The Nineteenth-Century English Novel

The Nineteenth-Century English Novel
Title The Nineteenth-Century English Novel PDF eBook
Author J. Kilroy
Publisher Springer
Pages 230
Release 2007-04-02
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0230604358

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Through analysis of eight English novels of the Nineteenth century, this work explores the ways in which the novel contributes to the formation of ideology regarding the family, and, conversely, the ways in which changing attitudes toward the family shape and reshape the novel.

A Reader's Guide to the Nineteenth-century English Novel

A Reader's Guide to the Nineteenth-century English Novel
Title A Reader's Guide to the Nineteenth-century English Novel PDF eBook
Author Julia Prewitt Brown
Publisher MacMillan Publishing Company
Pages 168
Release 1986
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN

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Paratexts

Paratexts
Title Paratexts PDF eBook
Author Gerard Genette
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 460
Release 1997-03-13
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521424066

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Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's private and public history. In this first English translation of Paratexts, Gérard Genette shows how the special pragmatic status of paratextual declaration requires a carefully calibrated analysis of their illocutionary force. With clarity, precision and an extraordinary range of reference, Paratexts constitutes an encyclopedic survey of the customs and institutions as revealed in the borderlands of the text. Genette presents a global view of these liminal mediations and the logic of their relation to the reading public by studying each element as a literary function. Richard Macksey's foreword describes how the poetics of paratexts interact with more general questions of literature as a cultural institution, and situates Gennet's work in contemporary literary theory.

The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel

The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel
Title The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel PDF eBook
Author Lisa Rodensky
Publisher Oxford University Press (UK)
Pages 829
Release 2013-07-11
Genre History
ISBN 0199533148

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The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essays on topics often overlooked.

The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Title The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel PDF eBook
Author Terence Dawson
Publisher Routledge
Pages 313
Release 2016-03-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317034546

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The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel is an experiment in post-Jungian literary criticism and methodology. Its primary aim is to challenge current views about the correlation between narrative structure, gender, and the governing psychological dilemma in four nineteenth-century British novels. The overarching argument is that the opening situation in a novel represents an implicit challenge facing not the obvious hero/heroine but the individual that Terence Dawson defines as the "effective protagonist." To illustrate his claim, Dawson pairs two sets of novels with unexpectedly comparable dilemmas: Ivanhoe with The Picture of Dorian Gray and Wuthering Heights with Silas Marner. In all four novels, the effective protagonist is an apparently minor figure whose crucial function in the ordering of the events has been overlooked. Rereading these well-known texts in relation to hitherto neglected characters uncovers startling new issues at their heart and demonstrates innovative ways of exploring both narrative and literary tradition.

Telling Complexions

Telling Complexions
Title Telling Complexions PDF eBook
Author Mary Ann O'Farrell
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 196
Release 1997
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780822318958

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In Telling Complexions Mary Ann O'Farrell explores the frequent use of "the blush" in Victorian novels as a sign of characters' inner emotions and desires. Through lively and textured readings of works by such writers as Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, and Henry James, O'Farrell illuminates literature's relation to the body and the body's place in culture. In the process, she plots a trajectory for the nineteenth-century novel's shift from the practices of manners to the mode of self-consciousness. Although the blush was used to tell the truth of character and body, O'Farrell shows how it is actually undermined as a stable indicator of character in novels such as Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, North and South, and David Copperfield. She reveals how these writers then moved on in search of other bodily indicators of mortification and desire, among them the swoon, the scar, and the blunder. Providing unique and creative insights into the constructedness of the body and its semiotic play in literature and in culture, Telling Complexions includes parallel examples of the blush in contemporary culture and describes ways that textualized bodies are sometimes imagined to resist the constraints imposed by such construction.

The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature

The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature
Title The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature PDF eBook
Author Stefanie Markovits
Publisher Ohio State University Press
Pages 268
Release 2006
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0814210406

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"We think of the nineteenth century as an active age - the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, and railroads, of great exploration and the Great Exhibition. But in reading the works of Romantic and Victorian writers one notices a conflict, what Stefanie Markovits terms "a crisis of action." In her book, The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Markovits maps out this conflict by focusing on four writers: William Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Eliot, and Henry James. Each chapter offers a "case-study" that demonstrates how specific historical contingencies - including reaction to the French Revolution, laissez-faire economic practices, changes in religious and scientific beliefs, and shifts in women's roles - made people in the period hypersensitive to the status of action and its literary co-relative, plot."--BOOK JACKET.