Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children`s Literature, Straley
Автор: Reynolds Kimberley Название: Children`s Literature ISBN: 0199560242 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199560240 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 719 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: In this lively discussion Kim Reynolds looks at what children's literature is, why it is interesting, how it contributes to culture, and how it is studied as literature. Providing examples from across history and various types of children's literature, she introduces the key debates, developments, and people involved.
Автор: Lightman Название: Evolution and Victorian Culture ISBN: 1107028426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107028425 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10818 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this collection of essays from leading scholars, the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture is explored for the first time, mapping new relationships between the arts and sciences. Rather than focusing simply on evolution and literature or art, this volume brings together essays exploring the impact of evolutionary ideas on a wide range of cultural activities including painting, sculpture, dance, music, fiction, poetry, cinema, architecture, theatre, photography, museums, exhibitions and popular culture. Broad-ranging, rather than narrowly specialized, each chapter provides a brief introduction to key scholarship, a central section exploring original insights drawn from primary source material, and a conclusion offering overarching principles and a projection towards further areas of research. Each chapter covers the work of significant individuals and groups applying evolutionary theory to their particular art, both as theorists and practitioners. This comprehensive examination of topics sheds light on larger and previously unknown Victorian cultural patterns.
Автор: Byrne Название: Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination ISBN: 0521766672 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521766678 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10818 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tuberculosis was a widespread and deadly disease which devastated the British population in the nineteenth century: consequently it also had a huge impact upon public consciousness. This text explores the representations of tuberculosis in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Fears about gender roles, degeneration, national efficiency and sexual transgression all play their part in the portrayal of 'consumption', a disease which encompassed a variety of cultural associations. Through an examination of a range of Victorian texts, from well-known and popular novels by Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell to critically neglected works by Mrs Humphry Ward and Charles Reade, this work reveals the metaphors of illness which surrounded tuberculosis and the ways those metaphors were used in the fiction of the day. The book also contains detailed analysis of the substantial body of writing by nineteenth-century physicians which exists about this disease, and examines the complex relationship between medical 'fact' and literary fiction.
Автор: Forman Название: China and the Victorian Imagination ISBN: 1107013151 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107013155 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10818 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What happens to our understanding of 'orientalism' and imperialism when we consider British-Chinese relations during the nineteenth century, rather than focusing on India, Africa or the Caribbean? This book explores China's centrality to British imperial aspirations and literary production, underscoring the heterogeneous, interconnected nature of Britain's formal and informal empire. To British eyes, China promised unlimited economic possibilities, but also posed an ominous threat to global hegemony. Surveying anglophone literary production about China across high and low cultures, as well as across time, space and genres, this book demonstrates how important location was to the production, circulation and reception of received ideas about China and the Chinese. In this account, treaty ports matter more than opium. Ross G. Forman challenges our preconceptions about British imperialism, reconceptualizes anglophone literary production in the global and local contexts, and excavates the little-known Victorian history so germane to contemporary debates about China's 'rise'.
Автор: Forman Название: China and the Victorian Imagination ISBN: 1316600998 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316600993 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3012 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What happens to our understanding of 'orientalism' and imperialism when we consider British-Chinese relations during the nineteenth century, rather than focusing on India, Africa or the Caribbean? This book explores China's centrality to British imperial aspirations and literary production, underscoring the heterogeneous, interconnected nature of Britain's formal and informal empire. To British eyes, China promised unlimited economic possibilities, but also posed an ominous threat to global hegemony. Surveying anglophone literary production about China across high and low cultures, as well as across time, space and genres, this book demonstrates how important location was to the production, circulation and reception of received ideas about China and the Chinese. In this account, treaty ports matter more than opium. Ross G. Forman challenges our preconceptions about British imperialism, reconceptualizes anglophone literary production in the global and local contexts, and excavates the little-known Victorian history so germane to contemporary debates about China's 'rise'.
Автор: Briefel Название: The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination ISBN: 1107116589 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107116580 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10818 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The hands of colonized subjects - South Asian craftsmen, Egyptian mummies, harem women, and Congolese children - were at the crux of Victorian discussions of the body that tried to come to terms with the limits of racial identification. While religious, scientific, and literary discourses privileged hands as sites of physiognomic information, none of these found plausible explanations for what these body parts could convey about ethnicity. As compensation for this absence, which might betray the fact that race was not actually inscribed on the body, fin-de-siecle narratives sought to generate models for how non-white hands might offer crucial means of identifying and theorizing racial identity. They removed hands from a holistic corporeal context and allowed them to circulate independently from the body to which they originally belonged. Severed hands consequently served as 'human tools' that could be put to use in a number of political, aesthetic, and ideological contexts.
Автор: Byrne Название: Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination ISBN: 1107672805 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107672802 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3285 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tuberculosis was a widespread and deadly disease which devastated the British population in the nineteenth century: consequently it also had a huge impact upon public consciousness. This text explores the representations of tuberculosis in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Fears about gender roles, degeneration, national efficiency and sexual transgression all play their part in the portrayal of 'consumption', a disease which encompassed a variety of cultural associations. Through an examination of a range of Victorian texts, from well-known and popular novels by Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell to critically neglected works by Mrs Humphry Ward and Charles Reade, this work reveals the metaphors of illness which surrounded tuberculosis and the ways those metaphors were used in the fiction of the day. The book also contains detailed analysis of the substantial body of writing by nineteenth-century physicians which exists about this disease, and examines the complex relationship between medical 'fact' and literary fiction.
Автор: Hunt Peter, Mandik A Pete, Mundale J Jennifer, Название: Children`s Literature: An Anthology 1801-1902 ISBN: 0631210482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780631210481 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 17291 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This anthology of 19th-century English-language children`s literature brings together over 120 complete works, poems, stories, and extracts from novels. The collection explores both famous and lesser-known works from a diverse range of authors and poets.
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.
Название: Children`s literature ISBN: 1403917388 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403917386 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6929 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a guide for graduate and upper level undergraduate students of children`s literature. It is structured through critics reading individual texts to bring out wider issues that are current in the field. Includes chronology of key events and publications, a selective guide to further reading and a list of web-based resources.
Описание: A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney`s translation of "Beowulf" to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.
Автор: Hunt Название: An Introduction to Children`s Literature (Pb) ISBN: 0192892436 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192892430 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6024 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Provides a history of children`s literature, and relates it to everything from censorship and criticism to education and realism. Children`s literature is one of the roots of Western culture, enjoyed by children and adults alike. Hunt is the author of "Approaching Arthur Ransome".
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