Download or read book Marian Withers written by Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Marian Withers written by Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Marian Withers written by Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction written by Rosemarie Bodenheimer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most telling expression of the politics of a novel, Rosemarie Bodenheimer asserts, lies not in its proclaimed social intent, its continuity with nonfictional discourse, or its truth to class experience, but in the models of social movement and transformation traced out in the thread of its narrative. The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction explores the story patterns and other narrative conventions through which the industrial or social-problem novel gives fictional shape to questions that were experienced as new, unpredictable, and troubling in the Victorian age. Bodenheimer considers novels explicitly linked with the condition of England debates that preoccupied public-minded Victorians, narratives that confront such topics as the factory system, industrial and rural poverty, working-class politics, and the plight of women. Grouping well-known novels with less frequently read works according to shared narrative patterns, Bodenheimer delineates lines of influence, argument, and development within the subgenre of social fiction. Among the works she discusses are Charlotte Bronte's Shirley, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, two novels by Frances Trollope, Geraldine Jewsbury's Marian Withers, George Eliot's Felix Holt the Radical, Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, and Benjamin Disraeli's Sybil.
Download or read book Protest and Reform written by Joseph Kestner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social novel in nineteenth-century Britain has been considered the effort of a predominantly male canon of writers. In this ground-breaking study, originally published in 1985, Joseph Kestner challenges that assumption, arguing that it was a succession of female writers – women often meriting only a footnote in literary history – who initiated and advanced the tradition of using narrative fiction to register protest, expose abuses, and promote reform. Kestner explores the contributions to Victorian social policy by the fiction of these neglected authors (Hannah More, Elizabeth Stone, Frances Trollope, Charlotte Tonna, Camilla Toulmin, Geraldine Jewsbury, Fanny Mayne, Julia Kavanagh, Dinah Mulock Craik) as well as more prominent female authors (Maria Edgeworth, Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot) and male writers (Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, G. M. W. Reynolds, John Galt, Charles Kingsley). This is an important work for every scholar, student, and reader of nineteenth-century literature and history, women’s studies, and sociology. Kestner’s book will encourage a reappraisal of women writers and their role in Victorian Britain and advance a long-needed reassessment of the traditional canon of nineteenth-century literature. In rediscovering the literary and social contribution of these undervalued writers, Kestner provides a chronological assessment of the female social narrative. Tracing the form from its inception in the late eighteenth century to its evolution in the 1830s and 1840s and to its maturation in the 1850s and 1860s, he reveals the continuity of a developing literary tradition that included early writers like More and later practitioners like Tonna, Stone, Jewsbury, and Mayne. In the process Kestner establishes a new basis for assessing major writers such as Eliot and Gaskell. In consciously using fiction for social protest purposes, these novelists were responding to a society marked by transition. Their common emphasis was on the plight of the disenfranchised in a new era and the need for manifold reforms in such areas as housing, labor legislation, education, childcare, access to employment, sanitation, and marital law. Reform was necessary as England evolved from an agricultural to an industrial economic system. Kestner uses evidence such as Parliamentary investigations and early social reporting by James Kay, William Cooke Taylor, Peter Gaskell, and others to assess the validity of the protests of these novelists. Their impassioned novels supplemented the legislative findings of male-dominated Parliamentary committees and reached an audience, often specifically addressed as female, that government documents could not. Galvanizing readers through their narratives, the socially conscious female writers gained new political influence that contributed to legislative process. These writers also won artistic ground, commanding a serious literary attention and respect never before accorded women writers. It is that serious literary status, Kestner argues, unjustly neglected for so long, that must be reclaimed today as we rethink and revise our view of Victorian fiction.
Download or read book Marian Withers written by Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ... home to your own environments, amongst which I am a stranger. You will feel differently towards me there, and perhaps regret the kindness you have shown to me." "Albert, you are a child! do not let me believe you in earnest; have you not asked me to be your friend?--have I aot called you my friend?--and would you wish me to believe that a friend is such a transient blessing--such a perishable treasure? I have heard it always said that friendship is better than gold; but you seem to think it is even less to be relied upon." "No, no; but how can you help feeling yourself superior to me, and seeing me as I am? it is that which I dread." "I am not a child, nor even a very young person. What I value to-day I shall value to-morrow. I shall never change towards you from caprice; if you were to prove yourself unworthy of the friendship I have given you, it would be the greatest grief that could happen to me." "I would rather have your friendship than the passionate love of all the rest of your sex," said Albert fervently; "you have opened a new life to me. I shall worship you in absence even more than when you are present! You are my religion! But why are you leaving me?--it is not yet time for you to depart." "I must find Mrs. Arl, to tell her of this change of plans. I do not intend to invite her for to-morrow; but at least I must wish her good-bye." "And me too," said Albert; "promise me five minutes more before you go." "You must find them then. I shall order the carriage to be round at twelve: it is now eleven--we are the last at the table.." Mrs. Arl was perfectly indifferent whether Lady Wollaston went or stayed--perhaps on the whole it was quite as convenient she should go; but she expressed the most polite regret, and when she heard of...
Download or read book The Lives of Machines written by Tamara S. Ketabgian and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Lives of Machines is intelligent, closely argued, and persuasive, and puts forth a contention that will unsettle the current consensus about Victorian attitudes toward the machine." ---Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University Today we commonly describe ourselves as machines that "let off steam" or feel "under pressure." The Lives of Machines investigates how Victorian technoculture came to shape this language of human emotion so pervasively and irrevocably and argues that nothing is more intensely human and affecting than the nonhuman. Tamara Ketabgian explores the emergence of a modern and more mechanical view of human nature in Victorian literature and culture. Treating British literature from the 1830s to the 1870s, this study examines forms of feeling and community that combine the vital and the mechanical, the human and the nonhuman, in surprisingly hybrid and productive alliances. Challenging accounts of industrial alienation that still persist, the author defines mechanical character and feeling not as erasures or negations of self, but as robust and nuanced entities in their own right. The Lives of Machines thus offers an alternate cultural history that traces sympathies between humans, animals, and machines in novels and nonfiction about factory work as well as in other unexpected literary sites and genres, whether domestic, scientific, musical, or philosophical. Ketabgian historicizes a model of affect and community that continues to inform recent theories of technology, psychology, and the posthuman. The Lives of Machines will be of interest to students of British literature and history, history of science and of technology, novel studies, psychoanalysis, and postmodern cultural studies. Cover image: "Power Loom Factory of Thomas Robinson," from Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures (London: Charles Knight, 1835), frontispiece. DIGITALCULTUREBOOKS: a collaborative imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the University of Michigan Library
Download or read book Women Writing and the Industrial Revolution written by Susan Zlotnick and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-02-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrialization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries inspired deep fears and divisions throughout England. The era's emergent factory system disrupted traditional patterns and familiar ways of life. Male laborers feared the loss of meaningful work and status within their communities and families. Condemning these transformations, Britain's male writers looked longingly to an idealized past. Its women writers, however, were not so pessimistic about the future. As Susan Zlotnick argues in Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution, women writers foresaw in the industrial revolution the prospect of real improvements. Zlotnick also examines the poetry and fiction produced by working-class men and women. She includes texts written by the Chartists, the largest laboring-class movement in the early nineteenth century, as well as those of the dialect tradition, the popular, commercial literature of the industrial working class after mid-century.
Download or read book C cile Or The Pervert written by Sir Charles Rockingham (pseud. [i.e. Philippe Ferdinand Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, Count de Jarnac.]) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Travels in European Turkey in 1850 through Bosnia Servia Bulgaria Macedonia etc and a homeward tour through Hungary and the Slavonian provinces of Austria on the Lower Danube written by Edmund SPENCER (Captain.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book C cile or The pervert by sir Charles Rockingham written by Philippe Ferdinand A. de Rohan-Chabot (comte de Jarnac.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
