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Sexual Visuality From Literature To Film 1850-1950

Author : D. Denisoff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230287875
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Visuality From Literature To Film 1850-1950 written by D. Denisoff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-03-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-read for scholars of visuality, gender and sexuality. Denisoff's study explores the ways in which gothic, sensation and noir literature and cinema manipulated common notions of the visual in order to challenge sex- and gender-based assumptions that marginalized certain people and desires. Addressing authors and directors such as Mary Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Virigina Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang, this study shows that what a society gets is often what it tries hardest not to see.

Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film, 1850-1950

Author : Dennis Denisoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781349515448
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film, 1850-1950 written by Dennis Denisoff and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the body, what you see is not exactly what you get. For centuries, vision has often been held as the purest, most direct encounter between the individual and the outside world. Recent visuality theory, however, has demonstrated that the process of seeing is always influenced by other senses, cultural elements, memory and history. Meanwhile, scholarship on gender and sexuality has developed a conception of the body itself as a 'text' written by more than one person and read in more than one way. Sexual visuality from literature to film, 1850-1950 explores the ways in which gothic, sensation and noir literature and cinema manipulated common notions of the visual in order to foreground our unsightly desires. By doing so, the texts challenged sex- and gender-based assumptions that marginalized certain types of people. Addressing authors and directors such as Mary Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Virgnia Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang, this study shows that what a society gets is often what it tries hardest not to see. A must-read for scholars and students of visuality, gender and sexuality.

Sexuality and the Gothic Magic Lantern

Author : D. Jones
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137298928
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Sexuality and the Gothic Magic Lantern written by D. Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study explores the multifarious erotic themes associated with the magic lantern shows, which proved the dominant visual medium of the West for 350 years, and analyses how the shows influenced the portrayals of sexuality in major works of Gothic fiction.

Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Cultures

Author : L. Calè
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230297390
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Cultures by : L. Calè

Download or read book Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Cultures written by L. Calè and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paying attention to the historically specific dimensions of objects such as the photograph, the illustrated magazine and the collection, the contributors to this volume offer new ways of thinking about nineteenth-century practices of reading, viewing, and collecting, revealing new readings of Wordsworth, Shelley, James and Wilde, among others.

The Sex Goddess in American Film, 1930-1965

Author : Jessica Hope Jordan
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1604976632
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Sex Goddess in American Film, 1930-1965 written by Jessica Hope Jordan and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the first critical study of the sex goddess in film, Jessica Hope Jordan illustrates how Jean Harlow uses her sexualized body to "affect" and seduce viewers away from any primary identification with those characters and their plotlines that are supposed to lead the film, to identifying instead with the kind of sexual empowerment and self-possession her characters consistently display. Linking the idea of sexual empowerment to the filmic and public celebration of hyper-feminine sexuality, the book additionally covers previous feminist discussions of Mae West's performances as "feminist camp" to argue that West sought to both celebrate and embody for women viewers what she viewed as cultural ideals of femininity and women's sexuality. With Lana Turner and the "cinematic code," the book considers the many problems inherent in both the filmic and public celebration of hyper-feminine sexuality in relation to censorship and considers the effects of the Hays Code on hyper-feminine sexuality as depicted in film noir." "The book also importantly presents the first critical discussion of the actress Jayne Mansfield, suggesting that her 1950s open acceptance, celebration, and public promotion of her feminine sexuality, both onscreen and off, makes her not only a precursor of the more sexually liberated 60s, but also, like the other actresses discussed here, a kind of prescient performance artist, even theorist, of feminine sexuality in particular, and cultural ideas about sexuality more generally. Beyond recouping her image as feminist, the book demonstrates how the kind of desire aroused by the sex goddess, a desire which remains endlessly suspended, works as a supreme example of the aesthetic apparatus of cinema itself." --Book Jacket.

The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850–1930

Author : Y. Ivory
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023024243X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850–1930 by : Y. Ivory

Download or read book The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850–1930 written by Y. Ivory and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? This book answers that question by showing how the Victorian coupling of criminality with self-fashioning under the sign of the Renaissance provided queer intellectuals with an enduring model of ruthlessly permissive individualism.

Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism

Author : Bénédicte Coste
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317265084
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism written by Bénédicte Coste and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting the period that extends from the 1860s to the 1940s, this volume offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. By acknowledging that both movements had a passion for the ‘new’, it goes beyond the alleged divide between Modernism and its predecessors. Rather than reading the modernist credo, ‘Make it New!’, as a desire to break away from the past, the authors of this book suggest reading it as a continuation and a reappropriation of the spirit of the ‘New’ that characterizes Aestheticism. Basing their arguments on recent reassessments of Aestheticism and Modernism and their articulation, contributors take up the challenge of interrogating the connections, continuities, and intersections between the two movements, thus revealing the working processes of cultural and aesthetic change so as to reassess the value of the new for each. Attending to well-known writers such as Waugh, Woolf, Richardson, Eliot, Pound, Ford, Symons, Wilde, and Hopkins, as well as to hitherto neglected figures such as Lucas Malet, L.S. Gibbon, Leonard Woolf, or George Egerton, they revise assumptions about Aestheticism and Modernism and their very definitions. This collection brings together international scholars specializing in Aestheticism or Modernism who push their analyses beyond their strict period of expertise and take both movements into account through exciting approaches that borrow from aesthetics, philosophy, or economics. The volume proposes a corrective to the traditional narratives of the history of Aestheticism and Modernism, revitalizing definitions of these movements and revealing new directions in aestheticist and modernist studies.

Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History

Author : M. Finn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023027725X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History written by M. Finn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book draws together literature, law and economic and social history to investigate the meanings and uses of legitimacy in nineteenth-century Britain. This broad range of essays highlights the ways in which contested narratives and interested performances shaped the idea of legitimate authority during this period.

Vernon Lee

Author : Patricia Pulham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230287522
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Vernon Lee written by Patricia Pulham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-04-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the first collection of essays on the aesthete and intellectual Vernon Lee, offers a wide range of critical writings by scholars. Key works are examined including Euphorion, Hauntings: Fantastic Stories and Music and Its Lovers . New light is shed on Lee's relationships with contemporaries such as Lee-Hamilton, Pater and Wilde.

British literature and archaeology, 1880–1930

Author : Angela Blumberg
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152616146X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book British literature and archaeology, 1880–1930 written by Angela Blumberg and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British literature and archaeology, 1880-1930 reveals how British writers and artists across the long turn of the twentieth century engaged with archaeological discourse—its artefacts, landscapes, bodies, and methods—uncovering the materials of the past to envision radical possibilities for the present and future. This project traces how archaeology shaped major late-Victorian and modern discussions: informing debates over shifting gender roles; facilitating the development of queer iconography and the recovery of silenced or neglected histories; inspiring artefactual forgery and transforming modern conceptions of authenticity; and helping writers and artists historicise the traumas of the First World War. Ultimately unearthing archaeology at the centre of these major discourses, this book simultaneously positions literary and artistic engagements with the archaeological imagination as forms of archaeological knowledge in themselves.

The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature

Author : Dennis Denisoff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429018177
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature written by Dennis Denisoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and influential political, cultural, and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today. Scholars and students will find this collection both useful and inspiring. Rigorously engaged with current scholarship that is both historically sensitive and theoretically informed, the Routledge Companion places the genres of the novel, poetry, and drama and issues of gender, social class, and race in conversation with subjects like ecology, colonialism, the Gothic, digital humanities, sexualities, disability, material culture, and animal studies. This guide is aimed at scholars who want to know the most significant critical approaches in Victorian studies, often written by the very scholars who helped found those fields. It addresses major theoretical movements such as narrative theory, formalism, historicism, and economic theory, as well as Victorian models of subjects such as anthropology, cognitive science, and religion. With its lists of key works, rich cross-referencing, extensive bibliographies, and explications of scholarly trajectories, the book is a crucial resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, while offering invaluable support to more seasoned scholars.

Literature After Darwin

Author : V. Richter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230300448
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Literature After Darwin written by V. Richter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War.

Victorian Material Culture

Author : Tatiana Kontou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315399962
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Material Culture written by Tatiana Kontou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and discusses the most significant developments in material history from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians and addresses important questions about how we classify and categorise nineteenth-century things. This collection brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and culture. This volume, ‘Fashionable Things’, will focus on Victorian fads and fashions ranging from chatelains to insect jewellery.

Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Margaret Linley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131709865X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century by : Margaret Linley

Download or read book Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century written by Margaret Linley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operating at the intersection where new technology meets literature, this collection discovers the relationship among image, sound, and touch in the long nineteenth century. The chapters speak to the special mixed-media properties of literature, while exploring the important interconnections of science, technology, and art at the historical moment when media was being theorized, debated, and scrutinized. Each chapter focuses on a specific visual, acoustic, or haptic dimension of media, while also calling attention to the relationships among the three. Famous works such as Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and Shelley's Frankenstein are discussed alongside a range of lesser-known literary, scientific, and pornographic writings. Topics include the development of a print culture for the visually impaired; the relationship between photography and narrative; the kaleidoscope and modern urban experience; Christmas gift books; poetry, painting and music as remediated forms; the interface among the piano, telegraph, and typewriter; Ernst Heinrich Weber's model of rationalized tactility; and how the shift from visual to auditory telegraphic instruments amplified anxieties about the place of women in nineteenth-century information networks. Full of surprising insights and connections, the collection offers new impetus for stimulating historical conversations and debates about nineteenth-century media, while also contributing fresh perspectives on new media and (re)mediation today.

English Literary Sexology

Author : H. Bauer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230234089
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book English Literary Sexology written by H. Bauer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that much of our modern vocabulary of sex emerged within nineteenth-century German sexology. But how were the 'German ideas' translated and transmitted into English culture? This study provides an examination of the formation of sexual theory between the 1860s and 1930s and its migration across national and disciplinary boundaries.

A Companion to Irish Literature

Author : Julia M. Wright
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444351699
Total Pages : 2560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Irish Literature written by Julia M. Wright and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 2560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring new essays by international literary scholars, the two-volume Companion to Irish Literature encompasses the full breadth of Ireland's literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present day. Covers an unprecedented historical range of Irish literature Arranged in two volumes covering Irish literature from the medieval period to 1900, and its development through the twentieth century to the present day Presents a re-visioning of twentieth-century Irish literature and a collection of the most up-to-date scholarship in the field as a whole Includes a substantial number of women writers from the eighteenth century to the present day Includes essays on leading contemporary authors, including Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Roddy Doyle, and Emma Donoghue Introduces readers to the wide range of current approaches to studying Irish literature

Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930

Author : D. Coleman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230307531
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930 written by D. Coleman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglements of minds, bodies, machines. This book explores the impact of technology upon conceptions of language, consciousness, human cognition, and the boundaries between materialist and esoteric sciences.