The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature
The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature

Author: Stefanie Markovits

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0814210406

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"We think of the nineteenth century as an active age - the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, and railroads, of great exploration and the Great Exhibition. But in reading the works of Romantic and Victorian writers one notices a conflict, what Stefanie Markovits terms "a crisis of action." In her book, The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Markovits maps out this conflict by focusing on four writers: William Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Eliot, and Henry James. Each chapter offers a "case-study" that demonstrates how specific historical contingencies - including reaction to the French Revolution, laissez-faire economic practices, changes in religious and scientific beliefs, and shifts in women's roles - made people in the period hypersensitive to the status of action and its literary co-relative, plot."--BOOK JACKET.

The Nineteenth-Century English Novel
The Nineteenth-Century English Novel

Author: J. Kilroy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-04-02

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0230604358

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Through analysis of eight English novels of the Nineteenth century, this work explores the ways in which the novel contributes to the formation of ideology regarding the family, and, conversely, the ways in which changing attitudes toward the family shape and reshape the novel.

Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Author: K. Boehm

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-02-18

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1137283653

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This book provides fresh perspectives on the object world, embodied experience and materiality in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Contributors explore canonical works by Austen, Brontë, Dickens and James, alongside less-familiar texts and a range of objects including nineteenth-century automata, scrapbooks, museum exhibits and antiques.

Nineteenth-century English
Nineteenth-century English

Author: Richard W. Bailey

Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape.

Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author: Laurence Talairach

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-05-27

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 3030725278

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Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relationship between the zoological and palaeontological specimens brought back from around the world in the long nineteenth century—be they alive, stuffed or fossilised—and the development of children’s literature at this time. Children’s literature emerged as dizzying numbers of new species flooded into Britain with scientific expeditions, from giraffes and hippopotami to kangaroos, wombats, platypuses or sloths. As the book argues, late Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian children’s writers took part in the urge for mass education and presented the world and its curious creatures to children, often borrowing from their museum culture and its objects to map out that world. This original exploration illuminates how children’s literature dealt with the new ordering of the world, offering a unique viewpoint on the construction of science in the long nineteenth century.

The Vampire in Nineteenth Century English Literature
The Vampire in Nineteenth Century English Literature

Author: Carol A. Senf

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2013-02

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0299263835

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Carol A. Senf traces the vampire’s evolution from folklore to twentieth-century popular culture and explains why this creature became such an important metaphor in Victorian England. This bloodsucker who had stalked the folklore of almost every culture became the property of serious artists and thinkers in Victorian England, including Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. People who did not believe in the existence of vampires nonetheless saw numerous metaphoric possibilities in a creature from the past that exerted pressure on the present and was often threatening because of its sexuality.

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s

Author: Penny Fielding

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1316856933

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What does it mean to focus on the decade as a unit of literary history? Emerging from the shadows of iconic Victorian authors such as Eliot and Tennyson, the 1880s is a decade that has been too readily overlooked in the rush to embrace end-of-century decadence and aestheticism. The 1880s witnessed new developments in transatlantic networks, experiments in lyric poetry, the decline of the three-volume novel, and the revaluation of authors, journalists and the reading public. The contributors to this collection explore the case for the 1880s as both a discrete point of literary production, with its own pressures and provocations, and as part of literature's sense of its expanded temporal and geographical reach. The essays address a wide variety of authors, topics and genres, offering incisive readings of the diverse forces at work in the shaping of the literary 1880s.