The Diversity Of Victorian Literature

Download The Diversity Of Victorian Literature full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Diversity Of Victorian Literature ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Diversity of Victorian Literature

Author : Kristin Simon
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638396746
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (383 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Diversity of Victorian Literature by : Kristin Simon

Download or read book The Diversity of Victorian Literature written by Kristin Simon and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2005-07-13 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (IfAA), 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Victorian Age is marked by enormous changes. Mark Twain expressed it this way: “and yet in a good many ways the world has moved farther ahead since the Queen was born than it moved in all the rest of the two thousand put together.” (Abrams 61993 : 891). Besides industrial and social changes, the era also saw a growth in literature, and great authors like Charles Dickens or Oscar Wilde who are still read today. Generally, the term ‘Victorian’ marks the time of Queen Victoria’s reign from 1837 till 1901, but it is often extended and for many historians it started with the passage of the first Reform Bill in 1832. Since the era comprises about seventy years, many drastic changes occurred during this time, and the distinguishing characteristics of the individual authors cannot be combined into a general mood. Consequently one cannot call it a homogenous period, and it is necessary to distinguish it into three different parts. Since the transitions were smooth, the exact division may differ between historians. The early phase is a period of changes and growth, but it also saw a depression and demonstrations of workmen. In the 1850s the Great Exhibition in 1851 and Darwin’s “On the Origin of the Species” in 1859 can be seen as the beginning of the middle period, a time of national prosperity. England was the leading industrial power, and English confidence was at its high point. The late Victorian period covers the last two decades of the century. It can be characterized by a general change of the Victorian mood: doubts and fear of decay dominated, and literature started to shatter into various very different forms. This term paper will give a brief overview over the conditions and the literature of the Victorian era. The diversity of the age will be shown and explained. Therefore each genre will be described separately. Furthermore I will summarize the works of major authors and while doing so show the contrasts between them.

Victorian Literature and the Victorian State

Author : Lauren M. E. Goodlad
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801881544
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Victorian Literature and the Victorian State by : Lauren M. E. Goodlad

Download or read book Victorian Literature and the Victorian State written by Lauren M. E. Goodlad and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-12-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of modern power. Yet, according to Lauren Goodlad, Foucault's analysis is better suited to the history of the Continent than to nineteenth-century Britain, with its decentralized, voluntarist institutional culture and passionate disdain for state interference. Focusing on a wide range of Victorian writing—from literary figures such as Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Harriet Martineau, J. S. Mill, Anthony Trollope, and H. G. Wells to prominent social reformers such as Edwin Chadwick, Thomas Chalmers, Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, and Beatrice Webb—Goodlad shows that Foucault's later essays on liberalism and "governmentality" provide better critical tools for understanding the nineteenth-century British state. Victorian Literature and the Victorian State delves into contemporary debates over sanitary, education, and civil service reform, the Poor Laws, and the century-long attempt to substitute organized charity for state services. Goodlad's readings elucidate the distinctive quandary of Victorian Britain and, indeed, any modern society conceived in liberal terms: the elusive quest for a "pastoral" agency that is rational, all-embracing, and effective but also anti-bureaucratic, personalized, and liberatory. In this study, impressively grounded in literary criticism, social history, and political theory, Goodlad offers a timely post-Foucauldian account of Victorian governance that speaks to the resurgent neoliberalism of our own day.

Victorian Literature

Author : Victor Shea
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140518874X
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Victorian Literature by : Victor Shea

Download or read book Victorian Literature written by Victor Shea and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry—from the canon to its extensions and its contexts. Represents the period's major writers of prose, poetry, drama, and more, including Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Carlyle, Ruskin, the Rossettis, Wilde, Eliot, and the Brontës Promotes an ideologically and culturally varied view of Victorian society with the inclusion of women, working-class, colonial, and gay and lesbian writers Incorporates recent scholarship with 5 contextual sections and innovative sub-sections on topics like environmentalism and animal rights; mass literacy and mass media; sex and sexuality; melodrama and comedy; the Irish question; ruling India and the Indian Mutiny and innovations in print culture Emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field with a focus on social, cultural, artistic, and historical factors Includes a fully annotated companion website for teachers and students offering expanded context sections, additional readings from key writers, appendices, and an extensive bibliography

Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination

Author : Katherine Byrne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521766672
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination by : Katherine Byrne

Download or read book Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination written by Katherine Byrne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, giving insights into how society viewed this disease and its sufferers.

A History of Victorian Literature

Author : James Eli Adams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470672390
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A History of Victorian Literature by : James Eli Adams

Download or read book A History of Victorian Literature written by James Eli Adams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, with fresh consideration of both major figures and some of the era's less familiar authors. Part of the Blackwell Histories of Literature series, the book describes the development of the Victorian literary movement and places it within its cultural, social and political context. A wide-ranging narrative overview of literature in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, capturing the extraordinary variety of literary output produced during this era Analyzes the development of all literary forms during this period - the novel, poetry, drama, autobiography and critical prose - in conjunction with major developments in social and intellectual history Considers the ways in which writers engaged with new forms of social responsibility in their work, as Britain transformed into the world's first industrial economy Offers a fresh perspective on the work of both major figures and some of the era’s less familiar authors Winner of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award, 2009

Rereading Victorian Fiction

Author : A. Jenkins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230371140
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Rereading Victorian Fiction by : A. Jenkins

Download or read book Rereading Victorian Fiction written by A. Jenkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-12-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a collection of essays on novels and short stories from the beginning of Victoria's reign through to the end of the nineteenth century and into our own times. The essays represent a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints on fiction, and they deal with a number of lesser-known Victorian Works as well as with some of the most canonical texts of the period. The chronological range of the volume is extended by essays which explore Victorian texts' connections with earlier literature, as well as by studies of twentieth-century novelists' responses to Victorian fiction. Overall this collection emphasizes the breadth and diversity of Victorian prose fiction and will be of interest to students and specialists alike.

Victorian Identities

Author : Ruth Robbins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349243493
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Victorian Identities by : Ruth Robbins

Download or read book Victorian Identities written by Ruth Robbins and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-12-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian period was one of enormous cultural diversity with places for figures as different as Alfred Tennyson and Oscar Wilde. Victorian Identities simultaneously celebrates that diversity whilst drawing out the connections between disparate voices. With essays on the 'Greats' of the period - Dickens, Tennyson, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins and Wilde - as well as on the less well-known sensation writer, Rhoda Broughton, and on the formation of children's voices in Victorian literature - the collection rejects narrow definitions of the period and its values, and exposes its texts to readings informed by contemporary literary theory.

Precocious Children and Childish Adults

Author : Claudia Nelson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421406128
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Precocious Children and Childish Adults by : Claudia Nelson

Download or read book Precocious Children and Childish Adults written by Claudia Nelson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults. Claudia Nelson examines this literary phenomenon and explores the ways in which writers discussed the child-adult relationship during this period. Though far from ubiquitous, the terms “child-woman,” “child-man,” and “old-fashioned child” appear often enough in Victorian writings to prompt critical questions about the motivations and meanings of such generational border crossings. Nelson carefully considers the use of these terms and connects invocations of age inversion to developments in post-Darwinian scientific thinking and attitudes about gender roles, social class, sexuality, power, and economic mobility. She brilliantly analyzes canonical works of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, Bram Stoker, and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside lesser-known writings to demonstrate the diversity of literary age inversion and its profound influence on Victorian culture. By considering the full context of Victorian age inversion, Precocious Children and Childish Adults illuminates the complicated pattern of anxiety and desire that creates such ambiguity in the writings of the time. Scholars of Victorian literature and culture, as well as readers interested in children’s literature, childhood studies, and gender studies, will welcome this excellent work from a major figure in the field.

The Literature of the Victorian Era

Author : Hugh Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1082 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Literature of the Victorian Era by : Hugh Walker

Download or read book The Literature of the Victorian Era written by Hugh Walker and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Victorian Fiction as a Bildungsroman

Author : Petru Golban
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527540790
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Victorian Fiction as a Bildungsroman by : Petru Golban

Download or read book Victorian Fiction as a Bildungsroman written by Petru Golban and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphorically speaking, the nineteenth-century English Bildungsroman, dealing with the principle of identity formation, parallels Victorian fiction as a whole, revealing the completion of its own formation, which began in the eighteenth century. Significantly, the most important and popular Victorian novels are Bildungsromane, in which authors construct or rather reconstruct their own life experiences as formative processes. This book shows that the Bildungsroman has a development history, is a specific literary system, and consists of a thematic and narrative pattern. It details the entrance of this newly established fictional tradition into Victorian culture and literature through Carlyle’s threefold literary reception of the novel of formation and its subsequent flourishing and complexity. In this respect, a number of novelistic works are scrutinized, and each faces the question as to whether its thematic and narrative perspectives fit the pattern and shape of the Bildungsroman.

Victorians Undone

Author : Kathryn Hughes
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142142570X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Victorians Undone by : Kathryn Hughes

Download or read book Victorians Undone written by Kathryn Hughes and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In lively, accessible prose, Victorians Undone fills the space where the body ought to be, proposing new ways of thinking and writing about flesh in the nineteenth century.

The Victorian Age in Literature

Author : G K Chesterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (693 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Victorian Age in Literature by : G K Chesterton

Download or read book The Victorian Age in Literature written by G K Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the rich tapestry of Victorian literature with G.K. Chesterton as your guide. In this captivating two-volume exploration, Chesterton unveils the era's societal intricacies, moral dilemmas, and literary masterpieces. Journey through the minds of Dickens, the Brontës, and more, and discover the essence of the Victorian Age. Chesterton engages with an array of writers, offering insightful commentary on their works and personalities. His essays illuminate the diverse spectrum of literary genius, captivating readers with wit and wisdom

Autobiography, Sensation, and the Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative

Author : Sean Grass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110848445X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Autobiography, Sensation, and the Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative by : Sean Grass

Download or read book Autobiography, Sensation, and the Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative written by Sean Grass and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the commodification of autobiography 1820-1860 in relation to shifting fictional representations of identity.

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights - Diversity in Reviews

Author : Ingo Westermann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640781511
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights - Diversity in Reviews by : Ingo Westermann

Download or read book Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights - Diversity in Reviews written by Ingo Westermann and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Seminar f r Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Outsiders in Victorian fiction, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights is a controversial piece of literature. Its discussion over the decades has been as diverse as is the range of its characters. When it was first published in 1847, in the beginning of the Victorian era, its reception was of a considerable diversity, ranging from absolute rejection to baffled appreciation due to its originality. Differences in reception become even more extreme and obvious when contemporary reviews are being compared with the way the novel is being received nowadays: Rejection has transformed into a matter of wide appeal that does not only attract film makers, painters, musicians and other authors, but has also found its way into many a teacher's English lesson. Wuthering Heights has made its way from the ignorance of public appreciation to the status of being a classic and masterpiece of English literature. On the following pages I will focus on reviews of the novel, predominantly on contemporary criticism intermixed with recent comments, and address the question as to why such a spectrum of opinions can exist and be expressed about one and the same novel. In my opinion, the importance of this question stems from the impression that the reading of Wuthering Heights leaves on its recipients " ...] a strange sort of book, ...] it is impossible to begin and not finish it; and quite as impossible to lay it aside afterwards and say nothing about it." As a reader and especially as a student of English, I feel a rather large obligation to look deeper into the differences and controversies that the novel in question has caused during the last hundred and fifty years and thus to also get a better sense of awareness how the

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry

Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521646802
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (468 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry by : Joseph Bristow

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry written by Joseph Bristow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to Victorian poetry, and will interest scholars and students alike.

The Ideas in Things

Author : Elaine Freedgood
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226261638
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Ideas in Things by : Elaine Freedgood

Download or read book The Ideas in Things written by Elaine Freedgood and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an analysis of nineteenth-century English fiction, focusing on objects found in three Victorian novels, arguing that these items have meanings the modern reader does not understand, but were clear to the Victorian reader.

Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse

Author : Gina M. Dorré
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351875892
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse by : Gina M. Dorré

Download or read book Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse written by Gina M. Dorré and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horse was essential to the workings of Victorian society, and its representations, which are vast, ranging, and often contradictory, comprise a vibrant cult of the horse. Examining the representational, emblematic, and rhetorical uses of horses in a diversity of nineteenth-century texts, Gina M. Dorré shows how discourses about horses reveal and negotiate anxieties related to industrialism and technology, constructions of gender and sexuality, ruptures in the social fabric caused by class conflict and mobility, and changes occasioned by national "progress" and imperial expansion. She argues that as a cultural object, the horse functions as a repository of desire and despair in a society rocked by astonishing social, economic, and technological shifts. While representations of horses abound in Victorian fiction, Gina M. Dorré's study focuses on those novels by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Braddon, Anna Sewell, and George Moore that engage with the most impassioned controversies concerning horses and horse-care, such as the introduction of the steam engine, popular new methods of horse-taming, debates over the tight-reining of horses, and the moral furor surrounding gambling at the race track. Her book establishes the centrality of the horse as a Victorian cultural icon and explores how through it, dominant ideologies of gender and class are created, promoted, and disrupted.