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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Author: Bulletin of Bibliography
Author: Victorian Women's Fiction
Author: Shirley FosterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415524113
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Annotation Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have challenged contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women's fiction shows how 19th century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and alternative of single or professional life.
The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
Author: Blackwood's Magazine
Author: The Revolution in Popular Literature
Author: Ian HaywoodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521835466
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This book takes a new look at the evolution of popular literature in Britain in the Romantic and Victorian periods. Making use of a wide range of archival and primary sources, he argues that radical politics played a decisive role in the transformation of popular literature. By charting the key moments in the history of 'cheap' literature, the book casts new light on the many neglected popular genres and texts: the 'pig's meat' anthology, the female-authored didactic tale, and Chartist fiction.
Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era
Author: Karen McAulayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317084756
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
One of the earliest documented Scottish song collectors actually to go 'into the field' to gather his specimens, was the Highlander Joseph Macdonald. Macdonald emigrated in 1760 - contemporaneously with the start of James Macpherson's famous but much disputed Ossian project - and it fell to the Revd. Patrick Macdonald to finish and subsequently publish his younger brother's collection. Karen McAulay traces the complex history of Scottish song collecting, and the publication of major Highland and Lowland collections, over the ensuing 130 years. Looking at sources, authenticity, collecting methodology and format, McAulay places these collections in their cultural context and traces links with contemporary attitudes towards such wide-ranging topics as the embryonic tourism and travel industry; cultural nationalism; fakery and forgery; literary and musical creativity; and the move from antiquarianism and dilettantism towards an increasingly scholarly and didactic tone in the mid-to-late Victorian collections. Attention is given to some of the performance issues raised, either in correspondence or in the paratexts of published collections; and the narrative is interlaced with references to contemporary literary, social and even political history as it affected the collectors themselves. Most significantly, this study demonstrates a resurgence of cultural nationalism in the late nineteenth century.
Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author: William JerdanThe Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences
Author: Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots
Author: Susan RenniePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019963940X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The first account of the making of John Jamieson's pioneering Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language first published between 1808 and 1825. Susan Rennie describes Jamieson's work and methods interweaving her account with biography and linguistic, social, and book history to present a rounded picture of the man, his work, and his times.