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This handbook demonstrates that spreading scandals seemed to have
been one of the most entertaining source of activities but also and
normative efforts made by the Victorians to ensure conformity of
decorum. Whether to initiate female nurses into what had been
male-dominated professions in medicine and military or for women to
assert authority under the guise of spiritual dispensation or for
women to murder their husbands and wives or for men to desire men
and women to desire women, this handbook of Victorian scandals
covers a gamut of moral infractions and transgressions either
practiced, rumored, or fantasized in art forms. Although there have
been others who have written on Victorian scandals, this handbook
provides a broad spectrum of infractions that were considered
scandalous to the Victorians and has been written by scholars in
diverse disciplines. This handbook identifies Victorian
transgressions that made the news and that may still shock modern
readers. Evoking both moral outrage and popular entertainment,
Victorian scandals, as analyzed in this handbook, will give readers
a telescopic view of the lives and attitudes that the Victorians
effected to govern themselves and each other.
"The Disney Corporation has recently found itself embroiled in the
so-called 'Don't Say Gay' legislation debates in Florida. Disney,
as both filmmaker and global conglomerate, remains a powerful force
in representations of diversity in American culture. The essays in
Neo-Disneyism include examinations of films such as Return to
Neverland, Luca, and Encanto, and Disney's own reinterpretations of
its classics in its live-action remakes, as well as examining the
theme parks. This groundbreaking book offers new perspectives in
Disney scholarship as well as bringing a critical eye to the most
pressing issues of identity in our current time." (Professor
Johnson Cheu, Michigan State University) "This collection is a
needed reassessment of Disney media adaptations in the last twenty
years. The essays consider examples of inclusivity and the gaps
needing transformation, underscoring the potential for an iconic
American symbol of commercial success to advance social justice,
gender equity, and racial/ethnic inclusivity, encouraging difficult
conversations." (Professor Pushpa Parekh, Spelman College) In 2003
Brenda Ayres published The Emperor's Old Groove: Decolonizing
Disney's Magic Kingdom with Peter Lang. The contributors to its
collection of essays argued that although the Disney Company had
been making attempts to represent multicultural diversity, it
persisted in inculcating insidious racial, cultural, and gender
stereotypes. Nearly twenty years have passed since that analysis,
and current scholars-many of them young and non-Western-are
assessing more recent Disney films and finding them to be more
inclusive, tolerant, and affirmative than previous works from the
magic kingdom. The appraisal of Disney entertainment in the
twenty-first century is the focus of the thirteen chapters by
scholarly contributors from around the globe, finding it to be more
inclusive, tolerant, and affirmative of multiple cultures,
ethnicities, nationalities, and gender as well as the differently
abled and mentally challenged. The analysis also suggests what
Disney might yet do to promote peace, harmony, and wellbeing in a
world that desperately needs to learn how to get along with others.
Whether a secularized morality, biblical worldview, or unstated set
of mores, the Victorian period can and always will be distinguished
from those before and after for its pervasive sense of the "proper
way" of thinking, speaking, doing, and acting. Animals in
literature taught Victorian children how to be behave. If you are a
postmodern posthumanist, you might argue, "But the animals in
literature did not write their own accounts." Animal characters may
be the creations of writers' imagination, but animals did and do
exist in their own right, as did and do humans. The original essays
in Animals and Their Children in Victorian explore the
representation of animals in children's literature by resisting an
anthropomorphized perception of them. Instead of focusing on the
domestication of animals, this book analyzes how animals in
literature "civilize" children, teaching them how to get along with
fellow creatures-both human and nonhuman.
Over the course of her 57-year career, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
published nine best-selling novels, but her significant
contributions to American literature have until recently gone
largely unrecognized. Brenda Ayres, in her long overdue critical
biography of the novelist once referred to as the 'first Southern
woman to enter the field of American letters,' credits the
importance of Wilson's novels for their portrait of
nineteenth-century America. As Ayres reminds us, the
nineteenth-century American book market was dominated by women
writers and women readers, a fact still to some extent obscured by
the make-up of the literary canon. In placing Wilson's novels
firmly within their historical context, Ayres commemorates Wilson
as both a storyteller and maker of American history. Proceeding
chronologically, Ayres devotes a chapter to each of Wilson's
novels, showing how her views on Catholicism, the South, the Civil
War, male authority, domesticity, Reconstruction, and race were
both informed by and resistant to the turbulent times in which she
lived. This comprehensive and meticulously researched biography
contributes not only to our appreciation of Wilson's work, but also
to her importance as a figure for understanding women's roles in
history and their art, evolving gender roles, and the complicated
status of women writers.
This is the first collection to investigate Charles Dickens on his
vast and various opinions about the uses and abuses of the tenets
of Christian faith that imbue English Victorian culture. Although
previous studies have looked at his well-known antipathies toward
Dissenters, Evangelicals, Catholics, and Jews, they have also
disagreed about Dickens' thoughts on Unitarianism and speculated on
doctrines of Protestantism that he endorsed or rejected. Besides
addressing his depiction of these religious groups, the volume's
contributors locate gaps in scholarship and unresolved illations
about poverty and charity, representations of children, graveyards,
labor, scientific controversy, and other social issues through an
investigation of Dickens' theological concerns. In addition, given
that Dickens' texts continue to influence every generation around
the globe, a timely inclusion in the collection is a consideration
of the neo-Victorian multi-media representations of Dickens' work
and his ideas on theological questions pitched to a postmodern
society.
Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash investigates the
notion that British Victorians did see themselves as a naturally
dominant species over other humans and over animals. They were
conscientiously, hegemonically determined to rule those beneath
them and the animal within themselves, albeit with varying degrees
of success and failure. The articles in this collection apply
posthumanism and other theories, including queer, postcolonialist,
deconstructionist, and Marxist approaches in their exploration of
Victorian attitudes toward animals. They study the biopolitical
relationships between human and nonhuman animals in several key
Victorian literary works. Some of this book's chapters deal with
animal ethics and moral aesthetics. Also being studied is the
representation of animals in several Victorian novels as narrative
devices to signify class status and gender dynamics, either to
iterate socially acceptable mores, to satirize hypocrisy or breach
of behavior or to voice social protest. All of the chapters analyze
the interdependence of people and animals during the nineteenth
century.
Over the course of her 57-year career, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
published nine best-selling novels, but her significant
contributions to American literature have until recently gone
largely unrecognized. Brenda Ayres, in her long overdue critical
biography of the novelist once referred to as the 'first Southern
woman to enter the field of American letters,' credits the
importance of Wilson's novels for their portrait of
nineteenth-century America. As Ayres reminds us, the
nineteenth-century American book market was dominated by women
writers and women readers, a fact still to some extent obscured by
the make-up of the literary canon. In placing Wilson's novels
firmly within their historical context, Ayres commemorates Wilson
as both a storyteller and maker of American history. Proceeding
chronologically, Ayres devotes a chapter to each of Wilson's
novels, showing how her views on Catholicism, the South, the Civil
War, male authority, domesticity, Reconstruction, and race were
both informed by and resistant to the turbulent times in which she
lived. This comprehensive and meticulously researched biography
contributes not only to our appreciation of Wilson's work, but also
to her importance as a figure for understanding women's roles in
history and their art, evolving gender roles, and the complicated
status of women writers.
Whether a secularized morality, biblical worldview, or unstated set
of mores, the Victorian period can and always will be distinguished
from those before and after for its pervasive sense of the "proper
way" of thinking, speaking, doing, and acting. Animals in
literature taught Victorian children how to be behave. If you are a
postmodern posthumanist, you might argue, "But the animals in
literature did not write their own accounts." Animal characters may
be the creations of writers' imagination, but animals did and do
exist in their own right, as did and do humans. The original essays
in Animals and Their Children in Victorian explore the
representation of animals in children's literature by resisting an
anthropomorphized perception of them. Instead of focusing on the
domestication of animals, this book analyzes how animals in
literature "civilize" children, teaching them how to get along with
fellow creatures-both human and nonhuman.
Contains three early examples of the genre of New Woman writing,
each portraying women in ways wholly different to those which had
gone before. This title includes "Kith and Kin" (1881), "Miss
Brown" and "The Wing of Azrael".
Contains three early examples of the genre of New Woman writing,
each portraying women in ways wholly different to those which had
gone before. This title includes "Kith and Kin" (1881), "Miss
Brown" and "The Wing of Azrael".
Contains three early examples of the genre of New Woman writing,
each portraying women in ways wholly different to those which had
gone before. This title includes "Kith and Kin" (1881), "Miss
Brown" and "The Wing of Azrael".
The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing
academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. In
this four-volume set her comical, yet subversive, treatment of
Victorian marriage provides an interesting contrast to some of the
more earnest but conventional fiction of the time.
The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing
academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. In
this four-volume set her comical, yet subversive, treatment of
Victorian marriage provides an interesting contrast to some of the
more earnest but conventional fiction of the time.
The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing
academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. In
this four-volume set her comical, yet subversive, treatment of
Victorian marriage provides an interesting contrast to some of the
more earnest but conventional fiction of the time.
The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing
academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. In
this four-volume set her comical, yet subversive, treatment of
Victorian marriage provides an interesting contrast to some of the
more earnest but conventional fiction of the time.
Contains three early examples of the genre of New Woman writing,
each portraying women in ways wholly different to those which had
gone before. This title includes "Kith and Kin" (1881), "Miss
Brown" and "The Wing of Azrael".
Contains three early examples of the genre of New Woman writing,
each portraying women in ways wholly different to those which had
gone before. This title includes "Kith and Kin" (1881), "Miss
Brown" and "The Wing of Azrael".
Contains three early examples of the genre of New Woman writing,
each portraying women in ways wholly different to those which had
gone before. This title includes "Kith and Kin" (1881), "Miss
Brown" and "The Wing of Azrael".
Frances Milton Trollope (1779-1863) was a prolific, provocative and
hugely successful novelist. She greatly influenced the generation
of Victorian novelists who came after her such as Charles Dickens,
George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell. This book features Trollope's
social problem novels.
Frances Milton Trollope (1779-1863) was a prolific, provocative and
hugely successful novelist. She greatly influenced the generation
of Victorian novelists who came after her such as Charles Dickens,
George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell. This book features Trollope's
social problem novels.
Frances Milton Trollope (1779-1863) was a prolific, provocative and
hugely successful novelist. She greatly influenced the generation
of Victorian novelists who came after her such as Charles Dickens,
George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell. This book features Trollope's
social problem novels.
Frances Milton Trollope (1779-1863) was a prolific, provocative and
hugely successful novelist. She greatly influenced the generation
of Victorian novelists who came after her such as Charles Dickens,
George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell. This book features Trollope's
social problem novels.
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