Selected Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray
Selected Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray

Author: Edgar F. Harden

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1996-11-15

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1349140732

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These letters have been selected according to their ability to convey the essential biographical developments of a very interesting life, and their ability to represent highly characteristic verbal and pictorial expressions of a great man of letters. In spite of his struggles, Thackeray articulates in his letters an exhuberance characteristic of one of the great enjoyers of life. Seventy five of his comical illustrations accompany the texts of these letters.

Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel
Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

Author: Michael Flavin

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1837641722

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This text explores the theme of gambling in a range of 19th-century English novels. It examines the representation of gambling in the novels, the role that gambling played in the lives of the novelists, and gambling in the novels within the context of the development of Victorian society.

The Complete Book of Mothers-in-Law
The Complete Book of Mothers-in-Law

Author: Luisa Dillner

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2008-11-06

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0571248217

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Most of us either have a mother-in-law or will be one, and it's not a role most women take on gladly. Mothers-in-law are traditionally the butt of jokes, declared to be nasty, possessive and interfering - but are they really as bad as this reputation suggests? Luisa Dillner looks beyond the stereotype of the mother-in-law and finds they come in many different varieties, from loveable and loyal to lonely, ferocious and scheming. She traces their history, from Ancient Greece and Rome to modern times, through fairy tales and traditions, in this celebration of this most complicated of relationships.

Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon
Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon

Author: Daragh Downes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-15

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1137518235

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This book is about selected Victorian texts and authors that in many cases have never before been subject to sustained scholarly attention. Taking inspiration from the pioneeringly capacious approach to the hidden hinterland of Victorian fiction adopted by scholars like John Sutherland and Franco Moretti, this energetically revisionist volume takes advantage of recent large-scale digitisation projects that allow unprecedented access to hitherto neglected literary texts and archives. Blending lively critical engagement with individual texts and close attention to often surprising trends in the production and reception of prose fiction across the Victorian era, this book will be of use to anyone interested in re-evaluating the received meta-narratives of Victorian literary history. With an afterword by John Sutherland

Handbook of the English Novel, 1830–1900
Handbook of the English Novel, 1830–1900

Author: Martin Middeke

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 686

ISBN-13: 3110376717

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Part I of this authoritative handbook offers systematic essays, which deal with major historical, social, philosophical, political, cultural and aesthetic contexts of the English novel between 1830 and 1900. The essays offer a wide scope of aspects such as the Industrial Revolution, religion and secularisation, science, technology, medicine, evolution or the increasing mediatisation of the lifeworld. Part II, then, leads through the work of more than 25 eminent Victorian novelists. Each of these chapters provides both historical and biographical contextualisation, overview, close reading and analysis. They also encourage further research as they look upon the work of the respective authors at issue from the perspectives of cultural and literary theory.

Routledge Revivals: The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume I (1994)
Routledge Revivals: The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume I (1994)

Author: Edgar F. Harden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 942

ISBN-13: 1315445425

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First published in 1994, these two volumes are intended as a supplement to the four-volume edition edited by Gordon N. Ray in 1945-46. In writing to his broad range of correspondents, Thackeray produced a varied body of letters that will help readers to better understand his nineteenth-century society as well as his professional and private life — especially his relationships with women. These volumes contain 1713 letters: 1464 to and from Thackeray that were not included in the earlier volumes, and 249 with texts that have been edited from newly available manuscripts, and that thereby replace texts that were printed in Ray from incomplete sources.

The Brontes
The Brontes

Author: Harold Orel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1349251992

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The Brontes, living in an isolated village in Yorkshire, wrote some of the most vivid, imaginative, and widely-read novels of the Victorian Age; they also became the subject-matter of romanticized anecdotes and regrettably distorted biographies. The best testimony about what kinds of men and women they really were comes from statements they made themselves; but because their autobiographical commentaries are sparse, the record is usefully supplemented in this anthology by first-hand statements made not only by various inhabitants of Haworth, but by those who met members of the Bronte family in Yorkshire, London, and elsewhere.