Author: Alvin SullivanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
British Literary Magazines: The Victorian and Edwardian Age, 1837-1913
Author: Alvin SullivanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Literary Research and the Victorian and Edwardian Ages, 1830-1910
Author: Melissa S. Van VuurenPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810877279
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This volume discusses traditional and new resources for researching British literature of the Victorian and Edwardian ages and the ways in which those resources can be used in conjunction with one another.
The Arnoldian
Author: British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914
Author: Peter D. McDonaldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521893947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book examines the early publishing careers of three highly influential writers, Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett, and Arthur Conan Doyle.
Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals
Author: Assoc Prof Kathryn LedbetterPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409489736
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This is the first book-length study of Tennyson's record of publication in Victorian periodicals. Despite Tennyson's supposed hostility to periodicals, Ledbetter shows that he made a career-long habit of contributing to them and in the process revealed not only his willingness to promote his career but also his status as a highly valued commodity. Tennyson published more than sixty poems in serial publications, from his debut as a Cambridge prize-winning poet with "Timbuctoo" in the Cambridge Chronicle and Journal to his last public composition as Poet Laureate with "The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale" in The Nineteenth Century. In addition, poems such as "The Charge of the Light Brigade" were shaped by his reading of newspapers. Ledbetter explores the ironies and tensions created by Tennyson's attitudes toward publishing in Victorian periodicals and the undeniable benefits to his career. She situates the poet in an interdependent commodity relationship with periodicals, viewing his individual poems as textual modules embedded in a page of meaning inscribed by the periodical's history, the poet's relationship with the periodical's readers, an image sharing the page whether or not related to the poem, and cultural contexts that create new meanings for Tennyson's work. Her book enriches not only our understanding of Tennyson's relationship to periodical culture but the textual implications of a poem's relationship with other texts on a periodical page and the meanings available to specific groups of readers targeted by individual periodicals.
Darwinian Myths
Author: Edward CaudillPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572334526
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Caudill, whose Darwin in the Press (Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., 1989) covered similar ground, here adds little to the corpus of rich literature on Darwinian evolution; his discussions of the theory's misapplications have been covered thoroughly by other researchers. He focuses here on documentation from the popular press, which, he argues, has been overlooked. In doing so Caudill ignores much of the extensive research by contemporary scientists and historians of science. Caudill also often refers to articles without author attribution, using phrases such as "a German doctor" or "a Harvard professor." The reader must go to the notes to identify the author and to assess Caudill's comments and criticisms. In addition. the book lacks continuity and flow, reading like a series of essays strung together under a theme of "myths." Tighter editing would have improved continuity, addressed inconsistencies in using birth and death dates, and corrected the unforgivable misspelling of the name Wedgwood. Not recommended.?Joyce L. Ogburn, Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, Va. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Laurel BrakePublisher: Academia Press
ISBN: 9038213409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1059
Book Description
A large-scale reference work covering the journalism industry in 19th-Century Britain.
The Busiest Man in England
Author: P. MortonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403980993
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book is a critical biography of Grant Allen, (1848-1899), the first for a century, based on all the surviving primary sources. Born in Kingston, Ontario, into a cultured and affluent family, Allen was educated in France and England. A mysterious marriage while he was an Oxford undergraduate wrecked his academic career and radicalized his views on sexual and marital questions, as did a three-year teaching stint in Jamaica. Despite his lifelong ill health and short life, Allen was a writer of extraordinary productivity and range. About half - more than 30 books and many hundreds of articles - reflects interests which ran from Darwinian biology to cultural travel guides. His prosperity, however, was underpinned by fiction; more than 30 novels, including The Woman Who Did , which has attracted much recent attention from feminist critics and historians. The Better End of Grub Street uses Allen's career to examine the role and status of the freelance author/journalist in the late-Victorian period. Allen's career delineates what it took to succeed in this notoriously tough profession.
Henry Fothergill Chorley
Author: Robert Terrell BledsoePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042984395X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
First published in 1998, this book focuses on the once celebrated but now neglected musical journalism of Henry Forthergill Chorley. For nearly forty years he effectively used his acerbic pen and idiosyncratic critical judgments to celebrate the works of Rossini, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Gounod and Sullivan, and to scorn those of Schumann , Verdi and Wagner. This book also discusses his friendships with literary figures such as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Felicia Hemans, as well as his ongoing efforts to establish himself as a novelist as well as a journalist.
Transitions in Middlebrow Writing, 1880 - 1930
Author: K. MacdonaldPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137486775
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines.