Victorian Popular Fiction, 1860–80
Author: R.C. Terry
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1983-06-18
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1349044601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPosts
Aestheticism and the Marriage Market in Victorian Popular Fiction
Author: Kirby-Jane Hallum
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 131731798X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on close readings of five Victorian novels, Hallum presents an original study of the interaction between popular fiction, the marriage market and the aesthetic movement. She uses the texts to trace the development of aestheticism, examining the differences between the authors, including their approach, style and gender.
Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction
Author: Kevin A. Morrison
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2018-10-10
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1476633592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres they helped to establish or refine. Entries introduce readers to long-overlooked authors who were widely read in their time, with suggestions for further reading and emerging resources for the study of popular fiction.
Ouida and Victorian Popular Culture
Author: Andrew King
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-13
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1317084799
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Ouida,' the pseudonym of Louise Ramé (1839-1908), was one of the most productive, widely-circulated and adapted of Victorian popular novelists, with a readership that ranged from Vernon Lee, Oscar Wilde and Ruskin to the nameless newspaper readers and subscribers to lending libraries. Examining the range and variety of Ouida’s literary output, which includes journalism as well as fiction, reveals her to be both a literary seismometer, sensitive to the enormous shifts in taste and publication practices of the second half of the nineteenth century, and a fierce protector of her independent vision. This collection offers a radically new view of Ouida, helping us thereby to rethink our perceptions of popular women writers in general, theatrical adaptation of their fiction, and their engagements with imperialism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism. The volume's usefulness to scholars is enhanced by new bibliographies of Ouida's fiction and journalism as well as of British stage adaptations of her work.
Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature
Author: Madeleine C. Seys
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-08-10
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1351747193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe know that way we dress says a lot about us. It’s drilled into us by our parents as children, as adults throughout our working lives, and eternally from the culture surrounding us. Our dress tells the outside world of the culture and era we come from to our social status within that culture. Our dress can be telling of our political views, religious beliefs, sexuality and countless other identifying traits that we can keep hidden or show to the world by our choice of what to wear when heading venturing out. This was absolutely true, famously so, in the Victorian Era in which men and women alike wore their status on their often lavish, embellished sleeves. In her new book, Dr. Madeleine Seyes explores Victorian culture through the lens of fashion in her new book, Double Threads: Fashion and Victorian Popular Literature, which sits at the intersection of the fields of Victorian literary studies, dress and material cultural studies, feminist literary criticism, and gender and sexuality studies.
Popular Victorian women writers
Author: Kay Boardman
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2024-07-30
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 152618561X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular Victorian women writers considers a diverse group of women writers within the Victorian literary marketplace. It looks at authors such as Ellen Wood, Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Charlotte Yonge as well as less well-known writers including Jessie Fothergill and Eliza Meteyard. Each essay sets the individual author within her biographical and literary context and provides refreshing insights into their work. Together they bring the work of largely unknown authors and new perspectives on known authors to critical and public attention. Accessible and informative, the book is ideal for students of Victorian literature and culture as well as tutors and scholars of the period.
Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900
Author: Clive Bloom
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-01-03
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 3030791548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book charts the publishing industry and bestselling fiction from 1900, featuring a comprehensive list of all bestselling fiction titles in the UK. This third edition includes a new introduction which features additional information on current trends in reading including the rise of Black, Asian and LGBTQIA+ publishing; the continuing importance of certain genres and up to date trends in publishing, bookselling, library borrowing and literacy. There are sections on writing for children, on the importance of audiobooks and book clubs, self- published bestsellers as well as many new entries to the present day including bestselling authors such as David Walliams, Peter James, George R R Martin and far less well known authors whose books s sell in their thousands. This is the essential guide to best-selling books, authors, genres, publishing and bookselling since 1900, providing a unique insight into more than a century of entertainment, and opening a window into the reading habits and social life of the British from the death of Queen Victoria to the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Bestsellers: Popular Fiction since 1900
Author: C. Bloom
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-07-09
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 0230287492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis guide and reference work of all of the bestselling books, authors and genres since the beginning of the 20th century, provides an insight into over 100 years of publishing and reading as well as taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination.
The Making of English Popular Culture
Author: John Storey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-20
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1317519671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Making of English Popular Culture provides an account of the making of popular culture in the nineteenth century. While a form of what we might describe as popular culture existed before this period, John Storey has assembled a collection that demonstrates how what we now think of as popular culture first emerged as a result of the enormous changes that accompanied the industrial revolution. Particularly significant are the technological changes that made the production of new forms of culture possible and the concentration of people in urban areas that created significant audiences for this new culture. Consisting of fourteen original chapters that cover diverse topics ranging from seaside holidays and the invention of Christmas tradition, to advertising, music and popular fiction, the collection aims to enhance our understanding of the relationship between culture and power, as explored through areas such as ‘race’, ethnicity, class, sexuality and gender. It also aims to encourage within cultural studies a renewed historical sense when engaging critically with popular culture by exploring the historical conditions surrounding the existence of popular texts and practices. Written in a highly accessible style The Making of English Popular Culture is an ideal text for undergraduates studying cultural and media studies, literary studies, cultural history and visual culture.
English Fiction of the Victorian Period
Author: Michael Wheeler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1317896084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfessor Wheeler's widely-acclaimed survey of the nineteenth-century fiction covers both the major writers and their works and encompasses the genres and "minor" fiction of the period. This excellent introduction and reference source has been revised for this second edition to include new material on lesser-known writers and a comprehensively updated bibliography.
