A Survey of English Literature
Author : Oliver Elton
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File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : Oliver Elton
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File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : Oliver Elton
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,1 MB
Release : 1955
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Author : Oliver Elton
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 1930
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Page : 266 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 19??
Category : English literature
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Author : Oliver Elton
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Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 1920
Category : English literature
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Author : English Association
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic journals
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Author : Stefan Collini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0192520717
This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words on the page' was in practice bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historical change, the interpretation of the national past, and the scholarship of earlier historians. Among the major figures examined in detail are T.S. Eliot, F.R. Leavis, William Empson, and Raymond Williams, while there are also original discussions of such figures as Basil Willey, L.C. Knights, Q.D. Leavis, and Richard Hoggart. The Nostalgic Imagination argues that in the period between Eliot's The Sacred Wood and Williams's The Long Revolution, the writings of such critics came to occupy the cultural space left by academic history's retreat into specialized, archive-bound monographs. Their work challenged the assumptions of the Whig interpretation of English history, and entailed a revision of the traditional relations between 'literary history' and 'general history'. Combining close textual analysis with wide-ranging intellectual history, this volume both revises the standard story of the history of literary criticism and illuminates a central feature of the cultural history of twentieth-century Britain.
Author : Jordan Kistler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317178297
Arthur O'Shaughnessy's career as a natural historian in the British Museum, and his consequent preoccupation with the role of work in his life, provides the context with which to reexamine his contributions to Victorian poetry. O'Shaughnessy's engagement with aestheticism, socialism, and Darwinian theory can be traced to his career as a Junior Assistant at the British Museum, and his perception of the burden of having to earn a living outside of art. Making use of extensive archival research, Jordan Kistler demonstrates that far from being merely a minor poet, O'Shaughnessy was at the forefront of later Victorian avant-garde poetry. Her analyses of published and unpublished writings, including correspondence, poetic manuscripts, and scientific notebooks, demonstrate O'Shaughnessy's importance to the cultural milieu of the 1870s, particularly his contributions to English aestheticism, his role in the importation of decadence from France, and his unique position within contemporary debates on science and literature.
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Page : 950 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Arts
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Author : Laura Dabundo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1135232342
First Published in 1992, this encyclopedia is designed to survey the social, cultural and intellectual climate of English Romanticism from approximately the 1780s and the French Revolution to the 1830s and the Reform Bill. Focussing on ‘the spirit of the age’, the book deals with the aesthetic, scientific, socioeconomic – indeed the human – environment in which the Romantics flourished. The books considers poets, playwrights and novelists; critics, editors and booksellers; painters, patrons and architects; as well as ideas, trends, fads, and conventions, the familiar and the newly discovered. The book will be of use for everyone from undergraduate English students, through to thesis-driven graduate students to teaching faculty and scholars.