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Book Victorian Biography Reconsidered

Download or read book Victorian Biography Reconsidered written by Juliette Atkinson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939, Virginia Woolf called for a more inclusive form of biography, which would include 'the failures as well as the successes, the humble as well as the illustrious'. She did so in part as a reaction against Victorian biography, deemed to have been overly preoccupied with 'Great Men'. Yet a significant number of Victorians had already broken ranks to write the lives of humble, unsuccessful, or neglected men and women. Victorian Biography Reconsidered seeks to uncover and assess this trend. The book begins with an overview of Victorian biography followed by a reflection on how the bagginess of nineteenth-century hero-worship enabled new subjects to emerge. Biographies of 'hidden' lives are then scrutinized through chapters on the lives of humble naturalists, failed destinies, minor women writers, neglected Romantic poets rescued by Victorian biographers, and, finally, the Dictionary of National Biography. In its conclusion, the book briefly discusses how Virginia Woolf absorbed earlier biographical trends before redirecting the representation of 'hidden' lives. Victorian Biography Reconsidered argues that, often paradoxically, nineteenth-century biographers regarded the public sphere with intense wariness. At a time of instability for men of letters, biographers embraced the role of mediators in a manner that asserted their own cultural authority. Frequently, they showed little interest in vouchsafing immortality for their unknown or forgotten subjects, but strove instead to provoke amongst their readers a feeling of gratitude for the hidden labour that sustained the nation and an appreciation for the writers who had brought it to their attention.

Book List of the First Thousand Works Acquired by the Keats Shelley Memorial  Rome

Download or read book List of the First Thousand Works Acquired by the Keats Shelley Memorial Rome written by Keats-Shelley Memorial, Rome and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Country Gentlemen s Catalogue of Requisites for the House  Field  Farm  Garden  Stable  Kennel   c   to which is Added a Note Book  Prize Record and Directory  Specially Compiled for the Use of Country Gentlemen

Download or read book The Country Gentlemen s Catalogue of Requisites for the House Field Farm Garden Stable Kennel c to which is Added a Note Book Prize Record and Directory Specially Compiled for the Use of Country Gentlemen written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athenaeum

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters of Wilkie Collins  Volume 1

Download or read book The Letters of Wilkie Collins Volume 1 written by William Baker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilkie Collins is the only leading Victorian novelist whose letters have not been published. This two-volume edition will thus fill a gaping hole in any assessment of one of the nineteenth century's most loved novelists. It is also extremely timely. Two recent biographies have re-assessed his private life and his literary achievements. His best known novels, The Woman in White and The Moonstone, continue to feature on television, and most of his thirty-odd novels are in print. This authorized edition covers more than 2,000 of Collins' letters.

Book British Buckeyes

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  • Author : William E. Van Vugt
  • Publisher : Kent State University Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780873388436
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book British Buckeyes written by William E. Van Vugt and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How early British immigrants shaped Ohio? Because of their so similar linguistic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, the English, Scottish, and Welsh immigrants are often regarded as the invisible immigrants assimilating into early American society easily and quickly and often losing their ethnic identities. Yet, of all of Ohio's immigrants the British were the most influential in terms of shaping the state's politics and institutions. Also significant were their contributions of farming, mining, iron production, textiles, pottery, and engineering. Until British Buckeyes, historians have all but ignored and neglected these Industrious settlers. Author William E Van Vugt uses hundreds of biographies from county archives and histories, letters, Ohio and British census figures, and ship passenger lists to identify these immigrants; and draw a portrait of their occupations, settlement patterns, experiences and to underscore their role in Ohio history.

Book The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford  1836 1854  1836 1842 Letters 1 164

Download or read book The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford 1836 1854 1836 1842 Letters 1 164 written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athen  um

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  • Release : 1840
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 532 pages

Download or read book The Athen um written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notes and Queries

Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Academy

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  • Release : 1875
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 896 pages

Download or read book The Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Academy  with which are Incorporated Literature and the English Review

Download or read book Academy with which are Incorporated Literature and the English Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford  1836 1854  1842  continued  1844 Letters 165 362

Download or read book The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford 1836 1854 1842 continued 1844 Letters 165 362 written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century  Anecdotes

Download or read book Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century Anecdotes written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spectator

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  • Release : 1846
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1362 pages

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Book The Academy and Literature

Download or read book The Academy and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Academy and Literature

Download or read book Academy and Literature written by Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: