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 The Silver fork School written by Matthew Whiting Rosa and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Silver fork School written by Matthew Whiting Rosa and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Silver fork School written by Matthew Whiting Rosa and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading the Details written by Danielle Barkley and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " "Reading the Details: Realism and the Silver Fork Novel, 1825-1845," argues that the silver fork novel, a popular genre characterized by meticulous depictions of elite lifestyles and their material trappings, utilizes a particular set of narrative practices in order to foreground detailed description. These novels display an orientation towards openness and inclusivity, an emphasis on deliberate self-fashioning, and a reversal of subject-object hierarchies. The poetics of the silver fork thus challenge many of the normative narrative features established by realist fiction. In lieu of conventional realist values such as coherent plotting, character interiority, and affective engagement, silver forks offer an emphasis on details, surfaces, and the external world of materiality and consumption. The first chapter examines how the silver fork novel prioritizes inclusiveness in order to encompass as much detail as possible. In their fluid approaches to plot and genre, these texts depart from a traditional emphasis on closure and coherence. Benjamin Disraeli's Vivian Grey (1826-27), Edward Bulwer Lytton's Godolphin (1831), and Letitia Landon's Romance and Reality (1833) all feature meandering, at times wildly improbable plots, which terminate abruptly, with either the certain or probable death of main characters. A novel's generic status is likewise flexible: tropes from other schools of fiction, such as the gothic, can be readily inserted and equally readily discarded. In this chapter I complicate the tendency to read these traits as indications of structural carelessness, and posit that they allow the silver fork text to present the dense texture of detail that functions as the genre's key aim. The second chapter investigates another narrative property that is likewise perceived as a mark of failure when read through realist expectations: an emphasis on artifice and self-conscious construction. These tropes shape the silver fork delineation of character and lead to practices of metanarration and revision in which the text is crafted in response to dictates of fashion and taste. In works such as Edward Bulwer Lytton's Pelham (1828), Catherine Gore's Cecil (1841) and Benjamin Disraeli's The Young Duke (1831), silver forks emphasize externals rather than prioritizing the representation of believable, psychologically complex characters. By showing how both protagonists and narratives engage in deliberate and prescriptive strategies of self-presentation I continue the work of analyzing how the narrative structures of silver fork novels optimize the representation of detail.In the final chapter, I explore how the representation of objects intervenes in silver fork depictions of relationships and affect, subverting the typical hierarchy between subjects and objects. To establish this pattern, the chapter focuses on two particularly "domesticated" examples of the silver fork tradition, Catherine Gore's Mothers and Daughters (1834) and the Countess of Blessington's Victims of Society (1837). Both of these novels deal extensively with relationships, subjective choices, and the production and governance of desire as they follow their casts of characters through courtships, betrayals, and both happy and unhappy marriages. They thus participate in reframing priorities concerning the representation of relationships and broadening the kinds of desire which silver fork novels depict beyond the expectations of the realist tradition. Having shown how plot functions to accumulate detail, and characterization functions to refine it, the final chapter reveals how that detail can then serve to reshape narrative priorities." --
Download or read book The Silver fork School Novels of Fashion Preceding Vanity Fair a Dissertation by Matthew Whitting Rosa written by Matthew Whiting Rosa and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silver Fork Novels 1826 1841 written by Andrea Hibbard and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edward Bulwer Lytton written by James L. Campbell and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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: This first modern study of silver-fork novels investigates their role in the alliance of middle class and aristocratic political principles.
Download or read book The Agency of Objects in English Prose 1789 1832 written by Nikolina Hatton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789–1832: Conspicuous Things engages with new materialist methodologies to examine shifting perceptions of nonhuman agency in English prose at the turn of the nineteenth century. Examining texts as diverse as it-narratives, the juvenile writings and novels of Jane Austen, De Quincey’s autobiographical writings, and silver fork novels, Nikolina Hatton demonstrates how object agency is viewed in this period as constitutive—not just in regard to human subjectivity but also in aesthetic creation. Objects appear in these novels and short prose works as aids, intermediaries, adversaries, and obstructions, as well as both intimately connected to humans and strangely alien. Through close readings, the book traces how object agency, while sometimes perceived as a threat by authors and characters, also continues to be understood as a source of the delightfully unexpected—in everyday life as well as in narrative.
Download or read book Victorian Poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silver Fork Novels 1826 1841 Vol 4 written by Harriet Devine Jump and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 342 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 The Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Time educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.
Download or read book Fashionable Form written by Josephine Richstad and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashionable novels of the 1820s and 1830s pretended to offer an insider's view of England's fashionable exclusives. Looking at works by novelists including Catherine Gore, William Thackeray, Lady Charlotte Bury, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, this dissertation unpacks the paradoxical structures of fashion on which the literary form was built in order to offer a new reading of the genre as articulating the representation of a fictional aristocratic subject position through acts at times of refusal and at others of abjuration or disavowal. At a time that saw the novel as offering middle-class interiority to all, the fashionable novel excluded everyone--including the very aristocrats it idolized--from representation. Four narrative strategies in the categories of authorship, description, plotting, and characterization together underlie the making of a fashionable novel. First, these anonymous novels erect the illusion of a fashionable author through narrative moves that reject professionalism by enacting a structure of valuation in which truth can be assessed only internally rather than through the marketplace. Second, objects in the novels resist incorporation into the narrative project, refusing a relationship of utility between people and things that suggests political power comes through exclusion rather than inclusion. Next, under the shadow of the First Reform Bill, calculated plot refusal becomes the only ethically sustainable option for the aristocrats whose natural exclusivity has been breached, and thus the fashionable novel writes the aristocrat (and itself) out of history. And finally, in these anti-plots, fashionable characters' flatness posits a radically independent subjectivity in which characters who act as narrators explicitly refuse to render up their interiority. They instead posit the existence of an inimitable and unrepresentable self as an alternative to a growing emphasis on the representation, both political and narrative, of a knowable interiority. The formal relations articulated in these four chapters ultimately offer new historical insights: into literary history in relation to copyright, into the increasing commodification of things, into the aristocratic view of the First Reform Bill, and into the economic individualism so often identified as a hallmark of the novel.
Download or read book Jane Austen and the Victorian Heroine written by Cheryl A. Wilson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the figure of the Victorian heroine as a lens through which to examine Jane Austen’s presence in Victorian critical and popular writings. Aimed at Victorianist readers and scholars, the book focuses on the ways in which Austen was constructed in fiction, criticism, and biography over the course of the nineteenth century. For the Victorians, Austen became a kind of cultural shorthand, representing a distant, yet not too-distant, historical past that the Victorians both drew on and defined themselves against with regard to such topics as gender, literature, and national identity. Austen influenced the development of the Victorian literary heroine, and when cast as a heroine herself, was deployed in debates about the responsibilities of the novelist and the ability of fiction to shape social and cultural norms. Thus, the study is as much, if not more, about the Victorians than it is about Jane Austen.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen written by Cheryl A. Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published anonymously, as ‘a lady’, Jane Austen is now among the world’s most famous and highly revered authors. The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen’s works, reception, and legacy, with chapters that draw on the latest literary research and theory and represent foundational and authoritative scholarship as well as new approaches to an author whose works provide seemingly endless inspiration for reinterpretation, adaptation, and appropriation. The Companion provides up-to-date work by an international team of established and emerging Austen scholars and includes exciting chapters not just on Austen in her time but on her ongoing afterlife, whether in the academy and the wider world of her fans or in cinema, new media, and the commercial world. Parts within the volume explore Jane Austen in her time and within the literary canon; the literary critical and theoretical study of her novels, unpublished writing, and her correspondence; and the afterlife of her work as exemplified in film, digital humanities, and new media. In addition, the Companion devotes special attention to teaching Jane Austen.
Download or read book Vivian Grey written by Benjamin Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
