Download or read book Silver Fork Society written by Alison Adburgham and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the years when George IV ruled the United Kingdom, first as Prince Regent then as King, his extravagant tastes served to characterize the times - the Regency period being identified strongly with new trends in British architecture, fashion and culture. The literary expression of this era was the genre of so-called 'silver fork' novels set in fashionable London society. Initially devoured as authentic insights into the rarefied world of the best social circles, these novels were thus serving as etiquette primers for growing numbers of nouveaux riches. The detail and décor of the novels gives them an enduring socio-historical interest, hence the value of Alison Adburgham's study, first published in 1983, which offers astute readings of such 'silver fork' specialists as Disraeli, Bulwer-Lytton, and Catherine Gore. With an assured eye for the social context of these works, Adburgham explores the class tensions and complex social interactions behind the high sheen of the silver fork.
Download or read book Silver Fork Society written by Alison Adburgham and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silver Fork Novels 1826 1841 Vol 4 The Victims of Society written by William H. Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, social satire known as the 'silver fork' or 'fashionable' novels, present a vivid picture of late-Regency society clinging to modes of behaviour which would become obsolete a few years into the future and mark an important point of transition to Victorian cultural values. By extending the availability of out-of-print texts the edition will stimulate further criticism and research.
Download or read book Silver Fork Novels 1826 1841 Vol 1 written by Harriet Devine Jump and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels in this collection present a vivid picture of late-Regency society clinging to modes of behaviour which soon became obsolete and mark an important point of transition to Victorian cultural values.
Download or read book Fashioning the Silver Fork Novel written by Cheryl A Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion and celebrity may be twenty-first century obsessions, but they were also key concepts in Regency culture. Both celebrated and condemned for their popularity, silver fork novels were extremely prolific during this period. This study looks at the social and literary impact of this significant genre.
Download or read book Silver Fork Novels 1826 1841 written by Harriet Devine Jump and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 2839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels in this collection present a vivid picture of late-Regency society clinging to modes of behaviour which soon became obsolete and mark an important point of transition to Victorian cultural values.
Download or read book Silver Fork Novels 1826 1841 Vol 5 Cheveley written by William H. Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, social satire known as the 'silver fork' or 'fashionable' novels, present a vivid picture of late-Regency society clinging to modes of behaviour which would become obsolete a few years into the future and mark an important point of transition to Victorian cultural values. By extending the availability of out-of-print texts the edition will stimulate further criticism and research.
Download or read book The Silver Fork Novel written by Edward Copeland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centering on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, attractive as they were to middle-class readers, were condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, crassly commercial, designed for the 'masses' and utterly unworthy of regard. Until recently, silver-fork novels have eluded serious consideration and been overshadowed by authors such as Jane Austen. They were influenced by Austen at their very deepest levels, but were paradoxically drummed out of history by the very canon-makers who were using Austen's name to establish their own legitimacy. This first modern full-length study of the silver-fork novel argues that these novels were in fact tools of persuasion, novels deliberately aimed at bringing the British middle classes into an alliance with an aristocratic program of political reform.
Download or read book Silver Fork Novels 1826 1841 Vol 6 written by Harriet Devine Jump and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels in this collection present a vivid picture of late-Regency society clinging to modes of behaviour which soon became obsolete and mark an important point of transition to Victorian cultural values.
Download or read book Forget Me Not written by Katherine D. Harris and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By November 1822, the British reading public had already voraciously consumed both Walter Scott’s expensive novels and Rudolf Ackermann’s exquisite lithographs. The next decade, referred to by some scholars as dormant and unproductive, is in fact bursting with Forget Me Nots, Friendship’s Offerings, Keepsakes, and Literary Souvenirs. By wrapping literature, poetry, and art into an alluring package, editors and publishers saturated the market with a new, popular, and best-selling genre, the literary annual. In Forget Me Not, Katherine D. Harris assesses the phenomenal rise of the annual and its origins in other English, German, and French literary forms as well as its social influence on women, its redefinition of the feminine, and its effects on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century print culture. Harris adopts an interdisciplinary approach that uses textual and social contexts to explore a forum of subversive femininity, where warfare and the masculine hero were not celebrated. Initially published in diminutive, decoratively bound volumes filled with engravings of popularly recognized artwork and “sentimental” poetry and prose, the annuals attracted a primarily middle-class female readership. The annuals were released each November, making them an ideal Christmas gift, lover’s present, or token of friendship. Selling more than 100,000 copies during each holiday season, the annuals were accused of causing an epidemic and inspiring an “unmasculine and unbawdy age” that lasted through 1860 and lingered in derivative forms until the early twentieth century in both the United States and Europe. The annual thrived in the 1820s and after despite—or perhaps because of—its “feminine” writing and beautiful form.
Download or read book Silver Fork Novels 1826 1841 Vol 4 written by Harriet Devine Jump and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels in this collection present a vivid picture of late-Regency society clinging to modes of behaviour which soon became obsolete and mark an important point of transition to Victorian cultural values.
Download or read book Silver Fork Novels 1826 1841 written by Cynthia Lawford and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silver Fork Novels 1826 1841 Vol 5 written by Harriet Devine Jump and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels in this collection present a vivid picture of late-Regency society clinging to modes of behaviour which soon became obsolete and mark an important point of transition to Victorian cultural values.
Download or read book Women s Court and Society Memoirs Part I Vol 1 written by Amy Culley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These exhuberant stories of intrigue and scandal paint a vivid and colourful picture of society life.
Download or read book Glamour written by Stephen Gundle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of glamour examines the phenemenon from its appearance in Paris in the final decades of the eighteenth century through today, discussing the nature of the magical allure, where it comes from, and what exactly is its magical elements.
Download or read book Silver Fork Novels 1826 1841 Vol 6 written by Harriet Devine Jump and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels in this collection present a vivid picture of late-Regency society clinging to modes of behaviour which soon became obsolete and mark an important point of transition to Victorian cultural values.
Download or read book Silver Fork Novels 1826 1841 Vol 2 written by Harriet Devine Jump and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels in this collection present a vivid picture of late-Regency society clinging to modes of behaviour which soon became obsolete and mark an important point of transition to Victorian cultural values.
