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Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521886996
Stimulating and informative new essays on many aspects of nineteenth-century culture.
Author : Deirdre David
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 39,25 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 : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 15,14 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 : Kerry Powell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 49,36 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 : Lawrence Manley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107495555
London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth and poverty, of Conrad and the Empire, of Woolf and the wartime Blitz, of Naipaul and postcolonial immigration, and of contemporary globalism. Contributions from historians, art historians, theorists and media specialists as well as leading literary scholars exemplify current approaches to genre, gender studies, book history, performance studies and urban studies. In showing how the tradition of English literature is shaped by representations of London, this volume also illuminates the relationship between the literary imagination and the society of one of the world's greatest cities.
Author : Linda K. Hughes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107182476
Inclusive, cutting-edge essay collection by leading scholars on Victorian women poets and their diverse poetic forms and identities.
Author : Herbert F. Tucker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1118624483
A NEW COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE The Victorian period was a time of rapid cultural change, which resulted in a huge and varied literary output. A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture offers experienced guidance to the literature of nineteenth-century Britain and its social and historical context. This revised and expanded edition comprises contributions from over 30 leading scholars who, approaching the Victorian epoch from different positions and traditions, delve into the unruly complexities of the Victorian imagination. Divided into five parts, this new Companion surveys seven decades of history before examining the key phases in a Victorian life, the leading professions and walks of life, the major literary genres, the way Victorians defined their persons, homes, and national identity, and how recent “neo-Victorian” developments in contemporary culture reconfigure the sense we make of the past today. Important topics such as sexuality, denominational faith, social class, and global empire inform each chapter’s approach. Each chapter provides a comprehensive bibliography of established and emerging scholarship.
Author : Linda H. Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107064848
Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.
Author : Joanne Shattock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521882885
A volume of essays on Victorian themes, genres and authors, aimed at students and lecturers.
Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494486
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.