A Disimprisoned Epic

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 151280259X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Book Synopsis A Disimprisoned Epic by : Mark Cumming

Download or read book A Disimprisoned Epic written by Mark Cumming and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution captured the Victorian imagination with vivid pictures of a society in conflict. A rich, brilliant, and arresting book, it defined a crucial epoch in modern European history for generations of British readers. Nevertheless, The French Revolution has lost not only its general readership but also its academic audience, for it is not history as history is commonly practiced, and it is not literature as literature is commonly understood. Only in the past few decades has this difficult yet rewarding text moved back to the central position it deserves. In A Disimprisoned Epic, Mark Cumming elucidates the formal genesis of the French Revolution in Carlyle's literary criticism and reestablishes it as an epic experiment in literary form. He discusses specifically how The French Revolution combines the myths of epic with the facts of history; the nobility of tragedy with the grotesque absurdity of farce; the devotion of elegy with the dismissive rancor of satire; and the didactic clarity of emblem and allegory with the confusion of symbol, fragment, and phantasmagory. A Disimprisoned Epic will be useful to scholars and students of Carlyle and of Victorian British and American literature.

Epic

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199232997
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Epic by : Herbert F. Tucker

Download or read book Epic written by Herbert F. Tucker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary history has conventionally viewed Milton as the last real practitioner of the epic in English verse. Herbert Tucker's spirited book shows that the British tradition of epic poetry was unbroken from the French Revolution to World War I.

Carlyle and the Search for Authority

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Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814205380
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Book Synopsis Carlyle and the Search for Authority by : Chris Vanden Bossche

Download or read book Carlyle and the Search for Authority written by Chris Vanden Bossche and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author demonstrates how Thomas Carlyle, in virtually all his writings, conducted a search for a new centre of social and political authority that would fit his changing world.

The Arnoldian

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.P/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Arnoldian written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nineteenth Century Prose

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth Century Prose written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Romantic Victorians

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 140390717X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis Romantic Victorians by : R. Cronin

Download or read book Romantic Victorians written by R. Cronin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-11-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a wide range of authors, among them Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, Clare, Mary Shelley and Disraeli, Cronin brings light and order to one of the murkiest quarters in recent British literary history. Brimming with intelligent and original perceptions about authors of works that have fallen through literary-historical cracks, Romantic Victorians offers shrewd assessments of their formal and tactical designs.

A World of Possibilities

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Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814205224
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Book Synopsis A World of Possibilities by : Clyde de L. Ryals

Download or read book A World of Possibilities written by Clyde de L. Ryals and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how romantic irony characterizes works, in various genres, by Carlyle, Thackeray, Browning, Arnold, Dickens, Tennyson, and Pater. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The French Revolution

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192547550
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Book Synopsis The French Revolution by : Thomas Carlyle

Download or read book The French Revolution written by Thomas Carlyle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is I think the most radical Book that has been written in these late centuries . . . and will give pleasure and displeasure, one may expect, to almost all classes of persons.' Carlyle Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774 and ends with Napoleon suppressing the insurrection of the 13th Vendémaire. Both in Its form and content, the work was intended as a revolt against history writing itself, with Carlyle exploding the eighteenth-century conventions of dignified gentlemanly discourse. Immersing himself in his French sources with unprecedented imaginative and intellectual engagement, he recreates the upheaval in a language that evokes the chaotic atmosphere of the events. In the French Revolution Carlyle achieves the most vivid historical reconstruction of the crisis of his, or any other, age. This new edition offers an authoritative text, a comprehensive record of Carlyle's French, English, and German sources, a select bibliography of editions, related writings, and critical studies, chronologies of both Thomas Carlyle and the French Revolution, and a new and full index. In addition, Carlyle's work is placed in the context of both British and European history and writing, and linked to a variety of major figures, including Edward Gibbon, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, Hegel, and R. G. Collingwood.

Riots in Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443811912
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Riots in Literature by : David Bell

Download or read book Riots in Literature written by David Bell and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riots in Literature addresses representations of crowd disorder as manifestations of popular politics, including colonial and postcolonial contexts. The terms used to describe disorder are themselves, of course, contested. Words like “mob,” “demonstration” and “protest,” not to mention “riot’ itself, denote a particular perspective based on an elitist taxonomy for dealing with social and cultural phenomena in society. Of primary concern is the way in which the text describes and designates crowd behaviour using the language of denigration, metaphors of the primitive and animalistic, brutal images, and silences, and where the mediation of the event is expressed in terms of the binary order/disorder. The contributors to this volume are interested in the analysis of the interaction of official political culture and crowd politics as represented in literature and orature, and how such representations contribute to the discourses of authority and subversion of their period. The essays are wide-ranging and explore the phenomenon of riots in literature through studies of popular risings in Shakespeare; Carlyle and the French Revolution; the Rebecca Riots in Wales; popular ballads and the Indian War of Independence in 1857, post-partition riots in India and Pakistan in the 1960s, township violence in South African fiction post-1948, the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles in detective fiction and avant garde disturbances in France of the 1920s and 1930s. Throughout the book, these essays focus attention on the tension-filled relationship that is perceived between literature and discourses of power and popular resistance.

Reader's Guide to Literature in English

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135314179
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Book Synopsis Reader's Guide to Literature in English by : Mark Hawkins-Dady

Download or read book Reader's Guide to Literature in English written by Mark Hawkins-Dady and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.

Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135816069
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition by : Theresa Enos

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition written by Theresa Enos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Carlyle and the Economics of Terror

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773565205
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Carlyle and the Economics of Terror by : Mary Desaulniers

Download or read book Carlyle and the Economics of Terror written by Mary Desaulniers and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-01-10 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Aristotle's oikonomia to establish a paradigm of wholeness and authentic engagement, Desaulniers argues that Carlyle returns language to material wholeness by insisting on situating sign within representation so that the materiality of the sign is not surrendered to the idea imposed on it. By focusing on reading as an act of Constitution within The French Revolution, she places the political crisis within a linguistic one: the Constitution becomes both a thematic and self-reflexive constituent of the linguistic process. Desaulniers concentrates on Carlyle's use of Gothic conventions, drawing upon Goethe's Faust and the Gothic romances of Maturin and Lewis. Establishing The French Revolution as a precursor to Browning's Sordello, she illustrates that the "economics" of representation remains a pivotal nineteenth-century linguistic strategy.

Nationalism and Irony

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019028997X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis Nationalism and Irony by : Yoon Sun Lee

Download or read book Nationalism and Irony written by Yoon Sun Lee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalism and irony are two of the most significant developments of the Romantic period, yet they have not been linked in depth before now. This study shows how Romantic nationalism in Britain explored irony's potential as a powerful source of civic cohesion. The period's leading conservative voices, self-consciously non-English figures such as Edmund Burke, Walter Scott, and Thomas Carlyle, accentuated rather than disguised the anomalous character of Britain's identity, structure, and history. Their irony publicly fractured while upholding sentimental fictions of national wholeness. Britain's politics of deference, its reverence for tradition, and its celebration of productivity all became not only targets of irony but occasions for its development as a patriotic institution. This study offers a different view of both Romantic irony and Romantic nationalism: irony is examined as an outgrowth of commercial society and as a force that holds together center and periphery, superiors and subordinates, in the culture of nationalism.

The Literature of Melancholia

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230336981
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis The Literature of Melancholia by : M. Middeke

Download or read book The Literature of Melancholia written by M. Middeke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection analyzes philosophical, psycho-analytic and aesthetic contexts of the discourse of melancholia in British and postcolonial literature and culture and seeks to trace the multi-faceted phenomenon of melancholia from the early modern period to the present. Texts discussed range from Shakespeare and Milton to Coetzee and Barker.

Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031156846
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain by : Helen Kingstone

Download or read book Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Helen Kingstone and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how in nineteenth-century Britain, confronted with the newly industrialized and urbanized modern world, writers, artists, journalists and impresarios tried to gain an overview of contemporary history. They drew on two successive but competing conceptual models of overview: the panorama and the compilation. Both models claimed to offer a holistic picture of the present moment, but took very different approaches. This book shows that panoramas (360° views previously associated with the Romantic period) and compilations (big data projects previously associated with the Victorian fin de siècle) are intertwined, relevant across the entire century, and often remediated, making them crucial lenses through which to view a broad range of genre and forms. It brings together interdisciplinary research materials belonging to different period silos to create new understandings of how nineteenth-century audiences dealt with information overload. It argues for a new politics of distance: one that recognizes the value of immersing oneself in a situation, event or phenomenon, but which also does not chastise us for trying to see the big picture. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature, history, visual culture and information studies.

The Arthurian Revival

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317656709
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis The Arthurian Revival by : Debra Mancoff

Download or read book The Arthurian Revival written by Debra Mancoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discrete inquiries into 15 forms of the Arthurian legends produced over the last century explore how they have altered the tradition. They consider works from the US and Europe, and those aimed at popular and elite audiences. The overall conclusion is that the "Arthurian revival" is an ongoing event, and has become multivalent, multinational, and multimedia. Originally published in 1992.

The Crowd

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520219171
Total Pages : 279 pages
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Book Synopsis The Crowd by : John Plotz

Download or read book The Crowd written by John Plotz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-12-03 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text sets out to demonstrate the influence of street crowds and political riots on literature in the period between 1800 and 1850. Notable works from the period are used to highlight the author's argument that crowds became a rival for the representational claims of the texts themselves.