Author: Emelia Russell GurneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Letters, English
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Letters of Emelia Russell Gurney
Author: Emelia Russell GurneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Letters, English
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Rule Britannia
Author: Deirdre DavidPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501723677
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Deirdre David here explores women's role in the literature of the colonial and imperial British nation, both as writers and as subjects of representation. David's inquiry juxtaposes the parliamentary speeches of Thomas Macaulay and the private letters of Emily Eden, a trial in Calcutta and the missionary literature of Victorian women, writing about thuggee and emigration to Australia. David shows how, in these texts and in novels such as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, Wilkie Collins's Moonstone, and H. Rider Haggard's She, the historical and symbolic roles of Victorian women were linked to the British enterprise abroad. Rule Britannia traces this connection from the early nineteenth-century nostalgia for masculine adventure to later patriarchal anxieties about female cultural assertiveness. Missionary, governess, and moral ideal, promoting sacrifice for the good of the empire—such figures come into sharp relief as David discusses debates over English education in India, class conflicts sparked by colonization, and patriarchal responses to fears about feminism and race degeneration. In conclusion, she reveals how Victorian women, as writers and symbols of colonization, served as critics of empire.
The Church Quarterly Review
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
The Elusive Quest of the Spiritual Malcontent
Author: Timothy C. F. StuntPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498209319
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Timothy C. F. Stunt has gathered a range of his essays, both published and unpublished in a collection of largely biographical studies. His subjects range from discontented Quakers hesitating over their identity, to respectable Anglicans who were fascinated with the charismatic phenomena of tongue speaking and healing. Some of the characters with whom he is concerned can be described as "mavericks" on account of their strikingly individualist inclinations. Occasionally their unpredictability takes on a quasi-comic identity, which could even qualify them to be described as "loose cannons." On the other hand, some of them like Edward Irving, Norris Groves, and John Darby played a crucial part in the development of nineteenth-century evangelicalism. In their quest for the ideal church of their dreams, they were often disappointed but one cannot but admire the single-mindedness of their quest.
Church Quarterly Review
Author: Letters of Emelia Russell Gurney
Author: Emelia Russell GurneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Letters, English
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Speaker
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description