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Author | : Stephen Arata |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 1996-08-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521563526 |
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It has been widely recognised that British culture in the 1880s and 1890s was marked by a sense of irretrievable decline. Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle explores the ways in which that perception of loss was cast into narrative, into archetypal stories which sought to account for the culture's troubles and perhaps assuage its anxieties. Stephen Arata pays close attention to fin de siècle representation of three forms of decline - national, biological and aesthetic - and reveals how late Victorian degeneration theory was used to 'explain' such decline. By examining a wide range of writers - from Kipling to Wilde, from Symonds to Conan Doyle and Stoker - Arata shows how the nation's twin obsessions with decadence and imperialism became intertwined in the thought of the period. His account offers new insights for students and scholars of the fin de siècle.
Author | : Christine Ferguson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351923323 |
Download Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of language in forming a crucial nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the Victorian fin-de-siècle. Focusing on a variety of literary and non-literary texts, the book maps out the dialogue between the Victorian life and social sciences most involved in the study of language and the literary genre frequently indicted for causing linguistic corruption and debasement - popular fiction. Ferguson demonstrates how Darwinian biological, philological, and anthropological accounts of 'primitive' and animal language were co-opted into wider cultural debates about the apparent brutality of popular fiction, and shows how popular novelists such as Marie Corelli, Grant Allen, H.G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, and Bram Stoker used their fantastic narratives to radically reformulate the relationships among language, thought, and progress that underwrote much of the contemporary prejudice against mass literary taste. In its alignment of scientific, cultural, and popular discourses of human language, Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle stands as a corrective to assessments of best-selling fiction's intellectual, ideological, and aesthetic simplicity.
Author | : A. Mousoutzanis |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2014-05-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137430141 |
Download Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s-1990s Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s- 1990s focuses on fin-de-siècle British and postmodern American fictions of apocalypse and investigates the ways in which these narratives demonstrate shifts in the relations among modern discourses of power and knowledge.
Author | : S. Karschay |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2015-01-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137450339 |
Download Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This exciting new study looks at degeneration and deviance in nineteenth-century science and late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The questions it raises are as relevant today as they were at the nineteenth century's fin de siecle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has occurred? What exactly does it mean to be 'normal' or 'abnormal'?
Author | : J. Reid |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2006-06-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230554849 |
Download Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin de Siècle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this fascinating book, Reid examines Robert Louis Stevenson's writings in the context of late-Victorian evolutionist thought, arguing that an interest in 'primitive' life is at the heart of his work. She investigates a wide range of Stevenson's writing, including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Treasure Island as well as previously unpublished material from the Stevenson archive at Yale. Reid's interpretation offers a new way of understanding the relationship between his Scottish and South Seas work. Her analysis of Stevenson's engagement with anthropological and psychological debate also illuminates the dynamic intersections between literature and science at the fin de siècle.
Author | : Kirsten MacLeod |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2006-04-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230504000 |
Download Fictions of British Decadence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fictions of British Decadence is a fresh account of the emergence, development and legacy of fiction written in the era of Oscar Wilde. It examines a broad range of texts by a diverse array of Decadent writers, from familiar figures such as Ernest Dowson and John Davidson to lesser-known innovators such as Arthur Machen and M.P. Shiel.
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Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
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Download Joseph Conrad in Context Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Adrienne E. Gavin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2016-02-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230354262 |
Download Writing Women of the Fin de Siècle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Concentrating on a period of significant social and political change and exploring both canonical and newly rediscovered texts, this book critically assess the changing culture of the late-Victorian period as represented by a range of women writers through a range of essays by leading academics in the field and cutting-edge work by newer scholars.
Author | : William Hughes |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0810872285 |
Download Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides an extensive chronology and an introduction which explains the nature of Gothic and shows how it has evolved. Includes entries on major writers, and works of geographical variants like Irish, Scottish or Russian Gothic and Female Gothic, Queer Gothic and Science Fiction.
Author | : Robert Mighall |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9780199262182 |
Download A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first major full-length study of Victorian Gothic fiction. Combining original readings of familiar texts with a rich store of historical sources, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction is an historicist survey of nineteenth-century Gothic writing--from Dickens to Stoker, Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle, through European travelogues, sexological textbooks, ecclesiastic histories and pamphlets on the perils of self-abuse. Critics have thus far tended to concentrate on specific angles of Gothic writing (gender or race), or the belief that the Gothic 'returned' at the so-called fin de siècle. Robert Mighall, by contrast, demonstrates how the Gothic mode was active throughout the Victorian period, and provides historical explanations for its development from late eighteenth century, through the 'Urban Gothic' fictions of the mid-Victorian period, the 'Suburban Gothic' of the Sensation vogue, through to the somatic horrors of Stevenson, Machen, Stoker, and Doyle at the century's close. Mighall challenges the psychological approach to Gothic fiction which currently prevails, demonstrating the importance of geographical, historical, and discursive factors that have been largely neglected by critics, and employing a variety of original sources to demonstrate the contexts of Gothic fiction and explain its development in the Victorian period.