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Anna Brownwell Jameson (1794-1869) was a central figure in the
London world of letters and art in the early Victorian period, and
an important feminist writer. Her friends included such figures as
Harriet Martineau, Lady Byron, Robert Browning and Elizabeth
Barrett Browning. This study considers her life and works, using a
different Jameson work as the central focus of each chapter. The
author considers the particular non-fiction discourse in which the
work is written, as well as such issues as gender and colonialism.
Arranged chronologically, the book also charts the growth and
development of a determined feminism in the vital years of the
early Victorian period, and compares Jameson to her contemporaries.
Both travel and translation involve a type of journey, one with
literal and metaphorical dimensions. Judith Johnston brings
together these two richly resonant modes of getting from here to
there as she explores their impact on culture with respect to the
work of Victorian women. Using the metaphor of the published
journey, whether it involves actual travel or translation, Johnston
focusses particularly on the relationships of various British women
with continental Europe. At the same time, she sheds light on the
possibility of appropriation and British imperial enhancement that
such contact produces. Johnston's book is in part devoted to case
studies of women such as Sarah Austin, Mary Busk, Anna Jameson,
Charlotte Guest, Jane Sinnett and Mary Howitt who are
representative of women travellers, translators and journalists
during a period when women became increasingly robust participants
in the publishing industry. Whether they wrote about their own
travels or translated the foreign language texts of other writers,
Johnston shows, women were establishing themselves as actors in the
broad business of culture. In widening our understanding of the
ways in which gender and modernity functioned in the early decades
of the Victorian age, Johnston's book makes a strong case for a
greater appreciation of the contributions nineteenth-century women
made to what is termed the knowledge empire.
Both travel and translation involve a type of journey, one with
literal and metaphorical dimensions. Judith Johnston brings
together these two richly resonant modes of getting from here to
there as she explores their impact on culture with respect to the
work of Victorian women. Using the metaphor of the published
journey, whether it involves actual travel or translation, Johnston
focusses particularly on the relationships of various British women
with continental Europe. At the same time, she sheds light on the
possibility of appropriation and British imperial enhancement that
such contact produces. Johnston's book is in part devoted to case
studies of women such as Sarah Austin, Mary Busk, Anna Jameson,
Charlotte Guest, Jane Sinnett and Mary Howitt who are
representative of women travellers, translators and journalists
during a period when women became increasingly robust participants
in the publishing industry. Whether they wrote about their own
travels or translated the foreign language texts of other writers,
Johnston shows, women were establishing themselves as actors in the
broad business of culture. In widening our understanding of the
ways in which gender and modernity functioned in the early decades
of the Victorian age, Johnston's book makes a strong case for a
greater appreciation of the contributions nineteenth-century women
made to what is termed the knowledge empire.
Anna Brownwell Jameson (1794-1869) was a central figure in the
London world of letters and art in the early Victorian period, and
an important feminist writer. Her friends included such figures as
Harriet Martineau, Lady Byron, Robert Browning and Elizabeth
Barrett Browning. This study considers her life and works, using a
different Jameson work as the central focus of each chapter. The
author considers the particular non-fiction discourse in which the
work is written, as well as such issues as gender and colonialism.
Arranged chronologically, the book also charts the growth and
development of a determined feminism in the vital years of the
early Victorian period, and compares Jameson to her contemporaries.
Studies in Medievalism is the only journal entirely devoted to
modern re-creations of the middle ages: a field of central
importance not only to scholarship but to the whole contemporary
cultural world. The middle ages remain a prize to be fought for and
a territory to control. From early modern times rulers and
politicians have sought to ground their legitimacy in ancient
tradition - which they have often invented or rewritten for their
own purposes. This issue of Studies in Medievalism presents a
number of such cases, ranging from the rewriting of Mozart, and
Merovingian history, for the King of Bavaria, to the anglicization
of the medieval WelshMabinogion by the wife of an English
ironmaster. Other articles consider the involvement of scholarship
with national and professional self-definition, whether in
Renaissance Holland or Victorian Britain. And who "discovered"
America, Christopher Columbus or Leif Ericsson? This is an issue of
vital importance to many 19th-century Americans, but one created
and determined entirely by scholarship. Simple commercial motives
for exploiting the middle ages are also represented, whether
straightforward forgery for sale, or the giant modern industry of
tourism. Professor TOM SHIPPEY teaches in the Department of English
at the University of St Louis; Dr MARTIN ARNOLD teaches at
University College, Scarborough. Contributors: SOPHIE VAN ROMBURGH,
ROLF H. BREMMER JR, BETSY BOWDEN, WERNER WUNDERLICH, JUDITH
JOHNSTON, GERALDINE BARNES, RICHARD UTZ, JOHN BLOCK FRIEDMAN, STEVE
WATSON.
In George Eliot's last two novels, Middlemarch (1871-72) and Daniel
Deronda (1876), she abandons the realism she had explored and
articulated so carefully, most famously in Adam Bede, "a faithful
account of men and things," for an unprecedented return to
"cloud-borne angels, [...] prophets, sibyls, and heroic warriors."
This study addresses Eliot's exploitation of Victorian medievalism
by considering the way in which she utilizes the discourses of
medievalism, both for their potential for subversiveness and their
potential for mediation, to affirm that change is possible
socially, culturally, and politically, in her modern contemporary
world. The various medieval discourses are revealed as interstices
within what initially appears to be a continuation of the realism
of her earlier novels. They permit political and cultural readings
of a different, and often unexpected, kind to the realist bourgeois
values of novels like Adam Bede, and to a lesser extent, Felix
Holt. These political and cultural readings reveal a more
determined, more obvious feminist and socialist polemic in her two
last and possibly greatest novels.
Examining the important role played by the Victorian periodical in defining and refining gender roles during the second half of the nineteenth century, this study analyzes the periodical press in nineteenth-century culture. It considers issues of gender in the presses' development as a powerful political and social medium. The authors examine broad questions as they are explored in a range of periodicals, from literary and political reviews to comic magazines.
This volume makes available for the first time the entire surviving journals and diaries of the great Victorian novelist, George Eliot, and constitutes a new text by her--the closest she came to autobiography. The journals span her life from 1854, when she entered into a common-law union with George Henry Lewes, to her death in 1880, revealing the professional writer George Eliot as well as the remarkable private woman, Marian Evans. The edition includes a chronology, introduction, headnotes to each diary, and an annotated index supplying valuable contextual and explanatory information.
Periodicals in the Victorian era portrayed and reinforced gender
notions and ideals. Indeed, the Victorian periodical press was a
critical cultural site for the representation of competing gender
ideologies. This is a full-length book examining masculinities and
femininities as defined and interrogated in these periodicals. It
investigates readers, editors, and journalists; and it considers
the power of the press at home, in the domestic space, in
metropolitan centres and at the margins of empire. The work is
based on archival research into a wide range of publications from
the 1830s to the fin de siecle; from enduring intellectual
heavyweight quarterlies through more ephemeral women's and working
men's magazines, to magazines for boys and girls. The study is
informed by the theories and approaches of media and cultural
studies and women's studies. A valuable appendix supplies
information about the many periodicals of the period mentioned in
the book.
This volume makes available for the first time the entire surviving journals and diaries of the great Victorian novelist, George Eliot, and constitutes a new text by her--the closest she came to autobiography. The journals span her life from 1854, when she entered into a common-law union with George Henry Lewes, to her death in 1880, revealing the professional writer George Eliot as well as the remarkable private woman, Marian Evans. The edition includes a chronology, introduction, headnotes to each diary, and an annotated index supplying valuable contextual and explanatory information.
Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns: Essays on Fiction and
Culture brings together essays by scholars of international
reputation in nineteenth-century British literature. Encompassing
new work on Victorian writers and subjects as well as later
readings, rewritings, and adaptations, the two-part arrangement of
this collection highlights an ongoing dialogue. Part One: Victorian
Turns focuses principally on some of the major novelists of the
period-George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte-while
placing them in a wide cultural context, in particular that
provided by the intellectual journals to which many of the
novelists contributed. Reflecting the diversity of debate in the
Victorian period, contributors' essays range across key topics of
the day, including the woman question, class relations, language,
science, work, celebrity, and travel. English writers'
consciousness of the challenging contemporary developments in
French literature forms a significant and persistent theme. In Part
Two: NeoVictorian Returns, the rich and varied afterlife of
Victorianism is touched on. NeoVictorianism in contemporary
literature and film demonstrates an ongoing and productive
engagement with an age which established the social and cultural
directions of the modern world. In rewritings, appropriations, and
colonial writings-back, and in the persistent power of
nineteenth-century images and stories in modern cinema, the
period's social, cultural and political modernity continues to
flourish.
Australians have, until very recently, taken their British
inheritance for granted. This timely anthology is a collection of
writings, and some cartoons, from the 19th century British
periodical press, which was the popular press of its day. The
pieces ra
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