Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction (Routledge Revivals)
Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Ioan Williams

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-11-30

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1136823425

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First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, and will be invaluable for the study of Scott, both as novelist and critic. The work provides a survey of the novel at an important period of its development and offers an historical perspective not normally available in one volume.

Routledge Revivals
Routledge Revivals

Author: Ioan Williams

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages:

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First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, and will be invaluable for the study of Scott, both as novelist and critic. The work provides a survey of the novel at an important period of its development and offers an historical perspective not normally available in one volume.

Routledge Revivals: Barnaby Rudge (1987 )
Routledge Revivals: Barnaby Rudge (1987 )

Author: Thomas Jackson Rice

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1351047426

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Originally published in 1987 Barnaby Rudge is a comprehensive collection of bibliographical resources surrounding Dickens fifth novel Barnaby Rudge. The book addresses what the author terms, a ‘prevalent lack of research’ surrounding the novel. The collection lists bibliographic references which not only looks at the novel itself, but also covers older resources that interested Dicken’s first critics, such as the originality of the settings and characters. The book’s core focus is examining the novel’s historical subject matter in the context of the social and political context in which it was written. The book acts as a core resource for research on Barnaby Rudge.

Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals)
Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals)

Author: John Rignall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-01-29

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1317626281

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The classic realist text has long been derided by post-structuralist critics as an unsophisticated and reactionary form. In this study, first published in 1992, John Rignall makes a powerful case for the rehabilitation of realism as a self-aware and reflexive genre. Using the novels of Scott, Balzac, Dickens, George Eliot, Flaubert, James, Ford and Conrad, Rignall argues for an understanding of realism through the recurrent figure of the flâneur. The flâneur is the strolling spectator whose problematic vision both of and in the novel makes him the representative figure of the realist text. A significant contribution to the field, this title will be of particular view to students of realism, literary theory, and comparative literature.

Realism and Power (Routledge Revivals)
Realism and Power (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Alison Lee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1317634926

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First published in 1990, this study focuses on the subversive techniques of British postmodernist fiction and examines its challenge to Realist traditions, and the liberal humanist ideology behind it. Exploring the concept of literary postmodernism, and the strategies and philosophies to which it has given rise, Alison Lee investigates how they are developed in a selection of contemporary British novels, including Midnight’s Children, Waterland, Flaubert’s Parrot, and Lanark. Postmodernism is considered in relation to history, the visual and performing arts, popular culture, including advertising, music videos, and popular fiction, notably Stephen King’s Misery. A detailed and comprehensive study, this reissue of Realism and Power will be essential reading for students of literary and cultural studies.

Victorian Britain (Routledge Revivals)
Victorian Britain (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Sally Mitchell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-08-06

Total Pages: 1014

ISBN-13: 1136716173

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First published in 1988, this encyclopedia serves as an overview and point of entry to the complex interdisciplinary field of Victorian studies. The signed articles, which cover persons, events, institutions, topics, groups and artefacts in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901, have been written by authorities in the field and contain bibliographies to provide guidelines for further research. The work is intended for undergraduates and the general reader, and also as a starting point for graduates who wish to explore new fields.

Encyclopedia of Romanticism (Routledge Revivals)
Encyclopedia of Romanticism (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Laura Dabundo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 900

ISBN-13: 1135232342

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First Published in 1992, this encyclopedia is designed to survey the social, cultural and intellectual climate of English Romanticism from approximately the 1780s and the French Revolution to the 1830s and the Reform Bill. Focussing on ‘the spirit of the age’, the book deals with the aesthetic, scientific, socioeconomic – indeed the human – environment in which the Romantics flourished. The books considers poets, playwrights and novelists; critics, editors and booksellers; painters, patrons and architects; as well as ideas, trends, fads, and conventions, the familiar and the newly discovered. The book will be of use for everyone from undergraduate English students, through to thesis-driven graduate students to teaching faculty and scholars.

The Gothic's Gothic (Routledge Revivals)
The Gothic's Gothic (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-05

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1317206584

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First published in 1988, this book aims to provide keys to the study of Gothicism in British and American literature. It gathers together much material that had not been cited in previous works of this kind and secondary works relevant to literary Gothicism — biographies, memoirs and graphic arts. Part one cites items pertaining to significant authors of Gothic works and part two consists of subject headings, offering information about broad topics that evolve from or that have been linked with Gothicism. Three indexes are also provided to expedite searches for the contents of the entries. This book will be of interest to students of literature.

Routledge Revivals: Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity (1989)
Routledge Revivals: Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity (1989)

Author: Raphael Samuel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 131545050X

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First published in 1989, this is the second of three volumes exploring the changing notions of patriotism in British life from the thirteenth century to the late twentieth century and constitutes an attempt to come to terms with the power of the national idea through a historically informed critique. This volume examines how national identity has competed with alternative, more personal forms of belonging — such as Roman Catholicism, Judaism and Nonconformism — as well looking at femininity in relation to the state. Contemporary British society’s capacity to create outsiders is discussed and the introductory essay shows how this may shape our misunderstanding of earlier phases of national development.

The Historical Novel from Scott to Sabatini
The Historical Novel from Scott to Sabatini

Author: H. Orel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1995-02-15

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0230371493

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Sir Walter Scott defined the parameters of the historical novel and illustrated his concept of the genre by writing a long series of novels dealing with medieval times, the Elizabethan Age and the 18th Century. Later novels written by his contemporaries and successors attracted smaller audiences. When Robert Louis Stevenson, in the early 1880s, enthusiastically expanded the boundaries of romantic fiction, he became a standard-bearer and an inspiration to many of his fellow-novelists: Walter Besant, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stanley John Weyman, Anthony Hope, Henry Rider Haggard, and Rafael Sabatini.