States of Wonder in the Nineteenth-century British Novel
Author: Kara Elizabeth Wittman
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13:
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Women Writing Wonder
Author: Julie L.. J. Koehler
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 0814345026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuggan, and Adrion Dula hope both to foreground women writers' important contributions to the genre and to challenge common assumptions about what a fairy tale is for scholars, students, and general readers.
Sylvie and Bruno
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: London ; New York : Macmillan
Published: 1889
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1889, this novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland.
London In The 19th Century
Author: Jerry White
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2017-06-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1847924476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its growth was stupendous. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. This was the London of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday and Disraeli. Most of all it was the London of Dickens. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'. In Jerry White's dazzling history we witness the city's unparalleled metamorphosis over the course of the century through the daily lives of its inhabitants. We see how Londoners worked, played, and adapted to the demands of the metropolis during this century of dizzying change. The result is a panorama teeming with life.
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Author: Leah Price
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012-04-09
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1400842182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
London in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Jerry White
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 666
ISBN-13: 0712600302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLondon in the 19th century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. This book explores London's history over the 19th century. It shows the destruction of old London and the city's unparalleled suburban expansion. It also depicts how London absorbed people from all over Britain, from Europe and the Empire.
When Novels Were Books
Author: Jordan Alexander Stein
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0674987047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe novel was born religious, alongside Protestant texts produced in the same format by the same publishers. Novels borrowed features of these texts but over the years distinguished themselves, becoming the genre we know today. Jordan Alexander Stein traces this history, showing how the physical object of the book shaped the stories it contained.
The Broadview Anthology of Nineteenth-Century British Performance
Author: Tracy C. Davis
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2011-12-20
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1770487751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection provides a representative set of theatrical performances popular on the nineteenth-century British stage. All are newly edited critical editions that account for variant sources reflecting the process of rehearsal, licensing, and production. Detailed introductions and extensive notes explain the texts’ relationship to repertoires, the circulating discourses of intelligibility that constantly recombine in performance. The plays address the topical concerns of slavery, imperial conquest, capitalism, interculturalism, uprisings at home and abroad, modernist aesthetic innovation, and the celebration of collective identities. Adaptations from novels, travelogues, and other plays are discussed along with the theatrical history that sustained these works on the stage.
The Story of Sylvie and Bruno
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher:
Published: 1919
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13:
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English Origins, Jewish Discourse, and the Nineteenth-century British Novel
Author: Heidi Kaufman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780271035260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the embedding of Jewish history and culture in depictions of English racial and national identity in nineteenth-century novels.
