Author: George L. BarnettPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Nineteenth-Century British Novelists on the Novel
Author: George L. BarnettPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-century British Literature
Author: Jill Nicole GalvanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780814254745
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Top scholars in Victorian studies reexamine questions about marriage and the marriage plot from cutting-edge perspectives.
Novel Cultivations
Author: Elizabeth Hope ChangPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813942483
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book looks at the transnational circulation of both people and plants as a feature of Victorian speculative fiction"--
Sylvie and Bruno
Author: Lewis CarrollPublisher: London ; New York : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
First published in 1889, this novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland.
Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now
Author: Professor Simon DentithPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472418875
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Envisioning today’s readers as poised between an impossible attempt to read texts as their original readers experienced them and an awareness of our own temporal moment, Simon Dentith complicates traditional prejudices against hindsight to approach issues of interpretation and historicity in nineteenth-century literature. Suggesting that the characteristic aesthetic attitude encouraged by the backward look is one of irony rather than remorse or regret, he examines works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, William Morris and John Ruskin in terms of their participation in significant histories that extend to this day. Liberalism, class, gender, political representation and notions of progress, utopianism and ecological concern as currently understood can be traced back to the nineteenth century. Just as today’s critics strive to respect the authenticity of nineteenth-century writers and readers who responded to these ideas within their historical world, so, too, do those nineteenth-century imaginings persist to challenge the assumptions of the present. It is therefore possible, Dentith argues, to conceive of the act of reading historical literature with an awareness of the historical context and of the difference between the past and the present while allowing that friction or difference to be part of how we think about a text and how it communicates. His book summons us to consider how words travel to the reality of the reader’s own time and how engagement with nineteenth-century writers’ anticipation of the judgements of future generations reveal hindsight’s capacity to transform our understanding of the past in the light of subsequent knowledge.
Secondary Heroines in Nineteenth-Century British and American Novels
Author: Jennifer CamdenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317058488
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Taking up works by Samuel Richardson, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Scott, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, among others, Jennifer B. Camden examines the role of female characters who, while embodying the qualities associated with heroines, fail to achieve this status in the story. These "secondary heroines," often the friend or sister of the primary heroine, typically disappear from the action of the novel as the courtship plot progresses, only to return near the conclusion of the action with renewed demands on the reader's attention. Accounting for this persistent pattern, Camden suggests, reveals the cultural work performed by these unusual figures in the early history of the novel. Because she is often a far more vivid character than the heroine of the marriage plot, the secondary heroine inevitably engages the reader's interest in her plight. That the narrative apparently seeks to suppress her creates tension and points to the secondary heroine as a site of contested identity who represents an ideology of womanhood and nationhood at odds with the national ideals represented by the primary heroine, whom the reader is asked to embrace. In showing how the anxiety produced by these ideals is displaced onto the secondary heroine, Camden's study represents an important intervention into the ways in which early novels use character to further ideologies of race, class, sex, and gender.
Manly Leaders in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Author: Daniela GarofaloPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791473580
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Examines fantasies of charismatic, virile leaders in British literature from the 1790s to the 1840s.
Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Author: Winter Jade WernerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780814255889
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the missionary roots of cosmopolitanism through Romantic and Victorian literature, revealing the interconnectedness between evangelically motivated imperialisms and secularized cosmopolitanism.
The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature
Author: Stefanie MarkovitsPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814210406
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
"We think of the nineteenth century as an active age - the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, and railroads, of great exploration and the Great Exhibition. But in reading the works of Romantic and Victorian writers one notices a conflict, what Stefanie Markovits terms "a crisis of action." In her book, The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Markovits maps out this conflict by focusing on four writers: William Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Eliot, and Henry James. Each chapter offers a "case-study" that demonstrates how specific historical contingencies - including reaction to the French Revolution, laissez-faire economic practices, changes in religious and scientific beliefs, and shifts in women's roles - made people in the period hypersensitive to the status of action and its literary co-relative, plot."--BOOK JACKET.
The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Author: T. McLeanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230355218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake's Europe , Byron's Mazeppa , and Eliot's Middlemarch , and recovering influential works by Thomas Campbell and Jane Porter.