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"Animated by scandals, scoundrels and imposters, this collection,
with contributions from prominent scholars of literature, history
and law, seeks to address issues of identity, trust and deception
in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain through the optic of
the twin concepts of legitimacy and illegitimacy"--Provided by
publisher.
This volume comprises of a substantial selection of E.S. Dallasâs
journalism in The Times. Although his reviews were crucial not only
in forging the literary reputations of upcoming writers such as
different as George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, but also in
recalibrating the response to well-established authors such as
Tennyson and Dickens, Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1827-79) remains
arguably the most unjustly neglected of mid-Victorian critics.
Although Dallas wrote for many other periodicals, it was his
reviews in The Times that had the greatest impact on both the
market for books and literary culture in the mid-Victorian period.
This collection brings together an anthology of his contributions,
as well as a newly written introduction, a comprehensive listing of
the articles he submitted to The Times, critical apparatus to
contextualise the materials, and a detailed chronology,
reappraising Dallasâ biography. This volume will be of great
interest to students and scholars of literary history.
First published in 2005, this collection of essays brings together
British, European and North American literary critics and cultural
historians with diverse specialities and interests to demonstrate
the range of contemporary perspectives through which George
Gissing's fiction can be viewed. It offers both closely
contextualised historical readings and broader cultural and
philosophical assessments and engages with a number of themes
including: the cultural and social formation of class and gender,
social mobility and its unsettling effects on individual and
collective identities, the place of writing in emerging mass
culture, and the possibility and limits of fiction as critical
intervention. This book will be of interest to those studying the
works of George Gissing, and 19th century literature more broadly.
First published in 2005, this collection of essays brings together
British, European and North American literary critics and cultural
historians with diverse specialities and interests to demonstrate
the range of contemporary perspectives through which George
Gissing's fiction can be viewed. It offers both closely
contextualised historical readings and broader cultural and
philosophical assessments and engages with a number of themes
including: the cultural and social formation of class and gender,
social mobility and its unsettling effects on individual and
collective identities, the place of writing in emerging mass
culture, and the possibility and limits of fiction as critical
intervention. This book will be of interest to those studying the
works of George Gissing, and 19th century literature more broadly.
Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the
nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which
inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone,
one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 novels,
plays and short stories during a career that spanned four decades.
This Companion offers a fascinating overview of Collins's writing.
In a wide range of essays by leading scholars, it traces the
development of his career, his position as a writer and his complex
relation to contemporary cultural movements and debates. Collins's
exploration of the tensions which lay beneath Victorian society is
analysed through a variety of critical approaches. A chronology and
guide to further reading are provided, making this book an
indispensable guide for all those interested in Wilkie Collins and
his work.
Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the
nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which
inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone,
one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 novels,
plays and short stories during a career that spanned four decades.
This Companion offers a fascinating overview of Collins's writing.
In a wide range of essays by leading scholars, it traces the
development of his career, his position as a writer and his complex
relation to contemporary cultural movements and debates. Collins's
exploration of the tensions which lay beneath Victorian society is
analysed through a variety of critical approaches. A chronology and
guide to further reading are provided, making this book an
indispensable guide for all those interested in Wilkie Collins and
his work.
This innovative book draws together literature, law and economic
and social history to investigate the meanings and uses of
legitimacy in nineteenth-century Britain. This broad range of
essays highlights the ways in which contested narratives and
interested performances shaped the idea of legitimate authority
during this period.
Valeria Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her
name in the marriage register incorrectly, and this slip is
followed by the gradual disclosure of a series of secrets about her
husband's earlier life, each of which leads on to another set of
questions and enigmas. Her discoveries prompt her to defy her
husband's authority, to take the law into into a labyrinthine maze
of false clues and deceptive identities, in which the exploration
of the tangled workings of the mind becomes linked to an
investigation into the masquerades of femininity. Probably the
first full-length novel with a woman detective as its heroine, The
Law and the Lady is a fascinating example of Collins's later
fiction. First published in 1875, it employs many of the techniques
used in The Moonstone, developing them in bizarre and unexpected
ways, and in its Gothic and fantastic elements The Law and the Lady
adds a significant dimension to the history of detective fiction.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the widest range of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
This anthology of primary materials will help redraw our understanding of the complexity and range of Victorian psychological thought. Areas covered include: phrenology and mesmerism; theories of dreams, memory, and the unconscious; female and masculine sexuality; insanity and nervous disorders; and theories of degeneration. Texts have been chosen from a wide variety of scientific, medical, and cultural sources to illustrate the social range of these debates. Embodies Selves will be of interest to both specialist and non-specialist audiences in the areas of cultural, literary, historical, and gender studies.
The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series
presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of
English-language prose fiction and written by a large,
international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels
as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes
chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and
reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as
well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements,
traditions, and tendencies.
Volume 3, The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1800 charts one of the
most significant and exciting periods in the history of the genre.
Beginning with the decade in which Scott's work helped inaugurate
the three-volume novel, and in which many narrative genres,
conventions, and preoccupations associated with Victorian fiction
first emerged, it traces how these forms developed and changed in
the mid nineteenth century, as the novel became established at the
centre of British national culture. The volume includes sections on
book history, on major authors, and on the varieties of fiction and
range of narrative modes during the period. It also features essays
on theories of the novel, and on the novel's relationship to other
aesthetic forms. Volume 3 also emphasizes the wider cultural role
and significance of the novel during the period, including its
impact on ideas of place and nation, as well as its intervention in
political, scientific, and intellectual contexts.
First published in 1897, The Beth Book - Being a Study from the
Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius, is a
semi-autobiographical novel offering a portrait of the artist as a
young woman. Grand's compelling story recounts in vivid detail the
childhood of her young heroine, Beth, a spirited and intelligent
girl who challenges the limitations of provincial life in Ireland
and Yorkshire. Without the benefit of an education, Beth must make
her own way through adolescence, contending with a violent mother
and an alcoholic father. With little money to go round, Beth often
goes without so that her brothers might be raised as gentlemen,
thus giving her an early introduction to sexual inequality. Even in
girlhood Beth challenges gender expectations, dressing as a boy and
poaching rabbits for the family dinner table. Like Grand herself,
Beth makes an early marriage to escape her unhappy childhood,
becoming the wife of philandering doctor, Daniel Maclure.
Disillusion soons turns to defiance, as Beth recreates herself as a
woman of genius, with her rousing refrain of "I shall succeed "
After escaping to a room of her own, Beth becomes a New Woman,
setting a high standard both for herself and for other women.
Grand's extraordinary recall of childhood emotions, avoiding
Victorian sentimentality, makes The Beth Book a convincing and
captivating chronicle of female adolescence. The coming of age and
sexual awakening of Beth broadens into a consideration of wider
social issues, such as marital violence, vivisection, and the
sexual double standard. The Beth Book deserves to become a classic
of the Victorian age. This new edition, the first for almost twenty
years, includes: * A critical introduction by Jenny Bourne Taylor *
Explanatory footnotes * Bibliography * Contemporary reviews * A
selection of other writings by and about Sarah Grand
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