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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Cahiers Victoriens & Édouardiens
Author: Studies in Victorian Poetry
Author: Jacky MartinPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Studies in the Yellow Nineties
Author: J. M. BaïssusPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Studies in the Brontë Sisters
Author: A. BlayacEconomies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle
Author: Jane FordPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317576586
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle. At the end of the nineteenth-century, the move towards new models of economic thought marked the transition from a marketplace centred around the fulfilment of ‘needs’ to one ministering to anything that might, potentially, be desired. This collection considers how the literature of the period meditates on the interaction between economy and desire, doing so with particular reference to the themes of fetishism, homoeroticism, the literary marketplace, social hierarchy, and consumer culture. Drawing on theoretical and conceptual approaches including queer theory, feminist theory, and gift theory, contributors offer original analyses of work by canonical and lesser-known writers, including Oscar Wilde, A.E. Housman, Baron Corvo, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, and Lucas Malet. The collection builds on recent critical developments in fin-de-siècle literature (including major interventions in the areas of Decadence, sexuality, and gender studies) and asks, for instance, how did late nineteenth-century writing schematise the libidinal and somatic dimensions of economic exchange? How might we define the relationship between eroticism and the formal economies of literary production/performance? And what relation exists between advertising/consumer culture and (dissident) sexuality in fin-de-siecle literary discourses? This book marks an important contribution to 19th-Century and Victorian literary studies, and enhances the field of fin-de-siècle studies more generally.
The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination
Author: Aviva BriefelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107116589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
A fascinating study that explores the power of the racially identified hand as a narrative symbol in Victorian literature and culture.
Representations of Hair in Victorian Literature and Culture
Author: Galia OfekPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754661610
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Examining a wide range of historical, artistic, literary, and theoretical works, Galia Ofek shows how changing patterns of power relations between women and patriarchy are rendered anew when viewed through the lens of Victorian hair codes and imagery during the second half of the nineteenth century. Her innovative study reveals the Victorians' well-developed awareness of fetishism and their cognizance of hair's symbolic resonance and commercial value.
The New Nineteenth Century
Author: Barbara Leah HarmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136512527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This book includes essays on writers from the 1840s to the 1890s, well known writers such as Anne Bronte, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker, lesser known writers such as Geraldine Jewsbury, Charles Reade, Margaret Oliphant, George Moore, Sarah Grand and Mary Ward. The contributors explore important thematic concerns: the relation between private and public realms; gender and social class; sexuality and the marketplace; and male and female cultural identity.
H.G. Wells
Author: Annie EscuretPublisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe
Author: Michael HollingtonPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1623560764
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe offers a full historical survey of Dickens's reception in all the major European countries and many of the smaller ones, filling a major gap in Dickens scholarship, which has by and large neglected Dickens's fortunes in Europe, and his impact on major European authors and movements. Essays by leading international critics and translators give full attention to cultural changes and fashions, such as the decline of Dickens's fortunes at the end of the nineteenth century in the period of Naturalism and Aestheticism, and the subsequent upswing in the period of Modernism, in part as a consequence of the rise of film in the era of Chaplin and Eisenstein. It will also offer accounts of Dickens's reception in periods of political upheaval and revolution such as during the communist era in Eastern Europe or under fascism in Germany and Italy in particular.