Writing and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century – serie
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In Cynara’s Shadow
Collected Essays on Ernest Dowson
Av Alice Condé, Jessica Gossling
Inbunden, 2019
1207 kr
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In the 120 years since the publication of his final poetry collection, Decorations: In Verse and Prose (1899), Ernest Dowson has become something of a Decadent legend, much anthologized and referenced in almost every study of English Decadent literature, but still is considered a minor figure of …
Monstrous Fellowship
‘Pagan, Turk and Jew’ in English Popular Culture, 1780–1845
Av Toni Wein
Inbunden, 2018
1058 kr
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This book brings together a range of texts and events: nineteenth-century novels and plays, riots on the streets and stages of London, popular games, artwork, criminal profiles and political economy. Tying these topics together is the spectacle created around Pagan, Turk and Jew, a phrase appearing …
Constance Naden
Scientist, Philosopher, Poet
Inbunden, 2019
1115 kr
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«This is a rich, suggestive, and long overdue study of a life cut tragically short, and an insightful study of the intellectual intersections of multiple disciplines in the 1880s. Stainthorp achieves a powerful recalibration of Naden’s life and career, and promises to inspire a slew of further …
Crimean War in Victorian Poetry
Av Tai-Chun Ho
Inbunden, 2021
1021 kr
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Cast in the shadow of the soldier-poets of the First World War, Victorian war poets have often been disparaged as «armchair patriots» glorifying military action in an unthinking fashion. Challenging this long-standing assumption, The Crimean War in Victorian Poetry considers the evolution of the …
Picturing the Reader
Reading and Representation in the Long Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2022
991 kr
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«Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to a range of visual and textual material, this engaging and illuminating collection compels twenty-first-century readers to take a fresh look at the multiple ways in which readers and reading were represented in the long nineteenth century.» (Professor Julia …
Rebellious Writing
Contesting Marginalisation in Edwardian Britain
Inbunden, 2020
1116 kr
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The Edwardian era is often romanticised as a tranquil period of garden parties and golden afternoons in which everyone knew their place and nobody questioned the order of things. The reality, however, was quite different. The years between 1901 and 1914 were a highly turbulent period of intense …
Thomas Hardy Writing Dress
Inbunden, 2011
2487 kr
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This new study provides fresh readings of Thomas Hardy’s work and illuminates the social and cultural history of dress in the nineteenth century. The book argues that Hardy had a more detailed and acute understanding of the importance of dress in forming and regulating personal identity and social …
Mrs Grundy’s Enemies
Censorship, Realist Fiction and the Politics of Sexual Representation
Inbunden, 2013
1731 kr
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This is the first book-length study of literary censorship in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. While in recent years the aesthetics and politics of British Modernism have been re-evaluated and the concept and function of censorship redefined, Modernism’s privileged status in the struggle …
Wonderlands
The Last Romances of William Morris
Inbunden, 2015
1267 kr
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William Morris’s last romances are strikingly original stories written in his final years, but they remain relatively neglected in both Morris studies and nineteenth-century literary studies. This book provides a full-length critical account of these works and their essential role in promoting the …
Poetry, Politics and Pictures
Culture and Identity in Europe, 1840–1914
Av Ingrid Hanson, Jack Rhoden m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1114 kr
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This collection offers new perspectives on the connections between politics, identity and representation in art and poetry in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and Europe. Contributions explore questions such as the following: what was the effect of the reciprocity of political, …
Staging the Other in Nineteenth-Century British Drama
Inbunden, 2015
1227 kr
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The body of the «Other» – exotic, unfamiliar, fascinating – is the topic of this collection of essays on nineteenth-century British theatre. Arranged chronologically, the volume traces visual representations of the Other across the nineteenth century as well as their legacy in contemporary …
