Download or read book Women Literature and the Domesticated Landscape written by Judith W. Page and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary study of the 'domesticated' or home landscape as it shapes women's lives and their ways of writing.
Download or read book Women Literature and the Arts of the Countryside in Early Twentieth Century England written by Judith W. Page and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the centrality of the countryside to women's work, creativity, and aspirations in early-twentieth-century England.
Download or read book Women Poets in the Victorian Era written by Fabienne Moine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the place of nature in Victorian women's poetry, Fabienne Moine explores the work of canonical and long-neglected women poets to show the myriad connections between women and nature during the period. At the same time, she challenges essentialist discourses that assume innate affinities between women and the natural world. Rather, Moine shows, Victorian women poets mobilised these alliances to defend common interests and express their engagement with social issues. While well-known poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti are well-represented in Moine's study, she pays particular attention to lesser known writers such as Mary Howitt or Eliza Cook who were popular during their lifetimes or Edith Nesbit, whose verse has received scant critical attention so far. She also brings to the fore the poetry of many non-professional poets. Looking to their immediate cultural environments for inspiration, these women reconstructed the natural world in poems that raise questions about the validity and the scope of representations of nature, ultimately questioning or undermining social practices that mould and often fossilise cultural identities.
Download or read book Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth Century British Novel written by Lauren Gillingham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.
Download or read book Autobiography Sensation and the Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative written by Sean Grass and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the commodification of autobiography 1820-1860 in relation to shifting fictional representations of identity.
Download or read book Conversing in Verse written by Elizabeth Helsinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversing in Verse considers when and why poets turn to conversation to explore and expand the potential of poetry.
Download or read book The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination written by Aviva Briefel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study that explores the power of the racially identified hand as a narrative symbol in Victorian literature and culture.
Download or read book English Fiction and the Evolution of Language 1850 1914 written by Will Abberley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, from primordial noise to modern English.
Download or read book The Divine in the Commonplace written by Amy M. King and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how natural theology features in both early Victorian natural histories and English provincial realist novels of the same period.
Download or read book The Art of the Reprint written by Rosalind Parry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich history of the nineteenth-century novel as it was re-imagined for everyday readers by extraordinary twentieth-century illustrators.
Download or read book An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction written by Gregory Vargo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the journalism and fiction appearing in the early Victorian working-class periodical press and its influence on mainstream literature.
Download or read book Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages written by Eavan O'Dochartaigh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-nineteenth century, thirty-six expeditions set out for the Northwest Passage in search of Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. The array of visual and textual material produced on these voyages was to have a profound impact on the idea of the Arctic in the Victorian imaginary. Eavan O'Dochartaigh closely examines neglected archival sources to show how pictures created in the Arctic fed into a metropolitan view transmitted through engravings, lithographs, and panoramas. Although the metropolitan Arctic revolved around a fulcrum of heroism, terror and the sublime, the visual culture of the ship reveals a more complicated narrative that included cross-dressing, theatricals, dressmaking, and dances with local communities. O'Dochartaigh's investigation into the nature of the on-board visual culture of the nineteenth-century Arctic presents a compelling challenge to the 'man-versus-nature' trope that still reverberates in polar imaginaries today. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Download or read book Romanticism Judaica written by Sheila A. Spector and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve essays in Romanticism/Judaica explore the four major cultural strands that have converged from the French Revolution to the present. The first section, Nationalism and Diasporeanism, contains essays on the diasporean mentality of the Romantics, Byron's attitude towards nationalism, and Polish immigrant Hyman Hurwitz's attempt to gain acceptance among the British by having Coleridge translate his Hebrew elegy for Princess Charlotte. Essays of the second section, Religion and Anti-Semitism, deal with the complexities of Jewish/Christian relations in the Romantic Period. Specifically, they discuss philosopher Solomon Maimon's lack of response to Kant's anti-Semitism, novelist Maria Polack's use of Christian subject matter to combat anti-Semitism, and short-story writer Grace Aguilar's incorporation of the British Bible-centered Evangelical culture, along with various strands of British Romanticism. In the third section, Individualism and Assimilationism, essays consider different ways the Jews were assimilated into the dominant culture, specifically through the theater, sports and and post-Enlightenment philosophy. Finally, the volume concludes with Criticism and Reflection: a revaluation of earlier scholarship on Anglo-Jewish literature; the establishment of Harold Fisch's covenantal hermeneutics as a model for reading Keats; and an analysis of Lionel Trilling, M. H. Abrams, Harold Bloom and Geoffrey Hartman in terms of their Jewish origins, suggesting the further implications for Romanticism as a field.
Download or read book Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture written by Will Abberley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the web of mutual influences between nineteenth-century scientific and cultural discourses of appearance, Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture argues that Victorian science and culture biologized appearance, reimagining imitation, concealment and self-presentation as evolutionary adaptations. Exploring how studies of animal crypsis and visibility drew on artistic theory and techniques to reconceptualise nature as a realm of signs and interpretation, Abberley shows that in turn, this science complicated religious views of nature as a text of divine meanings, inspiring literary authors to rethink human appearances and perceptions through a Darwinian lens. Providing fresh insights into writers from Alfred Russel Wallace and Thomas Hardy to Oscar Wilde and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Abberley reveals how the biology of appearance generated new understandings of deception, identity and creativity; reacted upon narrative forms such as crime fiction and the pastoral; and infused the rhetoric of cultural criticism and political activism.
Download or read book Disciples of Flora written by Victoria Emma Pagán and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Disciples of Flora’ explores, through a variety of approaches, disciplines, and historical periods, the place and vitality of gardens as cultural objects, repositories of meaning, and sites for the construction of identity and subjectivity; gardens being an eminent locus where culture and nature meet. This collection of essays contributes to a revision of histories of gardens by broadening the scope of scholarly inquiry to include a long history from ancient Rome to the present, in which contesting memories delineate new apprehensions of topography and space. The contributors draw attention to alternative landscapes or gardening practices, while recalling the ways in which spaces have been invested with an affective dimension that has itself been historicized.
Download or read book The Art of Uncertainty written by Daniel Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Williams shows how, in a profoundly numerical age, Victorian novels imagined thought and action in the face of uncertainty.
Download or read book Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel written by Adam Abraham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Views the Victorian novel through the prism of literary imitations that it inspired.
