The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities
Title | The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Walder |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2013-05-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1136750053 |
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores the place of fiction in constructing gender identity within society at large, considering Madame Bovary, Portrait of a Lady and The Woman in White. The book continues with a consideration of the novel at the fin de siecle, examining Dracula, The Awakening and Heart of Darkness. These fascinating essays illuminate the ways in which the conventions of realism were disrupted as much by anxieties surrounding colonialism, decadence, degeneration and the 'New Woman' as by those new ideas about human psychology which heralded the advent of psychoanalysis. The concepts which are crucial to the understanding of the literature and society of the nineteenth century are brilliantly explained and discussed in this essential volume.
The Nineteenth-century Novel
Title | The Nineteenth-century Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Walder |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0415238277 |
The essays in this collection show how the conventions of realism were transformed by new ideas about gender and race.
The American Bourgeoisie
Title | The American Bourgeoisie PDF eBook |
Author | J. Rosenbaum |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 663 |
Release | 2010-12-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 023011556X |
This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a sense of shared identity and a sense of difference.
The Nineteenth-century Novel
Title | The Nineteenth-century Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Regan |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 594 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780415238281 |
Provides a valuable selection of nineteenth- century essays on the art of fiction. These contemporary essays are strategically placed alongside a selection of modern critical responses to twelve familiar nineteenth-century novels.
Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London
Title | Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London PDF eBook |
Author | Robertson Lisa C. Robertson |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2020-06-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474457908 |
Explores radical designs for the home in the nineteenth-century metropolis and the texts that shaped themUncovers a series of innovative housing designs that emerged in response to London's rapid growth and expansion throughout the nineteenth century Brings together the writing of prominent authors such as Charles Dickens and George Gissing with understudied novels and essays to examine the lively literary engagement with new models of urban housing Focuses on the ways that these new homes provided material and creative space for thinking through the relationship between home and identity Identifies ways in which we might learn from the creative responses to the nineteenth-century housing crisis This book brings together a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social and economic changes in nineteenth-century London, and the literature that gave expression to their novelty. It examines visual and literary representations to explain how these innovations in housing forged opportunities for refashioning definitions of home and identity. Robertson offers readers a new blueprint for understanding the ways in which novels imaginatively and materially produce the city's built environment.
Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature
Title | Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Tankard |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2018-02-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3319714465 |
Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering – while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unlovely death in the workhouse. Focusing on the period 1821-1912, in which modern ideas about disease, disability, and eugenics emerged to challenge Romanticism and sentimentality, Invalid Lives examines representations of nineteenth-century consumptives as disabled people. Letters, self-help books, eugenic propaganda, and press interviews with consumptive artists suggest that people with tuberculosis were disabled as much by oppressive social structures and cultural stereotypes as by the illness itself. Invalid Lives asks whether disruptive consumptive characters in Wuthering Heights, Jude the Obscure, The Idiot, and Beatrice Harraden’s 1893 New Woman novel Ships That Pass in the Night represented critical, politicised models of disabled identity (and disabled masculinity) decades before the modern disability movement.
Madness and the Loss of Identity in Nineteenth Century Fiction
Title | Madness and the Loss of Identity in Nineteenth Century Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Cornes |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2007-09-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0786432241 |
An obsession with individual identity pervaded Western thinking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This critical study examines the concept of identity in the works of nineteenth century American and British authors, focusing especially on psychologically mad, vague, shifting and dualistic characterization. Authors examined include Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Chesnutt, Lillie Devereux Blake, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The text discusses how each author was influenced by contemporary events (such as the American Civil War, slavery, the Second Great Awakening, and the beginnings of modern psychology), how those experiences shaped contemporary intellectual thought regarding identity, and how the resulting concern with personal identity was manifested in literary characters who were either in search of or running from themselves.