Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture – serie
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The Divine in the Commonplace
Reverent Natural History and the Novel in Britain
Av Amy M. King
Inbunden, 2019
1797 kr
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Realism has long been associated with the secular, but in early nineteenth-century England a realist genre existed that was highly theological: popular natural histories informed by natural theology. The Divine in the Commonplace explores the 'reverent empiricism' of English natural history and how …
Rereading Walter Pater
Av William F. Shuter, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2005
729 kr
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Walter Pater is increasingly gaining recognition as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century culture. His later work is often regarded as an effort to distance himself from his earlier, more controversial texts. In this 1997 book, William F. Shuter argues that Pater's writings demand a twofold …
Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel
Women, Work and Home
Av Monica Feinberg Cohen, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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Much attention has recently been given by scholars to the widening of the gender gap in the nineteenth century and the concept of separate spheres. Testing such constructions, and questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by …
Victorian Renovations of the Novel
Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation
Häftad, 2005
750 kr
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This study of narrative technique in Victorian novels introduces the concept of 'narrative annexes' whereby unexpected characters, impermissible subjects and plot-changing events are introduced within fictional worlds which otherwise exclude them. They are marked by the crossing of borders into …
Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels
Av Pamela K. Gilbert, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2005
767 kr
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Popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. Critical articles of the time on fiction and on the body and disease offer convincing evidence that reading was metaphorically allied with eating, contagion and sex. Anxious critics traced the infection of the …
Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Häftad, 2006
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In Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture, first published in 2001, Lucy Hartley examines the emergence of physiognomy as a form of popular science. Physiognomy posited an understanding of the inner meaning of human character from observations of physical …
Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920
Av Pamela Thurschwell, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2005
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In this 2001 book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siècle. Thurschwell argues that technologies began suffusing the public imagination from the mid-nineteenth century on: they seemed to support the claims of spiritualist …
Literary Culture and the Pacific
Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters
Av Vanessa Smith, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2005
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This 1998 book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific, depicting Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of writing and print. Texts designed to present self-affirming images of 'native' wonderment at European culture …
Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy
Av Sophie Gilmartin, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2005
654 kr
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This 1999 study addresses the question of why ideas of ancestry and kinship were so important in nineteenth-century society, and particularly in the Victorian novel. Through readings of a range of literary texts, Sophie Gilmartin explores questions fundamental to the national and racial identity of …
Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840-1940
Av Dennis Denisoff, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2006
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This original and provocative 2001 study discusses the work of a number of authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in order to argue that mainstream society was enabled to accept the non-normative sexuality of the Aesthetic Movement chiefly through parody and self-parody. Highlighting …
Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Av Alison Byerly, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2006
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This book confronts a significant paradox in the development of literary realism: the very novels that present themselves as purveyors and celebrants of direct, ordinary human experience also manifest an obsession with art that threatens to sabotage their Realist claims. Unlike previous studies of …
Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature
Häftad, 2006
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Although fairies are now banished to the realm of childhood, these diminutive figures were central to the work of many Victorian painters, novelists, poets and even scientists. It would be no exaggeration to say that the Victorians were obsessed with fairies: yet this obsession has hitherto …
Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body
Av Anna Krugovoy Silver, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2006
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Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body - hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness - in the creation of female characters. Silver argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal …
Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology
Av Jan-Melissa Schramm, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2006
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The eighteenth-century model of the criminal trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the facts of a case could 'speak for themselves' - was abandoned in 1836, when legislation enabled barristers to address the jury on behalf of prisoners charged with felony. Increasingly, professional …
Ruskin's God
Av Michael Wheeler, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2006
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In this 1999 book, Michael Wheeler challenges critical orthodoxy by arguing that John Ruskin's writing is underpinned by a sustained trust in divine wisdom: a trust nurtured by his imaginative engagement with King Solomon and the temple in Jerusalem, and with the wisdom literature of the Old …
Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre
Av Deborah Vlock, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2006
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Dickens' novels, like those of his contemporaries, are more explicitly indebted to the theatre than scholars have supposed: his stories and characters were often already public property by the time they were published, circulating as part of a current theatrical repertoire well known to many …
Muscular Christianity
Embodying the Victorian Age
Häftad, 2006
842 kr
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Muscular Christianity was an important religious, literary and social movement of the mid-nineteenth century. This volume draws on recent developments in culture and gender theory to reveal ideological links between muscular Christianity and the work of novelists and essayists, including Kingsley, …
Actresses on the Victorian Stage
Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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Gail Marshall argues that the professional and personal history of the Victorian actress was largely defined by her negotiation with the sculptural metaphor, and that this was authorized and determined by the Ovidian myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Drawing on evidence of theatrical fictions, visual …
George Eliot and the British Empire
Häftad, 2006
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In this study Nancy Henry introduces a set of facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. Henry examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons, and a reader of colonial …
The Victorian Parlour
A Cultural Study
Av Thad Logan
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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The parlour was the centre of the Victorian home and, as Thad Logan shows, the place where contemporary conflicts about domesticity and gender relations were frequently played out. In The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study, Logan uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines the perspectives of …
Victorian Writing about Risk
Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World
Av Elaine Freedgood, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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In Victorian Writing about Risk, first published in 2000, Elaine Freedgood explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature, including works on political economy, sanitary reform, balloon flight, Alpine mountaineering and African exploration. The consolations …
After Dickens
Reading, Adaptation and Performance
Häftad, 2006
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After Dickens is both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. John Glavin conducts a historical inquiry into Dickens's relationship to the theatre and theatricality of his own time, and uncovers a much …
Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud
Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins
Av Carolyn Dever, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2006
842 kr
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The cultural ideal of motherhood in Victorian Britain seems to be undermined by Victorian novels, which almost always represent mothers as incapacitated, abandoning or dead. Carolyn Dever argues that the phenomenon of the dead or missing mother in Victorian narrative is central to the construction …
Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland
Häftad, 2007
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We think of economic theory as a scientific speciality accessible only to experts, but Victorian writers commented on economic subjects with great interest. Gordon Bigelow focuses on novelists Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell and compares their work with commentaries on the Irish famine …
The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction
The Art of Being Ill
Häftad, 2007
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In this exploration of the significance of illness in the Victorian literary imagination Miriam Bailin maps the cultural implications and narrative effects of the sickroom as an important symbolic space in nineteenth-century life and literature. Dr Bailin draws on non-fictional accounts of illness …
Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust
Av Ann Gaylin
Häftad, 2007
823 kr
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Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust investigates human curiosity and its representation in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels. Ann Gaylin argues that eavesdropping dramatizes a primal human urge to know and offers a paradigm of narrative transmission …
Dickens and the Daughter of the House
Häftad, 2007
842 kr
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Feminist criticism has not been kind to Charles Dickens. The characters George Orwell referred to as 'legless angels' - Little Nell, Agnes Wickfield, Esther Summerson and others - have been conjured as evidence of Dickens' inability to create 'real' women. Critics wishing to rescue him have turned …
From Dickens to Dracula
Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction
Häftad, 2007
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Ranging from the panoramic novels of Dickens to the horror of Dracula, Gail Turley Houston examines the ways in which the language and imagery of economics, commerce and banking are transformed in Victorian Gothic fiction, and traces literary and uncanny elements in economic writings of the period. …
Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860
Häftad, 2007
842 kr
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Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, caught between imperial and religious interests. She maps out this position through an examination of texts published by missionaries …
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
Reading the Magazine of Nature
Av Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
767 kr
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For the Victorian reading public, periodicals played a far greater role than books in shaping their understanding of new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine. Such understandings were formed not merely by serious scientific articles, but also by glancing asides in political …
