Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 3

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 3

Author: Ralph Pite

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1040129455

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This book is a collection of biographical records portraying the life of Rudyard Kipling, drawn from official biographies, memoirs, testimonies, letters, diaries, conversations, anecdotes, essays, and reviews.


Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 1

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 1

Author: Ralph Pite

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1040128785

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This volume presents documents that roughly follow the chronology of Joseph Conrad's life and deliberately considers two documents that reveal surprising and important facts that Conrad had carefully concealed.


Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 2

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 2

Author: Ralph Pite

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1040129218

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This book looks at Rider Haggard from a different standpoint, his own. It carries a selection of critical appraisals of Haggard's work by his contemporaries up until the early 1950s.


Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part I, Volume 3

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part I, Volume 3

Author: Matthew Bevis

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 104012867X

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Collected here are the biographies which revealed aspects of their subjects that the more favourable "official" accounts tended to hide. The life of the author of each text is described, and their relation to the writers they portray is sketched in.


Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part V, Volume 3

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part V, Volume 3

Author: Ralph Pite

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1040129056

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Considers the reputations and biographical portrayal of three innovative and controversial writers: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins and William Thackeray. These anthologies of contemporary biographical material shed light on the processes at work in the establishment of a public image and a critical reputation.


Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV, Volume 3

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV, Volume 3

Author: Ralph Pite

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1040129048

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Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton. Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a general index.


Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VI, Volume 3

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VI, Volume 3

Author: Ralph Pite

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1040129099

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In their own time, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson and Algernon Charles Swinburne were highly successful writers. Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this three-volume facsimile edition draws together a range of biographical sources relating to these three celebrated Victorian authors.


Transitions in Middlebrow Writing, 1880 - 1930

Transitions in Middlebrow Writing, 1880 - 1930

Author: K. Macdonald

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-22

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1137486775

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This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines.


The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies

Author: Jeremy Tambling

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-10-29

Total Pages: 1977

ISBN-13: 3319624199

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This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.