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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century

The Silence of Barbara Synge (Paperback): Bill Mccormack The Silence of Barbara Synge (Paperback)
Bill Mccormack
R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The silence of Barbara Synge" provides a fascinating companion volume to Bill McCormack's acclaimed "Fool of the Family" (2000), a biography of the playwright J.M. Synge (1871--1909).

Taking the alledged death of Mrs John Hatch (née Synge) in 1767 as a focal point, this book explores the varied strands of the Synge family tree in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland.

Key events in the family's history are carefully documented, including a suicide in 1769 which is echoed in an early Synge play, the effects of the famine which influenced The "Playboy of the Western World" in 1907, and the behavior of Francis Synge at the time of the union.

"The Silence of Barbara Synge" is a unique work of cultural enquiry, combining archival research, literary criticism, and religious and medical history to pull the strands together and relate them to the family's literary descendent J.M. Synge.

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne - Bearing Blindness (Paperback): Catherine Maxwell The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne - Bearing Blindness (Paperback)
Catherine Maxwell
R636 Discovery Miles 6 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What does it mean to 'bear blindness' and why should this be a concern for male poets after Milton? This innovative study of vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of myth, the gender of the sublime, the lyric fragment, and the relation of pain to creativity, this book is a major re-evaluation of the male poet and the making of the English poetic tradition. The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. It recovers a disfiguring sublime imagined as an aggressive female force which feminises the male poet in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him. This imaginative revisionist study suggests a new interpretative framework for Victorian men's poetry, while providing detailed and extensive re-readings of many major poems The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian poetry.

Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater - Victorian Aestheticism, Doubt and Secularisation (Hardcover): Sarah Glendon Lyons Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater - Victorian Aestheticism, Doubt and Secularisation (Hardcover)
Sarah Glendon Lyons
R2,676 Discovery Miles 26 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book argues that Walter Pater and Algernon Swinburne draw upon the legacy of Romantic Hellenism in order to explore the possibilities of a secular model of enchantment and to complicate the common Victorian assumption that secularisation was a story about rationality, disillusionment, and loss.

Figuring Madness in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Hardcover): C. Wiesenthal Figuring Madness in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Hardcover)
C. Wiesenthal
R2,643 Discovery Miles 26 430 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

How are signs and symptoms of psychic alienation variously enfigured in literary texts? And how do readers invariably figure in some form of the 'madness' they attempt to figure out? These are some of the questions addressed by Figuring Madness , a study which employs the insights of current post-structuralist psychoanalysis and semiotic theory to examine the complex interimplication of the subject and object of madness that is always implied by the dynamics of analytic dia-gnosis. In its focus on the implications of writing and reading signs of madness, the study offers new interpretations of both canonical and non-canonical texts by authors spanning the period from Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope to Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henry James.

Edward Carpenter (Routledge Revivals) - In Appreciation (Paperback): Gilbert Beith Edward Carpenter (Routledge Revivals) - In Appreciation (Paperback)
Gilbert Beith
R1,409 Discovery Miles 14 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Edward Carpenter: In Appreciation, first published in 1931, presents a collection of tributes to and reminiscences about the renowned socialist poet, pioneering gay rights activist, environmentalist and political thinker. Embroiled in controversy with prominent figures of all political persuasions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Carpenter's vision of sexual freedom, democracy and an end to commercialism was maintained with integrity over the course of his whole life. These portraits and anecdotes testify to a man of both determination and warmth, whose writings, though inspirational for many up to the 1960s, are seldom read today.

Maria Edgeworth's Irish Writing - Language, History, Politics (Hardcover): B. Hollingworth Maria Edgeworth's Irish Writing - Language, History, Politics (Hardcover)
B. Hollingworth
R4,015 Discovery Miles 40 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Edgeworth is regarded as a pioneer in the development of the regional novel and the use of vernacular language. This study investigates her attitudes towards language and regionalism. It shows, by a detailed discussion of her major Irish texts - Castle Rackrent , Essay on Irish Bulls , Ennui , The Absentee and Ormond - how her intellectual 'Lunar' background, and her life in Ireland during the momentous years of the Union is reflected in the form and language of her writing.

Henry James and Homo-Erotic Desire (Hardcover, 1999 ed.): John Bradley Henry James and Homo-Erotic Desire (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
John Bradley
R2,637 Discovery Miles 26 370 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This collection of essays represents the first book to explore the complex influence of homosexuality on the life and fiction of Henry James. An extensive biographical introduction is complemented by an essay documenting James' friendships with younger men, which includes quotations from unpublished letters. Other subjects include the influence on James of the emergence of a specific concept of the homosexual in Victorian England and James' reactions to the aesthetic movement. New, often radical, perspectives on stories from all phases of James' career are also included.

Ruskin (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover): George P. Landow Ruskin (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
George P. Landow
R2,356 Discovery Miles 23 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ruskin, the great Victorian critics of art and society, had an enormous influence on his age and our own. A highly successful propagandist for the arts, he did much both to popularize high art and to bring it to the masses. A brilliant theorist and practical critics of realism, he also produced the finest nineteenth-century discussions of fantasy, the grotesque, and pictorial symbolism. Most who have written about this outstanding Victorian polymath have approached him either as literary critics or as art historians. In this book, which was first published in 1985, George P. Landow provides a more balanced view and offers a strikingly new approach which reveals that Ruskin wrote throughout his career as an interpreter, an exegete. His interpretations covered many fields of human experience and endeavour, not only paintings, poems, and buildings but also contemporary social issues, such as the discontent of the working classes.

Ruskin and Modernism (Hardcover): Giovanni Cianci, Peter Nicholls Ruskin and Modernism (Hardcover)
Giovanni Cianci, Peter Nicholls
R1,392 Discovery Miles 13 920 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Although John Ruskin's influence has long been acknowledged, his impact on the development of Anglo-American modernism has received little systematic attention. This is the first study on this relationship, with contributors examining Ruskin's connection to pre-modernist writers such as Worringer and Pater and the importance of Ruskin's thought to modernists such as Pound, Eliot, Lewis, and Lawrence and to intellectual history and architectural theory.

Literature and the Philosophy of Intention (Hardcover): Patrick Swinden Literature and the Philosophy of Intention (Hardcover)
Patrick Swinden
R2,660 Discovery Miles 26 600 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book attempts to reinstate the importance of authorial intention by examining arguments against it from a variety of sources - American New Criticism, European Structuralism and various kinds of postmodernist theory. It enlists the aid of Kantian aesthetics and contemporary philosophy of language and action, as well as studying the play on intention in the manipulation of character and action in the work of Shakespeare and other English writers from 1600 to the present day.

Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830 (Hardcover): A. Rudd Sympathy and India in British Literature, 1770-1830 (Hardcover)
A. Rudd
R1,401 Discovery Miles 14 010 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain.

Screening Novel Women - From British Domestic Fiction to Film (Hardcover, First): Liora Brosh Screening Novel Women - From British Domestic Fiction to Film (Hardcover, First)
Liora Brosh
R1,394 Discovery Miles 13 940 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"Gender in Film Adaptations of the British Nineteenth-Century Novel" is a major study of how women have been represented in film and television adaptations of British nineteeth-century novels. Exploring classics like "Wuthering Heights" (1939) and "Jane Eyre" (1944), this book shows how cultural anxieties about women shaped such adaptations in Britain and America during the Depression and after World War II, then going on to approach the more recent wave of adaptations in the 1990s.

Woody, From Antz to Zelig - A Reference Guide to Woody Allen's Creative Work, 1964-1998 (Hardcover, New): Richard A.... Woody, From Antz to Zelig - A Reference Guide to Woody Allen's Creative Work, 1964-1998 (Hardcover, New)
Richard A. Schwartz
R2,338 Discovery Miles 23 380 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Alphabetically arranged, the entries in this encyclopedic study cover Woody Allen's movies, plays, fiction, television shows, and stand-up comedy from 1964 through 1998. Film entries begin with basic production information followed by a literary analysis of the work, which considers how and why Allen develops new narrative forms for conveying his stories. The dominant themes in Allen's work and the literary and cultural traditions he draws upon are discussed. Entries draw connections among Allen's works, outline his relationships with specific cinematographers and actors, point out major influences, and demonstrate how Allen fits into the Western canon of literature, film, and philosophy. Collectively, the entries reveal a serious and substantial artist whose experimentation with narrative form and structure enables him to explore human nature and human relationships in a new, innovative, and insightful manner.

Literature and film scholars and Woody Allen enthusiasts will appreciate the easily accessible information provided in this encyclopedic format. A filmography and bibliography follow the entries and offer suggestions for further research. An index is included and photographs enhance the text.

Gothic and the Comic Turn (Hardcover, New): A. Horner, S. Zlosnik Gothic and the Comic Turn (Hardcover, New)
A. Horner, S. Zlosnik
R1,402 Discovery Miles 14 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Although Gothic writing is now seen as significant for an understanding of modernity, it is still largely characterized as a literature of fear and anxiety. "Gothic and the Comic Turn" argues that, partly through its desire to be taken seriously, Gothic criticism has neglected the comic doppelganger that has always inhabited the Gothic mode and which in certain texts emerges as dominant. Tracing an historical trajectory from the late Romantic period through to the present day, this book examines how varieties of comic parody and appropriation have interrogated the complexities of modern subjectivity.

Keats, Hunt and the Aesthetics of Pleasure (Hardcover): Ayumi Mizukoshi Keats, Hunt and the Aesthetics of Pleasure (Hardcover)
Ayumi Mizukoshi
R2,653 Discovery Miles 26 530 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book tackles the interpretative problem of "pleasure" in Keats's poetry by placing him in the context of the liberal, leisured, and luxurious culture of Hunt's circle. Challenging the standard interpretation that attributes Keats's poetic development to his separation from Hunt, Mizukoshi argues that Keats, imbued with Hunt's bourgeois ethic and aesthetic, remained a poet of sensuous pleasure through to the end of his short career.

Dickens and Creativity (Hardcover, New): Barbara Hardy Dickens and Creativity (Hardcover, New)
Barbara Hardy
R5,274 Discovery Miles 52 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This monograph covers Dickens and creativity, analysing both his discussion of creativity and imagination and illustrations in his work.Charles Dickens' experience and imagining of creativity is at the heart of his self-awareness, subject-matter and narrative. His intelligence works intuitively rather than conceptually and ideas about imagination often emerge informally in personal letters and implicitly through characters, language and story. His self-analysis and reflexive tendency are embedded in his styles and forms of narrative and dialogue, images of normality, madness, extremity, subversion and disorder, poetry and inter-textuality, anticipating and shaping the languages of modernism, influencing James Joyce and Virginia Woolf as well as traditionalists like H.G. Wells and Evelyn Waugh.Discussing Dickens' novels and some of his letters, sketches, essays and stories, Barbara Hardy offers a fascinating demonstration of creativity.

The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice (Hardcover): E. Patten The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
E. Patten; Jason Mc Elligott
R3,292 Discovery Miles 32 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns-both practical and theoretical-related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of 'national' book history.

S.T. Coleridge - Interviews and Recollections (Hardcover, New): N. Trott, Seamus Perry S.T. Coleridge - Interviews and Recollections (Hardcover, New)
N. Trott, Seamus Perry
R2,671 Discovery Miles 26 710 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Meeting Coleridge was one of the Romantic age's most memorable experiences, and many of his contemporaries left vivid records--Wordsworth, Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats, Emerson, and many now forgotten. This book is a comprehensive, fully annotated collection of such reminiscences. Drawing on an eclectic range of material (including journals, letters, poems, and comic portraits), and printing many texts otherwise difficult to access, it will prove an invaluable resource for students of romanticism, as well as a treasure-trove for Coleridge's many fans.

Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): T. Carens Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
T. Carens
R1,402 Discovery Miles 14 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Victorian domestic novels routinely detect a savage otherness lurking within the English state and subject. Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel charts the development of this irony within evangelical and anthropological discourses, and studies its emergence in the major works of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, and George Meredith. Each of these writers disrupts the certitudes of imperial ideology by appropriating the language of ethnography, and using it to describe the social domestic field. Providing fresh readings of both canonical and neglected novels, this original volume will be of interest to students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and postcolonial studies.

Gossip and Subversion in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction - Echo's Economies (Hardcover, 1996 ed.): J. Gordon Gossip and Subversion in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction - Echo's Economies (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
J. Gordon
R2,703 Discovery Miles 27 030 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Jan Gordon proposes that a reviled communicational 'interest' in gossip and its purveyors be given its proper due in the development of the novel in Britain. Commencing with Sir Walter Scott's historically persecuted (but economically and politically necessary) androgynous voices in caves and concluding with Oscar Wilde's premature celebration of gossip at the very moment it is transformed from public opinion to public judgment, the author finds gossip to be both deforming and shaping nineteenth century 'letters' in surprising ways. Like the ignominious orphan-figure of nineteenth-century fiction, gossip is the 'unacknowledged reproduction' searching for a political antecedence which might lend a legitimacy to its often discontinuous testimony, for a culture historically resistant to obtrusive voices.

Byron, Shelley and Goethe's Faust - An Epic Connection (Hardcover): Ben Hewitt Byron, Shelley and Goethe's Faust - An Epic Connection (Hardcover)
Ben Hewitt
R2,662 Discovery Miles 26 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on an exciting moment in the history of Anglo-German literary exchange in the Romantic period, the moment of George Gordon Byron's and Percy Bysshe Shelley's interrelated encounters with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's seminal dramatic poem, Faust.

Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768-1840 (Hardcover): P. Smethurst Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768-1840 (Hardcover)
P. Smethurst
R1,407 Discovery Miles 14 070 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Taking as a starting point the parallel occurrence of Cook's Pacific voyages, the development of natural history, scenic tourism in Britain, and romantic travel in Europe, this book argues that the effect of these practices was the production of nature as an abstract space and that the genre of travel writing had a central role in reproducing it.

Wordsworth and Coleridge - Promising Losses (Hardcover): P. Larkin Wordsworth and Coleridge - Promising Losses (Hardcover)
P. Larkin
R1,412 Discovery Miles 14 120 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Wordsworth and Coleridge: Promising Losses assembles essays spanning the last thirty years, including a selection of Peter Larkin's original verse, with the concept of promise and loss serving as the uniting narrative thread.

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Appearance of Modernism (Hardcover): A. Sandison Robert Louis Stevenson and the Appearance of Modernism (Hardcover)
A. Sandison
R2,698 Discovery Miles 26 980 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Despite attracting the admiration of Modernists like Nabokov and Borges, Stevenson remains for many an apologist for the lost world of the romance. This is not only to misread and simplify his fiction, it is greatly to undervalue his lively, forward-looking literary essays. Strenously resisting the authority of the literary 'fathers' (though haunted by the complexities of paternity), Stevenson reveals strong affinities with emergent Modernism. It is from this perspective that Alan Sandison's latest book (the first to appear for nearly thirty years) conducts a lively and readable re-examination of this often underrated writer.

Geoffrey Hartman - Romanticism after the Holocaust (Hardcover, New): Pieter Vermeulen Geoffrey Hartman - Romanticism after the Holocaust (Hardcover, New)
Pieter Vermeulen
R4,628 Discovery Miles 46 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This comprehensive account demonstrates how Hartman's commitment to the potency of aesthetic mediation informs a similar position in current debates about ethics, media, and memory. "Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism after the Holocaust" offers the first comprehensive critical account of the work of the American literary critic Geoffrey Hartman. The book aims to achieve two things: first, it charts the whole trajectory of Hartman's career (now more than half a century long) while playing close attention to the place of his career in broader cultural and intellectual contexts; second, it engages with contemporary discussions about ecology, ethics, trauma, the media, and community in order to argue that Hartman's work presents a surprisingly consistent and original position in current debates in literary and cultural studies. Vermeulen identifies a persistent belief in the potency of aesthetic mediation at the heart of Hartman's project, and shows how his work repeatedly reasserts that belief in the face of institutional, cultural and intellectual factors that seem to deny the singular importance of literature. The book allows Hartman to emerge as a major literary thinker whose relevance extends far beyond the domains of Romanticism, of literary theory, and of trauma studies.

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