Author: Maggs Bros
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
English Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries
Author: Maggs Bros
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Nineteenth-century English
Author: Richard W. Bailey
Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape.
English Literature from the 19th Century Through Today
Author: J. E. Luebering Manager and Senior Editor, Literature
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1615301178
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Explores the works, writers, and movements that shaped the British literary canon from the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1615301178
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Explores the works, writers, and movements that shaped the British literary canon from the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first century.
The Vampire in Nineteenth Century English Literature
Author: Carol A. Senf
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299263835
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Carol A. Senf traces the vampire’s evolution from folklore to twentieth-century popular culture and explains why this creature became such an important metaphor in Victorian England. This bloodsucker who had stalked the folklore of almost every culture became the property of serious artists and thinkers in Victorian England, including Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. People who did not believe in the existence of vampires nonetheless saw numerous metaphoric possibilities in a creature from the past that exerted pressure on the present and was often threatening because of its sexuality.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299263835
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Carol A. Senf traces the vampire’s evolution from folklore to twentieth-century popular culture and explains why this creature became such an important metaphor in Victorian England. This bloodsucker who had stalked the folklore of almost every culture became the property of serious artists and thinkers in Victorian England, including Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. People who did not believe in the existence of vampires nonetheless saw numerous metaphoric possibilities in a creature from the past that exerted pressure on the present and was often threatening because of its sexuality.
The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature
Author: Laura Marcus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521820776
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521820776
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
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A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Henry Augustin Beers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature
Author: Dr Christine Berberich
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409489973
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Studies of the English gentleman have tended to focus mainly on the nineteenth century, encouraging the implicit assumption that this influential literary trope has less resonance for twentieth-century literature and culture. Christine Berberich challenges this notion by showing that the English gentleman has proven to be a remarkably adaptable and relevant ideal that continues to influence not only literature but other forms of representation, including the media and advertising industries. Focusing on Siegfried Sassoon, Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh and Kazuo Ishiguro, whose presentations of the gentlemanly ideal are analysed in their specific cultural, historical, and sociological contexts, Berberich pays particular attention to the role of nostalgia and its relationship to 'Englishness'. Though 'Englishness' and by extension the English gentleman continue to be linked to depictions of England as the green and pleasant land of imagined bygone days, Berberich counterbalances this perception by showing that the figure of the English gentleman is the medium through which these authors and many of their contemporaries critique the shifting mores of contemporary society. Twentieth-century depictions of the gentleman thus have much to tell us about rapidly changing conceptions of national, class, and gender identity.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409489973
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Studies of the English gentleman have tended to focus mainly on the nineteenth century, encouraging the implicit assumption that this influential literary trope has less resonance for twentieth-century literature and culture. Christine Berberich challenges this notion by showing that the English gentleman has proven to be a remarkably adaptable and relevant ideal that continues to influence not only literature but other forms of representation, including the media and advertising industries. Focusing on Siegfried Sassoon, Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh and Kazuo Ishiguro, whose presentations of the gentlemanly ideal are analysed in their specific cultural, historical, and sociological contexts, Berberich pays particular attention to the role of nostalgia and its relationship to 'Englishness'. Though 'Englishness' and by extension the English gentleman continue to be linked to depictions of England as the green and pleasant land of imagined bygone days, Berberich counterbalances this perception by showing that the figure of the English gentleman is the medium through which these authors and many of their contemporaries critique the shifting mores of contemporary society. Twentieth-century depictions of the gentleman thus have much to tell us about rapidly changing conceptions of national, class, and gender identity.
Russian Thinkers
Author: Isaiah Berlin
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0141393173
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, which he addresses in his most famous essay, 'The Hedgehog and the Fox,' Berlin considers the social and political circumstances that produced such men as Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky, and others of the Russian intelligentsia, who made up, as Berlin describes, 'the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world.'
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0141393173
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, which he addresses in his most famous essay, 'The Hedgehog and the Fox,' Berlin considers the social and political circumstances that produced such men as Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky, and others of the Russian intelligentsia, who made up, as Berlin describes, 'the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world.'
The Flaneur in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Author: Isabel Vila-Cabanes
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527519392
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The flaneur is a cultural and literary phenomenon usually associated with nineteenth–century Paris, but the type also exists in the artistic and literary panorama of other major European capitals, such as London, Berlin, and Moscow. Despite massive recent interest in the figure of the flaneur in scholarly studies, analyses about the nineteenth–century British analogue are often fragmentary, appearing in the form of isolated articles. However, there is an abundant amount of nineteenth–century novels, sketches and journalistic essays which offer remarkable and hitherto overlooked accounts of the British metropolis, and which frequently include the figure of the flaneur as a central character or the topic of flanerie as a theme. This book explores a great array of texts, making an essential contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the prehistory or, rather, history of the British flaneur from the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, with a special focus on the nineteenth century. The flaneur is looked at as a figure in which the development and dynamics of the modern metropolis and its impact on the literary discourse are manifested from a formal, as well as thematic, perspective.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527519392
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The flaneur is a cultural and literary phenomenon usually associated with nineteenth–century Paris, but the type also exists in the artistic and literary panorama of other major European capitals, such as London, Berlin, and Moscow. Despite massive recent interest in the figure of the flaneur in scholarly studies, analyses about the nineteenth–century British analogue are often fragmentary, appearing in the form of isolated articles. However, there is an abundant amount of nineteenth–century novels, sketches and journalistic essays which offer remarkable and hitherto overlooked accounts of the British metropolis, and which frequently include the figure of the flaneur as a central character or the topic of flanerie as a theme. This book explores a great array of texts, making an essential contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the prehistory or, rather, history of the British flaneur from the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, with a special focus on the nineteenth century. The flaneur is looked at as a figure in which the development and dynamics of the modern metropolis and its impact on the literary discourse are manifested from a formal, as well as thematic, perspective.
Literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Author: David Torevell
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 9781527574540
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This volume investigates how literary texts have reflected, in ground-breaking ways, distinctive features of a Catholic philosophy of life. It demonstrates how literature, by its ability to capture the imagination, is able to evoke facets of human experience related specifically to a Catholic understanding of life.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 9781527574540
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This volume investigates how literary texts have reflected, in ground-breaking ways, distinctive features of a Catholic philosophy of life. It demonstrates how literature, by its ability to capture the imagination, is able to evoke facets of human experience related specifically to a Catholic understanding of life.