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Victorian Connections
Häftad, 1989
607 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
906 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
906 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 Matthew Arnold V. 2; 1860-65
Inbunden, 1997
1203 kr
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Volume 2 of this six volume set covers the years 1860-65, when Arnold emerged as a critic and went on to consolidate his reputation. His letters record his impressions of Europe on an official school study, with observations of nature within and nature without.
Letters of Christina Rossetti V. 2; 1874-1881
Av Christina Rossetti, Antony H. Harrison
Inbunden, 1999
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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 …
Letters of Matthew Arnold V. 4; 1871-1878
Inbunden, 2000
1203 kr
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This is the fourth in a series of six volumes collecting together all the known letters of Matthew Arnold. In his writings, Arnold ranges from religion to literature; ""St Paul and Protestantism"" in 1870 is followed by ""Literature and Dogma, God and the Bible"", and ""Last Essays on Church and …
Forgotten Female Aesthetes
Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England
Häftad, 2000
514 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
752 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 …
Letters of Matthew Arnold V.5; 1879-1884
Inbunden, 2001
1203 kr
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The emotional and moral centre of this collection is the series of letters written during Arnold's first American visit, during which he ranged from New York and New England to Madison, Chicago, Richmond, Washington, Toronto, Montreal and Quebec. Like most visiting British luminaries, he meets …
Letters of Matthew Arnold V. 6; 1885-1888
Inbunden, 2002
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In this final volume of the Virginia edition of Arnold's letters, Arnold joins for the last time a Royal Commission on Education, travelling first to Germany, and then on to Switzerland and Paris. Following his wife and younger daughter, Arnold also makes his second American visit, this time to see …
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
906 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
769 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
1113 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
518 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 …
Christina Rossetti
The Patience of Style
Inbunden, 2005
688 kr
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Although the cultural and literary influence of Christina Rossetti has recently been widely acknowledged, the belatedness of this critical attention has left wide gaps in our understanding of her poetic contribution. Often focusing solely on her early work and neglecting her later volumes, many …
Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems
Häftad, 1992
298 kr
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Bringing together the critical strategies of both his new historicism and intertextual analysis, ""Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems"" questions the ideological operations of Victorian poems and the ideological dispositions of their authors, particularly in relation to Romantic presurcursors and …
Letters of Matthew Arnold V. 1; 1829-59
Inbunden, 1996
1187 kr
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The publication of all the known letters of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), when complete in seven volumes, will present close to 4000 letters, nearly five times the number in G.W.E. Russell's two-volume compilation of 1895, many of which appear in their entirety here for the first time. Renowned as a …
Lost Saints
Gender and Victorian Literary Canonization
Inbunden, 1996
704 kr
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This text argues that parallels between literary and religious canons are far deeper than has yet been realised. It presents the ideological underpinnings of Victorian literary canonization and the general processes by which it occurred.
Letters of Christina Rossetti V. 1; 1843-73
Av Christina Rossetti, Antony H. Harrison
Inbunden, 1997
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This first volume of letters reveals intimate details about the Rossetti's family life, their illnesses and their accomplishments. It covers a period of 30 years, and over 300 of the letters are to friends and acquaintances, and Christina Rossetti's brothers, William Michael and Dante Gabriel.
Letters of Matthew Arnold V. 3; 1866-70
Inbunden, 1998
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The letters in this volume show Arnold, now midway in his professional career, publishing his first volume of poems in a decade and emerging as a critic - simultaneously - of society, of education, of religion, and, as always, of politics. In 1867 he publishes ""New Poems"", containing several of …
Feminine Political Novel in Victorian England
Inbunden, 1998
752 kr
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The author seeks to establishe a new category in Victorian fiction with this book: the feminine political novel. By studying Victorian female protagonists who particiate in the public universe conventionally occupied by men - the world of mills and city streets, of political activism and labour …
Genius of John Ruskin
Selections from His Writings
Av John Ruskin
Häftad, 1998
461 kr
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Intended to make his ideas and writings accessible to the modern reader, this text presents Ruskin through five of his most famous works, presented in date order. It provides an authentic portrait of Ruskin by stressing the works that most richly display the temper of his mind: Modern Painters; The …
Essays and Reviews
The 1860 Text and Its Reading
Av Victor Shea, William Whitla
Inbunden, 2000
1497 kr
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A collection of seven articles that appeared in 1860, sparking a Victorian culture war that lasted for at least a decade. With pieces written by such prominent Oxford and Cambridge intellectuals as Benjamin Jowett, Mark Pattison, Baden Powell and Frederick Temple, the volume engaged the relations …
Royalties
The Queen and Victorian Writers
Inbunden, 1999
671 kr
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Queens, by definition, embody a historical contradiction between femininity and power. Queen Victoria, whose strength and longevity defined an age, possessed immense cultural as well as political power, even becoming a writer herself. This cultural sovereignty, argues Gail Turley Houston, in the …
On Exhibit
Victorians and Their Museums
Inbunden, 2000
674 kr
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Why did the Victorians collect with such a vengeance and exhibit in museums? Focusing on this key 19th-century enterprise, Barbara J. Black seeks to illuminate British culture of the period by examining the cultural power that this collecting and exhibiting possessed. Through its museums, she …
Forgotten Female Aesthetes
Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England
Inbunden, 2000
1044 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 …
Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography
The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing
Häftad, 2001
364 kr
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Arguing that women's autobiography does not represent a singular separate tradition but instead embraces multiple lineages, this work explores the poetics and politics of these diverse forms of life writing. It analyses the polemical ""Autobiography"" of Harriet Martineau and ""Personal …
