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Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies by Julia Kavanagh
Author: A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies
Author: Julia KavanaghPublisher:
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
The politics of writing: Julia Kavanagh, 1824–77
Author: Eileen FausetPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847795269
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Julia Kavanagh was a popular and internationally published writer of the mid-nineteenth century whose collective body of work included fiction, biography, critical studies of French and English women writers, and travel writing. In this critically engaged study Eileen Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women's writing. With few known primary sources to go on, the author manages, through her skilful selection of letters, official documents and historical commentary, to piece together some of the jigsaw of Kavanagh's life. Throughout this study, the biographical element informs and directs discussion of Kavanagh's writing itself. What emerges is a succinct and telling portrait of a woman who, through a desire to write, acquired both economic independence and a means through which she could voice her sexual politics. Eileen Fauset challenges the historical attitudes to 'popular romance', a genre read mainly by women and generally discounted as simple entertainment. She argues that in Kavanagh's novels romance is often the pivot around which issues of cultural and sexual difference are examined, a perspective that, invariably, also informed Kavanagh's non-fiction. It will appeal to academics, students and enthusiasts of Victorian literature and women's writing.
Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: Beyond the Traveller's Gaze
Author: Giorgia AlùPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039110537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This book offers a stimulating analysis of three non-canonical texts in different genres written by British women who lived in Sicily in the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. These texts cover a series of crucial political events as well as social and cultural changes which affected the history of Sicily during the period in question, all seen through the direct and indirect experiences of the authors. The book offers a historical perspective on the late-Victorian and Edwardian representations of post-Unification Italy. At the same time the author challenges current critical literature on travel writing which tends to analyse travel texts without making substantial distinction between works written during a brief visit to a foreign country and those produced during a long-term or permanent residence. The book adopts an interdisciplinary, comparative approach. The three texts are studied by looking at patterns of connection in other written and visual works produced during, or after, an experience in Italy. By drawing on theories of travel writing, genre and gender, along with visual and cultural studies, the author aims to verify how the three texts respond to being analysed as a distinct group, and hence define the specific roles and functions of expatriate women's writing.
A Good Time Coming
Author: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Author: Mayne Reid
Author: Herbert Grey
Author: Mayne Reid