Changing the Victorian Subject
Changing the Victorian Subject

Author: Maggie Tonki

Publisher: University of Adelaide Press

Published: 2014-07-04

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1922064742

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The essays in this collection examine how both colonial and British authors engage with Victorian subjects and subjectivities in their work. Some essays explore the emergence of a key trope within colonial texts: the negotiation of Victorian and settler-subject positions. Others argue for new readings of key metropolitan texts and their repositioning within literary history. These essays work to recognise the plurality of the rubric of the 'Victorian' and to expand how the category of Victorian studies can be understood.

Shadow Voices
Shadow Voices

Author: John Connolly

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2021-10-28

Total Pages: 1088

ISBN-13: 1529395275

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All hardbacks in the first print run will be signed by the author. The story of genre fiction - horror, romantic fiction, science fiction, crime writing, and more - is also the story of Irish fiction. Irish writers have given the world Lemuel Gulliver, Dracula, and the world of Narnia. They have produced pioneering tales of detection, terrifying ghost stories and ground-breaking women's popular fiction. Now, for the first time, John Connolly's one volume presents the history of Irish genre writing and uses it to explore how we think about fiction itself. Deeply researched, and passionately argued, SHADOW VOICES takes the lives of more than sixty writers - by turns tragic, amusing, and adventurous, but always extraordinary - and sets them alongside the stories they have written, to create a new way of looking at genre and literature, both Irish and beyond. Here are vampires and monsters, murderers and cannibals. Here are female criminal masterminds and dogged detectives, star-crossed lovers and vengeful spouses. Here are the SHADOW VOICES.

Women Writing Crime Fiction, 1860-1880
Women Writing Crime Fiction, 1860-1880

Author: Kate Watson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0786491175

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Arthur Conan Doyle has long been considered the greatest writer of crime fiction, and the gender bias of the genre has foregrounded William Godwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Emile Gaboriau and Fergus Hume. But earlier and significant contributions were being made by women in Britain, the United States and Australia between 1860 and 1880, a period that was central to the development of the genre. This work focuses on women writers of this genre and these years, including Catherine Crowe, Caroline Clive, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs. Henry (Ellen) Wood, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Louisa May Alcott, Metta Victoria Fuller Victor, Anna Katharine Green, Celeste de Chabrillan, "Oline Keese" (Caroline Woolmer Leakey), Eliza Winstanley, Ellen Davitt, and Mary Helena Fortune--innovators who set a high standard for women writers to follow.

Nineteenth-century Literature
Nineteenth-century Literature

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13:

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Contains articles which focus on a broad spectrum of significant figures in fiction, philosophy, and criticism such as Austen, Carlyle, Dickens,Thackeray, the Brontes, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, and Henry James.

Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand
Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand

Author: Faye H. Christenberry

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2010-11-19

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0810877457

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This book is a research guide to the literatures of Australia and New Zealand. It contains references to many different types of resources, paying special attention to the unique challenges inherent in conducting research on the literatures of these two distinct but closely connected countries.

The Literature of Australia
The Literature of Australia

Author: Nicholas Jose

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 1518

ISBN-13:

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"Unprecedented in the breadth of what it offers from both the ancient and the recent literature of my country."--Thomas Keneally, from the foreword