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Originally describing language use and class position, vulgarity
became, over the course of the nineteenth century, a word with
wider social implications. Variously associated with behavior, the
possession of wealth, different races, sexuality and gender, the
objects displayed in homes, and ways of thinking and feeling,
vulgarity suggested matters of style, taste, and comportment. This
collection examines the diverse ramifications of vulgarity in the
four areas where it was most discussed in the nineteenth century:
language use, changing social spaces, the emerging middle classes,
and visual art. Exploring the dynamics of the term as revealed in
dictionaries and grammars; Mayhew's London Labour and the London
Poor; fiction by Dickens, Eliot, Gissing, and Trollope; essays,
journalism, art, and art reviews, the contributors bring their
formidable analytical skills to bear on this enticing and divisive
concept. Taken together, these essays urge readers to consider the
implications of vulgarity's troubled history for today's writers,
critics, and artists.
Originally describing language use and class position, vulgarity
became, over the course of the nineteenth century, a word with
wider social implications. Variously associated with behavior, the
possession of wealth, different races, sexuality and gender, the
objects displayed in homes, and ways of thinking and feeling,
vulgarity suggested matters of style, taste, and comportment. This
collection examines the diverse ramifications of vulgarity in the
four areas where it was most discussed in the nineteenth century:
language use, changing social spaces, the emerging middle classes,
and visual art. Exploring the dynamics of the term as revealed in
dictionaries and grammars; Mayhew's London Labour and the London
Poor; fiction by Dickens, Eliot, Gissing, and Trollope; essays,
journalism, art, and art reviews, the contributors bring their
formidable analytical skills to bear on this enticing and divisive
concept. Taken together, these essays urge readers to consider the
implications of vulgarity's troubled history for today's writers,
critics, and artists.
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Reuben Sachs (Paperback)
Amy Levy; Edited by Susan David Bernstein
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R944
Discovery Miles 9 440
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Oscar Wilde wrote of this novel, "Its directness, its
uncompromising truths, its depth of feeling, and above all, its
absence of any single superfluous word, make Reuben Sachs, in some
sort, a classic." Reuben Sachs, the story of an extended
Anglo-Jewish family in London, focuses on the relationship between
two cousins, Reuben Sachs and Judith Quixano, and the tensions
between their Jewish identities and English society. The novel's
complex and sometimes satirical portrait of Anglo-Jewish life,
which was in part a reaction to George Eliot's romanticized view of
Victorian Jews in Daniel Deronda, caused controversy on its first
publication. This Broadview edition prints for the first time since
its initial publication in The Jewish Chronicle Levy's essay "The
Jew in Fiction." Other appendices include George Eliot's essay on
anti-Jewish sentiment in Victorian England and a chapter from
Israel Zangwill's novel The Children of the Ghetto. Also included
is a map of Levy's London with landmarks from her biography and
from the "Jewish geography" of Reuben Sachs.
This book examines the Reading Room of the British Museum using
documentary, theoretical, historical, and literary source.
Roomscape explores a specific site - the Reading Room of the
British Museum - as a space of imaginative potential in relation to
the emergence of modern women writers in Victorian and early
20th-century London. Drawing on archival materials, Roomscape is
the first study to integrate documentary, historical, and literary
sources to examine the significance of this space and its resources
for women who wrote translations, poetry, and fiction. This book
challenges an assessment of the Reading Room of the British Museum
as a bastion of class and gender privilege, an image established by
Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Roomscape also questions the
value of privacy and autonomy in constructions of female
authorship. Rather than viewing reading and writing as solitary,
Roomscape investigates the public, social, and spatial dimensions
of literary production. The implications of this study reach into
the current digital era and its transformations of practices of
reading, writing, and archiving. Along with an appendix of notable
readers at the British Museum from the last two centuries, the book
contributes to scholarship on George Eliot, Amy Levy, Eleanor Marx,
Clementina Black, Constance Black Garnett, Christina Rossetti,
Mathilde Blind, and Virginia Woolf. It includes Appendix of Notable
Readers at the British Museum from 1857-1930 (15 pp) as important
resource for museum and library studies, and fresh material about
translation work at the British Museum by Eleanor Marx (on Flaubert
and Ibsen) and Constance Black Garnett (on Russian authors). It
demonstrates the importance of library research for poets including
Christina Rossetti, Mathilde Blind, and Amy Levy. It examines
George Eliot's research at the British Museum for her historical
novel Romola in relation to how this novel depicts reading, library
collection, and gendered scholarship.. It offers a new reading of
Virginia Woolf's researching in and writing about the British
Museum and the London Library through her diaries, letters, and
creative work. It includes a Coda that brings forward the story of
the Round Reading Room from the mid-20th century, when A. S. Byatt,
Isobel Armstrong, and Gillian Beer relied on this space in the
early years of their careers, to the aftermath since the official
closing in 1997 when the British Library moved to Euston Road. The
fate of the Round Reading Room still hangs in the balance.
The Romance of a Shop is an early "New Woman" novel about four
sisters, who decide to establish their own photography business and
their own home in central London after their father's death and
their loss of financial security. In this novel, Amy Levy examines
both the opportunities and dangers of urban experience for women in
the late nineteenth century who pursue independent work rather than
follow the established paths of domestic service. By outfitting her
characters as photographers, Levy emphasizes the importance of the
gendered gaze in this narrative of the modern city. This Broadview
edition prints for the first time since the 1880s Levy's essay on
Christina Rossetti and a short story set in North London, both
published in Oscar Wilde's magazine The Woman's World. Other
appendices include poetry by Levy, Michael Field, Dollie Radford,
and A. Mary F. Robinson, and essays on Victorian photography,
literary realism, "the woman question" at the end of the nineteenth
century, and the plight of women working in London.
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Teaching William Morris (Hardcover)
Jason D. Martinek, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller; Contributions by Susan David Bernstein, Florence Boos, Pamela Bracken, …
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R3,494
Discovery Miles 34 940
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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A prolific artist, writer, designer, and political activist, the
work of William Morris remains remarkably powerful and relevant
today. But how do you teach someone like Morris who made
significant contributions to several different fields of study? And
how, within the exigencies of the modern educational system, can
teachers capture the interdisciplinary spirit of this polymath,
whose various contributions hang so curiously together? Teaching
William Morris gathers together the work of nineteen Morris
scholars from a variety of fields, offering a wide array of
perspectives on the challenges and the rewards of teaching William
Morris. Across the book’s five sections – “Art and Design,”
“Literature,” “Political Contexts,” “Pasts and
Presents,” and “Digital Humanities” – readers will learn
the history of Morris’s place in the modern curriculum, the
current state of the field for teaching Morris’s work today, and
how this pedagogical effort is reaching beyond the classroom by way
of books, museums, and digital resources.
Susan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded
in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Exploring this
dynamic in Charlotte Bronta's "Villette," Mary Elizabeth Braddon's
"Lady Audley's Secret," George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda," and Thomas
Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," she argues that although
women's disclosures to male confessors repeatedly depict wrongdoing
committed against them, they themselves are viewed as the
transgressors. Bernstein emphasizes the secularization of
confession, but she also places these narratives within the context
of the anti-Catholic tract literature of the time. Based on
cultural criticism, poststructuralism, and feminist theory,
Bernstein's analysis constitutes a reassessment of Freud's and
Foucault's theories of confession. In addition, her study of the
anti-Catholic propaganda of the mid-nineteenth century and its
portrayal of confession provides historical background to the
meaning of domestic confessions in the literature of the second
half of the century.
Originally published in 1997.
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the
latest in digital technology to make available again books from our
distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These
editions are published unaltered from the original, and are
presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both
historical and cultural value.
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