Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
Title | Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Bozant Witcher |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2022-03-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1009075500 |
Bringing the collaborative process to life through an array of examples, Heather Witcher shows that sympathetic co-creation is far more than the mere act of writing together. While foregrounding the material aspects of collaboration – hands uniting on the page, blank space left for fellow contributors, the writing and exchanging of drafts – this study also illuminates its social aspects and its reliance on Victorian liberalism: dialogue, the circulation of correspondence, the lived experience of collaboration, and, on a less material plane, transhistorical collaborations with figures of the past. Witcher takes a broad approach to these partnerships and, in doing so, challenges traditional expectations surrounding the nature of authorship itself, not least its typical classification as a solitary activity. Within this new framework, collaboration enables the titles of 'coauthor,' 'influencer,' 'editor,' 'critic,' and 'inspiration' to coexist. This book celebrates the plurality of collaboration and underscores the truly social nature of nineteenth-century writing.
Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
Title | Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Bozant Witcher |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2022-03-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316513491 |
Examining social and material dimensions of collaboration, this book reveals the diverse networks of nineteenth-century literary exchange.
Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth Century Literature and Science
Title | Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth Century Literature and Science PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Rowlinson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2024-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1009409956 |
Centring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.
Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Title | Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren Gillingham |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2023-05-31 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 1009296566 |
Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.
Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel
Title | Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron Rosenberg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2023-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1009271822 |
At the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extraction, and technological complexity accelerated daily life, growing concerns about deep time, evolution, globalization, and extinction destabilised scale's value as a measure of reality. Here, Aaron Rosenberg examines how four novelists moved radically beyond novelistic realism, repurposing the genres-romance, melodrama, gothic, and epic-it had ostensibly superseded. He demonstrates how H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf engaged with climatic and ecological crises that persist today, requiring us to navigate multiple temporal and spatial scales simultaneously. The volume shows that problems of scale constrain our responses to crisis by shaping the linguistic, aesthetic, and narrative structures through which we imagine it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Birdsong, Speech and Poetry
Title | Birdsong, Speech and Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Francesca Mackenney |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2022-09-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1009084089 |
In the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. Tracing the 'science of birdsong' as it developed from the 'ingenious' experiments of Daines Barrington to the evolutionary arguments of Charles Darwin, Francesca Mackenney reveals a legacy of thought which informs, and consequently affords fresh insights into, a canonical group of poems about birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods. With a particular focus on the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Wordsworth siblings, John Clare and Thomas Hardy, her book explores how poets responded to an analogy which challenged definitions of language and therefore of what it means to be human. Drawing together responses to birdsong in science, music and poetry, her distinctive interdisciplinary approach challenges many of the long-standing cultural assumptions which have shaped (and continue to shape) how we respond to other creatures in the Anthropocene.
Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence
Title | Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Green |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2023-03-31 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1108831516 |
Sarah Green shows how late Victorian Decadent literature paradoxically treats sexual restraint as healthy and aesthetically productive.