Human Evolution and Fantastic Victorian Fiction, Neill, Anna

Автор: David
Название: The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel
ISBN: 0521182158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521182157
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Описание: This second edition has been updated fully, taking account of new research and critical methodologies, and includes four brand new chapters. Designed to appeal to students, teachers and readers, these essays reflect the very latest approaches to reading and understanding Victorian fiction.

Автор: Laura Monros-Gaspar
Название: Victorian Classical Burlesques: A Critical Anthology
ISBN: 1472537858 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472537850
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The Victorian classical burlesque was a popular theatrical genre of the mid-19th century. It parodied ancient tragedies with music, melodrama, pastiche, merciless satire and gender reversal. Immensely popular in its day, the genre was also intensely metatheatrical and carries significance for reception studies, the role and perception of women in Victorian society and the culture of artistic censorship.

This anthology contains the annotated text of four major classical burlesques: Antigone Travestie (1845) by Edward L. Blanchard, Medea; or, the Best of Mothers with a Brute of a Husband (1856) by Robert Brough, Alcestis; the Original Strong-Minded Woman (1850) and Electra in a New Electric Light (1859) by Francis Talfourd. The cultural and textual annotations highlight the changes made to the scripts from the manuscripts sent to the Lord Chamberlain's office and, by explaining the topical allusions and satire, elucidate elements of the burlesques' popular cultural milieu.

An in-depth critical introduction discusses the historical contexts of the plays' premieres and unveils the cultural processes behind the reception of the myths and original tragedies. As the burlesques combined spectacular effects with allusions to contemporary affairs, ambivalent and provocative attitudes to women, the plays represent an essential tool for reading the social history of the era.

Автор: Adams
Название: A History of Victorian Literature
ISBN: 0631220828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780631220824
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Описание: Captures the extraordinary variety of literary output produced during the Victorian era Analyzes the development of major literary forms in conjunction with developments in social and intellectual history Addresses the ways in which writers engaged with the variety of new forms of social engagement in literature during the Victorian era.

Автор: Sullivan
Название: The Evolution of the French Courtesan Novel
ISBN: 1137597089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137597083
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: ‘Sullivan’s outstanding book is the first to show how French courtesans were fully-fledged masters of the pen as well as proverbial ladies of the night. We learn how their rewriting of classics such as The Lady of the Camellias and their response to a male “backlash” inspire Colette in previously unseen ways.’ — Nicholas White, University of Cambridge, UKThis book is about the autobiographical fictions of nineteenth-century French courtesans. In response to damaging representations of their kind in Zola and Alexandre Dumas' novels, C?leste de Chabrillan, Valtesse de la Bigne, and Liane de Pougy crafted fictions recounting their triumphs as celebrities of the demi-monde and their outcries against the social injustices that pushed them into prostitution. Although their works enjoyed huge success in the second half of the nineteenth century, male writers penned faux-memoirs mocking courtesan novels, and successfully sowed doubt about their authorship in a backlash against the profitable notoriety the novels earned these courtesans. Colette, who did not write from personal experience but rather out of sympathy for the courtesans with whom she socialized, innovated the genre when she wrote three novels exploring the demi-mondaine’s life beyond prostitution and youth.

Автор: Whelan Lara Baker
Название: Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era
ISBN: 1138843563 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138843561
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book demonstrates how representations of the Victorian suburb in mid- to late-nineteenth century British writing occasioned a literary sub-genre unique to this period, one that attempted to reassure readers that the suburb was a place where outsiders could be controlled and where middle-class values could be enforced. Whelan explores the dissonance created by the differences between the suburban ideal and suburban realities, recognizing the persistence of that ideal in the face of abundant evidence that it was hardly ever realized. She discusses evidence from primary and secondary sources about perceptions and realities of suburban living, showing what it meant to live in a "real" Victorian suburb. The book also demonstrates how the suburban ideal (with its elements of privacy, cleanliness, rus in urbe, and respectability), in its relation to culturally embedded ideas about the Beautiful and Picturesque, gained such a strong foothold in the Victorian middle class that contemplating its failure caused intense anxiety. Whelan goes on to trace the ways in which this anxiety is represented in literature.

Автор: Smaji?
Название: Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists
ISBN: 110763458X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107634589
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book is a study of the narrative techniques which developed for two very popular forms of fiction in the nineteenth century - ghost stories and detective stories - and the surprising similarities between them in the context of contemporary theories of vision and sight.

Автор: Douglas-fairhurst, Robert
Название: Victorian afterlives
ISBN: 0199269319 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199269310
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This major study examines a Victorian obsession with `influence`, the often unpredictable after-effects of words and actions, in fields as diverse as mesmerism and theology, literary theory, and sanitation reform.

Автор: Grass Sean
Название: The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner
ISBN: 1138981621 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138981621
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Michel Foucault's writing about the Panopticon in Discipline and Punish has dominated discussions of the prison and the novel, and recent literary criticism draws heavily from Foucauldian ideas about surveillance to analyze metaphorical forms of confinement: policing, detection, and public scrutiny and censure. But real Victorian prisons and the novels that portray them have few similarities to the Panopticon. Sean Grass provides a necessary alternative to Foucault by tracing the cultural history of the Victorian prison, and pointing to the tangible relations between Victorian confinement and the narrative production of the self. The Self in the Cellexamines the ways in which separate confinement prisons, with their demand for autobiographical production, helped to provide an impetus and a model that guided novelists' explorations of the private self in Victorian fiction.

Автор: Byrne
Название: Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination
ISBN: 1107672805 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107672802
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Описание: This study examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, analyzing consumptive characters for insights into how society viewed this `dread disease` and its sufferers, and revealing the myths which surrounded this socially significant illness. It displays, also, how popular assumptions were used as diagnostic tools by a frustrated medical profession.

Автор: Golden, Catherine J.
Название: Serials to graphic novels
ISBN: 0813064988 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813064987
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The Victorian illustrated book came into being, flourished, and evolved during the nineteenth century. Catherine Golden offers a new framework for viewing the arc of this vibrant form and surveys the fluidity in styles of illustration in serial instalments, British and American periodicals, adult and children's literature, and - more recently - graphic novels.Golden examines widely recognized illustrated texts, such as The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Rabbit, and finds new expressions of this traditional genre in present-day graphic novel adaptations of the works of Austen, Dickens, and Trollope, as well as Neo-Victorian graphic novels like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. She explores the various factors that contributed to the early popularity of the illustrated book - the growth of commodity culture, a rise in literacy, new printing technologies - and how these ultimately created a mass market for new fiction.While existing scholarship on Victorian illustrators largely centres on the Household Edition of Dickens or the realist artists of the "Sixties", notably Fred Barnard and John Tenniel, this volume examines the lifetime of the Victorian illustrated book. It also discusses how a particular canon has been refashioned and repurposed for new generations of readers.

Автор: Olsen
Название: Wordsworth and Evolution in Victorian Literature
ISBN: 0367138387 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367138387
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Описание: The influences of William Wordsworth`s writing and evolutionary theory-the nineteenth century`s two defining visions of nature-conflicted in the Victorian period. Victorian authors used Wordsworth and Darwin to explore what form of transcendence, if any, could survive an evolutionary age.

Автор: Durgan
Название: Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel
ISBN: 0367138948 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367138943
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Описание: As a study of color in the Victorian novel, this volume analyzes a peculiar literary phenomenon in which Victorian authors dream up fantastically colored characters, drawing on color`s traditional association with constructions of otherness to consider questions of identity and difference.