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Author : Deirdre David
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231049801
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Fictions of Resolution in Three Victorian Novels written by Deirdre David and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marianne Hirsch
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253115751
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (157 download)
Download or read book The Mother / Daughter Plot written by Marianne Hirsch and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1989-10-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mothers and daughters -- the female figures neglected by classic psychoanalysis and submerged in traditional narrative -- are at the center of this book. The novels of nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers from the Western European and North American traditions reveal that the story of motherhood remains the unspeakable plot of Western culture. Focusing on the feminine and, more controversially, on the maternal, this book alters our perception of both the familial structures basic to traditional narrative -- the Oedipus story -- and the narrative structures basic to traditional representations of the family -- Freud's family romance. Confronting psychoanalytic theories of subject-formation with narrative theories, Marianne Hirsch traces the emergence and transformation of female family romance patterns from Jane Austen to Marguerite Duras.
Author : Deirdre David
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521646192
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel written by Deirdre David and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Companion, first published in 2000, specially-commissioned essays examine the social and cultural context of Victorian fiction.
Author : Jerome Meckier
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185432
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction written by Jerome Meckier and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian fiction has been read and analyzed from a wide range of perspectives in the past century. But how did the novelists themselves read and respond to each other's creations when they first appeared? Jerome Meckier answers that intriguing question in this ground-breaking study of what he terms the Victorian realism wars. Meckier argues that nineteenth-century British fiction should be seen as a network of intersecting reactions and counteractions in which the novelists rethought and rewrote each other's novels as a way of enhancing their own credibility. In an increasingly relative world, thanks to the triumph of a scientific secularity, the goal of the novelist was to establish his or her own credentials as a realist, hence a reliable social critic, by undercutting someone else's—usually Charles Dickens's. Trollope, Mrs. Gaskell, and especially George Eliot attempted to make room for themselves in the 1850s and 1860s by pushing Dickens aside. Wilkie Collins tried a different form of parodic revaluation: he strove to outdo Dickens at the kind of novel Dickens thought he did best, the kind his other rivals tried to cancel, tone down, or repair, ostensibly for being too melodramatic but actually for expressing too negative a world view. For his part, Dickens—determined to remain inimitable—replied to all of his rivals by redoing them as spiritedly as they had reused his characters and situations to make their own statements and to discredit his. Thus Meckier redefines Victorian realism as the bravura assertion by a major novelist (or one soon to be) that he or she was a better realist than Dickens. By suggesting the ways Victorian novelist read and rewrote each other's work, this innovative study alters present day perceptions of such double-purpose novels as Felix Holt, Bleak House, Middlemarch, North and South, Hard Times, The Woman in White, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Author : Deirdre David
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231911306
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Fictions of Resolution in Three Victorian Novels written by Deirdre David and published by . This book was released on 1981-03-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501733443
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction written by Rosemarie Bodenheimer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most telling expression of the politics of a novel, Rosemarie Bodenheimer asserts, lies not in its proclaimed social intent, its continuity with nonfictional discourse, or its truth to class experience, but in the models of social movement and transformation traced out in the thread of its narrative. The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction explores the story patterns and other narrative conventions through which the industrial or social-problem novel gives fictional shape to questions that were experienced as new, unpredictable, and troubling in the Victorian age. Bodenheimer considers novels explicitly linked with the condition of England debates that preoccupied public-minded Victorians, narratives that confront such topics as the factory system, industrial and rural poverty, working-class politics, and the plight of women. Grouping well-known novels with less frequently read works according to shared narrative patterns, Bodenheimer delineates lines of influence, argument, and development within the subgenre of social fiction. Among the works she discusses are Charlotte Bronte's Shirley, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, two novels by Frances Trollope, Geraldine Jewsbury's Marian Withers, George Eliot's Felix Holt the Radical, Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, and Benjamin Disraeli's Sybil.
Author : Jill Rappoport
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192867261
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction written by Jill Rappoport and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction reframes how we think about Victorian women's changing economic rights and their representation in nineteenth-century novels. The reform of married women's property law between 1856 and 1882 constituted one of the largest economic transformations England had ever seen, as well as one of its most significant challenges to family traditions. By the end of this period, women who had once lost their common-law property rights to their husbands reclaimed their own assets, regained economic agency, and forever altered the legal and theoretical nature of wedlock by doing so. Yet in literary accounts, reforms were neither as decisive as the law implied nor limited to marriage. Legal rights frequently clashed with other family claims, and the reallocation of wealth affected far more than spouses or the marital state. Competition between wives and children is just one of many ways in which Victorian fiction suggests the perceived benefits and threats of property reform. In nineteenth-century fiction, portrayals of women's claims to ownership provide insight into the social networks forged through property transactions and also offer a lens to examine a wide range of other social matters, including testamentary practices, wills, and copyright law; economic and evolutionary models of mutuality; the twin dangers of greed and generosity; inheritance and custody rights; the economic ramifications of loyalty and family obligation; and the legacy of nineteenth-century economic practices for women today. Understanding the reform of married women's property as both an ideologically and materially substantial redistribution of the nation's wealth as well as one complicated by competing cultural traditions, this book explores the widespread ways in which women's financial agency was imagined by fiction that engages with but also diverges from the law in accounts of economic choices and transactions. Repeatedly, narratives by Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, Trollope, Eliot, and Oliphant suggest both that the law is inadequate to account for the way that property enables and disrupts relationships, and that the form of the Victorian novel - in its ability to track intimate and intricate exchanges across generations - is better suited to such tasks.
Author : Clare Pettitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019925320X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Patent Inventions--intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel written by Clare Pettitt and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume suggests that the fierce debates over patent law and the discussion of invention and inventors in popular texts during the 19th century informed the parallel debate over the professional status of authors.
Author : J. Zigarovich
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137007036
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel written by J. Zigarovich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks why Brontë, Dickens, and Collins saw the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? Drawing on theorists such as Derrida, Blanchot, and de Man, Zigarovich maintains that narrating death was important to the understanding of absence, separation, and displacement in an industrial and destabilized culture.
Author : Patrick Brantlinger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470997206
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book A Companion to the Victorian Novel written by Patrick Brantlinger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901. Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published during the Victorian period. Explains issues such as Victorian religions, class structure, and Darwinism to those who are unfamiliar with them. Comprises original, accessible chapters written by renowned and emerging scholars in the field of Victorian studies. Ideal for students and researchers seeking up-to-the-minute coverage of contexts and trends, or as a starting point for a survey course.
Author : Julia Sun-Joo Lee
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195390326
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel written by Julia Sun-Joo Lee and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores the influence of the American slave narrative on the Victorian novel. The book argues that Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and Robert Louis Stevenson integrated into their works elements of the slave narrative.
Author : Nancy S. Weyant
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810828902
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth Gaskell written by Nancy S. Weyant and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies biographies, newly discovered correspondence, critical works, and other bibliographies. An extensive subject index provides easy access to 350 entries.
Author : Jennifer Beauvais
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476639620
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Domesticated Bachelors and Femininity in Victorian Novels written by Jennifer Beauvais and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic issues, chastity, morality, marriage and love are concerns we typically associate with Victorian female characters. But what happens when men in Victorian novels begin to engage in this type of feminine discourse? While we are familiar with certain Victorian women seeking freedom by moving beyond the domestic sphere, there is an equally interesting movement by the domestic man into the private space through his performance of femininity. This book defines the domesticated bachelor, examines the effects of the blurring of boundaries between the public and private spheres, and traces the evolution of the public discourse on masculinity in novels such as Bronte's Shirley, Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This bachelor, along with his female counterpart, the New Woman, opens up for discussion new definitions of Victorian masculinity and gender boundaries and blurs the rigid distinction between the gendered spaces thought to be in place during the Victorian period.
Author : Joshua Gooch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137525517
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy written by Joshua Gooch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, it traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel.
Author : Sophia Andres
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814209742
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel written by Sophia Andres and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative interdisciplinary study of the Victorian novel and Pre-Raphaelite art, this book offers a new understanding of Victorian novels through Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Concentrating on Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy and aligning each novelist with specific painters, this work interprets narrative redrawings of Pre-Raphaelite paintings within a range of cultural contexts as well as alongside recent theoretical work on gender. Letters, reviews, and journals convincingly reinforce the contentions about the novels and their connection with paintings. Featuring color reproductions of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, this book reveals the great achievement of Pre-Raphaelite art and its impact on the Victorian novel. Arguing for the direct relationship between Pre-Raphaelite painting and the Victorian novel, this book fills a gap in the currently available literature devoted to the Victorian novel, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the connection of Pre-Raphaelite art to Victorian poetry. Visual readings of the Victorian novel channel the twenty-first-century readers' desire for the visual into the exploration of Pre-Raphaelite art in the Victorian novel, in the process offering fresh insights into the representation of gender in Victorian culture. Through a textual and a visual journey, this work reveals a new approach to the Victorian novel and Pre-Raphaelite art with profound implications for the study of both.
Author : S. Colon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230604250
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Professional Ideal in the Victorian Novel written by S. Colon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes the claim that Victorian novels do not simply reflect professional ideology; they also scrutinize its dilemmas, contradictions, and limitations. In this volume, innovative readings of canonical texts like Sybil, Barchester Towers, Romola, and Daniel Deronda accompany groundbreaking work on less familiar texts like Tancred and My Lady Ludlow to illuminate the Victorians' own struggles with the emerging professional ideology. The Victorians' engagement with fundamental ideas of professional identity such as autonomy, meritocracy, and the service ethic reveal professionalism's dual basis in materialist and idealist rationalities.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393623475
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Hard Times (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) written by Charles Dickens and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An excellent collection of critical and social commentary that will help to make Dickens’ image of Victorian England meaningful to all students.” —John Howard Wilson, Dakota Wesleyan University This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Sylvere Monod’s superbly edited text, based on the 1854 edition and accompanied by Fred Kaplan’s expanded annotations. - Fourteen illustrations from 1854 to circa 1890. - Contextual pieces by social critics and theorists of Dickens’ time that give readers outstanding examples of views on industrialism, education, and utilitarianism in the nineteenth century. - Eight new critical essays by Paulette Kidder, David M. Levy, Christopher Barnes, Theodore Dalrymple, Christina Lupton, Efraim Sicher, Nils Clausson, and Kent Greenfield and John E. Nilsson. - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
