Download or read book The Making of Victorian Drama written by Anthony Jenkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-06-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drama of Edward Bulwer, Tom Robertson, W. S. Gilbert, W. A. Jones, Arthur Pinero, Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw, examined in social and political context. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of theatre history, English literature and social history, and women's studies.
Download or read book Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques written by Kristina Harris and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vintage guide offered turn-of-the-century seamstresses clear instructions for altering patterns and creating shirt-blouses, skirts, wedding gowns, coats, maternity wear, children's clothing, and other apparel.
Download or read book How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain written by Leah Price and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Download or read book Theatre in the Victorian Age written by Michael R. Booth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-07-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of the theatre practice and dramatic literature of the Victorian period.
Download or read book Victorian Literature written by David Amigoni and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How were the genres of literature changed by new methods of serialization and publishing? How did a widespread culture of performance emerge in the period to shape as well as to be shaped by the novel and poetry? David Amigoni draws on the most recent critical approaches to the novel, Victorian melodrama and poetry to answer these and other questions. The work of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Carlyle and Mathew Arnold are explored in relation to ideas about fiction, journalism, drama, poetry, the New Woman, gothic, horror and the Victorian stage.
Download or read book Early Victorian Drama 1830 1870 written by Ernest Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English Stage written by Augustin Filon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The English Stage: Being an Account of the Victorian Drama" by Augustin Filon, translated by Frederic Whyte, provides an insightful exploration of the Victorian theater scene. Filon offers a comprehensive account of the dramatic arts during the Victorian era, tracing the evolution of theater, influential playwrights, prominent actors, and notable productions. With meticulous research and engaging anecdotes, the book sheds light on the cultural, social, and artistic aspects of Victorian theater. Whyte's translation preserves the essence of Filon's work, making "The English Stage" an informative and enjoyable read for theater enthusiasts and anyone interested in the rich history of the performing arts.
Download or read book Victorian Literature and Culture written by Maureen Moran and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Victorian literature and its context from 1837-1900 includes historical, cultural, political, and intellectual background.
Download or read book Early Victorian Drama 1830 1870 written by Ernest Randolph Reynolds and published by New York : B. Blom. This book was released on 1965 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Victorian Literature written by James Eli Adams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, with fresh consideration of both major figures and some of the era's less familiar authors. Part of the Blackwell Histories of Literature series, the book describes the development of the Victorian literary movement and places it within its cultural, social and political context. A wide-ranging narrative overview of literature in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, capturing the extraordinary variety of literary output produced during this era Analyzes the development of all literary forms during this period - the novel, poetry, drama, autobiography and critical prose - in conjunction with major developments in social and intellectual history Considers the ways in which writers engaged with new forms of social responsibility in their work, as Britain transformed into the world's first industrial economy Offers a fresh perspective on the work of both major figures and some of the era’s less familiar authors Winner of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award, 2009
Download or read book Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty First Century written by Jen Cadwallader and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection offers undergraduate Literature instructors a guide to the pedagogy and teaching of Victorian literature in liberal arts classrooms. With numerous essays focused on thematic course design, this volume reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the literature classroom. A section on genre provides suggestions on approaching individual works and discussing their influence on production of texts. Sections on digital humanities and “out of the classroom” approaches to Victorian literature reflect current practices and developing trends. The concluding section offers three different versions of an “ideal” course, each of which shows how thematic, disciplinary, genre, and technological strands may be woven together in meaningful ways. Professors of introductory literature courses aimed at non-English majors to advanced seminars for majors will find accessible and innovative course ideas supplemented with a variety of versatile teaching materials, including syllabi, assignments, and in-class activities.
Download or read book The Silent Revolution and the Making of Victorian England written by Herbert Schlossberg and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schlossberg (senior research associate, the Ethics and Public Policy Center) argues that by the time Victoria became queen in 1837, Victorian culture was already in place. Focusing on the period between the 1790s and the 1840s, he shows how the religious revival that took hold of England's culture constituted a "silent revolution" that formed the basis of Victorian culture. He describes various manifestations of the religious revival, focusing on the main renewal movements in the Church of England and the spread of evangelicalism to dissenting religious groups. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Ibsen Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama written by Narve Fulsås and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the processes by which Ibsen's drama, while firmly rooted in his Scandinavian origins, was appropriated by other European traditions.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre written by Kerry Powell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.
Download or read book Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction written by Kevin A. Morrison and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres they helped to establish or refine. Entries introduce readers to long-overlooked authors who were widely read in their time, with suggestions for further reading and emerging resources for the study of popular fiction.
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Victorian Theatre written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 1622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissuing works originally published between 1971 and 1981, this compact set offers an outstanding collection of scholarship devoted to 19th Century, Victorian, theatre. A small set of performance history and criticism, this set includes a biography of Henry Irving, a look at the rise of the status of a career as actor, and a consideration of the advent of dramatic criticism. These volumes present together a lively picture of the development of the contemporary theatre.
Download or read book Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals written by Kathryn Prince and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive archival research, Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals offers an entirely new perspective on popular Shakespeare reception by focusing on articles published in Victorian periodicals. Shakespeare had already reached the apex of British culture in the previous century, becoming the national poet of the middle and upper classes, but during the Victorian era he was embraced by more marginal groups. If Shakespeare was sometimes employed as an instrument of enculturation, imposed on these groups, he was also used by them to resist this cultural hegemony.
