorian Age, including the development of the animal protection movement, the importation of animals from the expanding Empire, the acclimatization of British animals in other countries, and the problems associated with increasing pet ownership. The collection also includes an Introduction co-written by the editors and Suggestions for Further Study, and will prove of interest to scholars and students across the multiple disciplines which comprise Animal Studies.

Author : Daniel Hack
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 081392345X

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The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel by Daniel Hack Pdf

Taking as his point of departure the competing uses of the critical term the materiality of writing, Daniel Hack turns to the past in this provocative new book to recover the ways in which the multiple aspects of writing now conjured by that term were represented and related to one another in the mid-nineteenth century. Diverging from much contemporary criticism, he argues that attention to the writing's material components and contexts does not by itself constitute reading against the grain. On the contrary, the Victorian discourse on authorship and the novels Hack discusses--including works by Thackeray, Dickens, Collins, and Eliot--actively investigate the significance and mutual relevance of the written word or printed word's physicality, the exchange of texts for money, the workings of signification, and the corporeality of writers, readers, and characters. Hack shows how these investigations, which involve positioning the novel in relation to such widely denigrated forms of writing as the advertisement and the begging letter, bring into play such basic novelistic properties as sympathetic identification, narrative authority, and fictionality itself. Combining formalist and historicist critical methods in innovative fashion, Hack changes the way we think about the Victorian novel's simultaneous status as text, book, and commodity.

Author : David Sweeney Coombs
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813943435

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Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science by David Sweeney Coombs Pdf

The nineteenth-century sciences cleaved sensory experience into two separate realms: the bodily physics of sensation and the mental activity of perception. This division into two discrete categories was foundational to Victorian physics, physiology, and experimental psychology. As David Sweeney Coombs reveals, however, it was equally important to Victorian novelists, aesthetes, and critics, for whom the distinction between sensation and perception promised the key to understanding literature’s seemingly magical power to conjure up tastes, sights, touches, and sounds from the austere medium of print. In Victorian literature, science, and philosophy, the parallel between reading and perceiving gave rise to momentous debates about description as a mode of knowledge as well as how, and even whether, reading about the world differs from experiencing it firsthand. Examining novels and art criticism by George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Vernon Lee, and Walter Pater alongside scientific works by Hermann von Helmholtz, William James, and others, this book shows how Victorian literature offers us ways not just to touch but to grapple with the material realities that Clifford Geertz called the "hard surfaces of life."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015068955338

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Victorian Periodicals Review by Anonim Pdf