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Languages : en
Pages : 440
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The Lady's Miscellany, Or, Weekly Visitor, for the Use and Amusement of Both Sexes
Author: The Lady's Weekly Miscellany
Author: James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family
Author: Rebecca NesvetPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 104009371X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family is the first monograph focusing on Sweeney Todd and Varney the Vampyre’s creator James Malcolm Rymer (1814–1884). It argues that Rymer wrote his so-called ‘penny bloods’ and ‘dreadfuls’ for and about British urban working families. In the 1840s, the notion of the family acquired unprecedented prominence and radical potential. Raised in an artisanal artistic-literary family, Rymer wrote for and edited family magazines early in that genre’s history, deployed Chartist domesticity to liberal ends, and collaborated with cheap publisher Edward Lloyd to define and popularise the domestic romance genre. In 1850s–1860s penny serials published by George W.M. Reynolds, John Dicks, and Lloyd, Rymer showed how families might sustain Empire and advocated for patriarchal family dynamics in response to literary and political change. During the fin-de-siècle, Rymer’s penny fiction was demonised as hyper-masculine ‘bloods’ and ‘dreadfuls’, a reputation it retains today. Reading Victorian penny fiction’s most indicative author’s works as a corpus and with attention to their original textual, cultural, and political contexts reveals it as the family-oriented phenomenon it in fact was.
New Serial Titles
Author: Catalogue of the Library and Reading Room
Author: Young Men's Institute (Hartford, Conn.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
American Periodical Series
Author: 500+ Revolutionary War Obituaries and Death Notices
Author: Mary Harrell-SesniakPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557182093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Read obituaries and death notices for over 500 Revolutionary War patriots. Spotlighting the famous, such as George Washington, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, and many lesser known heroes -- this publication will draw the interest of historians and family historians on their own genealogical journey.
Discerning Characters
Author: Christopher J. LukasikPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In this path-breaking study of the intersections between visual and literary culture, Christopher J. Lukasik explores how early Americans grappled with the relationship between appearance and social distinction in the decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Through a wide range of evidence, including canonical and obscure novels, newspapers, periodicals, scientific and medical treatises, and plays as well as conduct manuals, portraits, silhouettes, and engravings, Discerning Characters charts the transition from the eighteenth century's emphasis on performance and manners to the search for a more reliable form of corporeal legibility in the wake of the Revolution. The emergence of physiognomy, which sought to understand a person's character based on apparently unchanging facial features, facilitated a larger shift in perception about the meanings of physical appearance and its relationship to social distinction. The ensuing struggle between the face as a pliable medium of cultural performance and as rigid evidence of social standing, Lukasik argues, was at the center of the post-Revolutionary novel, which imagined physiognomic distinction as providing stability during a time of cultural division and political turmoil. As Lukasik shows, this tension between a model of character grounded in the fluid performances of the self and one grounded in the permanent features of the face would continue to shape not only the representation of social distinction within the novel but, more broadly, the practices of literary production and reception in nineteenth-century America across a wide range of media. The result is a new interdisciplinary interpretation of the rise of the novel in America that reconsiders the political and social aims of the genre during the fifty years following the Revolution. In so doing, Discerning Characters powerfully rethinks how we have read—and continue to read—both novels and each other.
Catalogue of the Genealogical and Historical Library of the Colonial Dames of the State of New York
Author: National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New YorkPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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