Author : Fariha Shaikh
Publisher : Edinburgh Critical Studies in
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474433709
Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art is the first book to undertake a comprehensive survey of the literature produced by nineteenth-century settler emigration.
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Page : 530 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2014
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The second part of the thesis takes up the concerns raised by texts studied in the first part and examines how they influence the aesthetic practices of representing distance in narrative paintings and novels. It is divided into two chapters. The fourth chapter focuses on how narrative paintings such as Ford Madox Brown's The Last if England (1855), Richard Redgrave's The Emigrant's Last Sight if Home (1858), James Collinson's Answering the Emigrant's Letter ( 1850), Thomas Webster's A Letter from theColonies (1852) and Abraham Solomon's Second Class- the Parting (1854) use emigrants' letters, advertising bills and other texts in order to explore the troubling effects of emigration on domesticity at home in Britain. The fifth and last chapter of the thesis looks at representations of the textual culture of emigration in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit ( 1844) and David Coppeifield ( 1850) and Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton ( 1848). For both emigrants and those who stayed behind, the experience of nineteenthcentury colonial emigration entailed a radical shifting of the way in which one understood one's relationship to places one inhabited, potentially left behind and possibly might move to. Collectively, across all five chapters, this thesis demonstrates the ways in which emigration culture shaped the aesthetic practices of texts that reconceptualised what it meant to produce and be part of a widening world.
Author : Philip Steer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108484425
A transnational study of how settler colonialism remade the Victorian novel and political economy by challenging ideas of British identity.
Author : Patricia Cove
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1474447260
This book examines the intersections among literary works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins, journalism, parliamentary records and pamphlets, to establish Britain's imaginative investment in the seismic geopolitical realignment of Italian unification.
Author : Giles Whiteley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474443745
Charting an 'aesthetic', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin's art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new kinds of spaces encountered in the nineteenth-century.
Author : Robertson Lisa C. Robertson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474457908
Explores radical designs for the home in the nineteenth-century metropolis and the texts that shaped themUncovers a series of innovative housing designs that emerged in response to London's rapid growth and expansion throughout the nineteenth century Brings together the writing of prominent authors such as Charles Dickens and George Gissing with understudied novels and essays to examine the lively literary engagement with new models of urban housing Focuses on the ways that these new homes provided material and creative space for thinking through the relationship between home and identity Identifies ways in which we might learn from the creative responses to the nineteenth-century housing crisis This book brings together a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social and economic changes in nineteenth-century London, and the literature that gave expression to their novelty. It examines visual and literary representations to explain how these innovations in housing forged opportunities for refashioning definitions of home and identity. Robertson offers readers a new blueprint for understanding the ways in which novels imaginatively and materially produce the city's built environment.
Author : Thomas Hughes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,73 MB
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 1003834124
Resonating with contemporary ecological and queer theory, this book pioneers the theorization of the Victorian idyll, establishing its nature, lineaments, and significance as a formal mode widely practised in nineteenth-century British culture across media and genre. Chapters trace the Victorian idyll’s emergence in the 1830s, its flourishing in the 1860s, and its evolution up to the century’s close, drawing attention to the radicalism of idyllic experiments with pictorial, photographic, dramatic, literary, and poetic form in the work of canonical and lesser-known figures. Approaching the idyll through three intersecting categories—subject, ecology, and form—this book remaps Victorian culture, reshaping thinking about artistic form in the nineteenth century, and recalibrating accepted chronologies. In the representations by a host of Victorian artists and writers engaging with other-than-human forms, and in the natures of the subjectivities animated by these encounters, we find versions of Victorian ecology providing provocative imaginative material for ecocritics, scholars, writers, and artists today. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, English literature, Victorian studies, British history, queer and trans* theory, musicology, and ecocriticism, and will enliven debates pertaining to the environmental across periods.
Author : Josephine McDonagh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192895753
Building on the growing critical engagement with globalization in literary studies, this book confronts the paradox that at a time when transnational human movement occurred globally on an unprecedented scale, British fiction appeared to turn inward to tell stories of local places that valorized stability and rootedness. In contrast, this book reveals how literary works, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the advent of the New Imperialism, were active components of a culture of colonization and emigration. Fictional texts, as print commodities, were enmeshed in technologies of transport and communication, and innovations in literary form were spurred by the conditions and consequences of human movement.
Author : Dickson Melissa Dickson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1474443672
Dickson identifies the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and culture.
Author : Nathan K. Hensley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019879245X
In this far-reaching and provocative study, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed literary writers of the Victorian era to expand the capacities of literary form. He explores the works of some of the era's most astute thinkers, including George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Robert Louis Stevenson.
