Victorian Literature & Culture – serie
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Victorian Connections
Häftad, 1989
604 kr
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In ""Victorian Connections"", each contributor was asked to write about anything in the Victorian period, with only one proviso: that the essay seek to draw connections with other disciplines, fields, periods, methodologies or authors. The compliment the essays pay to each other - the way they …
Mysteries of Paris and London
Inbunden, 1992
902 kr
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In this study, Richard Maxwell uses 19th-century urban fiction - in particular the novels of Hugo and Dickens - to define a genre: the novel of urban mysteries. His title comes from the ""mystery mania"" that captured both sides of the channel with the runaway success of Eugene Sue's ""Les Mysteres …
Tennyson's Fixations
Psychoanalysis and the Topics of Early Poetry
Inbunden, 1994
902 kr
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Matthew Rowlinson proposes a revitalized and properly analytic formalism as the appropriate model for a reading of Tennyson. In a series of attentive close readings, he probes the nature of place and the structuring of desire in Tennyson's work. Focusing on the poet's most important early writings …
Letters of Christina Rossetti V. 2; 1874-1881
Av Christina Rossetti, Antony H. Harrison
Inbunden, 1999
1128 kr
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As we have reached the centenary of Christina Rosetti's death, she has become considered as one of the major poets of the Victorian era. Leading critics have demonstrated how studies of Rossetti's work, her daily life, her relationship with the Pre-Raphaelites, and her interactions with other women …
Forgotten Female Aesthetes
Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England
Häftad, 2000
512 kr
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Every non-canonical male aesthete in Victorian England once competed with what Talia Schaffer calls the female aesthetes, whose critical and popular success made them formidable contemporaries. Not only did these women make significant contributions to the development of feminist ideologies, they …
Queer Chivalry
The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Inbunden, 2000
748 kr
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The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was a practitioner of strict asceticism in its broadest definition - the refusal of physical pleasure or comfort in the interests of moral or spiritual gain. As a result, his commentators have felt obliged to take a stand approving or disapproving of this …
Private Rod
Marital Violence, Sensation and the Law in Victorian Britain
Inbunden, 2000
1097 kr
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Sensation novels, a genre characterized by scandalous narratives, and emotionally and socially provocative dialogue and plots, had their heyday in England in the 1860s and 1870s, in the midst of growing concern about codes of behaviour in marriage. Largely excluded from the academic canon of the …
Vernon Lee
A Literary Biography
Av Vineta Colby
Inbunden, 2003
704 kr
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Vernon Lee, born Violet Paget in 1856 to English parents who lived on the continent, bridged two worlds and many cultures. She was a Victorian by birth but lived into the second quarter of the 20th century. Her chosen home was Itay, but she spent most part of every year in England where she …
Capital Offenses
Geographies of Class and Crime in Victorian London
Av Simon Joyce
Inbunden, 2003
902 kr
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As London became the first major city of the 19th century, new models of representation emerged in the journalism, poetry, fiction and social commentary of the period. Simon Joyce argues that such writing reflected a persistant worry about the problem of crime but was never able to contain it. Such …
Frances Power Cobbe
Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer
Inbunden, 2004
765 kr
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Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) is the most important nineteenth-century British writer and activist not heretofore treated in a full-length biography. An independent professional woman, she worked to improve conditions for delinquent girls and for the sick poor, promoted university degrees for …
Letters of Christina Rossetti V. 4; 1887-1894
Av Christina Rossetti, Antony H. Harrison
Inbunden, 2004
1107 kr
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Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) has come to be considered one of the major poets - not just one of the major women poets - of the Victorian era, eclipsing her famous brother. Leading critics have demonstrated how studies of Rossetti's work, her daily life, her relationships with the Pre-Raphaelites, …
Circus and Victorian Society
Inbunden, 2005
507 kr
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It was during the Victorian era that the circus, whose origins lay in the fairground world, emerged as a commercialized entertainment that we would recognize today. This development was intricately tied to a widespread demand for circus acts by a broad range of classes. In The Circus and Victorian …
