Victorian Nonfiction Prose

Author : Kathy Rees
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476681245

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Victorian Nonfiction Prose by Kathy Rees Pdf

The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology. Millions of texts emerged from a complex network of writers, editors, publishers and reviewers, to shape and be shaped by the dynamics of a rapidly industrializing society. Many of these works offer fundamental, often surprising insights into Victorian society. Why, for example, did the innocuously titled Essays and Reviews (1860) trigger public outrage? How did Eliza Lynn Linton become the first salaried woman journalist in England? What is "table-talk"? Critical approaches to Victorian prose have long focused on a few canonical writers. Recent scholarship has recognized a wide diversity of practitioners, forms and modes of dissemination. Presented in accessible A-Z format, this literary companion reinstates nonfiction as a principal vehicle of knowledge and debate in Victorian Britain.

Author : Mary Elizabeth Leighton,Lisa Surridge
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781460400302

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The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Prose, 1832-1901 by Mary Elizabeth Leighton,Lisa Surridge Pdf

The Victorian era witnessed dramatic transformations in print culture, and this new anthology covers the exciting intellectual and social debates of the period. From first-person accounts of the lives of factory workers to Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic theory, and from narratives of British travelers in Africa and Asia to Havelock Ellis’s theories of “sexual inversion,” the surprising diversity of nineteenth-century nonfiction writing is represented. Illustrations from Victorian periodicals provide a vivid sense of the original reading experience. The book’s thematic organization emphasizes the social and historical contexts of prose writings, as well as the way in which these writings address each other. In addition to a general critical introduction, the anthology features new thematic introductions by experts in the field.

Author : Kathy Rees
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476646664

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Victorian Nonfiction Prose by Kathy Rees Pdf

The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology. Millions of texts emerged from a complex network of writers, editors, publishers and reviewers, to shape and be shaped by the dynamics of a rapidly industrializing society. Many of these works offer fundamental, often surprising insights into Victorian society. Why, for example, did the innocuously titled Essays and Reviews (1860) trigger public outrage? How did Eliza Lynn Linton become the first salaried woman journalist in England? What is "table-talk"? Critical approaches to Victorian prose have long focused on a few canonical writers. Recent scholarship has recognized a wide diversity of practitioners, forms and modes of dissemination. Presented in accessible A-Z format, this literary companion reinstates nonfiction as a principal vehicle of knowledge and debate in Victorian Britain.

Author : Rosemary J. Mundhenk,LuAnn McCracken Fletcher,Professor Luann McCracken Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 023111026X

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Victorian Prose by Rosemary J. Mundhenk,LuAnn McCracken Fletcher,Professor Luann McCracken Fletcher Pdf

Rosemary J. Mundhenk and LuAnn McCracken Fletcher have assembled a remarkable variety of Victorian nonfiction prose, both classic and lesser known. In both their commentary and selection the editors have drawn upon the insights of recent theoretical approaches to literature and culture to present a complex range of responses to Victorian issues, thus inviting modern readers to explore the many voices of the period and reenvision the Victorian era.

Author : Andrea Broomfield,Sally Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317777588

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Prose by Victorian Women by Andrea Broomfield,Sally Mitchell Pdf

First published in 1996. The first modern collection of its kind, this anthology includes unabridged essays written by 19th century Britain’s' most eminent women intellectuals- the female counter-parts to the Victorian men of letters. Writing on topics ranging from animal rights and trade unions to aesthetic theory and literary criticism, the women whose rare and hard-to-find woks are presented in this anthology include Mary Russell Mitford, George Eliot, Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, Isabella Bird Bishop, Anne Thackerary Ritchie, Sarah Grand and others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:717230386

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Victorian Prose by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4581878

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Nineteenth Century Prose by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeanne Moskal,Shannon R. Wooden
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820469270

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Teaching British Women Writers, 1750-1900 by Jeanne Moskal,Shannon R. Wooden Pdf

The exuberant recovery from obscurity of scores of British women writers has prompted professors and publishers to revisit publication of women's writings. New curricular inclusion of these sometimes quirky, often passionate writers profoundly disrupts traditional pedagogical assumptions about what constitutes «literature». This book addresses this radically changed educational landscape, offering practical, proven teaching strategies for newly «recovered» writers, both in special-topics courses and in traditional teaching environments. Moreover, it addresses the institutional issues confronting feminist scholars who teach women writers in a variety of settings and the kinds of career-altering effects the decision to teach this material can have on junior and senior scholars alike. Collectively, these essays argue that teaching noncanonical women writers invigorates the curriculum as a whole, not only by introducing the voices of women writers, but by incorporating new genres, by asking new questions about readers' assumptions and aesthetic values, and by altering the power relations between teacher and student for the better.

Author : David J. DeLaura
Publisher : Reviews of Research
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39076006155738

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Victorian Prose by David J. DeLaura Pdf

Victorian nonfiction prose: the Carlyles, Thomas Babington Macaulay, John Henry Newman, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, the Oxford Movement: 1833-45, the critics, the unbelievers, and Victorian churches, religion, and society.

Author : Juliette Atkinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191591433

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Victorian Biography Reconsidered by Juliette Atkinson Pdf

In 1939, Virginia Woolf called for a more inclusive form of biography, which would include 'the failures as well as the successes, the humble as well as the illustrious'. She did so in part as a reaction against Victorian biography, deemed to have been overly preoccupied with 'Great Men'. Yet a significant number of Victorians had already broken ranks to write the lives of humble, unsuccessful, or neglected men and women. Victorian Biography Reconsidered seeks to uncover and assess this trend. The book begins with an overview of Victorian biography followed by a reflection on how the bagginess of nineteenth-century hero-worship enabled new subjects to emerge. Biographies of 'hidden' lives are then scrutinized through chapters on the lives of humble naturalists, failed destinies, minor women writers, neglected Romantic poets rescued by Victorian biographers, and, finally, the Dictionary of National Biography. In its conclusion, the book briefly discusses how Virginia Woolf absorbed earlier biographical trends before redirecting the representation of 'hidden' lives. Victorian Biography Reconsidered argues that, often paradoxically, nineteenth-century biographers regarded the public sphere with intense wariness. At a time of instability for men of letters, biographers embraced the role of mediators in a manner that asserted their own cultural authority. Frequently, they showed little interest in vouchsafing immortality for their unknown or forgotten subjects, but strove instead to provoke amongst their readers a feeling of gratitude for the hidden labour that sustained the nation and an appreciation for the writers who had brought it to their attention.

Author : Richard Salmon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107039629

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The Formation of the Victorian Literary Profession by Richard Salmon Pdf

A fascinating study into the development of the Victorian literary profession that examines literary and visual representations of authorship.

Author : Jessica R. Feldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521120906

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Victorian Modernism by Jessica R. Feldman Pdf

In Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience Jessica Feldman sheds a pragmatist light on the relation between the Victorian age and Modernism by dislodging truistic notions of Modernism as an art of crisis, rupture, elitism and loss. Examining the works of John Ruskin (art critic and social thinker), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (poet and painter), Augusta Evans (best-selling domestic novelist,)and William James (philosopher and psychologist), Feldman relates them to selected twentieth-century creations.

Author : Herbert F. Tucker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118624494

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A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture by Herbert F. Tucker Pdf

A NEW COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE The Victorian period was a time of rapid cultural change, which resulted in a huge and varied literary output. A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture offers experienced guidance to the literature of nineteenth-century Britain and its social and historical context. This revised and expanded edition comprises contributions from over 30 leading scholars who, approaching the Victorian epoch from different positions and traditions, delve into the unruly complexities of the Victorian imagination. Divided into five parts, this new Companion surveys seven decades of history before examining the key phases in a Victorian life, the leading professions and walks of life, the major literary genres, the way Victorians defined their persons, homes, and national identity, and how recent “neo-Victorian” developments in contemporary culture reconfigure the sense we make of the past today. Important topics such as sexuality, denominational faith, social class, and global empire inform each chapter’s approach. Each chapter provides a comprehensive bibliography of established and emerging scholarship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCSC:32106008536523

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Victorian Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Wilson Bowyer,John Lee Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4593521

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The Victorian Age: Prose, Poetry, and Drama by John Wilson Bowyer,John Lee Brooks Pdf