Author: Carolyn A. BarrosPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472107865
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Provides a new perspective for thinking about and reading autobiographical writing
Autobiography
Author: Carolyn A. BarrosPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472107865
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Provides a new perspective for thinking about and reading autobiographical writing
Intellect and Character in Victorian England
Author: H. S. JonesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521876056
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A major study of a distinguished Victorian intellectual at the epicentre of the revolutions transforming English academic and intellectual life.
The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part III Volume 13
Author: Joanne ShattockPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040129323
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.
Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England
Author: Elise GarritzenPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031284615
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This book traces the transformation of history from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern academic discipline during the second half of the nineteenth century, and shows how this change inspired Victorians to reconsider what it meant to be a historian. This reconceptualization of the ‘historian’ lies at the heart of this book as it explores how historians strove to forge themselves a collective scholarly persona that reflected and legitimised their new disciplinary status and gave them authority to speak on behalf of the past. The author argues that historians used the persona as a replacement for missing institutional structures, and converted book parts to a sphere where they could mould and perform their persona. By ascribing agency to titles, footnotes, running heads, typography, cover design, size, and other paratexts, the book makes an important shift in the way we perceive the formation of modern disciplines. By combining the persona and paratexts, it offers a novel approach to themes that have enjoyed great interest in the history of science. It examines, for example, the role which epistemic and moral virtues held in the Victorian society and scholarly culture, the social organization and hierarchies of scholarly communities, the management of scholarly reputations, the commercialization of knowledge, and the relationship between the persona and the underpinning social, political, economic, and cultural structures and hierarchies. Making a significant contribution to persona studies, it provides new insights for scholars interested in the history of humanities, science, and knowledge; book history; and Victorian culture.
The Whirligig of Time
Author: Judith van Oosterom-PooleyPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783034303682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Rev. ed. of: Whirligigge of time. Leiden: Leiden University, 2004.
A European Version of Victorian Fiction
Author: Allan Conrad ChristensenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004648224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In this first systematic assessment of Ruffini's literary achievement, the seven novels that are apparently so different from each other emerge as an aesthetically coherent and individualized contribution to the mid-Victorian fictional canon. Composed in English by an Italian exile resident in Paris, they describe interactions among men and women of many nationalities and trace interesting European journeys and pilgrimages during the early days of mass tourism. While thus documenting such phenomena as expanding rail networks, holiday resorts and health spas, the novels dramatize, more importantly, the inadequacy of narrowly local and intolerant perspectives. The protagonists must gain a broadly cosmopolitan vision and sense of mutuality as they pursue the common quest for self-integration and for a purpose in life. A patriotic commitment like that which had engaged Ruffini in his youthful Mazzinian phase cannot now offer that purpose, and the narratives convey strong scepticism about other ideals, such as romantic love, too. More positively the stories contain many dedicated physicians, who practice a holistic medicine and who thereby substitute for the often sinister priests of a corrupt religious establishment. Ministering to the humanity that Ruffini typically portrays as sick or wounded and tormented by misanthropy and guilt, they are the chief mitigators of the bleakness of the modern condition.
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1588
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part II Volume 6
Author: Linda H PetersonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040129315
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.
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