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Author | : Tanya Agathocleous |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521762642 |
Download Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Traces the development of cosmopolitanism and the growing importance of the city in nineteenth-century literature.
Author | : Deborah Lutz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2015-01-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316240711 |
Download Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Nineteenth-century Britons treasured objects of daily life that had once belonged to their dead. The love of these keepsakes, which included hair, teeth, and other remains, speaks of an intimacy with the body and death, a way of understanding absence through its materials, which is less widely felt today. Deborah Lutz analyzes relic culture as an affirmation that objects held memories and told stories. These practices show a belief in keeping death vitally intertwined with life - not as memento mori but rather as respecting the singularity of unique beings. In a consumer culture in full swing by the 1850s, keepsakes of loved ones stood out as non-reproducible, authentic things whose value was purely personal. Through close reading of the works of Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, and others, this study illuminates the treasuring of objects that had belonged to or touched the dead.
Author | : Stefano Evangelista |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198864248 |
Download Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The fin de siècle witnessed an extensive and heated debate about cosmopolitanism, which transformed readers' attitudes towards national identity, foreign literatures, translation, and the idea of world literature. Focussing on literature written in English, Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle offers a critical examination of cosmopolitanism as a distinctive feature of the literary modernity of this important period of transition. No longer conceived purely as an abstract philosophical ideal, cosmopolitanism--or world citizenship--informed the actual, living practices of authors and readers who sought new ways of relating local and global identities in an increasingly interconnected world. The book presents literary cosmopolitanism as a field of debate and controversy. While some writers and readers embraced the creative, imaginative, emotional, and political potentials of world citizenship, hostile critics denounced it as a politically and morally suspect ideal, and stressed instead the responsibilities of literature towards the nation. In this age of empire and rising nationalism, world citizenship came to enshrine a paradox: it simultaneously connoted positions of privilege and marginality, connectivity and non-belonging. Chapters on Oscar Wilde, Lafcadio Hearn, George Egerton, the periodical press, and artificial languages bring to light the variety of literary responses to the idea of world citizenship that proliferated at the turn of the twentieth century. The book interrogates cosmopolitanism as a liberal ideology that celebrates human diversity and as a social identity linked to worldliness; it investigates its effect on gender, ethics, and the emotions. It presents the literature of the fin de siècle as a dynamic space of exchange and mediation, and argues that our own approach to literary studies should become less national in focus.
Author | : Martin Dubois |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2017-09-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107180457 |
Download Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Forms of Devotion: 1. Bibles; 2. Prayer; Part II. Models of Faith: 3. The soldier; 4. The martyr; Part III. Last Things: 5. Death and judgement; 6. Heaven and hell
Author | : Gregory Vargo |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107197856 |
Download An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores the journalism and fiction appearing in the early Victorian working-class periodical press and its influence on mainstream literature.
Author | : K. Sasser |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2014-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137301902 |
Download Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism details a variety of functionalities of the mode of magical realism, focusing on its capacity to construct sociological representations of belonging. This usage is traced closely in the novels of Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Cristina García, and Helen Oyeyemi.
Author | : Amy M. King |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2019-07-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108492959 |
Download The Divine in the Commonplace Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores how natural theology features in both early Victorian natural histories and English provincial realist novels of the same period.
Author | : Adam Abraham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2019-08-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108493076 |
Download Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Views the Victorian novel through the prism of literary imitations that it inspired.
Author | : Linda Hughes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2022-06-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009080776 |
Download Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Shedding new light on the alternative, emancipatory Germany discovered and written about by progressive women writers during the long nineteenth century, this illuminating study uncovers a country that offered a degree of freedom and intellectual agency unheard of in England. Opening with the striking account of Anna Jameson and her friendship with Ottilie von Goethe, Linda K. Hughes shows how cultural differences spurred ten writers' advocacy of progressive ideas and provided fresh materials for publishing careers. Alongside well-known writers – Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Michael Field, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Vernon Lee – this study sheds light on the lesser-known writers Mary and Anna Mary Howitt, Jessie Fothergill, and the important Anglo-Jewish lesbian writer Amy Levy. Armed with their knowledge of the German language, each of these women championed an extraordinarily productive openness to cultural exchange and, by approaching Germany through a female lens, imported an alternative, 'other' Germany into English letters.
Author | : Sarah Green |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2023-03-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108918123 |
Download Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Can sexual restraint be good for you? Many Victorians thought so. This book explores the surprisingly positive construction of sexual restraint in an unlikely place: late nineteenth-century Decadence. Reading Decadent texts alongside Victorian writing about sexual health, including medical literature, adverts, advice books, and periodical articles, it identifies an intellectual Paterian tradition of sensuous continence, in which 'healthy' pleasure is distinguished from its 'harmful' counterpart. Recent work on Decadent sexuality concentrates on transgression and subversion, with restraint interpreted ahistorically as evidence of repression/sublimation or queer coding. Here Sarah Green examines the work of Walter Pater, Lionel Johnson, Vernon Lee, and George Moore to outline a co-extensive alternative approach to sexuality where restraint figured as a productive part of the 'aesthetic life', or a practical ethics shaped by aesthetic principles. Attending to this tradition reveals neglected connections within and beyond Decadence, bringing fresh perspective to its late nineteenth- and twentieth-century reception.