Автор: Zemka Название: Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society ISBN: 1107442559 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107442559 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4156 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Sudden changes, opportunities, or revelations have always carried a special significance in Western culture, from the Greek and later the Christian kairos to Evangelical experiences of conversion. This fascinating book explores the ways in which England, under the influence of industrializing forces and increased precision in assessing the passing of time, attached importance to moments, events that compress great significance into small units of time. Sue Zemka questions the importance that modernity invests in momentary events, from religion to aesthetics and philosophy. She argues for a strain in Victorian and early modern novels critical of the values the age invested in moments of time, and suggests that such novels also offer a correction to contemporary culture and criticism, with its emphasis on the momentary event as an agency of change.
Автор: Plunkett John Название: Victorian Literature ISBN: 0230551750 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230551756 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 5196 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An anthology of both familiar and previously unavailable primary texts that illuminate the world of nineteenth-century ideas. An expert team introduce and annotate a range of original social, cultural, political and historical documents necessary for contextualising key literary texts from the Victorian period.
Автор: Flint Название: The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature ISBN: 0521846250 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521846257 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 25670 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1901, are followed by essays on topics including sexuality, sensation, cityscapes, melodrama, epic and economics. Victorian writing is placed in its complex relation to the Empire, Europe and America, as well as to Britain's component nations. The final chapters consider how Victorian literature, and the period as a whole, influenced twentieth-century writers. Original, lucid and stimulating, each chapter is an important contribution to Victorian literary studies. Together, the contributors create an engaging discussion of the ways in which the Victorians saw themselves and of how their influence has persisted.
Автор: Adams Название: A History of Victorian Literature ISBN: 0631220828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780631220824 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 23414 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A History of Victorian Literature offers a wide-ranging narrative overview of literature in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900 exploring the extraordinarily varied literary production and reception of the Victorian age, with fresh considerations of major figures and new attention to neglected and less familiar careers.
Название: Cambridge Literature: Three Victorian Poets ISBN: 0521627109 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521627108 Издательство: Cambridge Education Рейтинг: Цена: 2287 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.
Описание: With the increasing commercialization of publishing at the end of the nineteenth century, the polarization of serious literature and popular fiction became a commonplace of literary criticism. Andrew McCann cautions against this opposition by arguing that popular fiction's engagement with heterodox conceptions of authorship and creativity complicates its status as mere distraction or entertainment. Popular writers such as George Du Maurier, Marie Corelli, Rosa Praed and Arthur Machen drew upon a contemporary fascination with occult practices to construct texts that had an intensely ambiguous relationship to the proprietary notions of authorship that were so central to commercial publishing. Through trance-induced or automatic writing, dream states, dual personality and the retrieval of past lives channeled through mediums, they imagined forms of authorship that reinvested popular texts with claims to aesthetic and political value that cut against the homogenizing pressures of an emerging culture industry.
Автор: Flint Название: The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature ISBN: 1316606139 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316606131 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7771 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1901, are followed by essays on topics including sexuality, sensation, cityscapes, melodrama, epic and economics. Victorian writing is placed in its complex relation to the Empire, Europe and America, as well as to Britain's component nations. The final chapters consider how Victorian literature, and the period as a whole, influenced twentieth-century writers. Original, lucid and stimulating, each chapter is an important contribution to Victorian literary studies. Together, the contributors create an engaging discussion of the ways in which the Victorians saw themselves and of how their influence has persisted.
Автор: Anna Krugovoy Silver Название: Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body ISBN: 0521025516 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521025515 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5964 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body - hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness - in the creation of female characters. Silver argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. In addition, Silver relates these literary expressions to the representation of women’s bodies in the conduct books, beauty manuals and other non-fiction prose of the period, contending that women ‘performed’ their gender and class alliances through the slender body. Silver discusses a wide range of writers including Charlotte Bronte, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll to show that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviours of the anorexic girl or woman.
Описание: The eighteenth-century model of the criminal trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the facts of a case could ‘speak for themselves’ - was abandoned in 1836, when legislation enabled barristers to address the jury on behalf of prisoners charged with felony. Increasingly, professional acts of interpretation were seen as necessary to achieve a just verdict, thereby silencing the prisoner and affecting the testimony given by eye witnesses at criminal trials. Jan-Melissa Schramm examines the profound impact of the changing nature of evidence in law and theology on literary narrative in the nineteenth century. Already a locus of theological conflict, the idea of testimony became a fiercely contested motif of Victorian debate about the ethics of literary and legal representation. She argues that authors of fiction created a style of literary advocacy which both imitated, and reacted against, the example of their storytelling counterparts at the Bar.
Автор: MacDuffie Название: Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination ISBN: 1107064376 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107064379 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14279 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Reading Victorian literature and science in tandem, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination investigates how the concept of energy was fictionalized - both mystified and demystified - during the rise of a new resource-intensive industrial and economic order. The first extended study of a burgeoning area of critical interest of increasing importance to twenty-first-century scholarship, it anchors its investigation at the very roots of the energy problem, in a period that first articulated questions about sustainability, the limits to growth, and the implications of energy pollution for the entire global environment. With chapters on Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells, Allen MacDuffie discusses the representation of urban environments in the literary imaginary, and how those texts helped reveal the gap between cultural fantasies of unbounded energy generation, and the material limits imposed by nature.
Автор: Oulton Название: Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England ISBN: 0333993373 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333993378 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14849 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book places Dickens and Wilkie Collins against such important figures as John Henry Newman and George Eliot in seeking to recover their response to the religious controversies of mid-nineteenth century England.
Автор: Godfrey, Emelyne Название: Masculinity, crime and self-defence in victorian literature ISBN: 0230273459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230273450 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11879 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular playwrights and novelists, examining changing ideals of urban, middle-class heroism.
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