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Victorian Vulgarity

Susan David Bernstein,Elsie B. Michie
Victorian Vulgarity Book PDF

Author : Susan David Bernstein,Elsie B. Michie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351875837

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Victorian Vulgarity by Susan David Bernstein,Elsie B. Michie Pdf

Originally describing language use and class position, vulgarity became, over the course of the nineteenth century, a word with wider social implications. Variously associated with behavior, the possession of wealth, different races, sexuality and gender, the objects displayed in homes, and ways of thinking and feeling, vulgarity suggested matters of style, taste, and comportment. This collection examines the diverse ramifications of vulgarity in the four areas where it was most discussed in the nineteenth century: language use, changing social spaces, the emerging middle classes, and visual art. Exploring the dynamics of the term as revealed in dictionaries and grammars; Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor; fiction by Dickens, Eliot, Gissing, and Trollope; essays, journalism, art, and art reviews, the contributors bring their formidable analytical skills to bear on this enticing and divisive concept. Taken together, these essays urge readers to consider the implications of vulgarity's troubled history for today's writers, critics, and artists.

Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians

Jen Harrison
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Author : Jen Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317104650

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Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians by Jen Harrison Pdf

What are we to make of the Victorians’ fascination with collecting? What effect did their encounters with the curious, exotic and downright odd have on Victorian writers and their works? The essays in this collection take up these questions by examining the phenomenon of bric-à-brac in Victorian literature. The contributors to Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities explore sites of unusual concurrence (including museums, the home, art galleries, private collections) and the way in which bric-à-brac brought the alien into everyday settings, the past into the present and the wild into the domestic. Focusing on the representation of material culture in Victorian literature, the essays in this volume seek out miscellaneous and incongruous objects that take readers beyond the commonplace paradigms associated with commodity culture. Individual chapters analyse the work of writers as different as Edward Lear and John Henry Newman, Robert Browning and George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll. In so doing they shed light on a dizzying array of topics and objects that include class and capitalism, the occult and the sacraments, Darwinism and dandyism, umbrellas, textiles, the Philosopher’s Stone and even the household nail.

The Promise of the Suburbs

Sarah Bilston
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Author : Sarah Bilston
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300186369

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The Promise of the Suburbs by Sarah Bilston Pdf

A study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women From the earliest decades of the nineteenth century, the suburbs were maligned by the aristocratic elite as dull zones of low cultural ambition and vulgarity, as well as generally female spaces isolated from the consequential male world of commerce. Sarah Bilston argues that these attitudes were forged to undermine the cultural authority of the emerging middle class and to reinforce patriarchy by trivializing women’s work. Resisting these stereotypes, Bilston reveals how suburban life offered ambitious women, especially women writers, access to supportive communities and opportunities for literary and artistic experimentation as well as professional advancement. From more familiar figures such as the sensation author Mary Elizabeth Braddon to interior design journalist Jane Ellen Panton and garden writer Jane Loudon, this work presents a more complicated portrait of how women and English society at large navigated a fast-growing, rapidly changing landscape.

The Afterlife of Enclosure

Carolyn J. Lesjak
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Author : Carolyn J. Lesjak
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781503627826

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The Afterlife of Enclosure by Carolyn J. Lesjak Pdf

The enclosure of the commons, space once available for communal use, was not a singular event but an act of "slow violence" that transformed lands, labor, and basic concepts of public life leading into the nineteenth century. The Afterlife of Enclosure examines three canonical British writers—Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy—as narrators of this history, the long duration and diffuse effects of which required new literary forms to capture the lived experience of enclosure and its aftermath. This study boldly reconceives the realist novel, not as an outdated artifact, but as witness to the material and environmental dispossession of enclosure—and bearer of utopian energies. These writers reinvented a commons committed to the collective nature of the social world. Illuminating the common at the heart of the novel—from common characters to commonplace events—Carolyn Lesjak reveals an experimental figuration of the lost commons, once a defining feature of the British landscape and political imaginary. In the face of privatization, climate change, new enclosures, and the other forms of slow violence unfolding globally today, this book looks back to a literature of historical trauma and locates within it a radical path forward.

The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope

Deborah Denenholz Morse,Margaret Markwick,Mark W. Turner
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Author : Deborah Denenholz Morse,Margaret Markwick,Mark W. Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,5 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.

George Gissing and the Woman Question

Christine Huguet
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Author : Christine Huguet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317128588

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George Gissing and the Woman Question by Christine Huguet Pdf

Approaching its subject both contextually and comparatively, George Gissing and the Woman Question reads Gissing's novels, short stories and personal writings as a crux in European fiction's formulations of gender and sexuality. The collection places Gissing alongside nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors as diverse as Paul Bourget, Ella Hepworth Dixon, May Sinclair and Theodore Dreiser, theorizing the ways in which late-Victorian sexual difference is challenged, explored and performed in Gissing's work. In addition to analyzing the major novels, essays make a case for Gissing as a significant short story writer and address Gissing's own life and afterlife in ways that avoid biographical mimetics. The contributors also place Gissing's work in relation to discourses of subjectivity and intersubjectivity, identity, public space, class and labour, especially literary production. Increasingly viewed as a key chronicler of the late Victorian period's various redefinitions of sexual difference, Gissing is here recognized as a sincere, uncompromising chronicler of social change.

Barchester Towers

Anthony Trollope
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Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199665860

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Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope Pdf

Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. In this novel Trollope continues the story, begun in The Warden, of Mr. Harding and his daughter Eleanor, introducing that oily symbol of progress Mr. Slope, the hen-pecked Dr. Proudie and the amiable Stanhope family. Fully illustrated, this new edition is edited by John Sutherland, a well-known authority on Trollope and Victorian fiction. --Publisher.

The Literary 1880s

Penny Fielding,Andrew Taylor
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Author : Penny Fielding,Andrew Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107181908

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The Literary 1880s by Penny Fielding,Andrew Taylor Pdf

Explores the diverse forces that shaped developments in literature in the 1880s, an often overlooked literary decade.

London Labour and the London Poor

Henry Mayhew
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Author : Henry Mayhew
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770487215

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London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew Pdf

Produced between 1850 and 1862, London Labour and the London Poor is one of the most significant examples of nineteenth-century oral history. The collection teems with the minute particulars of the everyday—bits and pieces of London lives assembled into a precarious whole by the author, editor, and principal investigator, Henry Mayhew. Mayhew was interested in the social fabric of people’s lives, their labour and earnings, but also their families, education, leisure time, and religious beliefs. What gives his “case studies” such immediacy is that they seem to flow unprompted and uninterrupted from the mouths of his subjects: street sellers, dock labourers, musicians, rat catchers, vagrants, chimney sweeps, thieves, and prostitutes. All are captured in this newly annotated and selected edition of Mayhew’s four-volume work. Historical appendices include a contemporary map of London, reviews of London Labour, and other slum journalism from the period.

The Small House at Allington

Anthony Trollope
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Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199662777

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The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope Pdf

Lively and attractive, Lily Dale lives with her mother and sister at the Small House at Allington. She falls passionately in love with the urbane Adolphus Crosbie, despite his aversion to a life of economy and attraction to rank and wealth. But Lily has another suitor, Johnny Eames, who has been devoted to her since boyhood. Perhaps Johnny can yet win Lily's heart? Her story is a subtle exploration of loyalty and ambition, and the pressure for change in a rapidly evolving world.

Reforming Trollope

Deborah Denenholz Morse
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Author : Deborah Denenholz Morse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317069430

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Reforming Trollope by Deborah Denenholz Morse Pdf

Trollope the reformer and the reformation of Trollope scholarship in relation to gender, race, and genre are the intertwined subjects of eminent Trollopian Deborah Denenholz Morse’s radical rethinking of Anthony Trollope. Beginning with a history of Trollope’s critical reception, Morse traces the ways in which Trollope’s responses to the political and social upheavals of the 1860s and 1870s are reflected in his novels. She argues that as Trollope’s ideas about gender and race evolved over those two crucial decades, his politics became more liberal. The first section of the book analyzes these changes in terms of genre. As Morse shows, the novelist subverts and modernizes the quintessential English genre of the pastoral in the wake of Darwin in the early 1860s novel The Small House at Allington. Following the Second Reform Act, he reimagines the marriage plot along new class lines in the early 1870s in Lady Anna. The second section focuses upon gender. In the wake of the Second Reform Bill and the agitations for women's rights in the 1860s and 1870s, Trollope reveals the tragedy of primogeniture and male privilege in Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite and the viciousness of the marriage market in Ayala's Angel. The final section of Reforming Trollope centers upon race. Trollope's response to the Jamaica Rebellion and the ensuing Governor Eyre Controversy in England is revealed in the tragic marriage of a quintessential English gentleman to a dark beauty from the Empire's dominions. The American Civil War and its aftermath led to Trollope's insistence that English identity include the history of English complicity in the black Atlantic slave trade and American slavery, a history Trollope encodes in the creole discourses of the late novel Dr. Wortle's School. Reforming Trollope is a transformative examination of an author too long identified as the epitome of the complacent English gentleman.

Amy Levy

Naomi Hetherington,Nadia Valman
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Author : Naomi Hetherington,Nadia Valman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780821443071

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Amy Levy by Naomi Hetherington,Nadia Valman Pdf

Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation. Embraced by feminist scholars for her radical experimentation with queer poetic voice and her witty journalistic pieces on female independence, she remains controversial for her representations of London Jewry that draw unmistakably on contemporary antisemitic discourse. Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Working from close analyses of Levy’s texts, the collection aims to rethink her engagement with Jewish identity, to consider her literary and political identifications, to assess her representations of modern consumer society and popular culture, and to place her life and work within late-Victorian cultural debate. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students offering both a comprehensive literature review of scholarship-to-date and a range of new critical perspectives. Contributors: Susan David Bernstein,University of Wisconsin-Madison Gail Cunningham,Kingston University Elizabeth F. Evans,Pennslyvania State University–DuBois Emma Francis,Warwick University Alex Goody,Oxford Brookes University T. D. Olverson,University of Newcastle upon Tyne Lyssa Randolph,University of Wales, Newport Meri-Jane Rochelson,Florida International University

The History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880

Lucy Hartley
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Author : Lucy Hartley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137584656

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880 by Lucy Hartley Pdf

This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman writer became an agent of cultural formation and contestation, appealing to and enabling the growth of female readership while issuing a challenge to the authority of male writers and critics. Of especial importance were changing definitions of marriage, family and nation, of class, and of morality as well as new conceptions of sexuality and gender, and of sympathy and sensation. The result is a richly textured account of a radical and complex process of feminization whereby formal innovations in the different modes of writing by women became central to the aesthetic, social, and political formation of British culture and society in the nineteenth century.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
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Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780674057920

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Publishes for the first time the author's original, uncensored typescript, in an annotated edition with 60 color illustrations.

The Greatest Works of G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton
The Greatest Works of G K Chesterton Book PDF

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 8971 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547772675

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The Greatest Works of G. K. Chesterton by G. K. Chesterton Pdf

Good Press presents to you a meticulously edited G. K. Chesterton collection. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: The Father Brown Books: The Innocence of Father Brown The Wisdom of Father Brown The Incredulity of Father Brown The Secret of Father Brown The Scandal of Father Brown The Donnington Affair The Mask of Midas Novels: The Napoleon of Notting Hill The Man who was Thursday The Ball and the Cross Manalive The Flying Inn The Return of Don Quixote Short Stories: The Club of Queer Trades The Man Who Knew Too Much The Trees of Pride Tales of the Long Bow The Poet and the Lunatics Four Faultless Felons The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond The White Pillars Murder The Sword of Wood Poetry: Greybeards At Play The Wild Knight and Other Poems Wine, Water, and Song Poems, 1916 The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses The Ballad of the White Horse Gloria in Profundis Ubi Ecclesia Rotarians Plays: Magic – A Fantastic Comedy The Turkey and the Turk Literary Criticism: A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The Victorian Age in Literature Charles Dickens - Critical Study Hilaire Belloc Robert Louis Stevenson Historical Works: A Short History of England The Barbarism of Berlin Letters to an Old Garibaldian The Crimes of England The New Jerusalem Theological Works: Heretics Orthodoxy The Everlasting Man The Catholic Church and Conversion Eugenics and other Evils Essays: The Defendant Varied Types All Things Considered Tremendous Trifles What's Wrong with the World Miscellany of Men Divorce versus Democracy The Superstition of Divorce The Uses of Diversity Fancies Versus Fads The Outline of Sanity The Thing Come to Think All is Grist As I was Saying Autobiography by G. K. Chesterton G. K. Chesterton – A Critical Study by Julius West