Author: Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
A List of the Books of Reference in the Reading Room of the British Museum
Author: Victorian Women and Wayward Reading
Author: Marisa Palacios KnoxPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108853471
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
In the nineteenth century, no assumption about female reading generated more ambivalence than the supposedly feminine facility for identifying with fictional characters. The belief that women were more impressionable than men inspired a continuous stream of anxious rhetoric about “female quixotes”: women who would imitate inappropriate characters or apply incongruous frames of reference from literature to their own lives. While the overt cultural discourse portrayed female literary identification as passive and delusional, Palacios Knox reveals increasing accounts of Victorian women wielding literary identification as a deliberate strategy. Wayward women readers challenged dominant assumptions about “feminine reading” and, by extension, femininity itself. Victorian Women and Wayward Reading contextualizes crises about female identification as reactions to decisive changes in the legal, political, educational, and professional status of women over the course of the nineteenth century: changes that wayward reading helped women first to imagine and then to enact.
The Alabama Arbitration
Author: Thomas Willing BalchPublisher:
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Category : Alabama claims
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Romantic Localities
Author: Christoph BodePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317324307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Romantic Localities explores the ways in which Romantic-period writers of varying nationalities responded to languages, landscapes – both geographical and metaphorical – and literatures.
A Contents-subject Index to General and Periodical Literature
Author: Alfred CotgreavePublisher: London : E. Stock
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900: Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine. The Contemporary review. The Cornhill magazine. The Edinburgh review (incl. 1802-1823). The Home and foreign review. Macmillan's magazine. The North British review. The Quarterly review
Author: Walter Edwards HoughtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
Book Description
The Surplus of Culture
Author: Ewa BorkowskaPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443832537
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This multifaceted volume presents the elusive surplus of culture in the spotlight of theory and academic practice. Despite its overtly economic implications, the concept alludes to the added value of sense, common sense and nonsense which is represented as languages of irony, irrationality and absurdity potentially subverting traditional and mainstream “regimes” of culture. Consequently, the “moment of surplus” is inherent in critical interpretation in which supposedly well-entrenched notions suddenly reveal their implicitly shattering and subversive nature. The surplus of culture dwells at the risky intersection of untamed interpretation and tradition. It is the space of the “third” in which literary canons are re-visited, language reveals its hidden political agendas, the Orient reclaims its own cognitive perspective and established structures of cognition are questioned in the tragic-comic gesture of insight. The volume is a must for scholars and researchers in the fields of cultural studies, literature and arts as well as literary theory.
Women Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Joanne WilkesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134776950
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Focusing particularly on the critical reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, Joanne Wilkes offers in-depth examinations of reviews by eight female critics: Maria Jane Jewsbury, Sara Coleridge, Hannah Lawrance, Jane Williams, Julia Kavanagh, Anne Mozley, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward. What they wrote about women writers, and what their writings tell us about the critics' own sense of themselves as women writers, reveal the distinctive character of nineteenth-century women's contributions to literary history. Wilkes explores the different choices these critics, writing when women had to grapple with limiting assumptions about female intellectual capacities, made about how to disseminate their own writing. While several publishing in periodicals wrote anonymously, others published books, articles and reviews under their own names. Wilkes teases out the distinctiveness of nineteenth-century women's often ignored contributions to the critical reception of canonical women authors, and also devotes space to the pioneering efforts of Lawrance, Kavanagh and Williams to draw attention to the long tradition of female literary activity up to the nineteenth century. She draws on commentary by male critics of the period as well, to provide context for this important contribution to the recuperation of women's critical discourse in nineteenth-century Britain.
The Battle of the Styles
Author: Bernard PorterPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441174737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This title explores the controversy surrounding the design of the new Foreign Office in London during Britain's Imperial heyday. In 1855 it was decided to build a new block of government offices in London, starting with the Foreign and War Offices. The government offices competition came at what was probably - looking back on it - the zenith of Britain's confidence as a nation and international power. One would expect the mid-Victorians to have felt, firstly, pride in their current national situation; and secondly, the urge to commemorate this in the most important national building to be projected in twenty years. Porter uses the debates surrounding the building of these important new monuments to interrogate the very fabric of British society, culture and nation building. The discussion on so many issues - religion, nationality, empire, history, modernism, truth, morality, gender - quite apart from considerations of 'pure' aesthetics, offers an unusual, perhaps even unique, insight into the relationship between these matters and the 'culture' of the time.