Author: Harold LockePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Published Novels and Ballads of William Harrison Ainsworth
Author: Harold LockeA Bibliographical Catalogue of the Published Novels and Ballads of William Harrison Ainsworth
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, M. D., LL. D., 1879-1928
Author: Harold LockeWilliam Harrison Ainsworth
Author: George John WorthThe Cambridge bibliography of English literature. 3. 1800 - 1900
Author: Frederick Wilse BatesonPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
The London Mercury
Author: The Life and Works of the Lancashire Novelist William Harrison Ainsworth, 1850-1882
Author: Stephen James CarverPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
William Harrison Ainsworth, a prolific writer now as obscure as he once was famous, reinvented the gothic novel in an English setting, a radical re-write of Scott's model of the historical romance and an antecedent of the contemporary urban gothic of Dickens and Reynolds. This study examines Ainsworth's literary career from a writer of magazine tales of terror in the 1820s to the massive influence of his gothic/Newgate romance of 1834, Rookwood; his friendships with Lamb, Lockhart, and Dickens; his fall from literary grace during the Newgate controversy (a moral panic engendered by the supposedly pernicious effects of cheap, theatrical adaptations of Ainsworth's underworld romance Jack Sheppard). legacy of Ainsworth's subsequent historical novels, taking The Lancashire Witches to be his final, major work and the last of the original gothic novels. The novels The Tower of London, Guy Fawkes, Old St. Paul's and Windsor Castle are read as epic tragedy rather than simply as bad romance. The study re-examines Ainsworth's singular vision of the outlaw, English history and religious intolerance as being at political odds with the new Victorian value system, particularly with regard to Catholics and the urban poor. A final chapter explores Ainsworth's later life and fiction and his adoption by his native Mancunians as The Lancashire Novelist. The book includes extracts from Ainsworth's correspondence and journalism, detailing his close relationship with, among others, Scott, Dickens, Forster, Thackeray, Cruikshank, Bulwer-Lytton and G.P.R. James.
The Bookman
Author: English Literary History and Bibliography
Author: John Gerard O'LearyPublisher:
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
XIX Century Fiction, Volume One
Author: M. SadleirPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520349768
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1195
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived