Author: Matthew Whiting RosaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Silver-fork School
Author: Matthew Whiting RosaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Silver Fork Novel
Author: Edward CopelandPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139510282
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centering on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, attractive as they were to middle-class readers, were condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, crassly commercial, designed for the 'masses' and utterly unworthy of regard. Until recently, silver-fork novels have eluded serious consideration and been overshadowed by authors such as Jane Austen. They were influenced by Austen at their very deepest levels, but were paradoxically drummed out of history by the very canon-makers who were using Austen's name to establish their own legitimacy. This first modern full-length study of the silver-fork novel argues that these novels were in fact tools of persuasion, novels deliberately aimed at bringing the British middle classes into an alliance with an aristocratic program of political reform.
Fashioning the Silver Fork Novel
Author: Cheryl A WilsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317322142
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Fashion and celebrity may be twenty-first century obsessions, but they were also key concepts in Regency culture. Both celebrated and condemned for their popularity, silver fork novels were extremely prolific during this period. This study looks at the social and literary impact of this significant genre.
The Silver-fork School
Author: Matthew Whiting RosaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Vivian Grey
Author: Benjamin DisraeliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Silver Fork Society
Author: Alison AdburghamPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571295916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
During the years when George IV ruled the United Kingdom, first as Prince Regent then as King, his extravagant tastes served to characterize the times - the Regency period being identified strongly with new trends in British architecture, fashion and culture. The literary expression of this era was the genre of so-called 'silver fork' novels set in fashionable London society. Initially devoured as authentic insights into the rarefied world of the best social circles, these novels were thus serving as etiquette primers for growing numbers of nouveaux riches. The detail and décor of the novels gives them an enduring socio-historical interest, hence the value of Alison Adburgham's study, first published in 1983, which offers astute readings of such 'silver fork' specialists as Disraeli, Bulwer-Lytton, and Catherine Gore. With an assured eye for the social context of these works, Adburgham explores the class tensions and complex social interactions behind the high sheen of the silver fork.
The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789–1832
Author: Nikolina HattonPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030491110
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789–1832: Conspicuous Things engages with new materialist methodologies to examine shifting perceptions of nonhuman agency in English prose at the turn of the nineteenth century. Examining texts as diverse as it-narratives, the juvenile writings and novels of Jane Austen, De Quincey’s autobiographical writings, and silver fork novels, Nikolina Hatton demonstrates how object agency is viewed in this period as constitutive—not just in regard to human subjectivity but also in aesthetic creation. Objects appear in these novels and short prose works as aids, intermediaries, adversaries, and obstructions, as well as both intimately connected to humans and strangely alien. Through close readings, the book traces how object agency, while sometimes perceived as a threat by authors and characters, also continues to be understood as a source of the delightfully unexpected—in everyday life as well as in narrative.
Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Author: Lauren GillinghamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009296566
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.
The Silver Fork Novel
Author: Edward CopelandPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521513332
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This first modern study of silver-fork novels investigates their role in the alliance of middle class and aristocratic political principles.
Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867
Author: M. O'CinneidePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230583326
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Aristocratic women flourished in the Victorian literary world, their combination of class privilege and gendered exclusion generating distinctively socialized modes of participation in cultural and political activity. Their writing offers an important trope through which to consider the nature of political, private and public spheres.