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Silver Fork Society

Silver Fork Society
Author: Alison Adburgham
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2012-06-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0571295916

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During the years when George IV ruled the United Kingdom, first as Prince Regent then as King, his extravagant tastes served to characterize the times - the Regency period being identified strongly with new trends in British architecture, fashion and culture. The literary expression of this era was the genre of so-called 'silver fork' novels set in fashionable London society. Initially devoured as authentic insights into the rarefied world of the best social circles, these novels were thus serving as etiquette primers for growing numbers of nouveaux riches. The detail and décor of the novels gives them an enduring socio-historical interest, hence the value of Alison Adburgham's study, first published in 1983, which offers astute readings of such 'silver fork' specialists as Disraeli, Bulwer-Lytton, and Catherine Gore. With an assured eye for the social context of these works, Adburgham explores the class tensions and complex social interactions behind the high sheen of the silver fork.


Fashioning the Silver Fork Novel

Fashioning the Silver Fork Novel
Author: Cheryl A Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317322150

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Fashion and celebrity may be twenty-first century obsessions, but they were also key concepts in Regency culture. Both celebrated and condemned for their popularity, silver fork novels were extremely prolific during this period. This study looks at the social and literary impact of this significant genre.


Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841

Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841
Author: Harriet Devine Jump
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 2839
Release: 2024-07-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040156096

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The novels in this collection present a vivid picture of late-Regency society clinging to modes of behaviour which soon became obsolete and mark an important point of transition to Victorian cultural values.


Silver Fork Society

Silver Fork Society
Author: Alison Adburgham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1983
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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The Silver Fork Novel

The Silver Fork Novel
Author: Edward Copeland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2012-06-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139510282

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In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centering on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, attractive as they were to middle-class readers, were condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, crassly commercial, designed for the 'masses' and utterly unworthy of regard. Until recently, silver-fork novels have eluded serious consideration and been overshadowed by authors such as Jane Austen. They were influenced by Austen at their very deepest levels, but were paradoxically drummed out of history by the very canon-makers who were using Austen's name to establish their own legitimacy. This first modern full-length study of the silver-fork novel argues that these novels were in fact tools of persuasion, novels deliberately aimed at bringing the British middle classes into an alliance with an aristocratic program of political reform.


English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830

English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830
Author: Gary Kelly
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134960778

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English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 is the first comprehensive historical survey of fiction from that period for many decades. It combines a clear awareness of the period's social history with recent developments in literary criticism, theory and history, and explains the astounding variety of forms in Romantic fiction in terms of the various cultural, political, social, regional and gender conflicts of the time. It provides a broad-ranging survey from the major authors and works through to the sub-genres of the period. Jan Austin and Sir Alter Scott are discussed alongside the Gothic Romance, political and feminist fiction, social satire and regional, rural and historical novels. It also provides a comparison of the methods of distribution and marketing and the availability of books then and now; examines cheap popular fiction and children's fiction, and considers the recent debate about the place of prose fiction in a Romantic literature hitherto dominated by poetry.


The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 3 Volume Set

The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 3 Volume Set
Author: Frederick Burwick
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1767
Release: 2012-01-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1405188103

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The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature is an authoritative three-volume reference work that covers British artistic, literary, and intellectual movements between 1780 and 1830, within the context of European, transatlantic and colonial historical and cultural interaction. Comprises over 275 entries ranging from 1,000 to 6,500 words arranged in A-Z format across three fully cross-referenced volumes Written by an international cast of leading and emerging scholars Entries explore genre development in prose, poetry, and drama of the Romantic period, key authors and their works, and key themes Also available online as part of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature, providing 24/7 access and powerful searching, browsing and cross-referencing capabilities


The Silver Fork Novel

The Silver Fork Novel
Author: Edward Copeland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2012-06-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521513332

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This first modern study of silver-fork novels investigates their role in the alliance of middle class and aristocratic political principles.


Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867

Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867
Author: M. O'Cinneide
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2008-11-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0230583326

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Aristocratic women flourished in the Victorian literary world, their combination of class privilege and gendered exclusion generating distinctively socialized modes of participation in cultural and political activity. Their writing offers an important trope through which to consider the nature of political, private and public spheres.


Byron and the Victorians

Byron and the Victorians
Author: Andrew Elfenbein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1995-03-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521454520

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"This is the first full-length study of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on Carlyle, Emily Bronte, Tennyson, Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, and Wilde. Rather than treating influence in terms of source study or of intersubjective struggle, it demonstrates how institutions of cultural production mediate the access that later writers have to earlier ones."--BOOK JACKET.