From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad
Author: Robert Charles Rathburn
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 0
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From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad
Author: Robert C. Rathburn
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0816604533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Daisches, Douglas Bush, Robert B. Heilman, Arthur Mizener, and William Van P?Connor are among the contributors to this volume of essays on the nineteenth-century British novel. Each of the selections has been written expressly for this book and is p.
The Forms of Historical Fiction
Author: Harry E. Shaw
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1501723278
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George Eliot
Author: K. Collins
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-09-28
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1137087668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanning her entire life, the fully annotated selections in this volume include well known recollections of the great Victorian novelist plus a large assortment not found in her biographies. Altogether they provide a fresh, vivid, and sometimes startling portrait of a controversial genius.
Samuel Butler against the Professionals
Author: David Gillott
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1351550179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the wake of the 2009 Darwin bicentenary, Samuel Butler (1835-1902) is becoming as well known for his public attack on Darwin's character and the basis of his scientific authority as for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. In the first monograph devoted to Butler's ideas for over twenty years, David Gillott offers a much-needed reappraisal of Butler's work and shows how Lamarckian ideas pervaded the whole of Butler's wide-ranging ouevre, and not merely his evolutionary theory. In particular, he argues that Lamarckism was the foundation on which Butler's attempt to undermine professional authority in a variety of disciplines was based. Samuel Butler against the Professionals provides new insight into a fascinating but often misunderstood writer, and on the surprisingly broad application of Lamarckian ideas in the decades following publication of the Origin of Species.
The Coherence of Gothic Conventions
Author: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-02-14
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1000797686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1986, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions makes the case that the Gothic in English literature has been marked by a distinctive and highly influential set of ambitions about relations of meaning. Through readings of classic Gothic authors as well as of De Quincey and the Brontës, Sedgwick links the most characteristic thematic conventions of the Gothic firmly and usably to the genre’s radical claims for representation. The introduction clarifies the connection between the linguistic or epistemological argument of the Gothic and its epochal crystallization of modern gender and modern homophobia. This book will be of interest to students of literature, cultural studies and psychology.
Reading the Text that Isn't There
Author: Mike Lee Davis
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780415971058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough a careful examination of the work of the canonical nineteenth-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies and conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another.
Exhibited by Candlelight
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-05-20
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9004490116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition focuses on a number of strands in the Gothic. The first is Gothic as a way of looking. Paintings used as reference points, tableaux, or the Hammer Studios' visualizations of Dracula present ways of seeing which are suggestive and allow the interplay of primarily sexual passions. Continuity with the past is a further strand which enables us to explore how the sources of the Gothic are connected with the origin of existence and of history, both individual and general. Here, the Gothic offers a voice for writers whose perceptions do not fit into those of the dominant group, which makes them sensitive both to psychological and social gaps. This leads to an exploration of the very idea of sources and an attempt to bridge the gaps, as can be observed in the variety of epithets used to clarify the ways that Gothic works, ranging from heroic gothic to porno-gothic. This takes the reader to the main core of Gothic: a genre which is always ready to admit new forms of the unreal to enter and change whatever has become mainstream literature, and a way of reading and a mode profoundly affecting the reading experience. The Gothic mode cultivates its wicked ways in literature, working through it as a leavening yeast.
Conrad’s Narrative Voice
Author: Werner Senn
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-01-09
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9004339833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWerner Senn’s Conrad’s Narrative Voice draws on the methodology of linguistic stylistics and the analysis of narrative discourse to discuss Joseph Conrad’s perception of the role and the limitations of language. Tracing recurrent linguistic patterns allows Senn to demonstrate that Conrad’s view of the radical indeterminacy of the world is conveyed on the most basic levels of the author’s (often criticised) verbal style but permeates his work at all levels of the narrative. Detailed stylistic analysis also reveals the importance, to Conrad, of the spoken word, of oral communication. Senn argues that the narrators’ compulsive efforts to make their readers see and understand reflect Conrad’s ethics of human solidarity in a world he depicts as hostile, enigmatic and often senseless.
The Brontës and the Idea of the Human
Author: Alexandra Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-16
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1107154812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigates the idea of the human within Brontë sisters' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.
