Author : Heather Bozant Witcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1316513491
Examining social and material dimensions of collaboration, this book reveals the diverse networks of nineteenth-century literary exchange.
Author : Matthew Rowlinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2024-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009409956
Centring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.
Author : Lauren Gillingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Design
ISBN : 1009296566
Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.
Author : Aaron Rosenberg
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2023-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009271822
At the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extraction, and technological complexity accelerated daily life, growing concerns about deep time, evolution, globalization, and extinction destabilised scale's value as a measure of reality. Here, Aaron Rosenberg examines how four novelists moved radically beyond novelistic realism, repurposing the genres-romance, melodrama, gothic, and epic-it had ostensibly superseded. He demonstrates how H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf engaged with climatic and ecological crises that persist today, requiring us to navigate multiple temporal and spatial scales simultaneously. The volume shows that problems of scale constrain our responses to crisis by shaping the linguistic, aesthetic, and narrative structures through which we imagine it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author : Francesca Mackenney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009084089
In the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. Tracing the 'science of birdsong' as it developed from the 'ingenious' experiments of Daines Barrington to the evolutionary arguments of Charles Darwin, Francesca Mackenney reveals a legacy of thought which informs, and consequently affords fresh insights into, a canonical group of poems about birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods. With a particular focus on the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Wordsworth siblings, John Clare and Thomas Hardy, her book explores how poets responded to an analogy which challenged definitions of language and therefore of what it means to be human. Drawing together responses to birdsong in science, music and poetry, her distinctive interdisciplinary approach challenges many of the long-standing cultural assumptions which have shaped (and continue to shape) how we respond to other creatures in the Anthropocene.
Author : Sarah Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1108831516
Sarah Green shows how late Victorian Decadent literature paradoxically treats sexual restraint as healthy and aesthetically productive.
Author : Fraser Riddell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108996337
Drawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body explores the central place music held for emergent queer identities in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Canonical writers such as Walter Pater, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf are discussed alongside lesser-known figures such as John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee and Arthur Symons. Engaging with a number of historical case studies, Fraser Riddell pays particular attention to the significance of embodiment in queer musical subcultures and draws on contemporary queer theory and phenomenology to show how writers associate music with shameful, masochistic and anti-humanist subject positions. Ultimately, this study reveals how literary texts at the fin de siècle invest music with queer agency: to challenge or refuse essentialist identities, to facilitate re-conceptions of embodied subjectivity, and to present alternative sensory experiences of space and time. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author : Rosalind Parry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009272012
The Art of the Reprint is a vivid and engaging history of the nineteenth-century novel as it was re-imagined for everyday readers by four extraordinary twentieth-century illustrators. It focuses especially on four reprints: a 1929 edition of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (1878) with engravings by Clare Leighton, a 1930 edition of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) with images by Rockwell Kent, a 1943 edition of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) with woodblocks by Fritz Eichenberg, and a complete set of Jane Austen's novels (1786-1817) illustrated from 1957 to 1974 by Joan Hassall. Taken together, these reprints are indicative of a legacy crafted from historical distance, through personal, political, and artistic circumstance, and for a new century. With biographical, archival, and art- and literary-historical sources as well as close readings of images and texts, this is a richly illustrated account of how artists reinvent canons for the general reader.
Author : Charles Martindale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108835899
The first collected study of Pater's significance to criticism, revealing his pivotal role in establishing principles of the literary essay.
Author : Seth Adam Whidden
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 38,57 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780754666431
Contributing to the current lively discussion of collaboration in French letters, this collection of essays raises fundamental questions about the limits and definition of authorship in the context of the nineteenth century's explosion of collaborative ventures. The volume will interest scholars of nineteenth-century French literature, and more generally, any scholar interested in what's at stake in redefining the role of the French author.
