The Cambridge bibliography of English literature. 3. 1800 - 1900
Author: Frederick Wilse Bateson
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1940
Total Pages: 1132
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Author: Frederick Wilse Bateson
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1940
Total Pages: 1132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dorri Beam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-06-03
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ISBN-13: 1139489232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this 2010 book, Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an overarching account of the importance of this form of writing, suggesting new ways of looking at style as a medium through which gender can be signified and reshaped. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights for scholars of American literature and women's writing.
Author: Terence Dawson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-23
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1317034546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel is an experiment in post-Jungian literary criticism and methodology. Its primary aim is to challenge current views about the correlation between narrative structure, gender, and the governing psychological dilemma in four nineteenth-century British novels. The overarching argument is that the opening situation in a novel represents an implicit challenge facing not the obvious hero/heroine but the individual that Terence Dawson defines as the "effective protagonist." To illustrate his claim, Dawson pairs two sets of novels with unexpectedly comparable dilemmas: Ivanhoe with The Picture of Dorian Gray and Wuthering Heights with Silas Marner. In all four novels, the effective protagonist is an apparently minor figure whose crucial function in the ordering of the events has been overlooked. Rereading these well-known texts in relation to hitherto neglected characters uncovers startling new issues at their heart and demonstrates innovative ways of exploring both narrative and literary tradition.
Author: Raymond Macdonald Alden
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 716
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Published: 2009-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780820334875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays document and examine the transformation of children's literature during the Romantic period, and trace Romanticism's influence on Victorian children's literature using a variety of critical approaches, including neo-historicist, feminist, mythic, reader-response, and formalist.
Author: Raymond Macdonald Alden
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 724
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Isabella Mitchell Cooper
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 1302
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ayse Celikkol
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-08-03
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0199877629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring works by Walter Scott, Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and their lesser-known contemporaries, Romances of Free Trade historicizes globalization as it traces the perception of dissolving borders and declining national sovereignty back into the nineteenth century. The book offers a new account of the cultural work of romance in nineteenth-century Britain. Çelikkol argues that novelists and playwrights employed this genre to represent a radically new historical formation: the emergence of a globalized free-market economy. In previous centuries, the British state had pursued an economic policy that chose domestic goods over foreign ones. Through the first half of the nineteenth century, liberal economists maintained that commodity traffic across national borders should move outside the purview of the state, a position and practice that began to take hold as the century progressed. Amid the transformation, Britons pondered the vertiginous effects of rapidly accelerating economic circulation. Would patriotic attachment to the homeland dissolve along with the preference for domestic goods? How would the nation and the empire fare if commerce became uncontrollable? The literary genre of romance, characterized by protagonists who drift in lawless spaces, played a meaningful role in addressing such pressing questions. From the figure of the smuggler to the episodic plot structure, romance elements in fiction and drama narrated and made tangible the sprawling global markets and fluid capital that were reshaping the world. In addition to clear-eyed close readings of nineteenth-century novels and plays, Çelikkol draws on the era's major economic theorists, figures like Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, to vividly illustrate the manifold ways the romance genre engaged with these emerging financial changes.
Author: Tom Peete Cross
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 1432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Knight
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2006-11-16
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780199277100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work introduces key debates, movements, and ideas relating to the Christian religion, and connects these to literary developments from 1750-1914. The authors provide close readings of popular texts and use these to explore complex religious ideas.