Author: Richard MenkePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108492940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Connects British and American literature to a changing media landscape in an era of innovation.
Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900
Author: Richard MenkePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108492940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Connects British and American literature to a changing media landscape in an era of innovation.
Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900
Author: Richard MenkePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108751059
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
From telephones and transoceanic telegraphy to typewriters and phonographs, the era of Bell and Edison brought an array of wondrous new technologies for recording and communication. At the same time, print was becoming a mass medium, as works from newspapers to novels exploited new markets and innovations in publishing to address expanded readerships. Amid the accelerated movements of inventions and language, questions about media change became a transatlantic topic, connecting writers from Whitman to Kipling, Mark Twain to Bram Stoker and Marie Corelli. Media multiplicity seemed either to unite societies or bring division and conflict, to emphasize the material nature of communication or its transcendent side, to highlight distinctions between media or to let them be ignored. Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900 analyzes this ferment as an urgent subject as authors sought to understand the places of printed writing in the late nineteenth century's emerging media cultures.
The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature
Author: Dennis DenisoffPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429018177
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
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.
British Literature in Transition, 1900–1920: A New Age?
Author: James PurdonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110863589X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 733
Book Description
During the first two decades of the twentieth century, Britain's imperial power and influence was at its height. These were years of daring, when adventurers sounded the mysteries of the deep sea and the distant poles, aviators sped through the skies, and new media technologies transformed communication. They were years of social upheaval, during which long-suppressed voices – particularly those of women, of the labouring classes, and of colonial subjects – grew louder and demanded to be heard. They were years of violence, of insurrection and political agitation, and of imperial conflicts that would encompass continents. By subjecting specific developments in literature and related culture to a fine-grained and historically-informed analysis, British Literature in Transition, 1900–1920: A New Age? explores the writing of this extraordinary period in all its complexity and vibrancy.
Victorian Paper Art and Craft
Author: DEBORAH. LUTZPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198858795
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Studies the way that authors in nineteenth-century Britain used the materials of writing (and reading, drawing, note-taking, and handicraft) for inspiration, experimentation, subordination, and creative composition, with a focus on Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Mary Shelley.
Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence
Author: Sarah GreenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108831516
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Sarah Green shows how late Victorian Decadent literature paradoxically treats sexual restraint as healthy and aesthetically productive.
Author Fictions
Author: Ingo BerensmeyerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111056163
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Fictional novelists and other author characters have been a staple of novels and stories from the early nineteenth century onwards. What is it that attracts authors to representing their own kind in fiction? Author Fictions addresses this question from a theoretical and historical perspective. Narrative representations of literary authorship not only reflect the aesthetic convictions and social conditions of their actual authors or their time; they also take an active part in negotiating and shaping these conditions. The book unfolds the history of such ‘author fictions’ in European and North American texts since the early nineteenth century as a literary history of literary authorship, ranging from the Victorian bildungsroman to contemporary autofiction. It combines rhetorical and sociological approaches to answer the question how literature makes authors. Identifying ‘author fictions’ as narratives that address the fragile material conditions of literary creation in the actual and symbolic economies of production, Ingo Berensmeyer explores how these texts elaborate and manipulate concepts and models of authorship. This book will be relevant to English, American and comparative literary studies and to anyone interested in the topic of literary authorship.
Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910
Author: Dennis DenisoffPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108998348
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and desire in 19th- and early 20th-century decadent literature and art. Combining the environmental humanities with aesthetic, queer and literary theory, this study reveals the interplay of art, eco-paganism and science during the formation of modern ecological and evolutionary thought.
Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth Century Literature and Science
Author: Matthew RowlinsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009409956
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Centring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.
Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature
Author: Richard FallonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108834000
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Reimagining Dinosaurs argues that transatlantic popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a cultural icon between 1880 and 1920