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Author | : J. E. Luebering Manager and Senior Editor, Literature |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2010-08-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1615301178 |
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Explores the works, writers, and movements that shaped the British literary canon from the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Author | : Stefanie Markovits |
Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0814210406 |
Download The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"We think of the nineteenth century as an active age - the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, and railroads, of great exploration and the Great Exhibition. But in reading the works of Romantic and Victorian writers one notices a conflict, what Stefanie Markovits terms "a crisis of action." In her book, The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Markovits maps out this conflict by focusing on four writers: William Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Eliot, and Henry James. Each chapter offers a "case-study" that demonstrates how specific historical contingencies - including reaction to the French Revolution, laissez-faire economic practices, changes in religious and scientific beliefs, and shifts in women's roles - made people in the period hypersensitive to the status of action and its literary co-relative, plot."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Julia Prewitt Brown |
Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download A Reader's Guide to the Nineteenth-century English Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Richard W. Bailey |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press ELT |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
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Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape.
Author | : George Saintsbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Download A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Josephine Guy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 637 |
Release | : 2010-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136884459 |
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Nineteenth-century Britain saw the rise of secularism, the development of a modern capitalist economy, multi-party democracy, and an explosive growth in technological, scientific and medical knowledge. It also witnessed the emergence of a mass literary culture which changed permanently the relationships between writers, readers and publishers. Focusing on the work of British and Irish authors, The Routledge Concise History of Nineteenth-Century Literature: considers changes in literary forms, styles and genres, as well as in critical discourses examines literary movements such as Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism and Decadence considers the work of a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writers discusses the impact of gender studies, queer theory, postcolonialism and book history contains useful, student-friendly features such as explanatory text boxes, chapter summaries, a detailed glossary and suggestions for further reading. In their lucid and accessible manner, Josephine M. Guy and Ian Small provide readers with an understanding of the complexity and variety of nineteenth-century literary culture, as well as the historical conditions which produced it.
Author | : Professor Simon Dentith |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2014-04-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1472418875 |
Download Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Envisioning today’s readers as poised between an impossible attempt to read texts as their original readers experienced them and an awareness of our own temporal moment, Simon Dentith complicates traditional prejudices against hindsight to approach issues of interpretation and historicity in nineteenth-century literature. Suggesting that the characteristic aesthetic attitude encouraged by the backward look is one of irony rather than remorse or regret, he examines works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, William Morris and John Ruskin in terms of their participation in significant histories that extend to this day. Liberalism, class, gender, political representation and notions of progress, utopianism and ecological concern as currently understood can be traced back to the nineteenth century. Just as today’s critics strive to respect the authenticity of nineteenth-century writers and readers who responded to these ideas within their historical world, so, too, do those nineteenth-century imaginings persist to challenge the assumptions of the present. It is therefore possible, Dentith argues, to conceive of the act of reading historical literature with an awareness of the historical context and of the difference between the past and the present while allowing that friction or difference to be part of how we think about a text and how it communicates. His book summons us to consider how words travel to the reality of the reader’s own time and how engagement with nineteenth-century writers’ anticipation of the judgements of future generations reveal hindsight’s capacity to transform our understanding of the past in the light of subsequent knowledge.
Author | : Carol A. Senf |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2013-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0299263835 |
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Carol A. Senf traces the vampire’s evolution from folklore to twentieth-century popular culture and explains why this creature became such an important metaphor in Victorian England. This bloodsucker who had stalked the folklore of almost every culture became the property of serious artists and thinkers in Victorian England, including Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. People who did not believe in the existence of vampires nonetheless saw numerous metaphoric possibilities in a creature from the past that exerted pressure on the present and was often threatening because of its sexuality.
Author | : Sean Michael Wilson |
Publisher | : Rosen Education Service |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-07-30 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : 9781615301591 |
Download The Britannica Guide to World Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Details the evolution of literature and explores the writers, works, and events that have shaped literature.
Author | : Reginald C. Churchill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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