Author : Richard W. Bailey
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780472085408
Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape.
Author : Christopher Harvie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 2000-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0191606499
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, when it faced its greatest test since the defeat of Napoleon, it was largely urban and English. Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew show the forces behind Britain's rise to its imperial zenith, and the continuing tensions within the nations and classes of the 'union state'. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Manfred Görlach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 1999-11-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521476843
This book surveys the features of nineteenth-century English and provides over 100 sample texts and numerous exercises.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 21,55 MB
Release : 2002-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780333725603
The nineetenth century was a period of striking developments, and subject to a great pressure of change. This process of change is the primary focus of the book. Organised into a series of thematic chapters, Black and MacRaild's wide-ranging text offers the reader an analysis of numerous spheres of human history: politics, empire and warfare; economy, society and population; religion and culture. The book also offers considered treatment of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, with a truly British (as opposed to English) perspective maintained throughout. With numerous illustrations, helpful explanatory tables, boxes and textual inserts, as well as a list of further reading with each chapter, Ninteetenth Century Britain is an excellent introductory text book for students of this most vital period in British history.
Author : Stefanie Markovits
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814210406
"We think of the nineteenth century as an active age - the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, and railroads, of great exploration and the Great Exhibition. But in reading the works of Romantic and Victorian writers one notices a conflict, what Stefanie Markovits terms "a crisis of action." In her book, The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Markovits maps out this conflict by focusing on four writers: William Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Eliot, and Henry James. Each chapter offers a "case-study" that demonstrates how specific historical contingencies - including reaction to the French Revolution, laissez-faire economic practices, changes in religious and scientific beliefs, and shifts in women's roles - made people in the period hypersensitive to the status of action and its literary co-relative, plot."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : J. Kilroy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 2007-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230604358
Through analysis of eight English novels of the Nineteenth century, this work explores the ways in which the novel contributes to the formation of ideology regarding the family, and, conversely, the ways in which changing attitudes toward the family shape and reshape the novel.
Author : Kathryn Gleadle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1403937540
This highly original synthesis is a clear and stimulating assessment of nineteenth-century British women. It aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the key historiographical debates and issues, placing particular emphasis upon recent, revisionist research. The book highlights not merely the ideologies and economic circumstances which shaped women's lives, but highlights the sheer diversity of women's own experiences and identities. In so doing, it presents a positive but nuanced interpretation of women's roles within their own families and communities, as well as stressing women's enormous contribution to the making of contemporary British culture and society.
Author : Joshua King
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 2022-04-02
Category :
ISBN : 9780814255292
Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Author : Julia Prewitt Brown
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 14,7 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Manfred Görlach
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027237522
In the 19th century, education became accessible to much wider circles of society in a great number and variety of schools and the teaching of grammar came to be obligatory from 1870/72 with the advent of general education. Whereas these general trends of the 19th century are well-known to scholars working in different disciplines of social history, and the history of education in particular, it is still true that major sections of the evidence are largely uncollected. This is especially so for school books: there is virtually a gap between the 18th century and the present grammatical tradition. This bibliography lists some 1930 works on English grammar published in the 19th century, mainly in Britain and the US, half of which are accompanied by short descriptions of their physical make-up, content and affiliation.
