Author: AnonymousPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337707644
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Meade, L. T. and Eustace, Robert - The Brotherhood of The Seven Kings
Author: AnonymousPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337707644
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Framed
Author: Elizabeth Carolyn MillerPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472024469
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Framed uses fin de siècle British crime narrative to pose a highly interesting question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing while fictional male criminals of the era are unsympathetic or even grotesque? In this elegantly argued study, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller addresses this question, examining popular literary and cinematic culture from roughly 1880 to 1914 to shed light on an otherwise overlooked social and cultural type: the conspicuously glamorous New Woman criminal. In so doing, she breaks with the many Foucauldian studies of crime to emphasize the genuinely subversive aspects of these popular female figures. Drawing on a rich body of archival material, Miller argues that the New Woman Criminal exploited iconic elements of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commodity culture, including cosmetics and clothing, to fashion an illicit identity that enabled her to subvert legal authority in both the public and the private spheres. "This is a truly extraordinary argument, one that will forever alter our view of turn-of-the-century literary culture, and Miller has demonstrated it with an enrapturing series of readings of fictional and filmic criminal figures. In the process, she has filled a gap between feminist studies of the New Woman of the 1890s and more gender-neutral studies of early twentieth-century literary and social change. Her book offers an extraordinarily important new way to think about the changing shape of political culture at the turn of the century." ---John Kucich, Professor of English, Rutgers University "Given the intellectual adventurousness of these chapters, the rich material that the author has brought to bear, and its combination of archival depth and disciplinary range, any reader of this remarkable book will be amply rewarded." ---Jonathan Freedman, Professor of English and American Culture, University of Michigan Elizabeth Carolyn Miller is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.
The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s
Author: Winnie ChanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135868573
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This materialist study of the short story’s development in three diverse magazines reveals how, at the dawn of modernism, commercial pressures prompted modernist formal innovation in popular magazines, whilst anti-commercial opacity paradoxically formed the basis of an effective marketing strategy that appealed to elitism. Integrating methods of cultural studies with formal analyses, this study builds upon recent work challenging Andreas Huyssen’s provocative formation, the "great divide" of modernism.
The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings
Author: L. T. MeadePublisher: Dodo Press
ISBN: 9781409957096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
L. T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1854-1914), a prolific writer of girls stories in late 19th century England. Her most famous book was, A World of Girls, published in 1886. She was also the editor of a popular girl's magazine Atlanta. She also co-authored a number of notable mystery novels with Robert Eustace. Eustace Robert Barton (1854-1943), was a British physician who also wrote medico-legal thrillers under the pseudonym Robert Eustace. He often wrote in collaboration, particularly with L. T. Meade. With Meade his works include: A Master of Mysteries (1898), The Gold Star Line (1899), The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings (1899), The Arrest of Captain Vandeleur (1899), The Outside Ledge (1900), The Man Who Disappeared (1901), The Last Square (1902) and The Stolen Pearl (1903). He also co-authored The Tea Leaf (1925) with Edgar Jepson and The Documents in the Case (1930) with Dorothy L. Sayers.
The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings
Author: L. T. MeadePublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
"The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings" is a detective mystery novel. Norman Head had met and fallen in love with a woman in Italy. As time went by, however, he came to discover the truth about her character, and that the mysterious secret society that she led and had introduced him to, was in fact a vicious criminal enterprise, an enterprise of which he wanted no part in. Head fled to England in search of a new life away from it all. But when an old friend came to visit him with a request, it would lead to his reunion with Madame Kolluchy, the queen and head of the Brotherhood of Seven Kings. And with the life of a young boy at stake, Norman must act fast to save him from the clutches of the dreaded organisation...
Nineteenth Century Science Fiction
Author: David SeedPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100089911X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction. Taking Frankenstein as its formative work, it assembles stories and excerpts from narratives exploring the complex impact of new technologies like the telegraph and later the cinema, or new scientific practices like mesmerism (hypnotism) and microscopy. The selected authors range from those famous within the realist tradition like George Eliot and Mark Twain to scientists like the physician Silas Weir Mitchell and the inventor Thomas Edison. They repeatedly destabilize their narratives so that some come to resemble scientific records and frequently leave their endings unresolved, encouraging the reader to speculate about their subjects, which include extensions to the senses, new inventions, and challenges to individual autonomy. Many focus on experiments but might combine scientific enquiry with the supernatural, producing hybrid narratives as a result which are difficult to classify.
British Detective Fiction 1891–1901
Author: Clare ClarkePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 1137595639
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This book examines the developments in British serial detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead. In December 1893, at the height of Sherlock’s popularity with the Strand Magazine’s worldwide readership, Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his detective. At the time, he firmly believed that Holmes would not be resurrected. This book introduces and showcases a range of Sherlock’s most fascinating successors, exploring the ways in which a huge range of popular magazines and newspapers clamoured to ensnare Sherlock’s bereft fans. The book’s case-study format examines a range of detective series-- created by L.T. Meade; C.L. Pirkis; Arthur Morrison; Fergus Hume; Richard Marsh; Kate and Vernon Hesketh-Prichard— that filled the pages of a variety of periodicals, from plush monthly magazines to cheap newspapers, in the years while Sherlock was dead. Readers will be introduced to an array of detectives—professional and amateur, male and female, old and young; among them a pawn-shop worker, a scientist, a British aristocrat, a ghost-hunter. The study of these series shows that there was life after Sherlock and proves that there is much to learn about the development of the detective genre from the successors to Sherlock Holmes. “In this brilliant, incisive study of late Victorian detective fiction, Clarke emphatically shows us there is life beyond Sherlock Holmes. Rich in contextual detail and with her customary eye for the intricacies of publishing history, Clarke’s wonderfully accessible book brings to the fore a collection of hitherto neglected writers simultaneously made possible but pushed to the margins by Conan Doyle’s most famous creation.” — Andrew Pepper,, Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature, Queen's University, Belfast Professor Clarke's superb new book, British Detective : The Successors to Sherlock Holmes, is required reading for anyone interested in Victorian crime and detective fiction. Building on her award-winning first monograph, Late-Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock, Dr. Clarke further explores the history of serial detective fiction published after the "death" of Conan Doyle's famous detective in 1893. This is a path-breaking book that advances scholarship in the field of late-Victorian detective fiction while at the same time introducing non-specialist readers to a treasure trove of stories that indeed rival the Sherlock Holmes series in their ability to puzzle and entertain the most discerning reader. — Alexis Easley, Professor of English, University of St.Paul, Minnesota
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
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