Author: Lawrence KramerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Music and Poetry
Author: Lawrence KramerNineteenth-century English
Author: Richard W. BaileyPublisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape.
The Nineteenth Century and After
Author: Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Margaret FullerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social history
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
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.
Nineteenth Century and After
Author: The Nineteenth Century and After
Author: The Nineteenth-century Visual Culture Reader
Author: Vanessa R. SchwartzPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415308656
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The nineteenth century is central to contemporary discussions of visual culture. This reader brings together key writings on the period, exploring such topics as photographs, exhibitions and advertising.
Nineteenth Century
Author: Bodies and Books
Author: Gillian SilvermanPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206185
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In nineteenth-century America, Gillian Silverman contends, reading—and particularly book reading—precipitated intense fantasies of communion. In handling a book, the reader imagined touching and being touched by the people affiliated with that book's narrative world—an author, a character, a fellow reader. This experience often led to a sense of consubstantiality, a fantasy that the reader, the material book, and the imagined other were momentarily merged. Such a fantasy challenges psychological conceptions of discrete subjectivity along with the very notion of corporeal integrity—the idea that we are detached, skin-bound, and autonomously functioning entities. It forces us to envision readers not as liberal subjects, pursuing reading as a means toward privacy, interiority, and individuation, but rather as communal beings inseparable from objects in our psychic and phenomenal world. While theorists have long emphasized the way reading can promote a sense of abstract belonging, Bodies and Books emphasizes the intense somatic bonds that nineteenth-century subjects experienced while reading. Silverman bridges the gap between the cognitive and material effects of reading, arguing that the two worked in tandem, enabling readers to feel deep communion with objects (both human and nonhuman) in the external world. Drawing on the letters and diaries of nineteenth-century readers along with literary works by Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Susan Warner, and others, Silverman explores the book as a technology of intimacy and ponders what nineteenth-century readers might be able to teach us two centuries later.