Gossip And Subversion In Nineteenth Century British Fiction

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Gossip and Subversion in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

Author : J. Gordon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230376940
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Gossip and Subversion in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction written by J. Gordon and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-11-27 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Gordon proposes that a reviled communicational 'interest' in gossip and its purveyors be given its proper due in the development of the novel in Britain. Commencing with Sir Walter Scott's historically persecuted (but economically and politically necessary) androgynous voices in caves and concluding with Oscar Wilde's premature celebration of gossip at the very moment it is transformed from public opinion to public judgment, the author finds gossip to be both deforming and shaping nineteenth century 'letters' in surprising ways. Like the ignominious orphan-figure of nineteenth-century fiction, gossip is the 'unacknowledged reproduction' searching for a political antecedence which might lend a legitimacy to its often discontinuous testimony, for a culture historically resistant to obtrusive voices.

Time, Space, and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century British Diary

Author : R. Steinitz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230339603
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Time, Space, and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century British Diary written by R. Steinitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close examinations of diaries, diary publication, and diaries in fiction, this book explores how the diary's construction of time and space made it an invaluable and effective vehicle for the dominant discourses of the period; it also explains how the genre evolved into the feminine, emotive, private form we continue to privilege today.

Idle Talk, Deadly Talk

Author : Ana Rodríguez Navas
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813941636
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Idle Talk, Deadly Talk written by Ana Rodríguez Navas and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer called it "spiritual manslaughter"; Barthes and Benjamin deemed it dangerous linguistic nihilism. But gossip-long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals-is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana Rodríguez Navas reveals gossip to be an urgent, utilitarian, and deeply political practice-a means of staging the narrative tensions, and waging the narrative battles, that mark Caribbean politics and culture. From the calypso singer's superficially innocent rhymes to the vicious slanders published in Trujillo-era gossip columns, words have been weapons, elevating one person or group at the expense of another. Revising the overly gendered existing critical frame, Rodríguez Navas argues that gossip is a fundamentally adversarial practice. Just as whispers and hearsay corrosively define and surveil identities, they also empower writers to skirt sanitized, monolithic historical accounts by weaving alternative versions of their nations' histories from this self-governing discursive material. Reading recent fiction from the Hispanic, Anglophone, and Francophone Caribbean and their diasporas, alongside poetry, song lyrics, journalism, memoirs, and political essays, Idle Talk, Deadly Talk maps gossip's place in the Caribbean and reveals its rich possibilities as both literary theme and narrative device. As a means for mediating contested narratives, both public and private, gossip emerges as a vital resource for scholars and writers grappling with the region's troubled history.

Victorian Servants, Class, and the Politics of Literacy

Author : Jean Fernandez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135202117
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Servants, Class, and the Politics of Literacy written by Jean Fernandez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing an array of cultural texts, fiction, servant autobiography, diaries and pamphlets, this study examines the debate on mass literacy as it developed around the figure of the Victorian servant, as well as its significance for understanding the nexus between class and narrative power in nineteenth-century literature.

Transforming Talk

Author : Susan E. Phillips
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271047399
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Talk written by Susan E. Phillips and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787445
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Common Precedents

Author : Ayelet Ben-Yishai
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019023685X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Common Precedents written by Ayelet Ben-Yishai and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading major novels by George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Wilkie Collins, Common Precedents shows that precedential reasoning enjoyed widespread cultural significance in the nineteenth-century as a means of preserving a sense of common history, values, and interests in the face of a new heterogeneous society. Enabling the recognition of the new and its assimilation as part of a continuous past, Ayelet Ben-Yishai argues that the binding force of precedent also functions as the binding element of an always shifting commonality, pulling it together in the face of rupture and dispersion. By appearing to bring the past seamlessly into the present, the form of legal precedent became vital to the preservation of a sense of commonality and continuity crucial to the common law and Victorian legal culture. But the impact of precedent extended beyond legal practices and institutions to the culture at large, and especially to its fiction. Ben-Yishai argues that understanding the structure of precedent also explains fictional form: how fictionality works, its epistemology, and the ways in which its commonalities are socially constructed, maintained, and reified.

Middle English

Author : Paul Strohm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019928766X
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Middle English written by Paul Strohm and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume energizes issues of research in Middle English studies by eschewing an emphasis on what 'we know' and instead addressing the most challenging areas of unfixed opinion and unsettled debate. Although major authors such as Chaucer and Langland are richly represented, many little-known and neglected texts are considered as well.

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction

Author : R. Hampson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230598005
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction by : R. Hampson

Download or read book Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction written by R. Hampson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-11-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major study to bring together for examination all of Conrad's Malay fiction: the early novels, Almayer's Folly , An Outcast of the Islands , and Lord Jim ; the two later novels, Victory and The Rescue ; and various short stories, such as The Lagoon and Karain . The volume focuses on cross-cultural encounters, cultural identity and cultural dislocation, paying particular attention to issues of race and gender. He also situates Conrad's fiction in relation to earlier English accounts of South-East Asia.

Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust

Author : Ann Gaylin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139434780
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust written by Ann Gaylin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust investigates human curiosity and its representation in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels. Ann Gaylin argues that eavesdropping dramatizes a primal human urge to know and offers a paradigm of narrative transmission and reception of information among characters, narrators and readers. Gaylin sheds light on the social and psychological effects of the nineteenth-century rise of information technology and accelerated flow of information, as manifested in the anxieties about - and delight in - displays of private life and its secrets. Analysing eavesdropping in Austen, Balzac, Collins, Dickens and Proust, Gaylin demonstrates the flexibility of the scene to produce narrative complication or resolution; to foreground questions of gender and narrative agency; to place the debates of privacy and publicity within the literal and metaphoric spaces of the nineteenth-century novel. This 2003 study will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature.

Covert Operations

Author : Karma Lochrie
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812207194
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Covert Operations written by Karma Lochrie and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book In Covert Operations, Karma Lochrie brings the categories and cultural meanings of secrecy in the Middle Ages out into the open. Isolating five broad areas—confession, women's gossip, medieval science and medicine, marriage and the law, and sodomitic discourse—Lochrie examines various types of secrecy and the literary texts in which they are played out. She reads texts as central to Middle English studies as the "Parson's Tale," the "Miller's Tale," the Secretum Secretorum, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as well as a broad range of less familiar works, including a gynecological treatise and a little-known fifteenth-century parody in which gossip and confession become one. As she does so she reveals a great deal about the medieval past—and perhaps just as much about the early development of the concealments that shape the present day.

Sleep and the Novel

Author : Michael Greaney
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319752537
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Sleep and the Novel written by Michael Greaney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleep and the Novel is a study of representations of the sleeping body in fiction from 1800 to the present day which traces the ways in which novelists have engaged with this universal, indispensable -- but seemingly nondescript -- region of human experience. Covering the narrativization of sleep in Austen, the politicization of sleep in Dickens, the queering of sleep in Goncharov, the aestheticization of sleep in Proust, and the medicalization of sleep in contemporary fiction, it examines the ways in which novelists envision the figure of the sleeper, the meanings they discover in human sleep, and the values they attach to it. It argues that literary fiction harbours, on its margins, a “sleeping partner”, one that we can nickname the Schlafroman or “sleep-novel”, whose quiet absorption in the wordlessness and passivity of human slumber subtly complicates the imperatives of self-awareness and purposive action that traditionally govern the novel.

The Marriage of Minds

Author : Rachel Ablow
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804754668
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book The Marriage of Minds written by Rachel Ablow and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marriage of Minds examines the implications of the common Victorian claim that novel reading can achieve the psychic, ethical, and affective benefits also commonly associated with sympathy in married life. Through close readings of canonical texts in relation to the histories of sympathy, marriage, and reading, The Marriage of Minds begins to fill a long-standing gap between eighteenth-century philosophical notions of sympathy and twentieth-century psychoanalytic concepts of identification. It examines the wide variety of ways in which novels were understood to educate or reform readers in the mid-nineteenth century. Finally, it demonstrates how both the form of the Victorian novel and the experience supposed to result from that form were implicated in ongoing debates about the nature, purpose, and law of marriage.

The Victorian Supernatural

Author : Nicola Bown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521810159
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Supernatural written by Nicola Bown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

The Idea of Europe in Literature

Author : Susanne Fendler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349274968
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Europe in Literature written by Susanne Fendler and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-09-11 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relevance of culture has recently enjoyed increasing recognition for the study of European integration and a European identity. Appeals to a common European culture as well as appeals to different national cultures have been used respectively as a means to pursue political ends. Paying tribute to literature's role as an important constituent part of a culture, this collection of essays explores literary representations of Europe and its nation states and should be of particular value to anyone who is interested in cultural, political or literary studies in the European context.

George Eliot

Author : Lucie Armitt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231124225
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book George Eliot written by Lucie Armitt and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on three of Eliot's most influential and widely read novels, this guide traces recent critical interpretations of her work as well as revisiting some of the perspectives offered by original reviewers and early critics.

Conrad, Language, and Narrative

Author : Michael Greaney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139430904
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Conrad, Language, and Narrative written by Michael Greaney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this re-evaluation of the writings of Joseph Conrad, Michael Greaney places language and narrative at the heart of his literary achievement. A trilingual Polish expatriate, Conrad brought a formidable linguistic self-consciousness to the English novel; tensions between speech and writing are the defining obsessions of his career. He sought very early on to develop a 'writing of the voice' based on oral or communal modes of storytelling. Greaney argues that the 'yarns' of his nautical raconteur Marlow are the most challenging expression of this voice-centred aesthetic. But Conrad's suspicion that words are fundamentally untrustworthy is present in everything he wrote. The political novels of his middle period represent a breakthrough from traditional storytelling into the writerly aesthetic of high modernism. Greaney offers an examination of a wide range of Conrad's work which combines recent critical approaches to language in post-structuralism with an impressive command of linguistic theory.