[PDF] Home And Identity In Nineteenth Century Literary London eBook

Author : Robertson Lisa C. Robertson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474457908

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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 : Robertson Lisa C. Robertson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474457916

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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 : Giles Whiteley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474443745

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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 : Reza Taher-Kermani
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1474448186

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A study of the wealth of meanings that 'Persia' - real or imagined - held for Victorian poetryTakes a broad, interdisciplinary approach to a significant strand in the 'Oriental' texture of Victorian poetry Contributes to a growing body of research on the process of cultural exchange between the West and the 'Orient' Provides the first systematic index of nineteenth-century 'Persianised' poemsOffers a distinctive mix of history and literature, dealing with an array of texts, ranging from ancient Greece to nineteenth-century British travel writings The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry surveys the variety of ways in which Persia, and the multitude of ideological, historical, cultural and political notions that it embodied, were received, circulated and appropriated. Providing the first systematic index of nineteenth-century poems that were in any way involved with Persia, the book explores its presence across a broad range of works incorporating literary, historical and cultural material.

Author : Patrick Fessenbecker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1474460623

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Argues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content.

Author : Diane Warren
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474464386

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Rereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can be used to illuminate our understanding of the culture and mores of the long nineteenth century, especially those relating to family and kinship.

Author : Laurel Brake
Publisher : Springer
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 1349628859

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This collection of important new research in 19th-century media history represents some salient, recent developments in the field. Taking as its theme, the ways the media serves to define identities - national, ethnic, professional, gender, and textual, the volume addresses serials in the UK, the US, and Australia. High culture rubs shoulders with the popular press, text with image, feminist periodicals and masculine, gay, and domestic serials. Theory and history combine in research by scholars of international repute.

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : London ; New York : Macmillan
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :

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First published in 1889, this novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland.

Author : Olivia Loksing Moy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2023-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474487203

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A lonely damsel imprisoned within a castle or convent cell. The eavesdropping of a prisoner next door. The framed image of a woman with a sinister past. These familiar tropes from 1790s novels and tales exploded onto the English literary scene in 'low-brow' titles of Gothic romance. Surprisingly, however, they also re-emerged as features of major Victorian poems from the 1830s to 1870s. Such signature tropes - inquisitional overhearing; female confinement and the damsel in distress; supernatural switches between living and dead bodies - were transfigured into poetic forms that we recognise and teach today as canonically Victorian. The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry identifies a poetics of Gothic enclosure constitutive of high Victorian poetry that came to define key nineteenth-century poetic forms, from the dramatic monologue, to women's sonnet sequences and metasonnets, to Pre-Raphaelite picture poems.

Author : Flore Janssen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526123525

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This collection places the life and work of Margaret Harkness at the heart of a broader consideration of the socially turbulent decades around the turn of the twentieth century in order to illuminate historical forms of women’s political activism.