Описание: An indispensable resource for readers investigating Victorian literature and culture, this book offers a comprehensive summary of the historical, social, political, and cultural contexts of Victorian England. The Victorian era was a time of great social, scientific, and cultural change.
Описание: Chapter 1/Introduction: Neo-Victorian Maladies of the Mind, Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier.- Chapter 2/"I Am Not an Angel" Madness and Addiction in Neo-Victorian Appropriations of Jane Eyre, Kate Faber Oestreich.- Chapter 3/ "We Should Go Mad" The Madwoman and Her Nurse, Rachel M. Friars and Brenda Ayres.- Chapter 4/The Daughters of Bertha Mason: Caribbean Madwomen in Laura Fish's Strange Music, Olivia Tjon-A-Meeuw.- Chapter 5/"A Necessary Madness" PTSD in Mary Balogh's Survivors' Club Novels, Brenda Ayres.- Chapter 6/Unreliable Neo-Victorian Narrators, "Unwomen," and Femmes Fatales: Nell Lyshon's The Colour of Milk and Jane Harris' Gillespie and I, Eckart Voigts.- Chapter 7/"Dear Holy Sister" Narrating Madness, Bodily Horror and Religious Ecstasy in Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White, Marshall Needleman Armintor.- Chapter 8/The Unmentionable Madness of Being a Woman, Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier.- Chapter 9/ Queering the Madwoman: A Mad/Queer Narrative in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Its Adaptation, Barbara Braid.- Chapter 10/Old Monsters, Old Curses: The New Hysterical Woman and Penny Dreadful, Tim Posada.- Chapter 11/The Glamorisation of Mental Illness in BBC's Sherlock, John C. Murray.- Chapter 12/ Gendered (De)Illusions: Imaginative Madness in Neo-Victorian Childhood Trauma Narratives, Sarah E. Maier.
Описание: What is the connection between Victorian writing and experiment? `Artful Experiments` seeks to approach the field of literature and science in a way that is not so much centred on discourses of established knowledge as it is on practices of investigating what is no longer or not yet knowledge.
Описание: Challenges the notion that Lemaire`s recourse to rhetoric was an artistic failure, arguing that rhetoric was actually his success. Jenkins demonstrates the importance of rhetoric in pre-Renaissance French literature, filling a crucial gap in previous scholarship. He provides an overview of rhetorical tradition and Lemair`s knowledge of it.
Literature and Modern Time is a collection of essays that explore literature in the context of a wave of challenges to linear conceptions of time introduced by thinkers such as Bergson, Einstein, McTaggart, Freud and Nietzsche. These challenges were not uniform in character. The volume will demonstrate that literature of the era under scrutiny was not simply reacting to new theories of time--in some cases it is actually inspiring and anticipating them. Thus Literature and Modern Time promises to offer a genuine dialogue between literature and time theory and in doing so will uncover and examine influences and connections-- sometimes unexpected--between philosophers and writers of the era. It will examine literary attempts to transcend and escape time and also challenge rupture-based accounts of modernist time by demonstrating that literary texts commonly associated with brokenness, decline or stasis, also, at the same time, maintain faith in healing, renewal and mobility.
This collection contains interdisciplinary research of the quite highest kind - to see so many different kinds of time - narrative, historical, mechanical, subjective, non-linear time, myth and nostalgia - as well as time/space discussed here is very stimulating indeed. Professor Simon James
Автор: Danahay Название: Gender at Work in Victorian Culture ISBN: 1138270938 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138270930 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8726.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Martin A. Danahay's lucidly argued and accessibly written volume offers a solid introduction to important issues surrounding the definition and division of labor in British society and culture. 'Work,' Danahay argues, was a term rife with ideological contradictions for Victorian males during a period when it was considered synonymous with masculinity. Male writers and artists in particular found their labors troubled by class and gender ideologies that idealized 'man's work' as sweaty, muscled labor and tended to feminize intellectual and artistic pursuits. Though many romanticized working-class labor, the fissured representation of the masculine body occasioned by the distinction between manual labor and 'brain work' made it impossible for them to overcome the Victorian class hierarchy of labor. Through cultural studies analyses of the novels of Dickens and Gissing; the nonfiction prose of Carlyle, Ruskin and Morris; the poetry of Thomas Hood; paintings by Richard Redgrave, William Bell Scott, and Ford Madox Brown; and contemporary photographs, including many from the Munby Collection, Danahay examines the ideological contradictions in Victorian representations of men at work. His book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of English literature, history, and gender studies.
Автор: Regina Barreca Название: Sex and Death in Victorian Literature ISBN: 0333467272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333467275 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection of essays examines the links between the images of death and sexuality in Victorian fiction and poetry. The contributors examine the ways in which fear of death was placed beside sexual desire and how Victorian writers managed to write about sex without overtly referring to it.
Автор: Flegel Название: Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture ISBN: 1138832839 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138832831 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Addressing the significance of the pet in the Victorian period, this book examines the role played by the domestic pet in delineating relations for each member of the "natural" family home. Flegel explores the pet in relation to the couple at the head of the house, to the children who make up the family’s dependents, and to the common familial "outcasts" who populate Victorian literature and culture: the orphan, the spinster, the bachelor, and the same-sex couple. Drawing upon both animal studies and queer theory, this study stresses the importance of the domestic pet in elucidating normative sexuality and (re)productivity within the familial home, and reveals how the family pet operates as a means of identifying aberrant, failed, or perverse familial and gender performances. The family pet, that is, was an important signifier in Victorian familial ideology of the individual family unit’s ability to support or threaten the health and morality of the nation in the Victorian period. Texts by authors such as Clara Balfour, Juliana Horatia Ewing, E. Burrows, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Anne Bronte, George Eliot, Frederick Marryat, and Charles Dickens speak to the centrality of the domestic pet to negotiations of gender, power, and sexuality within the home that both reify and challenge the imaginary structure known as the natural family in the Victorian period. This book highlights the possibilities for a familial elsewhere outside of normative and restrictive models of heterosexuality, reproduction, and the natural family, and will be of interest to those studying Victorian literature and culture, animal studies, queer studies, and beyond.
Автор: Dawson Название: Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability ISBN: 0521872499 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521872492 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Focusing particularly on aesthetic literature and legal definitions of obscenity, Dawson reveals the underlying tension between Darwin`s theories and conventional notions of Victorian respectability.
Описание: Breaking away from conventionally fixed discourses and dichotomies, this book utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the existence of overlaps and unexplored continuities between the Victorians, the post-Victorians and the modernists, including the fields of music, architecture, design, science, and social life.
Описание: This book explores the uniquely-structured cultural space of the Victorian cathedral town as a vehicle for aesthetic, religious, and social critique in the works of Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope.
Автор: Lutz Название: Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture ISBN: 1107077443 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107077447 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Deborah Lutz investigates the high value the Victorians placed on the artefacts and personal effects of the dead. By close study of works by Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Thomas Hardy, Lutz explores the ways these objects were used in creative narratives for emotional effect.
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