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Languages : en
Pages : 67
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The Nineteenth Century and After, 81
Author: Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Tanya AgathocleousPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521762642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Traces the development of cosmopolitanism and the growing importance of the city in nineteenth-century literature.
The Nineteenth Century and After
Author: Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel
Author: Monica F. CohenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521591414
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by Austen, Charlotte Bront , Dickens, Eliot, Eden, Gaskell, Oliphant and Reade. Cohen traces ways in which domestic work, often perceived as the most feminine of all activities, gained social credibility through being described in the vocabulary of nineteenth-century professionalism. She shows how women sought identity and privilege within Victorian culture, and revises our understanding of nineteenth-century domestic ideology.
British Poetry of the Long Nineteenth Century
Author: Beverley Park RilettPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 136592582X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This anthology surveys Britain's golden years of poetry--the "long" nineteenth century. College students are introduced to the most frequently studied poems of eighteen poets, each afforded roughly equal space. Neither too condensed nor too comprehensive, this 436-page collection is designed specifically for six to eight weeks of poetry study in a British literature course.
Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative
Author: Jan-Melissa SchrammPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110702126X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This book explores the tensions raised by ideas of sacrifice in literature at a time of significant legal and theological change.
Dickens and the Daughter of the House
Author: Hilary M. SchorPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139425056
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Feminist criticism has not been kind to Charles Dickens. The characters George Orwell referred to as 'legless angels' - Little Nell, Agnes Wickfield, Esther Summerson and others - have been conjured as evidence of Dickens' inability to create 'real' women. Critics wishing to rescue him have turned to the dark, angry women - Nancy, Lady Dedlock, Miss Wade - who disrupt the calm surface of some of Dickens' novels. In this book Hilary M. Schor argues that the role of the good daughter is interwoven with that of her angry double in Dickens' fiction, and is the centre of narrative authority in the Dickens' novel. As the good daughters must leave their father's house and enter the world of the marketplace, they transform and rewrite the stories they are empowered to tell. The daughter's uncertain legal status and her power of narrative gave Dickens a way of reading and writing his own culture differently.
Victorian Women and Wayward Reading
Author: Marisa Palacios KnoxPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108496164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Explains how Victorian women readers strategically identified with literature to defy stereotypes and inspire their action and creativity.
Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Author: Hosanna KrienkePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108957064
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Victorian Britain witnessed a resurgence of traditional convalescent caregiving. In the face of a hectic modern existence, nineteenth-century thinkers argued that all medical patients desperately required a lengthy, meandering period of recovery. Various reformers worked to extend the benefits of holistic recuperative care to seemingly unlikely groups: working-class hospital patients, insane asylum inmates, even low-ranking soldiers across the British Empire. Hosanna Krienke offers the first sustained scholarly assessment of nineteenth-century convalescent culture, revealing how interpersonal post-acute care was touted as a critical supplement to modern scientific medicine. As a method of caregiving intended to alleviate both physical and social ills, convalescence united patients of disparate social classes, disease categories, and degrees of impairment. Ultimately, this study demonstrates how novels from Bleak House to The Secret Garden draw on the unhurried timescale of convalescence as an ethical paradigm, training readers to value unfolding narratives apart from their ultimate resolutions.
Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World
Author: Roland WenzlhuemerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025281
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
A revealing insight into the links between globalization and the technological advances in communication brought about by the telegraph network.