[PDF] Sensation Drama 1860 1880 eBook

Author : Hofer-Robinson Joanna Hofer-Robinson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 147443956X

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Features previously unpublished material alongside famous plays This pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth century. Characterised by exhilarating plots, large-scale special effects and often transgressive characterisation, these dramas are still exciting for modern readers. This anthology lays the foundation for further scholarly work on sensation drama and focuses public attention on to this influential and immensely popular genre. It features five plays from writers including Dion Boucicault and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. These are supported by a substantial critical apparatus, which adds further value to the anthology by providing rich details on performance history and textual variants. The critical introduction situates the genre in its cultural context and argues for the significance of sensation drama to shifting theatrical cultures and practices.Key FeaturesProvides detailed critical apparatus to facilitate the study of neglected plays, including performance history, notes and recommended further readingWidens the critical conversation on sensation drama by drawing attention to the work of female playwrightsReprints obscure works by popular authors and shows their involvement with both literary and theatrical cultures

Author : Joanna Hofer-Robinson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : English drama
ISBN : 1474439551

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This pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth century.

Author : Lee Michael-Berger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 2023-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1000874745

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Modern Murders is the first comprehensive study of murder representations during the turn of the century, drawing on previously neglected archival material to explore the intellectual, cultural, and artistic contexts of the period. Most studies view the abundance of murder representations throughout the nineteenth century as an indicator of a supposedly typical Victorian appetite for sensation and melodrama. Modern Murders, however, demonstrates the turn of the century's backlash against melodramatic and sensational representations of murder and reads them as an important component in the struggles for better aesthetic standards in art and entertainment, and as a dominant feature in the debates on mass culture. Through a plethora of visual and written texts, representations of fictional and actual "real life" murders, and "high" and "popular" forms of writing, the volume considers the importance of murder in the elite claim to cultural authority versus its perception of plebian taste, in the context of the democratization of culture. This book will be of value to scholars and graduate students in a variety of research areas, as well as general readers interested in the role of murder as a central trope in modern art and culture.

Author : Carolyn Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 110709593X

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A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.

Author : Sara Lodge
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 2024-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0300277881

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A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account--and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realise that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain, working both with the police and for private agencies, which they sometimes managed themselves. Sara Lodge recovers these forgotten women's lives. She also reveals the sensational role played by the fantasy female detective in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction, enthralling a public who relished the spectacle of a cross-dressing, fist-swinging heroine who got the better of love rats, burglars, and murderers alike. How did the morally ambiguous work of real women detectives, sometimes paid to betray their fellow women, compare with the exploits of their fictional counterparts, who always save the day? Lodge's book takes us into the murky underworld of Victorian society on both sides of the Atlantic, revealing the female detective as both an unacknowledged labourer and a feminist icon.

Author : Cian T. McMahon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1040047165

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This volume gathers over 40 world-class scholars to explore the dynamics that have shaped the Irish experience in America from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the early 1600s to the present, over 10 million Irish people emigrated to various points around the globe. Of them, more than six million settled in what we now call the United States of America. Some were emigrants, some were exiles, and some were refugees—but they all brought with them habits, ideas, and beliefs from Ireland, which played a role in shaping their new home. Organized chronologically, the chapters in this volume offer a cogent blend of historical perspectives from the pens of some of the world’s leading scholars. Each section explores multiple themes including gender, race, identity, class, work, religion, and politics. This book also offers essays that examine the literary and/or artistic production of each era. These studies investigate not only how Irish America saw itself or, in turn, was seen, but also how the historical moment influenced cultural representation. It demonstrates the ways in which Irish Americans have connected with other groups, such as African Americans and Native Americans, and sets “Irish America” in the context of the global Irish diaspora. This book will be of value to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as instructors and scholars interested in American History, Immigration History, Irish Studies, and Ethnic Studies more broadly.

Author : Corelli Marie Corelli
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 1474441939

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A new scholarly edition of a major late-Victorian scientific romance novelMarie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel that is a key text for scholars and students of late-Victorian women's writing. It also raises urgent questions about a wide array of textual and cultural concerns, especially the form and function of the Victorian 'bestseller'.Key FeaturesContains a thorough critical and analytical introduction, annotations and appendicesProvides context and underlines the aesthetic significance of Corelli's supernatural romanceEngages with the full range of secondary scholarship on this neglected late-Victorian author

Author : David Malcolm
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1474448372

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Hubert Crackanthorpe was a skilful and technically innovative English realist/naturalist writer. This edition of his powerful first collection of short stories features a carefully contextualised introduction to the A01 and his work.

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,65 MB
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : England
ISBN : 1474443257

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The first scholarly edition of forgotten late Victorian classic of rural life and sensation fiction.

Author : Rebecca Welshman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 1474440908

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Agriculture and the Land brings together previously uncollected essays on the changing conditions of agriculture and rural life in the 1870s and 1880s. These items, many of which are unknown to researchers, were first published in leading periodicals of the time and offer new insight into the trajectory and timeframe of Jefferies' career. The material offers fresh perspectives on the economics and politics of agriculture, the condition of the agricultural labourer, the use of steam power, the land question, education and changing farming practices.