ENGLISH PROSE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Author | : Hilary Fraser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : English prose literature |
ISBN | : 9781138226234 |
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Author | : Hilary Fraser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : English prose literature |
ISBN | : 9781138226234 |
Author | : Erin E. Edgington |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2017-10-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 146963578X |
Fashioned Texts and Painted Books examines the folding fan's multiple roles in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan's identity as a symbol of feminine sexuality, as a collectible art object, and, especially, as an alternative book form well suited to the reception of poetic texts, the study highlights the fan's suitability as a substrate for verse, deriving from its myriad associations with coquetry and sex, flight, air, and breath. Close readings of Stephane Mallarme's eventails of the 1880s and 1890s and Paul Claudel's Cent phrases pour eventails (1927) consider both text and paratext as they underscore the significant visual interest of this poetry. Works in prose and in verse by Octave Uzanne, Guy de Maupassant, and Marcel Proust, along with fan leaves by Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Paul Gauguin, serve as points of comparison that deepen our understanding of the complex interplay of text and image that characterizes this occasional subgenre. Through its interrogation of the correspondences between form and content in fan poetry, this study demonstrates that the fan was, in addition to being a ubiquitous fashion accessory, a significant literary and art historical object straddling the boundary between East and West, past and present, and high and low art.
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Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Emmons Rogers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dorri Beam |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010-06-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139489232 |
In this 2010 book, Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an overarching account of the importance of this form of writing, suggesting new ways of looking at style as a medium through which gender can be signified and reshaped. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights for scholars of American literature and women's writing.
Author | : Lewis Carroll |
Publisher | : London ; New York : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : |
First published in 1889, this novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland.
Author | : Hilary Fraser |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2017-07-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1315505355 |
Hilary Fraser provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of English prose in the nineteenth century which draws from a wide variety of fields including art, literary theory and criticisim, biography, letters, journals, sermons, and travel reportage. Through these works the cultural, social, literary and political life of the twentieth century - a period of great intellectual activity - can be charted, discussed and assessed. For the first time, an inclusive critical survey of nineteenth-century non-fiction is presented, that traces the century's ideological and cultural upheavals as they are registered in the literary textures of some of its most widely read and influential writings.The book explores the relations between writers who are generally perceived as occupying different discursive spheres, for example between John Stuart Mill, Florence Nightingale and Mrs Beeton; between Cardinal Newman, Elizabeth Gaskell and Hannah Cullwick; and between Charles Darwin, David Livingstone and Henry Mayhew. The establishment and development of different genres and their interactions over the century are clearly mapped. The genre of the periodical essay, a distinctively modern and flexible form catering to the mass readership, is the subject of the introduction, and then more specialist fields are discussed, covering scientific writing, travel and exploration literature, social reportage, biography, autobiography, journals, letters, religious and philosophical prose, political writing and history.
Author | : Jonathan Farina |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2017-09-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107181631 |
This book explores the ordinary turns of phrase by which major nineteenth-century British writers created character.
Author | : Cicely Margaret Binyon |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781290582551 |
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author | : James L. Machor |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801844379 |
Nineteenth-century America witnesses an unprecedented rise in reading activity as a result of increasing literacy, advances in printing and book production, and improvements in transporting printed material. As the act of reading took on new cultural and intellectual significance, American writers had to adjust to changes in their relationship with a growing audience. Calling for a new emphasis on historical analysis, Readers in History reconsiders reader-response and reception approaches to the shifting contexts of reading in nineteenth-century America. James L. Machor and his contirbutors dispute the "essentializing tendency" of much reader-response criticism to date, arguing that reading and the textual construction of audience can best be understood in light of historically specific interpretive practices, ideological frames, and social conditions. Employing a variety of perspectives and methods—including feminism, deconstruction, and cultural criticsim—the essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of historical inquiry for exploring the dynamics of audience engagement.