Victorian Disharmonies

Author : Francesco Marroni
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780874130904

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Victorian Disharmonies by Francesco Marroni Pdf

This thought-provoking book delineates how fiction developed from Dickens's intensely Christological worldview to Gissing's self-deceptive and pessimistic humanism, from Collins's and Gaskell's patholo-gized womanhood to Hardy's intellectual wasteland where there is no room for redemption and moral rebirth. Victorian Disharmonies provides a fresh account of crucial fictional texts of the age, while its lively presentation of the literary scene will prove stimulating to readers interested in the history of Victorianism as a paradigmatic phenomenon of British culture. --Book Jacket.

Author : Barbara Franchi,Elvan Mutlu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527509634

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Crossing Borders in Victorian Travel by Barbara Franchi,Elvan Mutlu Pdf

How did Victorian travellers define and challenge the notion of Empire? How did the multiple forms of Victorian travel literature, such as fiction, travel accounts, newspapers, and poetry, shape perceptions of imperial and national spaces, in the British context and beyond? This collection examines how, in the Victorian era, space and empire were shaped around the notion of boundaries, by travel narratives and practices, and from a variety of methodological and critical perspectives. From the travel writings of artists and polymaths such as Carmen Sylva and Richard Burton, to a reassessment of Rudyard Kipling’s, H. G. Wells’s and Julia Pardoe’s cross-cultural and cross-gender travels, this collection assesses a broad range of canonical and lesser-studied Victorian travel texts and genres, and evaluates the representation of empires, nations, and individual identity in travel accounts covering Europe, Asia, Africa and Britain.

Author : S. Tomaiuolo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137008183

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Victorian Unfinished Novels by S. Tomaiuolo Pdf

The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a counter-reading of the nineteenth-century literary canon.

Author : Karin Koehler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319291024

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Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication by Karin Koehler Pdf

This book explores the relationship between Thomas Hardy’s works and Victorian media and technologies of communication – especially the penny post and the telegraph. Through its close analysis of letters, telegrams, and hand-delivered notes in Hardy’s novels, short stories, and poems, it ties together a wide range of subjects: technological and infrastructural developments; material culture; individual subjectivity and the construction of identity; the relationship between private experience and social conventions; and the new narrative possibilities suggested by modern modes of communication.

Author : Meghan Lowe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030483975

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Masculinity in the Work of Elizabeth Gaskell by Meghan Lowe Pdf

This book is the first full-length study to focus on the representation of masculinity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels. In examining Gaskell’s understanding of masculine identity as a social construct and considering how her writing engages with Victorian ideologies of gender, this book demonstrates that Gaskell defies an essentialist approach to gender and instead explores masculinity over time, genre, region, and class, making it clear that masculinity is not monolithic but relational, culturally constructed, and dependent on many contexts. It analyses Gaskell’s depiction of what it means to be a ‘man’ and a ‘gentleman’, exploring Mary Barton, North and South, Ruth, Cousin Phillis, Sylvia’s Lovers, and Wives and Daughters, as well as contemporary Victorian works and key contexts such as sympathy, historic change, and industrialism. The target audiences are academics, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students and research specialists, and it will most appeal to Victorian Literature, Gender Studies, and Masculinity Studies disciplines.

Author : E. Steere
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137365262

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The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction by E. Steere Pdf

The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided as literature fit only for maids and cooks and how the depictions of fictional female domestics, from Jane Eyre to Neo-Victorian novels, reflect contemporary social concerns about the blurring of the boundaries of class and gender.

Author : Phillip Mallett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521196482

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Thomas Hardy in Context by Phillip Mallett Pdf

This book covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works while providing a comprehensive introduction to his life and times.

Author : Annamaria Pinazzi
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9788866553939

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The Shade of the Saguaro / La sombra del saguaro. Essays on the Literary Cultures of the American Southwest / Ensayos sobre las culturas literarias del suroeste norteamericano by Annamaria Pinazzi Pdf

This volume springs from that fruitful project of scientific cooperation between the humanities departments of Università di Firenze and University of Arizona which was the Forum for the Study of the Literary Cultures of the Southwest (2000-2007). Tri-cultural, at least (Native, Hispanic and Anglo-American), and multi-lingual, today's Southwest presents a complex coexistence of different cultures, the equal of which would be hard to find elsewhere in the United States. Of this virtually inexhaustible object of study, the essays here collected tackle an ample range of themes. While the majority of them are concerned with the literatures of the Southwest, still a good third falls into the fields of history, art history, ethnography, sociology or cultural studies. They are partitioned in four sections, the first three reflecting the chronology of the stratification of the three major cultures and the fourth highlighting one of the most sensitive topics in and about contemporary Southwest - the borderlands/la frontera

Author : Francesca Saggini,Anna Enrichetta Soccio
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527551879

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The House of Fiction as the House of Life by Francesca Saggini,Anna Enrichetta Soccio Pdf

In recent years, the interest in the house has grown irresistibly, to the point that in many ways houses seem to be situated at the very core of the creative, artistic and cultural domains of contemporaneity. Their presence sprawls across the media, from magazines to TV programmes, and across the globe, possibly because as repositories of the human, houses have a long-standing and profound connection not only with men and women but, at a deeper level, with the ways of representing man’s world, across its declinations of gender, class, and race. Houses – the perennial, ubiquitous and silent background to our daily lives – could many “a tale unfold”: the tales of their inhabitants and/in their relationships with others, of the times they lived in, of their configurations of the world, as well as the visions (and nightmares) of the artists who created them. This collection offers a comprehensive and transdisciplinary look at the paper houses of English Literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Among the configurations addressed, the authors investigate the domestic spatialization of authority, gendered houses, narratives of household construction and deconstruction, exotic mansions, fin-de-siècle habitats, haunted edifices, and houses in detective and Gothic fiction.

Author : Sandro Jung
Publisher : Academia Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789038216294

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Elizabeth Gaskell by Sandro Jung Pdf

Assembles fourteen original essays on Gaskell, the Victorian novelist of social problem fiction

Author : Aa.Vv.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326798710

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Merope n. 61-62 by Aa.Vv. Pdf

Author : Claire Wood,Juliet John
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781474441667

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Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts by Claire Wood,Juliet John Pdf

The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts explores Dickens's rich and complex relationships with a myriad of art forms and the far-reaching resonance of his works across the arts overall. This volume reassesses Dickens's prescient philosophy of art, both through a historical and a present-day lens and in the context of debates about the cultural value of the arts. Across thirty-three original essays, it outlines the ways in which Dickens broke down oppositions between high and low art, money and the aesthetic, the extraordinary and the ordinary, and art for its own sake and the social good. In doing so, it considers how Dickens prefigured the arts of the future, including rap music, television, fanfiction and global cinema.

Author : Rebecca Hutcheon
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527571419

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George Gissing and the Place of Realism by Rebecca Hutcheon Pdf

This collection explores Gissing’s place in the narrative of fin-de-siècle literature. Together, chapters here theorise how late-Victorian spatial and generic norms are confronted, explored and performed in Gissing’s works. In addition to presenting new readings of the major novels and introducing readers to lesser-known works, the collection advocates Gissing’s importance as a journalist, short story, and travel writer. It also recognises Gissing as a central proponent in the late-Victorian realism debate. The book, like today’s nineteenth-century studies, is interdisciplinary. It includes familiar interpretive approaches—biographical, historicist, and comparative—together with fresh perspectives informed by ecocriticism, materiality, and cultural performance. In addition, it is markedly comparative in scope. Gissing is read alongside familiar authors like Dickens, Ruskin, and Hardy, but also, and more unusually, Nietzsche, Besant, Freud and Foucault. Collectively, these chapters illustrate that Gissing, though attentive to contemporary issues, is neither uncomplicatedly realist nor are his writings uncomplicated historical records of place.

Author : Heidi Logan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429843471

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Sensational Deviance by Heidi Logan Pdf

Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction investigates the representation of disability in fictional works by the leading Victorian sensation novelists Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, exploring how disability acts as a major element in the shaping of the sensation novel genre and how various sensation novels respond to traditional viewpoints of disability and to new developments in physiological and psychiatric knowledge. The depictions of disabled characters in sensation fiction frequently deviate strongly from typical depictions of disability in mainstream Victorian literature, undermining its stigmatized positioning as tragic deficit, severe limitation, or pathology. Close readings of nine individual novels situate their investigations of physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities against the period’s disability discourses and interest in senses, perception, stimuli, the nervous system, and the hereditability of impairments. The importance of moral insanity and degeneration theory within sensation fiction connect the genre with criminal anthropology, suggesting the genre’s further significance in the light of the later emergence of eugenics, psychoanalysis, and genetics.

Author : Nasser Mufti
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810136045

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Civilizing War by Nasser Mufti Pdf

Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, awarded by the Council of Graduate Schools Honorable Mention for the 2019 Sonya Rudikoff Prize, awarded by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association Civilizing War traces the historical transformation of civil war from a civil affair into an uncivil crisis. Civil war is today synonymous with the global refugee crisis, often serving as grounds for liberal-humanitarian intervention and nationalist protectionism. In Civilizing War, Nasser Mufti situates this contemporary conjuncture in the long history of British imperialism, demonstrating how civil war has been and continues to be integral to the politics of empire. Through comparative readings of literature, criticism, historiography, and social analysis, Civilizing War shows how writers and intellectuals of Britain’s Anglophone empire articulated a “poetics of national rupture” that defined the metropolitan nation and its colonial others. Mufti’s tour de force marshals a wealth of examples as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Benjamin Disraeli, Friedrich Engels, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, and Michael Ondaatje to examine the variety of forms this poetics takes—metaphors, figures, tropes, puns, and plot—all of which have played a central role in Britain’s civilizing mission and its afterlife. In doing so, Civilizing War shifts the terms of Edward Said’s influential Orientalism to suggest that imperialism was not only organized around the norms of civility but also around narratives of civil war.