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Virginia Woolf’s Good Housekeeping Essays
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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In the mid-twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published ‘Six Articles on London Life’ in Good Housekeeping magazine, a popular magazine where fashion, cookery and house decoration is largely featured. This first book-length study of what Woolf calls ‘little articles’ proposes to reassess the …
Rethinking G.K. Chesterton and Literary Modernism
Parody, Performance, and Popular Culture
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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This book comprehensively rethinks the relationship between G.K. Chesterton and a range of key literary modernists. When Chesterton and modernism have previously been considered in relation to one another, the dynamic has typically been conceived as one of mutual hostility, grounded in Chesterton’s …
Railway Reading and Late-Victorian Literary Series
Häftad, 2021
809 kr
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The railway was one of the principal Victorian spaces of reading. This book spotlights one of the leading audience demographics in this late-Victorian market: the newly empowered readers of the expanding middle class. The transactions in which late-Victorian readers acquired the books read whilst …
William Clark Russell and the Victorian Nautical Novel
Gender, Genre and the Marketplace
Av Andrew Nash
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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William Clark Russell wrote more than forty nautical novels. Immensely popular in their time, his works were admired by contemporary writers, such as Conan Doyle, Stevenson and Meredith, while Swinburne, considered him 'the greatest master of the sea, living or dead'. Based on extensive archival …
Gothic Novel and the Stage
Romantic Appropriations
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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In this ground-breaking study Francesca Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements of the theatre …
Aestheticism and the Marriage Market in Victorian Popular Fiction
The Art of Female Beauty
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Based on close readings of five Victorian novels, Hallum presents an original study of the interaction between popular fiction, the marriage market and the aesthetic movement. She uses the texts to trace the development of aestheticism, examining the differences between the authors, including their …
Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism
Continuities, Revisions, Speculations
Av Bénédicte Coste, Catherine Delyfer m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Charting the period that extends from the 1860s to the 1940s, this volume offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. By acknowledging that both movements had a passion for the ‘new’, it goes beyond the alleged divide between Modernism and its predecessors. Rather than reading the …
Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon
The Modern Library Series, 1917–1955
Häftad, 2017
881 kr
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In the 1920s and 1930s the Modern Library series brought out cheap editions of modernist works. Books by writers including H G Wells, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, were published and marketed alongside detective fiction and other books that we would now class as ‘middlebrow’. Jaillant provides a …
Railway Reading and Late-Victorian Literary Series
Inbunden, 2018
2896 kr
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The railway was one of the principal Victorian spaces of reading. This book spotlights one of the leading audience demographics in this late-Victorian market: the newly empowered readers of the expanding middle class. The transactions in which late-Victorian readers acquired the books read whilst …
Virginia Woolf’s Good Housekeeping Essays
Inbunden, 2018
2896 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the mid-twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published ‘Six Articles on London Life’ in Good Housekeeping magazine, a popular magazine where fashion, cookery and house decoration is largely featured. This first book-length study of what Woolf calls ‘little articles’ proposes to reassess the …
Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism
Continuities, Revisions, Speculations
Av Bénédicte Coste, Catherine Delyfer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2896 kr
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Charting the period that extends from the 1860s to the 1940s, this volume offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. By acknowledging that both movements had a passion for the ‘new’, it goes beyond the alleged divide between Modernism and its predecessors. Rather than reading the …
Business of the Novel
Economics, Aesthetics and the Case of Middlemarch
Häftad, 2016
948 kr
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This study shows how aesthetics and economics have been combined in a great work of literature. Frost examines the history of Middlemarch’s composition and publication within the context of Victorian demand, then goes on to consider the interpretation, reception and consumption of the book.
John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity
Av Kate Macdonald, Nathan Waddell
Häftad, 2016
948 kr
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Considered a quintessentially 'popular' author, John Buchan was a writer of fiction, journalism, philosophy and Scottish history. By examining his engagement with empire, psychoanalysis and propaganda, the contributors to this volume place Buchan at the centre of the debate between popular culture …
Fashioning the Silver Fork Novel
Häftad, 2016
1066 kr
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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 …
Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel
Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor
Av Erica Brown
Häftad, 2016
948 kr
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Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor wrote witty and entertaining novels about the domestic lives of middle-class women. Widely read and enjoyed, their work was often dismissed as middlebrow. Brown argues their skilful use of comedy and irony provided the receptive reader with subversive …
Women's University Fiction, 1880–1945
Av Anna Bogen
Häftad, 2016
948 kr
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The rise of the middle classes brought a sharp increase in the number of young men and women able to attend university. Developing in the wake of this increase, the university novel often centred on male undergraduates at either Oxford or Cambridge. Bogen argues that an analysis of the lesser known …
Rethinking G.K. Chesterton and Literary Modernism
Parody, Performance, and Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2017
2896 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book comprehensively rethinks the relationship between G.K. Chesterton and a range of key literary modernists. When Chesterton and modernism have previously been considered in relation to one another, the dynamic has typically been conceived as one of mutual hostility, grounded in Chesterton’s …
Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon
The Modern Library Series, 1917–1955
E-bok, 2015
1036 kr
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In the 1920s and 1930s the Modern Library series began to bring out cheap editions of modernist works. Jaillant provides a thorough analysis of the series’ mix of highbrow and popular literature and argues that the availability and low cost of modernist works helped to expand modernism's influence …
Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon
The Modern Library Series, 1917–1955
E-bok, 2015
1036 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the 1920s and 1930s the Modern Library series began to bring out cheap editions of modernist works. Jaillant provides a thorough analysis of the series’ mix of highbrow and popular literature and argues that the availability and low cost of modernist works helped to expand modernism's influence …
Aestheticism and the Marriage Market in Victorian Popular Fiction
The Art of Female Beauty
E-bok, 2015
956 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Based on close readings of five Victorian novels, Hallum presents an original study of the interaction between popular fiction, the marriage market and the aesthetic movement. She uses the texts to trace the development of aestheticism, examining the differences between the authors, including their …
Aestheticism and the Marriage Market in Victorian Popular Fiction
The Art of Female Beauty
E-bok, 2015
935 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Based on close readings of five Victorian novels, Hallum presents an original study of the interaction between popular fiction, the marriage market and the aesthetic movement. She uses the texts to trace the development of aestheticism, examining the differences between the authors, including their …
Gothic Novel and the Stage
Romantic Appropriations
E-bok, 2015
956 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements of the theatre provided …
Gothic Novel and the Stage
Romantic Appropriations
E-bok, 2015
956 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements of the theatre provided …
Women's University Fiction, 1880–1945
Av Anna Bogen
E-bok, 2015
1115 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The rise of the middle classes brought a sharp increase in the number of young men and women able to attend university. Developing in the wake of this increase, the university novel often centred on male undergraduates at either Oxford or Cambridge. Bogen argues that an analysis of the lesser known …
Women's University Fiction, 1880–1945
Av Anna Bogen
E-bok, 2015
1115 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The rise of the middle classes brought a sharp increase in the number of young men and women able to attend university. Developing in the wake of this increase, the university novel often centred on male undergraduates at either Oxford or Cambridge. Bogen argues that an analysis of the lesser known …
John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity
Av Kate Macdonald, Nathan Waddell
E-bok, 2015
1091 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Considered a quintessentially 'popular' author, John Buchan was a writer of fiction, journalism, philosophy and Scottish history. By examining his engagement with empire, psychoanalysis and propaganda, the contributors to this volume place Buchan at the centre of the debate between popular culture …
John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity
Av Kate Macdonald, Nathan Waddell
E-bok, 2015
1115 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Considered a quintessentially 'popular' author, John Buchan was a writer of fiction, journalism, philosophy and Scottish history. By examining his engagement with empire, psychoanalysis and propaganda, the contributors to this volume place Buchan at the centre of the debate between popular culture …
William Clark Russell and the Victorian Nautical Novel
Gender, Genre and the Marketplace
Av Andrew Nash
E-bok, 2015
956 kr
Lägg i varukorg
William Clark Russell wrote more than forty nautical novels. Immensely popular in their time, his works were admired by contemporary writers, such as Conan Doyle, Stevenson and Meredith, while Swinburne, considered him 'the greatest master of the sea, living or dead'. Based on extensive archival …
William Clark Russell and the Victorian Nautical Novel
Gender, Genre and the Marketplace
Av Andrew Nash
E-bok, 2015
956 kr
Lägg i varukorg
William Clark Russell wrote more than forty nautical novels. Immensely popular in their time, his works were admired by contemporary writers, such as Conan Doyle, Stevenson and Meredith, while Swinburne, considered him 'the greatest master of the sea, living or dead'. Based on extensive archival …
Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel
Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor
Av Erica Brown
E-bok, 2015
1115 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor wrote witty and entertaining novels about the domestic lives of middle-class women. Widely read and enjoyed, their work was often dismissed as middlebrow. Brown argues their skilful use of comedy and irony provided the receptive reader with subversive …
