An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction
Title | An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Vargo |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107197856 |
Explores the journalism and fiction appearing in the early Victorian working-class periodical press and its influence on mainstream literature.
Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination
Title | Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Byrne |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521766672 |
This book examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, giving insights into how society viewed this disease and its sufferers.
The Bigamy Plot
Title | The Bigamy Plot PDF eBook |
Author | Maia McAleavey |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2015-05-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107103169 |
This study explores the prevalence of bigamy in Victorian fiction to challenge traditional understanding of the period's social and narrative conventions.
Studies in Early Victorian Literature
Title | Studies in Early Victorian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic Harrison |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2013-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781490983127 |
That which in England is conveniently described as the Victorian Age of literature has a character of its own, at once brilliant, diverse, and complex. It is an age peculiarly difficult to label in a phrase; but its copious and versatile gifts will make it memorable in the history of modern civilisation. The Victorian Age, it is true, has no Shakespeare or Milton, no Bacon or Hume, no Fielding or Scott-no supreme master in poetry, philosophy, or romance, whose work is incorporated with the thought of the world, who is destined to form epochs and to endure for centuries. Its genius is more scientific than literary, more historical than dramatic, greater in discovery than in abstract thought. In lyric poetry and in romance our age has names second only to the greatest; its researches into nature and history are at least equal to those of any previous epoch; and, if it has not many great philosophers, it has developed the latest, most arduous, most important of all the sciences. This is the age of Sociology: its central achievement has been the revelation of social laws. This social aspect of thought colours the poetry, the romance, the literature, the art, and the philosophy of the Victorian Age. Literature has been the gainer thereby in originality and in force. It has been the loser in symmetry, in dignity, in grace.
Studies in Early Victorian Literature
Title | Studies in Early Victorian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic Harrison |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2015-07-20 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781515159179 |
That which in England is conveniently described as the Victorian Age of literature has a character of its own, at once brilliant, diverse, and complex. It is an age peculiarly difficult to label in a phrase; but its copious and versatile gifts will make it memorable in the history of modern civilisation. The Victorian Age, it is true, has no Shakespeare or Milton, no Bacon or Hume, no Fielding or Scott-no supreme master in poetry, philosophy, or romance, whose work is incorporated with the thought of the world, who is destined to form epochs and to endure for centuries. Its genius is more scientific than literary, more historical than dramatic, greater in discovery than in abstract thought.
Populating the Novel
Title | Populating the Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Steinlight |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2018-03-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501710710 |
From the teeming streets of Dickens's London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life. In Populating the Novel, Emily Steinlight contends that rather than simply reflecting demographic growth, such pervasive literary crowding contributed to a seismic shift in British political thought. She shows how the nineteenth-century novel in particular claimed a new cultural role as it took on the task of narrating human aggregation at a moment when the Malthusian specter of surplus population suddenly and quite unexpectedly became a central premise of modern politics. In readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Mary Braddon, Thomas Hardy, and Joseph Conrad that link fiction and biopolitics, Steinlight brings the crowds that pervade nineteenth-century fiction into the foreground. In so doing, she transforms the subject and political stakes of the Victorian novel, dislodging the longstanding idea that its central category is the individual by demonstrating how fiction is altered by its emerging concern with population. By overpopulating narrative space and imagining the human species perpetually in excess of the existing social order, she shows, fiction made it necessary to radically reimagine life in the aggregate.
STUDIES IN EARLY VICTORIAN LIT
Title | STUDIES IN EARLY VICTORIAN LIT PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic 1831-1923 Harrison |
Publisher | Wentworth Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2016-08-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781363798162 |
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