The Emergence of Victorian Consciousness
Author: George Levine
Publisher: New York : Free Press
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 456
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Author: George Levine
Publisher: New York : Free Press
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter E. Houghton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-10-29
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 0300194285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKôIt is now forty years,ö Walter Houghton writes, ôsince Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole.öá Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been the subject of sympathetic ôperiod pieces,ö critical and biographical works, and extensive studies of their age, but the Victorian mind itself remains blurred for usùa bundle of various and often paradoxical ideas and attitudes.á Mr. Houghton explores these ideas and attitudes, studies their interrelationships, and traces their simultaneous existence to the general character of the age.á His inquiry is the more important because it demonstrates that to look into the Victorian mind is to see some of the primary sources of the modern mind.
Author: George R. Levine
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter Edwards Houghton
Publisher: New Haven : Published for Wellesley College by Yale University Press
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 504
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe emotional and intellectual attitudes of the Victorian era are carefully scrutinized.
Author: George Lewis LEVINE
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Published: 1967
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph Hillis Miller
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780822311102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten over a thirty-five year period, these essays reflect the changes in J. Hillis Miller's thinking on Victorian topics, from an early concern with questions of consciousness, form, and intellectual history, to a more recent focus on parable and the development of a deconstructive ethics of reading. Miller defines the term "Victorian subjects" in more than one sense. The phrase identifies an historical time but also names a concern throughout with subjectivity, consciousness, and selfhood in Victorian literature. The essays show various Victorian subjectivities seeking to ground themselves in their own underlying substance or in some self beneath or beyond the self. But "Victorian subjects" also discusses those who were subject to Queen Victoria, to the reigning ideologies of the time, to historical, social, and material conditions, including the conditions under which literature was written, published, distributed, and consumed. These essays, taken together, sketch the outlines of ideological assumptions within the period about the self, interpersonal relations, nature, literary form, the social function of literature, and other Victorian subjects.
Author: Jason B. Jones
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 0814210392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat if we didn't always historicize when we read Victorian fiction? Lost Causes shows that Victorian writers frequently appear to have a more supple and interesting understanding of the relationship between history, causality, and narrative than the one typically offered by readers who are burdened by the new historicism. As a return to these writers emphasizes, the press of modern historicism deforms Victorian novels, encouraging us to read deviations from strict historical accuracy as ideological bad faith. By contrast, Jason B. Jones argues through readings of works ranging from The French Revolution to Middlemarch that literature's engagement with history has to be read otherwise. Perhaps perversely, Lost Causes suggests simultaneously that psychoanalysis speaks pressingly to the vexed relationship between history and narrative, and that the theory is neither a- nor anti-historical. Through his readings of Victorian fiction addressing the recent past, Jones finds in psychoanalysis not a set of truths, but rather a method for rhetorical reading, ultimately revealing how its troubled account of psychic causality can help us follow literary language's representation of the real. Victorian narratives of the recent past and psychoanalytic interpretation share a fascination with effects that persist despite baffling, inexplicable, or absent causes. In chapters focusing on Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot, Lost Causes demonstrates that history can carry an ontological, as well as an epistemological, charge--one that suggests a condition of being in the world as well as a way of knowing the world as it really is. From this point of view, Victorian fiction that addresses the recent past is not a failed realism, as it is so frequently claimed, but rather an exploration of possibility in history.
Author: Carole G. Silver
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0195121996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy recapturing the nineteenth-century worlds of the super- and sub-human, and recontextualizing a forgotton obsession - this text enables twentieth-century readers to recover a legacy too precious to be lost.
Author: Clarence Raymond Decker
Publisher: New York, Twayne
Published: 1952
Total Pages: 230
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