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Organized thematically around the themes of time, space, and place,
this collection examines Charlotte Bronte in relationship to her
own historical context and to her later critical reception, takes
up the literal and metaphorical spaces of her literary output, and
sheds light on place as both a psychic and geographical phenomenon
in her novels and their adaptations. Foregrounding both a
historical and a broad cultural approach, the contributors also
follow the evolution of Bronte's literary reputation in essays that
place her work in conversation with authors such as Samuel
Richardson, Walter Scott, and George Sand and offer insights into
the cultural and critical contexts that influenced her status as a
canonical writer. Taken together, the essays in this volume reflect
the resurgence of popular and scholarly interest in Charlotte
Bronte and the robust expansion of Bronte studies that is currently
under way.
Bringing together established critics and exciting new voices, The
Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels offers original
readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as
source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary
and cultural studies. As the editors observe in their provocative
introduction, Trollope more than any of his contemporaries is
studied by scholars from disciplines outside literary studies. The
contributors here draw together work from economics, colonialism
and ethnicity, gender studies, new historicism, liberalism, legal
studies, and politics that convincingly argues for the eminence of
Trollope's writings as a vehicle for the theoretical explorations
of Victorian culture that currently predominate. The essays
variously examine imperial and postcolonial themes in the context
of economic, cultural, aesthetic, and demographic influences; show
how gender-sensitive readings expose Trollope's critique of
capitalism's influence; address Trollope and sexuality in the
context of queer studies, the law, archetypal constructions, and
classical feminism; and offer new approaches to narrative theory
through examination of Victorian understandings of male and female
psychology. Regenia Gagnier's concluding chapter revisits the
collection's critical strands and reflects on the implications for
future studies of Trollope.
Organized thematically around the themes of time, space, and place,
this collection examines Charlotte Bronte in relationship to her
own historical context and to her later critical reception, takes
up the literal and metaphorical spaces of her literary output, and
sheds light on place as both a psychic and geographical phenomenon
in her novels and their adaptations. Foregrounding both a
historical and a broad cultural approach, the contributors also
follow the evolution of Bronte's literary reputation in essays that
place her work in conversation with authors such as Samuel
Richardson, Walter Scott, and George Sand and offer insights into
the cultural and critical contexts that influenced her status as a
canonical writer. Taken together, the essays in this volume reflect
the resurgence of popular and scholarly interest in Charlotte
Bronte and the robust expansion of Bronte studies that is currently
under way.
Trollope the reformer and the reformation of Trollope scholarship
in relation to gender, race, and genre are the intertwined subjects
of eminent Trollopian Deborah Denenholz Morse's radical rethinking
of Anthony Trollope. Beginning with a history of Trollope's
critical reception, Morse traces the ways in which Trollope's
responses to the political and social upheavals of the 1860s and
1870s are reflected in his novels. She argues that as Trollope's
ideas about gender and race evolved over those two crucial decades,
his politics became more liberal. The first section of the book
analyzes these changes in terms of genre. As Morse shows, the
novelist subverts and modernizes the quintessential English genre
of the pastoral in the wake of Darwin in the early 1860s novel The
Small House at Allington. Following the Second Reform Act, he
reimagines the marriage plot along new class lines in the early
1870s in Lady Anna. The second section focuses upon gender. In the
wake of the Second Reform Bill and the agitations for women's
rights in the 1860s and 1870s, Trollope reveals the tragedy of
primogeniture and male privilege in Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
and the viciousness of the marriage market in Ayala's Angel. The
final section of Reforming Trollope centers upon race. Trollope's
response to the Jamaica Rebellion and the ensuing Governor Eyre
Controversy in England is revealed in the tragic marriage of a
quintessential English gentleman to a dark beauty from the Empire's
dominions. The American Civil War and its aftermath led to
Trollope's insistence that English identity include the history of
English complicity in the black Atlantic slave trade and American
slavery, a history Trollope encodes in the creole discourses of the
late novel Dr. Wortle's School. Reforming Trollope is a
transformative examination of an author too long identified as the
epitome of the complacent English gentleman.
Bringing together established critics and exciting new voices, The
Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels offers original
readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as
source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary
and cultural studies. As the editors observe in their provocative
introduction, Trollope more than any of his contemporaries is
studied by scholars from disciplines outside literary studies. The
contributors here draw together work from economics, colonialism
and ethnicity, gender studies, new historicism, liberalism, legal
studies, and politics that convincingly argues for the eminence of
Trollope's writings as a vehicle for the theoretical explorations
of Victorian culture that currently predominate. The essays
variously examine imperial and postcolonial themes in the context
of economic, cultural, aesthetic, and demographic influences; show
how gender-sensitive readings expose Trollope's critique of
capitalism's influence; address Trollope and sexuality in the
context of queer studies, the law, archetypal constructions, and
classical feminism; and offer new approaches to narrative theory
through examination of Victorian understandings of male and female
psychology. Regenia Gagnier's concluding chapter revisits the
collection's critical strands and reflects on the implications for
future studies of Trollope.
The Victorian period witnessed the beginning of a debate on the
status of animals that continues today. This volume explicitly
acknowledges the way twenty-first-century deliberations about
animal rights and the fact of past and prospective animal
extinction haunt the discussion of the Victorians' obsession with
animals. Combining close attention to historical detail with a
sophisticated analytical framework, the contributors examine the
various forms of human dominion over animals, including imaginative
possession of animals in the realms of fiction, performance, and
the visual arts, as well as physical control as manifest in
hunting, killing, vivisection and zookeeping. The diverse range of
topics, analyzed from a contemporary perspective, makes the volume
a significant contribution to Victorian studies. The conclusion by
Harriet Ritvo, the pre-eminent authority in the field of
Victorian/animal studies, provides valuable insight into the
burgeoning field of animal studies and points toward future studies
of animals in the Victorian period.
The Victorian period witnessed the beginning of a debate on the
status of animals that continues today. This volume explicitly
acknowledges the way twenty-first-century deliberations about
animal rights and the fact of past and prospective animal
extinction haunt the discussion of the Victorians' obsession with
animals. Combining close attention to historical detail with a
sophisticated analytical framework, the contributors examine the
various forms of human dominion over animals, including imaginative
possession of animals in the realms of fiction, performance, and
the visual arts, as well as physical control as manifest in
hunting, killing, vivisection and zookeeping. The diverse range of
topics, analyzed from a contemporary perspective, makes the volume
a significant contribution to Victorian studies. The conclusion by
Harriet Ritvo, the pre-eminent authority in the field of
Victorian/animal studies, provides valuable insight into the
burgeoning field of animal studies and points toward future studies
of animals in the Victorian period.
Bringing together leading and newly emerging scholars, The
Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope offers a
comprehensive overview of Trollope scholarship and suggests new
directions in Trollope studies. The first volume designed
especially for advanced graduate students and scholars, the
collection features essays on virtually every topic relevant to
Trollope research, including the law, gender, politics, evolution,
race, anti-Semitism, biography, philosophy, illustration, aging,
sport, emigration, and the global and regional worlds.
Bringing together leading and newly emerging scholars, The
Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope offers a
comprehensive overview of Trollope scholarship and suggests new
directions in Trollope studies. The first volume designed
especially for advanced graduate students and scholars, the
collection features essays on virtually every topic relevant to
Trollope research, including the law, gender, politics, evolution,
race, anti-Semitism, biography, philosophy, illustration, aging,
sport, emigration, and the global and regional worlds.
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