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"Encounters in the Victorian Periodical Press" focuses on the
unique characteristic of the Victorian periodical press--its
development of encounters between and among readers, editors, and
authors. Encounters promoted dialogue among diverse publics,
differing by class, gender, professional and political interests,
and ethnicity. Through encounters, the press emerged to become a
central public space for debates about society, politics, culture,
public order, and foreign and imperial affairs. This book captures
the richness of these interactions and a variety of voices and
opinions.
As industrialization transformed American life in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth century, increasing numbers of women
sought employment outside the home and many were drawn into the
labor movement. This collection of twenty-five stories published in
union journals offers a portrait both of women's experiences as
wage-earners and of the conflicts, values, and aspirations that
touched their lives in this period of massive social upheaval.
Written by reformers, union officials, and popular fiction writers,
the stories present an uneasy synthesis of labor movement virtues
with domestic ideals of femininity, females assertiveness with
female subordination, and moralizing with romantic fantasy.
York Notes Advanced have been written by acknowledged literature
experts for the specific needs of advanced level and undergraduate
students. They offer a fresh and accessible approach to the Study
of English literature. Building on the successful formula of York
Notes, this Advanced series introduces students to more
sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. This
enables students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the
text and to develop their own critical thinking. York Notes
Advanced help to make the study of literature more fulfilling and
lead to exam success. They will also be of interest to the general
reader, as they cover the widest range of popular literature
titles. Key Features: Study methods - Introduction to the text -
Summaries with critical notes - Themes and techniques - Textual
analysis of key passages - Author biography - Historical and
literary background - Modern and historical critical approaches -
Chronology - Glossary of literary terms. General Editors: Martin
Gray - Head of Literary Studies, University of Luton; Professor
A.N. Jeffares - Emeritus Professor of English, University of
Stirling.
This book conveys Thackeray's development as a book reviewer,
journalist, art exhibition critic, short-story writer, satirical
essayist and novelist a development that culminates in the creation
of his masterpiece, Vanity Fair one of the glories of English
imaginative writing. Articulating the connections between these
vigorous and lively youthful works, and the growth of Thackeray as
an increasingly profound participant observer, Harden reveals the
exuberant imaginative growth and deepening understanding of a
supremely perceptive critic of human social life.
Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative
study of Scott's and Byron's poetical engagement with borders
(actual and metaphorical) and the people living on and around them.
The author discusses Scott's edited collection of Border Ballads,
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and his narrative poetry, and
Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage , cantos 1 and 2, his Eastern
Tales, and his late, utopian South-Sea poem The Island. This
fascinating study provides a detailed exegesis of the importance of
borders to these leading poets and the public, during the early
years of the Nineteenth-Century, with an emphasis on reciprocal
literary influences, and on attitudes towards cultural instability.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 In Poe and the Subversion of
American Literature, Robert T. Tally Jr. argues that Edgar Allan
Poe is best understood, not merely as a talented artist or canny
magazinist, but primarily as a practical joker who employs satire
and fantasy to poke fun at an emergent nationalist discourse
circulating in the United States. Poe's satirical and fantastic
mode, on display even in his apparently serious short stories and
literary criticism, undermines the earnest attempts to establish a
distinctively national literature in the nineteenth century. In
retrospect, Poe's work also subtly subverts the tenets of an
institutionalized American Studies in the twentieth century. Tally
interprets Poe's life and works in light of his own social milieu
and in relation to the disciplinary field of American literary
studies, finding Poe to be neither the poete maudit of popular
mythology nor the representative American writer revealed by recent
scholarship. Rather, Poe is an untimely figure whose work
ultimately makes a mockery of those who would seek to contain it.
Drawing upon Gilles Deleuze's distinction between nomad thought and
state philosophy, Tally argues that Poe's varied literary and
critical writings represent an alternative to American literature.
Through his satirical critique of U.S. national culture and his
otherworldly projection of a postnational space of the imagination,
Poe establishes a subterranean, nomadic, and altogether worldly
literary practice.
"The short story remains a crucial if neglected - part of British
literary heritage. This accessible and up-to-date critical overview
maps out the main strands and figures that shaped the British short
story and novella from the 1850s to the present. It offers new
readings of both classic and forgotten texts in a clear,
jargon-free way"--Provided by publisher.
This is a reprint of the authoritative six-volume edition of the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Superbly edited by Earl Leslie Griggs, each volume contains illustrations, appendices, and an index.
This book explores the sexual implications of reading Keats. Keats was lambasted by critics throughout the 19th century for his sensuousness and his 'effeminacy'. The Victorians simultaneously identified with, imitated, and distrusted the 'unmanly' poet. Writers, among them Alfred Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Addington Symonds, Walter Pater, and Wilfred Owen came to terms with Keats's work by creating out of the 'effeminate' poet a sexual and literary ally.
It is well known that much of our modern vocabulary of sex emerged
within nineteenth-century German sexology. But how were the 'German
ideas' translated and transmitted into English culture? This study
provides an examination of the formation of sexual theory between
the 1860s and 1930s and its migration across national and
disciplinary boundaries.
Romantic Indians considers the views that Britons, colonists, and
North American Indians took of each other during a period in which
these people were in a closer and more fateful relationship than
ever before or since. It is, therefore, also a book about
exploration, empire, and the forms of representation that
exploration and empire gave rise to-in particular the form we have
come to call Romanticism, in which 'Indians' appear everywhere. It
is not too much to say that Romanticism would not have taken the
form it did without the complex and ambiguous image of Indians that
so intrigued both the writers and their readers. Most of the poets
of the Romantic canon wrote about them-not least Southey,
Wordsworth, and Coleridge; so did many whom we have only recently
brought back to attention-including Bowles, Hemans, and Barbauld.
Yet Indians' formative role in the aesthetics and politics of
Romanticism has rarely been considered. Tim Fulford aims to bring
that formative role to our attention, to show that the images of
native peoples that Romantic writers received from colonial
administrators, politicians, explorers, and soldiers helped shape
not only these writers' idealizations of 'savages' and tribal life,
but also their depictions of nature, religion, and rural society.
The romanticization of Indians soon affected the way that real
native peoples were treated and described by generations of
travellers who had already, before reaching the Canadian forest or
the mid-western plains, encountered the literary Indians produced
back in Britain. Moreover, in some cases Native Americans, writing
in English, turned the romanticization of Indians to their own
ends. This book highlights their achievement in doing so-featuring
fascinating discussions of several little-known but brilliant
Native American writers.
"This collection by leading scholars in the field provides a
fascinating and ground-breaking introduction to current research in
Irish Romantic studies. It proves the international scope and
aesthetic appeal of Irish writing in this period, and shows the
importance of Ireland to wider currents in Romanticism"--
According to Adam Smith, vanity is a vice that contains a promise:
a vain person is much more likely than a person with low
self-esteem to accomplish great things. Problematic as it may be
from a moral perspective, vanity makes a person more likely to
succeed in business, politics and other public pursuits. "The great
secret of education," Smith writes, "is to direct vanity to proper
objects:" this peculiar vice can serve as a stepping-stone to
virtue. How can this transformation be accomplished and what might
go wrong along the way? What exactly is vanity and how does it
factor into our personal and professional lives, for better and for
worse? This book brings Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments into
conversation with William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair to
offer an analysis of vanity and the objects (proper and otherwise)
to which it may be directed. Leading the way through the literary
case study presented here is Becky Sharp, the ambitious and cunning
protagonist of Thackeray's novel. Becky is joined by a number of
other 19th Century literary heroines - drawn from the novels of
Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot - whose feminine
(and feminist) perspectives complement Smith's astute observations
and complicate his account of vanity. The fictional characters
featured in this volume enrich and deepen our understanding of
Smith's work and disclose parts of our own experience in a fresh
way, revealing the dark and at times ridiculous aspects of life in
Vanity Fair, today as in the past.
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Often seen as the exception to generalisations about Romanticism,
Byron's poetry - and its intricate relationship with a brilliant,
scandalous life - has remained a source of controversy throughout
the twentieth century. This book brings together recent work on
Byron by leading British and American scholars and critics, guiding
undergraduate students and sixth-form pupils through the different
ways in which new literary theory has enriched readings of Byron's
work, and showing how his poetry offers a rewarding focus for
questions about the relationship between historical contexts and
literary form in the Romantic period. Diverse and fresh
perspectives on canonical texts such as Don Juan, Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage and Manfred are included together with stimulating
analyses of less well-known narrative poems, lyrics and dramas. A
clearly structured introduction traces key developments in Byron
criticism and locates the essays within wider debates in Romantic
studies. Detailed headnotes to each essay and a guide to further
reading help to orientate the reader and offer pointers for further
discussion. The collection will enable students of English
literature, Romantic studies and nineteenth-century cultural
studies to assess the contribution that different critical
methodologies have made to our understanding of individual poems by
Byron, as well as concepts like the Byronic hero and evolving
definitions of Romanticism.
This literary biographical study examines the life and works of the mid-Victorian woman novelist, Elizabeth Gaskell, whose popularity is now well established. It places her writing in the context of her attitudes towards creative production, her relationship with publishers, and her literary friendships, as well as examining those events of her life which fed into her work. It pays particular attention to the ways in which she sought to reconcile the conflicting demands made upon her, as woman and as artist.
Victorian culture was dominated by an ever expanding world of
print. A tremendous increase in the volume of books, newspapers,
and periodicals, was matched by the corresponding development of
the first mass reading public. It has long been acknowledged that
the growth of the popular publishing industry played an
instrumental role in the success of most major Victorian novelists.
Traditional critical positions have, nevertheless, recently
expanded into a much broader field concerned with media history,
book studies, modes of textual production and consumption, and
concepts of "popular literature." One of most notable current
critical trends is a renewed interest in the importance of all
aspects of nineteenth-century print culture.
Victorian Print Media: A Reader collects primary sources from
nineteenth century journals, newspapers, and periodicals into an
anthology that can be used for teaching purposes, but is also
intended to complement and encourage ongoing research. The extracts
are organized into ten thematically arranged sections. Each section
addresses a specific conceptual or historical issue, such as the
impact of serial publication upon practices of reading and
authorship. The sections demonstrate the multiple factors upon
which the aesthetics of print media depended, making this anthology
of use to all researchers, teachers, and students of the period.
This book examines the highly complex relationship of women writers
to Hellenism in the late-nineteenth century, arguing that the
proliferation of Greek subjects in women's literature from the
middle of the century suggest a collective movement into the
classical tradition by women writers and scholars rather than
comprehensive exclusion from it.
This is the first full-length study of Shelley's plays in
performance. It offers a rich, meticulously researched history of
Shelley's role as a playwright and dramatist and a reassessment of
his "closet dramas" as performable pieces of theatre. With chapters
on each of Shelley's dramatic works, the book provides a thorough
discussion of the poet's stagecraft, and analyses performances of
his plays from the Georgian period to today. In addition, Mulhallen
offers details of the productions Shelley saw in England and Italy,
many not identified before, as well as a vivid account of the
actors and personalities that constituted the theatrical scene of
his time. Her research reveals Shelley as an extraordinarily
talented playwright, whose fascination with contemporary theatrical
theory and practice seriously challenges the notion that he was a
reluctant dramatist. This study is a major contribution to recent
reassessments of Shelley's work and an invaluable resource for
anybody interested in Romantic writing and the history of theatre.
"Americans have cherished and magnified versions of an idealized
Mark Twain. We admire and are amused by the celebrity, who sold his
pseudonym and his carefully composed face to advertise pipe
tobacco, cigarettes, whiskey, and postcards. The extent to which
the received images are authentic or inauthentic is, however, in
doubt. Common images must be modified when we examine the thoughts
and emotions important to the mind and heart of Samuel L. Clemens,
the private man."-from the Introduction No writer has been more
frequently identified with America than Mark Twain, an emblematic
figure often supposed to represent the essential qualities that
make America most admirably American. In a fresh appraisal,
supported by evidence from both the life and the writings, Guy
Cardwell convincingly revises our images of this cultural icon. He
portrays an exceptionally complex man who experienced debilitating
tensions and neuroses. Caldwell finds that even before the comedian
from the West met and married Olivia Langdon, the heiress from
Elmira, New York, he was ambitious to join and conquer the world of
Eastern affluence and gentility. Yet Clemens's jokes (in his
private notebooks) aggressing against women and blacks suggest that
his acculturation to gentility was never complete. This book throws
new light on Clemens's relations with his wife and her family and
on his attitudes toward business, money, art, sex, and the little
girls whose company he sought compulsively during his later years.
It argues persuasively that in the end Twain was hardly the robust
and genial representative of America's mythic frontier past.
Alienated from society and from his own writings, he was much more
the prototype of the overstrung, exploitatively individualistic
modern American.
This book explores the relationship between H.G. Wells's scientific
romances and the discourses of science in the 1890s and early years
of the twentieth century. It investigates how Wells utilizes his
early fiction to participate in a range of topical scientific
disputes and, increasingly, as a means to instigate social reform.
Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature
tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within
narratives. This book is concerned with children who are not so
easily recognized or remembered, the peripheral or overlooked
children to be read in works by Dickens, Bronte, Austen and
Rossetti.
This critical anthology examines the place of the sublime in the
cultural history of the late eighteenth century and Romantic
period. Traditionally, the sublime has been associated with
impressive natural phenomena and has been identified as a narrow
aesthetic or philosophical category. Cultures of the Sublime:
Selected Readings, 1750-1830: - Recovers a broader context for
engagements with, and writing about, the sublime - Offers a
selection of texts from a wide range of ostensibly unrelated areas
of knowledge which both generate and investigate sublime effects -
Considers writings about mountains, money, crowds, the Gothic, the
exotic and the human mind - Contextualises and supports the
extracts with detailed editorial commentary Also featuring helpful
suggestions for further reading, this is an ideal resource for
anyone seeking a fresh, up-to-date assessment of the sublime.
Romanticism on the Road challenges critical orthodoxy by arguing
that Wordsworth rejected the political dogmas of his age. Refusing
to ally with either radicals or conservatives after the French
Revolution, the poet seizes on vagrants to attack the binary
thinking dominating public affairs and to question the value of the
Georgian domestic ideal. Drawing on current and historical
discussions of homelessness, the study offers a cultural history of
vagrancy and explains why Wordsworth chose the homeless to bear his
message.
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