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Author: Heather Bozant Witcher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-03-17
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1316513491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining social and material dimensions of collaboration, this book reveals the diverse networks of nineteenth-century literary exchange.
Author: Lauren Gillingham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1009296566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.
Author: Matthew Rowlinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-02
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1009409956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCentring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.
Author: Aaron Rosenberg
Publisher:
Published: 2023-11
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1009271822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extraction, and technological complexity accelerated daily life, growing concerns about deep time, evolution, globalization, and extinction destabilised scale's value as a measure of reality. Here, Aaron Rosenberg examines how four novelists moved radically beyond novelistic realism, repurposing the genres-romance, melodrama, gothic, and epic-it had ostensibly superseded. He demonstrates how H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf engaged with climatic and ecological crises that persist today, requiring us to navigate multiple temporal and spatial scales simultaneously. The volume shows that problems of scale constrain our responses to crisis by shaping the linguistic, aesthetic, and narrative structures through which we imagine it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author: Barbara Leonardi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-12-29
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 3319967703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the intersections of gender with class and race in the construction of national and imperial ideologies and their fluid transformation from the Romantic to the Victorian period and beyond, exposing how these cultural constructions are deeply entangled with the family metaphor. For example, by examining the re-signification of the “angel in the house” and the deviant woman in the context of unstable or contingent masculinities and across discourses of class and nation, the volume contributes to a more nuanced understanding of British cultural constructions in the long nineteenth century. The central idea is to unearth the historical roots of the family metaphor in the construction of national and imperial ideologies, and to uncover the interests served by its specific discursive formation. The book explores both male and female stereotypes, enabling a more perceptive comparison, enriched with a nuanced reflection on the construction and social function of class.
Author: Sarah Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-03-31
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1108831516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSarah Green shows how late Victorian Decadent literature paradoxically treats sexual restraint as healthy and aesthetically productive.
Author: Fraser Riddell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-04-14
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1108996337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body explores the central place music held for emergent queer identities in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Canonical writers such as Walter Pater, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf are discussed alongside lesser-known figures such as John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee and Arthur Symons. Engaging with a number of historical case studies, Fraser Riddell pays particular attention to the significance of embodiment in queer musical subcultures and draws on contemporary queer theory and phenomenology to show how writers associate music with shameful, masochistic and anti-humanist subject positions. Ultimately, this study reveals how literary texts at the fin de siècle invest music with queer agency: to challenge or refuse essentialist identities, to facilitate re-conceptions of embodied subjectivity, and to present alternative sensory experiences of space and time. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author: Francesca Mackenney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-09-22
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1009084089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. Tracing the 'science of birdsong' as it developed from the 'ingenious' experiments of Daines Barrington to the evolutionary arguments of Charles Darwin, Francesca Mackenney reveals a legacy of thought which informs, and consequently affords fresh insights into, a canonical group of poems about birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods. With a particular focus on the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Wordsworth siblings, John Clare and Thomas Hardy, her book explores how poets responded to an analogy which challenged definitions of language and therefore of what it means to be human. Drawing together responses to birdsong in science, music and poetry, her distinctive interdisciplinary approach challenges many of the long-standing cultural assumptions which have shaped (and continue to shape) how we respond to other creatures in the Anthropocene.
Author: Rosalind Parry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-03-31
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1009272012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Art of the Reprint is a vivid and engaging history of the nineteenth-century novel as it was re-imagined for everyday readers by four extraordinary twentieth-century illustrators. It focuses especially on four reprints: a 1929 edition of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (1878) with engravings by Clare Leighton, a 1930 edition of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) with images by Rockwell Kent, a 1943 edition of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) with woodblocks by Fritz Eichenberg, and a complete set of Jane Austen's novels (1786-1817) illustrated from 1957 to 1974 by Joan Hassall. Taken together, these reprints are indicative of a legacy crafted from historical distance, through personal, political, and artistic circumstance, and for a new century. With biographical, archival, and art- and literary-historical sources as well as close readings of images and texts, this is a richly illustrated account of how artists reinvent canons for the general reader.
Author: Charles Martindale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-10-31
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1108835899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first collected study of Pater's significance to criticism, revealing his pivotal role in establishing principles of the literary essay.
