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Victorian Honeymoons

Author : Helena Michie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139462969

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Victorian Honeymoons by Helena Michie Pdf

While Victorian tourism and Victorian sexuality have been the subject of much critical interest, there has been little research on a characteristically nineteenth-century phenomenon relating to both sex and travel: the honeymoon, or wedding journey. Although the term 'honeymoon' was coined in the eighteenth century, the ritual increased in popularity throughout the Victorian period, until by the end of the century it became a familiar accompaniment to the wedding for all but the poorest classes. Using letters and diaries of 61 real-life honeymooning couples, as well as novels from Frankenstein to Middlemarch that feature honeymoon scenarios, Michie explores the cultural meanings of the honeymoon, arguing that, with its emphasis on privacy and displacement, the honeymoon was central to emerging ideals of conjugality and to ideas of the couple as a primary social unit.

Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal

Author : Helena Michie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0511270348

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Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal by Helena Michie Pdf

A cultural history of the honeymoon in Victorian culture, private accounts, and fiction.

Newlyweds on Tour

Author : Barbara Penner
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1584657731

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Newlyweds on Tour by Barbara Penner Pdf

An original, richly illustrated analysis of American honeymooning, 1820-1900, that offers fresh insights into the intersecting histories of tourism, consumerism, sentiment, sexuality, and conjugality

Mobility in the Victorian Novel

Author : Charlotte Mathieson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137545473

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Mobility in the Victorian Novel by Charlotte Mathieson Pdf

Mobility in the Victorian Novel explores mobility in Victorian novels by authors including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. With focus on representations of bodies on the move, it reveals how journeys create the place of the nation within a changing global landscape.

Family Likeness

Author : Mary Jean Corbett
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801476631

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Family Likeness by Mary Jean Corbett Pdf

Mary Jean Corbett shows how the domestic fiction of novelists from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf reflected the shifting boundaries of 'family' & in turn helped to refine those boundaries.

Victorians in the Mountains

Author : Ann C. Colley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317001997

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Victorians in the Mountains by Ann C. Colley Pdf

In her compelling book, Ann C. Colley examines the shift away from the cult of the sublime that characterized the early part of the nineteenth century to the less reverential perspective from which the Victorians regarded mountain landscapes. And what a multifaceted perspective it was, as unprecedented numbers of the Victorian middle and professional classes took themselves off on mountaineering holidays so commonplace that the editors of Punch sarcastically reported that the route to the summit of Mont Blanc was to be carpeted. In Part One, Colley mines diaries and letters to interrogate how everyday tourists and climbers both responded to and undercut ideas about the sublime, showing how technological advances like the telescope transformed mountains into theatrical spaces where tourists thrilled to the sight of struggling climbers; almost inevitably, these distant performances were eventually reenacted at exhibitions and on the London stage. Colley's examination of the Alpine Club archives, periodicals, and other primary resources offers a more complicated and inclusive picture of female mountaineering as she documents the strong presence of women on successful expeditions in the latter half of the century. In Part Two, Colley turns to John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Louis Stevenson, whose writings about the Alps reflect their feelings about their Romantic heritage and shed light on their ideas about perception, metaphor, and literary style. Colley concludes by offering insights into the ways in which expeditions to the Himalayas affected people's sense of the sublime, arguing that these individuals were motivated as much by the glory of Empire as by aesthetic sensibility. Her ambitious book is an astute exploration of nationalism, as well as theories of gender, spectacle, and the technicalities of glacial movement that were intruding on what before had seemed inviolable.

The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature

Author : Dennis Denisoff,Talia Schaffer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 44,7 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.

The Wedding Complex

Author : Elizabeth Freeman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822329891

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The Wedding Complex by Elizabeth Freeman Pdf

DIVA queer literary and cultural studies examination of the wedding ceremony (rather than the resulting marriages) which finds it to be a space of more open possibilities than might normally be supposed./div

The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope

Author : Deborah Denenholz Morse,Margaret Markwick,Mark W. Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317044147

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The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope by Deborah Denenholz Morse,Margaret Markwick,Mark W. Turner Pdf

Bringing together leading and newly emerging scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope offers a comprehensive overview of Trollope scholarship and suggests new directions in Trollope studies. The first volume designed especially for advanced graduate students and scholars, the collection features essays on virtually every topic relevant to Trollope research, including the law, gender, politics, evolution, race, anti-Semitism, biography, philosophy, illustration, aging, sport, emigration, and the global and regional worlds.

The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens

Author : Robert L. Patten,John O. Jordan,Catherine Waters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191061127

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The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens by Robert L. Patten,John O. Jordan,Catherine Waters Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation, and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity, and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres, and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity.

Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies

Author : R. Patten,J. Bowen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230524200

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Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies by R. Patten,J. Bowen Pdf

Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the study of one of the most important Victorian novelists. Its editors, Robert L. Patten and John Bowen, are leading authorities on Dickens and the international team of contributors they have assembled contains some of the most exciting critics of nineteenth-century fiction writing today. The book covers the whole range of Dickens's writing and criticism about it, including biographical, theoretical and historical approaches. It is based on up-to-the-minute research and written in a lively and engaging way, and will be essential reading for all students and scholars of this canonical writer.

Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood

Author : Hilary A. Hallett
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631490705

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Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood by Hilary A. Hallett Pdf

A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn. Unlike typical romances, which end with wedding bells, Elinor Glyn’s (1864–1943) story really began after her marriage up the social ladder and into the English gentry class in 1892. Born in the Channel Islands, Elinor Sutherland, like most Victorian women, aspired only to a good match. But when her husband, Clayton Glyn, gambled their fortune away, she turned to her pen and boldly challenged the era’s sexually straightjacketed literary code with her notorious succes de scandale, Three Weeks (1907). An intensely erotic tale about an unhappily married woman’s sexual education of her young lover, the novel got Glyn banished from high society but went on to sell millions, revealing a deep yearning for a fuller account of sexual passion than permitted by the British aristocracy or the Anglo-American literary establishment. In elegant prose, Hilary A. Hallett traces Glyn’s meteoric rise from a depressed society darling to a world-renowned celebrity author who consorted with world leaders from St. Petersburg to Cairo to New York. After reporting from the trenches during World War I, the author was lured by American movie producers from Paris to Los Angeles for her remarkable third act. Weaving together years of deep archival research, Hallett movingly conveys how Glyn, more than any other individual during the Roaring Twenties, crafted early Hollywood’s glamorous romantic aesthetic. She taught the screen’s greatest leading men to make love in ways that set audiences aflame, and coined the term “It Girl,” which turned actress Clara Bow into the symbol of the first sexual revolution. With Inventing the It Girl, Hallett has done nothing less than elevate the origins of the modern romance genre to a subject of serious study. In doing so, she has also reclaimed the enormous influence of one of Anglo-America’s most significant cultural tastemakers while revealing Glyn’s life to have been as sensational as any of the characters she created on the page or screen. The result is a groundbreaking portrait of a courageous icon of independence who encouraged future generations to chase their desires wherever they might lead.

British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 1

Author : Claudia Nelson,Julie-Marie Strange,Susan B Egenolf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2064 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000560855

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British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 1 by Claudia Nelson,Julie-Marie Strange,Susan B Egenolf Pdf

The five volumes of this collection focus on various aspects of family life. Drawing on rare printed sources and archival material, this collection will provide a balanced, contextualized picture of family life, during a period of intense social change. It will appeal to scholars of social history, gender studies and the long nineteenth century.

Florence Nightingale’s Sister

Author : Lynn Hamilton
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399066846

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Florence Nightingale’s Sister by Lynn Hamilton Pdf

They say that behind every great man is a hard-working woman. Behind the titanic that was Florence Nightingale, there was a lesser-known sister, Frances Parthenope. While Florence achieved iconic fame for her work with wounded soldiers in the Crimea, Parthenope spent her days gathering supplies for those same soldiers, especially the ever-needed dry socks, and sending them overseas. With hands badly damaged by rheumatic fever, Parthenope tirelessly penned letters to Florence’s supporters and tactfully requested donations. Eventually, Parthenope married and turned her writing talents to fiction and non-fiction that exposed Victorian injustices toward the poor and women. Florence Nightingale’s older sister never achieved the fame that came to the “Lady of the Lamp.” However, in her own right, Frances Parthenope Verney was a great Victorian. A novelist, journalist, and activist, she supported her sister’s reform of the medical profession while being a thought influencer on the subject of the urban poor and the British peasantry.

Strange Gods

Author : Timothy L. Carens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000484885

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Strange Gods by Timothy L. Carens Pdf

Despite frequent declarations of the sanctity of love and marriage, British Protestant culture nurtured the fear that human affection might easily slip into idolatry. Throughout the nineteenth-century, theological essays, sermons, hymns, and didactic fiction and poetry urged the faithful to maintain a constant watch over their hearts, lest they become engrossed by human love, guilty of worshipping the creature rather than the Creator. Strange Gods: Love and Idolatry in the Victorian Novel traces the concerns produced in Protestant culture by this broad interpretation of idolatry. In chapters focusing on Charles Kingsley and Charlotte Brontë, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Thomas Hardy, this volume shows that even supposedly secular novels obsessively reenact an ideological clash between Protestant faith and human love. Anxiety about adoring humans more than God frequently overshadows and sometimes derails the progress of romance in Victorian novels. By probing this anxiety and its narrative effects, Strange Gods uncovers how a central Protestant belief exerts its influence over stories about love and marriage.