Описание: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science. An engaging exploration of the mutually productive interaction of literature and energy science in the Victorian era, as seen in Tennyson, Dickens, Stoker, and others.
Автор: Flint Название: The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature ISBN: 0521846250 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521846257 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 19447 р. Наличие на складе: 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.
Описание: Examines the human fascination with sudden events, such as shocks, surprises, love, gods, ghosts, accidents, explosions and revelations.
Автор: Adams James Eli Название: History of Victorian Literature ISBN: 0470672390 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780470672396 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3988 р. Наличие на складе: 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.
Автор: Plunkett John Название: Victorian Literature ISBN: 0230551750 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230551756 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 4041 р. Наличие на складе: 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.
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.
Автор: Davis, Philip Название: Why victorian literature still matters ISBN: 1405135794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405135795 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3128 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers a passionate defense of Victorian literature`s enduring impact and importance for readers interested in the relationship between literature and life, reading and thinking. This title explores the prominence of Victorian literature for contemporary readers and academics, through the author`s insight into why it is still important today.
Название: Victorian literature and finance ISBN: 0199281920 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199281923 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 16434 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Analyzes relationships between writing and the financial structures of the 19th century. This book is a set of connections between literature and Victorian finance. It includes women and the culture of investment, the profits of a media age, and the uncomfortable relationship between literary and financial capital.
Автор: Anna Krugovoy Silver Название: Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body ISBN: 0521816025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521816021 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10818 р. Наличие на складе: 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.
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