Author : Gregory Vargo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107197856
Explores the journalism and fiction appearing in the early Victorian working-class periodical press and its influence on mainstream literature.
Author : Bernard V. Lightman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139992309
In this collection of essays from leading scholars, the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture is explored for the first time, mapping new relationships between the arts and sciences. Rather than focusing simply on evolution and literature or art, this volume brings together essays exploring the impact of evolutionary ideas on a wide range of cultural activities including painting, sculpture, dance, music, fiction, poetry, cinema, architecture, theatre, photography, museums, exhibitions and popular culture. Broad-ranging, rather than narrowly specialized, each chapter provides a brief introduction to key scholarship, a central section exploring original insights drawn from primary source material, and a conclusion offering overarching principles and a projection towards further areas of research. Each chapter covers the work of significant individuals and groups applying evolutionary theory to their particular art, both as theorists and practitioners. This comprehensive examination of topics sheds light on larger and previously unknown Victorian cultural patterns.
Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521646802
This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and religious belief. The thirteen specially-commissioned chapters offer insights into the works of well-known figures such as Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and the writings of women poets - like Michael Field, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster - whose contribution to Victorian culture has in more recent years been acknowledged by modern scholars. Revealing the breadth of the Victorians' experiments with poetic form, this Companion also discloses the extent to which their writings addressed the prominent intellectual and social questions of the day. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a comprehensive guide to further reading.
Author : Deirdre David
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107005132
A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.
Author : Edward Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 2004-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521616164
The fictional world of women in the time of Jane Austen set in the context of social and economic reality.
Author : Kate Flint
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1239 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316175820
This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1901, are followed by essays on topics including sexuality, sensation, cityscapes, melodrama, epic and economics. Victorian writing is placed in its complex relation to the Empire, Europe and America, as well as to Britain's component nations. The final chapters consider how Victorian literature, and the period as a whole, influenced twentieth-century writers. Original, lucid and stimulating, each chapter is an important contribution to Victorian literary studies. Together, the contributors create an engaging discussion of the ways in which the Victorians saw themselves and of how their influence has persisted.
Author : Jonathan Smith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780851157832
It was in the 19th and early 20th centuries that Cambridge, characterised in the previous century as a place of indolence and complacency, underwent the changes which produced the institutional structures which persist today. Foremost among them was the rise of mathematics as the dominant subject within the university, with the introduction of the Classical Tripos in 1824, and Moral and Natural Sciences Triposes in 1851. Responding to this, Trinity was notable in preparing its students for honours examinations, which came to seem rather like athletics competitions, by working them hard at college examinations. The admission of women and dissenters in the 1860s and 1870s was a major change ushered in by the Royal Commission of 1850, which finally brought the colleges out of the middle ages and strengthened the position of the university, at the same time laying the foundations of the new system of lectures and supervisions. Contributors: JUNE BARROW-GREEN, MARY BEARD, JOHN R. GIBBINS, PAULA GOULD, ELISABETH LEEDHAM-GREEN, DAVID McKITTERICK, JONATHAN SMITH, GILLIAN SUTHERLAND, CHRISTOPHER STRAY, ANDREW WARWICK, JOHN WILKES.
Author : Kerry Powell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 24,30 MB
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1139826425
This 2004 Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre, both in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with a brief overview and introduction surveying the theatre of the time followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the frame of Victorian and Edwardian culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine specific aspects of performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audiences themselves; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender are also explored. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce and melodrama, while other essays bring forward new topics and approaches that cross the boundaries of traditional investigation, including analysis of the economics of theatre and of the theatricality of personal identity.
Author : David Clifford
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1843312123
An intriguing look at the marginal sciences of the nineteenth century and their influence on the culture of the period.
Author : Linda K. Hughes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 24,64 MB
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521856248
An overview of British poetry from 1830 to 1901, with a glossary of literary terms and guide to further reading.
