Author: Koenraad ClaesPublisher: Edinburgh Critical Studies in
ISBN: 9781474426213
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Abstract: Introduces the full range and depth of the early 20th-century European avant-gardes
The Late-Victorian Little Magazine
Author: Koenraad ClaesPublisher: Edinburgh Critical Studies in
ISBN: 9781474426213
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Abstract: Introduces the full range and depth of the early 20th-century European avant-gardes
Late-Victorian Little Magazine
Author: Koenraad ClaesPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474426239
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This book offers detailed discussions of the background to thirteen major little magazines of the Victorian era, both situating these within the periodical press of their day and providing interpretations of representative items.
Literary Research and the Victorian and Edwardian Ages, 1830-1910
Author: Melissa S. Van VuurenPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810877279
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This volume discusses traditional and new resources for researching British literature of the Victorian and Edwardian ages and the ways in which those resources can be used in conjunction with one another.
Decadent Conservatism
Author: Alex MurrayPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192673963
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
British Decadent literature was a radical attack on conventional morality and middle-class taste, its insistence on the autonomy of art and its exploration of sexuality, dissipation, and depravity at odds with the literary and social establishment. Yet this counter-cultural narrative has obscured the often reactionary and elitist tendencies of Decadent writers and artists of the fin de siècle. Decadent Conservatism offers the first in-depth examination of the intersection of Decadence and conservatism, arguing that underpinning both was the desire to find alternatives to liberal modernity. Both Decadents and conservatives turned to the past to uncover values and models of social organisation that could offer stability in a chaotic world. From well-known figures such as Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, through to the forgotten editors of short-lived periodicals, important female aesthetes such as Michael Field, and politicians such as Arthur Balfour, Decadent Conservatism challenges conventional understandings of the relationship between aesthetics, politics, and the past in late-Victorian Britain. Through a series of thematic chapters exploring the alternative communities created by little magazines, the politics of Individualism, investments in monarchy and religion, Folk Decadence, and jingoistic and nationalist responses to the Second Anglo-Boer war, this study offers a new, and much messier, picture of fin-de-siècle literary politics. It will be of interest to those working on Victorian literature and modernism, as well as social, political, and cultural history of the period 1880-1920.
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s
Author: Dustin FriedmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009081632
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The 1890s were once seen as marginal within the larger field of Victorian studies, which tended to privilege the realist novel and the authors of the mid-century. In recent decades, the fin de siècle has come to be viewed as one of the most dynamic decades of the Victorian era. Viewed by writers and artists of the period as a moment of opportunity, transition, and urgency, the 1890s are pivotal for understanding the parameters of the field of Victorian studies itself. This volume makes a case for why the decade continues to be an area of perennial fascination, focusing on transnational connections, gender and sexuality, ecological concerns, technological innovations, and other current critical trends. This collection both calls attention to the diverse range of literature and art being produced during this period and foregrounds the relevance of the Victorian era's final years to issues and crises that face us today.
Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical
Author: Caley EhnesPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 147441835X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Reads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain them.
Gender and Activism in a Little Magazine
Author: Rachel SchreiberPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351565982
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Interweaving nuanced discussions of politics, visuality, and gender, Gender and Activism in a Little Magazine uncovers the complex ways that gender figures into the graphic satire created by artists for the New York City-based socialist journal, the Masses. This exceptional magazine was published between 1911 and 1917, during an unusually radical decade in American history, and featured cartoons drawn by artists of the Ashcan School and others, addressing questions of politics, gender, labor and class. Rather than viewing art from the Masses primarily in terms of its critical social stances or aesthetic choices, however, this study uses these images to open up new ways of understanding the complexity of early 20th-century viewpoints. By focusing on the activist images found in the Masses and studying their unique perspective on American modernity, Rachel Schreiber also returns these often-ignored images to their rightful place in the scholarship on American modernism. This book demonstrates that the centrality of the Masses artists' commitments to gender and class equality is itself a characterization of the importance of these issues for American moderns. Despite their alarmingly regular reliance on gender stereotypes?and regardless of any assessment of the efficacy of the artists' activism?the graphic satire of the Masses offers invaluable insights into the workings of gender and the role of images in activist practices at the beginning of the last century.
Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics
Author: Heather Bozant WitcherPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030513386
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics offers a range of Pre-Raphaelite literary scholarship, provoking innovative discussions into the poetic form, gender dynamics, political engagement, and networked communities of Pre-Raphaelitism. The authors in this collection position Pre-Raphaelite poetics broadly in the sense of poiesis, or acts of making, aiming to identify and explore the Pre-Raphaelites’ diverse forms of making: social, aesthetic, gendered, and sacred. Each chapter examines how Pre-Raphaelitism takes up and explores modes of making and re-making identity, relationality, moral transformations, and even, time and space. Essays explore themes of formalist or prosodic approaches, expanded networks of literary and artistic influence within Pre-Raphaelitism, and critical legacies and responses to Pre-Raphaelite poetry and arts, codifying the methods, forms, and commonalties that constitute literary Pre-Raphaelitism.
Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle
Author: Stefano EvangelistaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192609831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The fin de siècle witnessed an extensive and heated debate about cosmopolitanism, which transformed readers' attitudes towards national identity, foreign literatures, translation, and the idea of world literature. Focussing on literature written in English, Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle offers a critical examination of cosmopolitanism as a distinctive feature of the literary modernity of this important period of transition. No longer conceived purely as an abstract philosophical ideal, cosmopolitanism—or world citizenship—informed the actual, living practices of authors and readers who sought new ways of relating local and global identities in an increasingly interconnected world. The book presents literary cosmopolitanism as a field of debate and controversy. While some writers and readers embraced the creative, imaginative, emotional, and political potentials of world citizenship, hostile critics denounced it as a politically and morally suspect ideal, and stressed instead the responsibilities of literature towards the nation. In this age of empire and rising nationalism, world citizenship came to enshrine a paradox: it simultaneously connoted positions of privilege and marginality, connectivity and non-belonging. Chapters on Oscar Wilde, Lafcadio Hearn, George Egerton, the periodical press, and artificial languages bring to light the variety of literary responses to the idea of world citizenship that proliferated at the turn of the twentieth century. The book interrogates cosmopolitanism as a liberal ideology that celebrates human diversity and as a social identity linked to worldliness; it investigates its effect on gender, ethics, and the emotions. It presents the literature of the fin de siècle as a dynamic space of exchange and mediation, and argues that our own approach to literary studies should become less national in focus.
Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel
Author: Jessica R. ValdezPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474474365
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This book shows that novelists often responded to newspapers by reworking well-known events covered by Victorian newspapers in their fictions.