Victorian Literature and Culture Series – serie
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Promises Broken
Courtship, Class, and Gender in Victorian England
Häftad, 2015
516 kr
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In the nineteenth century, a woman who could prove a man had broken his promise to marry her was legally entitled to compensation for damages. Bridging the gap between history and literature, Ginger S. Frost offers an in-depth examination of these breaches of promise and compares actual with …
Romance of the Harem
Av Anna Leonowens, Susan Morgan
Häftad, 1991
560 kr
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From setting foot in Asia in 1849 (or was it 1845?) as Anna Crawford (or was it Anna Edwards?) to waltzing with Yul Brynner in glorious technicolor, Anna Leonowens and her romanticized experiences as the only Westerner behind the walls of Nang Harm (the walled harem of the king of Siam) have had a …
Tennyson
The Muses' Tug of War
Inbunden, 1986
788 kr
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Albright contends that Tennyson's ``aesthetic goals were . . . in conflict'' and that his poetry attempts to ``unite two incompatible poetics,'' one governed by a heavenly muse, the other by an earthly muse suspicious of the idealizations and abstractions held dear by the first. The result is a …
Matthew Arnold and the Betrayal of Language
Inbunden, 1987
788 kr
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Matthew Arnold was one of the nineteenth century's greatest spokesmen for the saving power of culture, especially of poetry, to substitute for a vanishing religion. Yet he was persistently troubled throughout his career by the difficulty of finding adequate authority in language. Matthew Arnold and …
Vanishing Lives
Style and Self in Tennyson, D. G. Rossetti, Swinburne, and Yeats
Inbunden, 1988
902 kr
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One of the characteristic features of Victorian poetry is dimness, a vanishing away-things blur with the motion of their passing, which seems inseparable from the mind's fading as it lets them go. Tennyson, Rossetti, Swinburne, and the young Yeats are elegists of the self; they render life as …
Culture and Irony
Studies in Joseph Conrad's Major Novels
Inbunden, 1988
755 kr
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Conrad's major novels-Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and Under Western Eyes-tell of illusions and betrayals, dreams and lies. Ambiguity, contradiction, and irony so dominate the narratives that the more closely one reads, the more difficult it becomes to know what is real or what is true. …
Victorian Serial
Inbunden, 1991
902 kr
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Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund provide a new approach to the study of installment literature by showing how it embodied a view of life intrinsic to Victorian culture. They examine how the serial format affected the ways Victorian audiences interpreted sixteen major works of poetry and fiction. …
Modified Rapture
Comedy in W. S. Gilbert's Savoy Operas
Inbunden, 1991
807 kr
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The professional success achieved by W. S. Gilbert was unique in nineteenth-century English theater: he was the first dramatist ever to be knighted for his stage works, which yielded him a fortune that his less prosperous playwriting predecessors could scarcely have imagined. The Savoy operas-so …
Journal of Emily Shore
Häftad, 1991
532 kr
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Emily Shore's journal is the unique self-representation of a prodigious young Victorian woman. From July 5, 1831, at the age of eleven, until June 24, 1839, two weeks before her death from consumption, Margaret Emily Shore recorded her reactions to the world around her. She wrote of political …
Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester
The Life of Mrs. Gaskell's Demon
Inbunden, 1992
832 kr
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Despite feminist reassessments to the contrary, the conventional view that Elizabeth Gaskell personified the Victorian feminine ideal is still very much in place today. Challenging that view in an experimental biography, Felicia Bonaparte proposes that there lived in ""Mrs. Gaskell"" another, …
Author and Printer in Victorian England
Inbunden, 1992
807 kr
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Author and Printer in Victorian England demonstrates that printing technology shapes texts. The technology involved was a nineteenth-century revolution in printing methods; the texts were classic literary works by Victorian authors. What was at stake was textual control: who would decide how the …
Victorian Women Poets
Writing Against the Heart
Häftad, 1992
577 kr
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This book recovers and explores an important tradition of nineteenth-century women's poetry from Felicia Hemans to Charlotte Mew. Angela Leighton not only discusses the work of neglected poets such as Augusta Webster and ""Michael Field,"" but also charts the development of women's poetry from …
Thomas Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind
Inbunden, 1993
902 kr
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Simon Gatrell offers a fresh and stimulating exploration of Hardy's account in fiction of the individual man or woman's relationship with various aspects of the encompassing world- with other men and women, with the aggregation known as society, with the natural and artificial environment, and with …
Paradise Dislocated
Morris, Politics, Art
Inbunden, 1993
902 kr
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Paradise Dislocated offers a radical rereading of William Morris's neglected masterpiece, The Earthly Paradise. While most critics have seen this poem as the antithesis of the radical socialist politics that Morris embraced later in his career, or, at best, as an awkward prelude to that later …
Language of Flowers
A History
Inbunden, 1995
902 kr
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The author traces the phenomenon of ascribing sentimental meaning to floral imagery from its beginnings in Napoleonic France through its later transformations in England and America. At the heart of the book is a depiction of what the three most important flower books from each of the countries …
Promises Broken
Courtship, Class, and Gender in Victorian England
Inbunden, 1995
807 kr
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In the nineteenth century, a woman who could prove a man had broken his promise to marry her was legally entitled to compensation for damages. Bridging the gap between history and literature, Ginger S. Frost offers an in-depth examination of these breaches of promise and compares actual with …
Vulgarization of Art
The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy
Inbunden, 1996
784 kr
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In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context …
Ruskin's Culture Wars
Fors Clavigera and the Crisis of Victorian Liberalism
Inbunden, 1998
674 kr
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This modern, critical reading of ""Fors Clavigera"" places this classic work in the context of its Victorian contemporaries, such as art journals and popular criticism. By recreating the intellectual climate, this work demonstrates the sense of cultural crisis and change evident at the time.
Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work
Inbunden, 1999
902 kr
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For much of her own century, Elizabeth Gaskell was recognized as a voice of Victorian convention - the loyal wife, good mother, and respected writer - a reputation that led to her steady decline in the view of twentieth-century literary critics. Recent scholars, however, have begun to recognize …
Child, the State and the Victorian Novel
Inbunden, 2000
902 kr
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The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as ""childhood"" became a distinct category, Laura C. Berry contends, stories of children in danger were circulated as part of larger debates about …
Letters of Christina Rossetti V. 3; 1882-1886
Av Christina Rossetti, Antony H. Harrison
Inbunden, 2000
1128 kr
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In recent years Christina Rossetti's star has soared. 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, …
Serious Pleasures of Suspense
Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt
Inbunden, 2003
700 kr
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Scholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of 19th-century British fiction, both high and low. But few have asked why suspense played such a crucial role in the Victorian novel and in Victorian culture more broadly. This study argues that a startling array …
Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917
Inbunden, 2007
684 kr
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Referred to long ago as a ""disease"" of Swiss soldiers and Highland regiments far from home, nostalgia became known in the 1920s as more of a fleeting rather than debilitating condition. Yet, what caused this shift in our collective understanding of the term? In ""Nostalgia in Transition, …
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
A Critical Edition
Av Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker
Häftad, 2008
365 kr
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Edward FitzGerald's translation of the ""Rubaiyat"" of Omar Khayyam, perhaps the most frequently read Victorian poem and certainly one of the most popular poems in the English language, poses formidable challenges to an editor. FitzGerald compulsively revised his work, alternately swayed by …
Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture
Discourse and Ideology
Häftad, 2014
365 kr
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Antony Harrison's approach is quite special within the field of Victorian poetry. He resists treating poems as purely aesthetic objects; instead, he sees them as cultural artifacts and, as such, as participants in contemporary cultural discourses. His strength is his ability to keep an eye on the …
Child, the State and the Victorian Novel
Häftad, 2015
512 kr
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The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as ""childhood"" became a distinct category, Laura C. Berry contends, stories of children in danger were circulated as part of larger debates about …
Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester
The Life of Mrs. Gaskell's Demon
Häftad, 2015
577 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Despite feminist reassessments to the contrary, the conventional view that Elizabeth Gaskell personified the Victorian feminine ideal is still very much in place today. Challenging that view in an experimental biography, Felicia Bonaparte proposes that there lived in ""Mrs. Gaskell"" another, …
Author and Printer in Victorian England
Häftad, 2015
458 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Author and Printer in Victorian England demonstrates that printing technology shapes texts. The technology involved was a nineteenth-century revolution in printing methods; the texts were classic literary works by Victorian authors. What was at stake was textual control: who would decide how the …
Vulgarization of Art
The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy
Häftad, 2015
445 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context …
Modified Rapture
Comedy in W. S. Gilbert's Savoy Operas
Häftad, 2015
512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The professional success achieved by W. S. Gilbert was unique in nineteenth-century English theater: he was the first dramatist ever to be knighted for his stage works, which yielded him a fortune that his less prosperous playwriting predecessors could scarcely have imagined. The Savoy operas-so …
