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Spectacle of Intimacy
A Public Life for the Victorian Family
Av Karen Chase, Michael Levenson
Inbunden, 2000
1189 kr
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Love of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era. But the Victorians attached unprecedented importance to domesticity, romanticizing the family in every medium from novels to …
Epic and Empire
Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton
Av David Quint
Häftad, 1993
716 kr
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Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David …
Vital Signs
Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Häftad, 1995
716 kr
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Vital Signs offers both a compelling reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century novel and a methodological challenge to literary historians. Rejecting theories that equate realism with representation, Lawrence Rothfield argues that literary history forms a subset of the history of discourses and …
Bardic Nationalism
The Romantic Novel and the British Empire
Häftad, 1997
657 kr
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This magisterial work links the literary and intellectual history of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Britain's overseas colonies during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to redraw our picture of the origins of cultural nationalism, the lineages of the novel, and the literary …
Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature
Inbunden, 2002
2966 kr
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This book examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. As early modern authors learned at grammar school and university, Aristotle and other classical thinkers praised "golden means" balanced between …
Arbitrary Power
Romanticism, Language, Politics
Inbunden, 2004
972 kr
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This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British …
Deaths of Louis XVI
Regicide and the French Political Imagination
Av Susan Dunn
Häftad, 2008
395 kr
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The public beheading of Louis XVI was a unique and troubling event that scarred French collective memory for two centuries. To Jacobins, the king's decapitation was the people's coronation. To royalists, it was deicide. Nineteenth-century historians considered it an alarming miscalculation, a …
Scott's Shadow
The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh
Av Ian Duncan
Häftad, 2016
372 kr
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Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural innovation. Ian Duncan shows how Walter Scott became the central figure in these developments, and how …
Arbitrary Power
Romanticism, Language, Politics
Häftad, 2015
273 kr
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This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British …
Hero of the Waverley Novels
With New Essays on Scott - Expanded Edition
Häftad, 2014
980 kr
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One of the most influential works on Sir Walter Scott, The Hero of the Waverley Novels is a model for reconstructing ideas common at a given period in time. In this book Alexander Welsh draws upon the entire canon of Scott's fiction to demonstrate its bearing on property and the behavior prescribed …
Hero of the Waverley Novels
With New Essays on Scott - Expanded Edition
Inbunden, 2016
2102 kr
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One of the most influential works on Sir Walter Scott, The Hero of the Waverley Novels is a model for reconstructing ideas common at a given period in time. In this book Alexander Welsh draws upon the entire canon of Scott's fiction to demonstrate its bearing on property and the behavior prescribed …
Milton and the Revolutionary Reader
Inbunden, 2016
2303 kr
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The English Revolution was a revolution in reading, with over 22,000 pamphlets exploding from the presses between 1640 and 1661. What this phenomenon meant to the political life of the nation is the subject of Sharon Achinsteins book. Considering a wide range of writers, from John Milton, Thomas …
Rural Scenes and National Representation
Britain, 1815-1850
Inbunden, 2016
2387 kr
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Elizabeth Helsinger's iconoclastic book explores the peculiar power of rural England to stand for conflicting ideas of Britain. Despite the nostalgic appeal of Constable's or Tennyson's rural scenes, they record the severe social and economic disturbances of the turbulent years after Waterloo. …
