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Author: Kevin A. Morrison
Publisher: EUP
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781474431538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVictorian Liberalism and Material Culture assesses the unexplored links between Victorian material culture and political theory.
Author: Leah Price
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013-10-27
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0691159548
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.
Author: Sarah Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-06-06
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1108480055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices.
Author: Kevin A. Morrison
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018-01-23
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1474431666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVictorian Liberalism and Material Culture assesses the unexplored links between Victorian material culture and political theory.
Author: Juliet John
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-07-14
Total Pages: 813
ISBN-13: 0191082104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology, Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief, and Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures), the volume is sub-divided into nine sub-sections each with its own 'lead' essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today's Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume's essays: that is, the nature and status of 'literary' culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and established scholars.
Author: Anna Feuerstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-07-04
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1108492967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how liberal thought influenced representations of animals within nineteenth-century animal welfare discourse and the Victorian novel.
Author: Brenda M. King
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 178327395X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of an entrepreneurial family whose work influenced followers of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Gothic Revivalism, Art Needlework and Aestheticism
Author: Phyllis Weliver
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-28
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1107184800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume reveals music's role in Victorian liberalism and its relationship with literature, locating the Victorian salon within intellectual and cultural history.
Author: Kevin A. Morrison
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-02-14
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 3319728113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the theory and practice of Victorian liberal parenting by focusing on the life and writings of John Morley, one of Britain’s premier intellectuals and politicians. Reading Morley’s published works—much of which explicitly or implicitly addresses this relationship—with and against other writings of the period, and in the context of formative circumstances in his own life, it explores how living one’s life as a liberal extended to parenting. Although Victorian liberalism is currently undergoing reappraisal by scholars in the disciplines of literature and history, only a handful of studies have addressed its implications for intimate personal relations. None have considered the relationship of parent and child. Four of the chapters document how John Morley was parented and how he defined himself as a parent, based on newly available archival materials. Two other chapters analyze his many writings on or concerned with parenting and parenthood.
Author: Iain Crawford
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2010-10-08
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1474453155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReframes the long-standing critical narrative of the relationship between Harriet Martineau and Charles DickensDemonstrates, through new readings of Martineau and Dickens's travel in and writing about the United States, how their encounters with the American public sphere were crucially formative in both writers' careers and in their shaping as journalistsPlaces Martineau and Dickens within the context of Anglo-American liberalism, thereby expanding our reading of them beyond earlier schema framed in narrower terms of political economyExpands understandings of transatlantic literary exchange to offer a more comprehensive reading than those offered through an earlier critical focus simply on the issue of international copyrightFocusing on the importance of Martineau's contribution to the development of the early Victorian press, this book highlights the degree to which the public quarrel between her and Dickens in the mid-1850s represented larger fissures within nineteenth-century liberalism. It places Martineau and Dickens within the context of Anglo-American liberalism and demonstrates how these fissures were embedded within a transatlantic conversation over the role of the press in forming a public sphere essential to the development of a liberal society.
