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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 | : Nicholas Daly |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2000-02-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139426036 |
Download Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle Nicholas Daly explores the popular fiction of the 'romance revival' of the late Victorian and Edwardian years, focusing on the work of such authors as Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle. Rather than treating these stories as Victorian Gothic, Daly locates them as part of a 'popular modernism'. Drawing on work in cultural studies, this book argues that the vampires, mummies and treasure hunts of these adventure narratives provided a form of narrative theory of cultural change, at a time when Britain was trying to accommodate the 'new imperialism', the rise of professionalism, and the expansion of consumerist culture. Daly's wide-ranging study argues that the presence of a genre such as romance within modernism should force a questioning of the usual distinction between high and popular culture.
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.
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 | : Kirsten MacLeod |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 232 |
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.
Author | : Sylvia A. Pamboukian |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2012-03-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0821444069 |
Download Doctoring the Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and evolve? What do they tell us about actual medical practices? Doctoring the Novel explores the ways in which language constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms by examining medical quackery and orthodoxy in works such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and Little Dorrit, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Wilkie Collins’s Armadale, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Stark Munro Letters. Contextualized in both medical and popular publishing, literary analysis reveals that even supposedly medico-scientific concepts such as orthodoxy and quackery evolve not in elite laboratories and bourgeois medical societies but in the rough-and-tumble of the public sphere, a view that acknowledges the considerable, and often underrated, influence of language on medical practices.
Author | : Karen Chase |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195169956 |
Download Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents a collection of essays that address the questions which "Middlemarch" poses.
Author | : Dustin Friedman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2023-08-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009081632 |
Download Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The 1890s were once seen as marginal within the larger field of Victorian studies, which tended to privilege the realist novel and the authors of the mid-century. In recent decades, the fin de siècle has come to be viewed as one of the most dynamic decades of the Victorian era. Viewed by writers and artists of the period as a moment of opportunity, transition, and urgency, the 1890s are pivotal for understanding the parameters of the field of Victorian studies itself. This volume makes a case for why the decade continues to be an area of perennial fascination, focusing on transnational connections, gender and sexuality, ecological concerns, technological innovations, and other current critical trends. This collection both calls attention to the diverse range of literature and art being produced during this period and foregrounds the relevance of the Victorian era's final years to issues and crises that face us today.