Samuel Butler, Victorian Against the Grain
Samuel Butler, Victorian Against the Grain

Author: James G. Paradis

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 0802097456

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Samuel Butler, Victorian against the Grain is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that provides a critical overview of Butler's career, one which places his multifaceted body of work within the cultural framework of the Victorian age.

Comedy and Culture
Comedy and Culture

Author: Roger B. Henkle

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1400857929

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Comedy cannot be understood as an abstract critical concept, argues Roger Henkle; it 'must be studied in specific cultural and historical contexts. From this point of view he examines the development of literary comedy in nineteenth-century England, and shows how comic modes and techniques were used to express and release the tensions of the middle class during periods of both rapid cultural change and relative stability. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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: 788

ISBN-13: 3110394219

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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.