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Victorian Metafiction

Author : Tabitha Sparks
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 081394872X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Metafiction written by Tabitha Sparks and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics agree in the abstract that "metafiction" refers to any novel that draws attention to its own fictional construction, but metafiction has been largely associated with the postmodern era. In this innovative new book Tabitha Sparks identifies a sustained pattern of metafiction in the Victorian novel that illuminates the art and intentions of its female practitioners. From the mid-nineteenth century through the fin de siècle, novels by Victorian women such as Charlotte Brontë, Rhoda Broughton, Charlotte Riddell, Eliza Lynn Linton, and several New Women authors share a common but underexamined trope: the fictional characterization of the woman novelist or autobiographer. Victorian Metafiction reveals how these novels systemically dispute the assumptions that women wrote primarily about their emotions or were restricted to trivial, sentimental plots. Countering an established tradition that has read novels by women writers as heavily autobiographical and confessional, Sparks identifies the literary technique of metafiction in numerous novels by women writers and argues that women used metafictional self-consciousness to draw the reader’s attention to the book and not the novelist. By dislodging the narrative from these cultural prescriptions, Victorian Metafiction effectively argues how these women novelists presented the business and art of writing as the subject of the novel and wrote metafiction in order to establish their artistic integrity and professional authority.

Women’s Literary Portraits in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel

Author : Aleksandra Tryniecka
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 166690578X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Women’s Literary Portraits in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel written by Aleksandra Tryniecka and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a study of Victorian and neo-Victorian women as portrayed on the pages of the selected nineteenth-century novels and modern, revisionary works. Immersed in the wide socio-cultural context of the Victorian era, the study binds Bakhtin's dialogical approach with Genette's intertextuality.

Neo-Victorian Gothic

Author : Marie-Luise Kohlke
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401208964
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorian Gothic written by Marie-Luise Kohlke and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2012 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- The (Mis)Shapes of Neo-Victorian Gothic: Continuations, Adaptations, Transformations /Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben -- The Limits of Neo-Victorian History: Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian and The Swan Thieves /Andrew Smith -- Reclaiming Plots: Albert Wendt's 'Prospecting' and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl's Ola Nā Iwi as Postcolonial Neo-Victorian Gothic /Cheryl D. Edelson -- Monsters against Empire: The Politics and Poetics of Neo-Victorian Metafiction in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen /Sebastian Domsch -- A Bodily Metaphorics of Unsettlement: Leora Farber's Dis-Location / Re-Location as Neo-Victorian Gothic /Jeanne Ellis -- Neo-Victorian Gothic and Spectral Sexuality in Colm Tóibín's The Master /Patricia Pulham -- 'Jack the Ripper' as Neo-Victorian Gothic Fiction: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Sallies into a Late Victorian Case and Myth /Max Duperray -- Chasing the Dragon: Bangtails, Toffs, Jack and Johnny in Neo-Victorian Fiction /Sarah E. Maier -- Neo-Victorian Female Gothic: Fantasies of Self-Abjection /Marie-Luise Kohlke -- Epistemological Rupture and the Gothic Sublime in Slouching Towards Bedlam /Van Leavenworth -- Dead Words and Fatal Secrets: Rediscovering the Sensational Document in Neo-Victorian Gothic /Kym Brindle -- 'Fear is Fun and Fun is Fear': A Reflexion on Humour in Neo-Victorian Gothic /Christian Gutleben -- Contributors -- Index.

Neo-Victorian Fiction and Historical Narrative

Author : L. Hadley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230317499
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorian Fiction and Historical Narrative written by L. Hadley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing the popular genre of neo-Victorian fiction within the context of the contemporary cultural fascination with the Victorians, this book argues that these novels are distinguished by a commitment to historical specificity and understands them within their contemporary context and the context of Victorian historical and literary narratives.

Neo-Victorian Humour

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004336613
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorian Humour written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting neo-Victorian humour’s crucial role in shaping contemporary re-visions of nineteenth-century culture, this volume explores the major aesthetic, ideological and ethical issues raised by refracting the past through a comic lens, especially through self-conscious irony, parody, and black humour.

Recollecting John Fowles / Wiedererinnerungen an John Fowles

Author : Guido Isekenmeier
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643139489
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Recollecting John Fowles / Wiedererinnerungen an John Fowles written by Guido Isekenmeier and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, a collector, a translator and a handful of scholars pay tribute to John Fowles, one of the most important voices in English fiction after World War II. Their contributions address The Magus, The French Lieutenant?s Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin and the unpublished Tesserae.

Discourse Deixis in Metafiction

Author : Andrea Macrae
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429638485
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Discourse Deixis in Metafiction written by Andrea Macrae and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume advances scholarly understanding of the ways in which discourse deixis underpins the workings of metafictional novels. Building on existing scholarship in the field, the book begins by mapping out key themes and techniques in metafiction and puts forward a focused and theoretically coherent account of discourse deixis—language which points to a section or aspect of the discourse context in which that language is used—in written literary discourse, highlighting its inherent significance in metafiction specifically. Macrae takes readers through an exploration of discourse deixis as used within the techniques of metanarration, metalepsis, and disnarration, drawing on a mix of both well-established and lesser-known metafictional novels from the late 1960s and early 1970s by such authors as John Barth, Brigid Brophy, Robert Coover, John Fowles, Steve Katz, and B.S. Johnson. This comprehensive account integrates and develops a new approach to understanding discourse deixis and innovative insights into metafictionality more broadly and will be of particular interest to scholars in literary studies, postmodern literature, narratology, and stylistics.

Metafiction

Author : Mark Currie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317893867
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Metafiction written by Mark Currie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metafiction is one of the most distinctive features of postwar fiction, appearing in the work of novelists as varied as Eco, Borges, Martin Amis and Julian Barnes. It comprises two elements: firstly cause, the increasing interpenetration of professional literary criticism and the practice of writing; and secondly effect: an emphasis on the playing with styles and forms, resulting from an enhanced self-consciousness and awareness of the elusiveness of meaning and the limitations of the realist form. Dr Currie's volume examines first the two components of metafiction, with practical illustrations from the work of such writers as Derrida and Foucault. A final section then provides the view of metafiction as seen by metafictional writers themselves.

Neo-Victorian Villains

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004322256
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorian Villains written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neo-Victorian Villains offers a varied and stimulating range of essays on the afterlives of Victorian villains in popular culture, exploring their representation and adaptation in neo-Victorian drama and fiction.

The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism

Author : Brenda Ayres
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303132160X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism written by Brenda Ayres and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-20 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors’ life stories, graphic novels, and contemporary fiction set in the nineteenth century. Contextualized by Sarah E Maier and Brenda Ayres in a comprehensive introduction, the collection describes current trends in neo-Victorian scholarship of novels, film, theatre, crime, empire/postcolonialism, Gothic, materiality, religion and science, amongst others. A variety of scholars from around the world contribute to this volume by applying an assortment of theoretical approaches and interdisciplinary focus in their critique of a wide range of narratives—from early neo-Victorian texts such as A. S. Byatt’s Possession (1963) and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) to recent steampunk, from musical theatre to slumming, and from The Alienist to queerness—in their investigation of how this fiction reconstructs the past, informed by and reinforming the present.

Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral

Author : Denise Burkhard
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847016040
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral written by Denise Burkhard and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood in neo-Victorian fiction for both child and adult readers is an extremely multifaceted and fascinating field. This book argues that neo-Victorian fiction projects multiple, competing visions of childhood and suggests that they can be analysed by means of a typology, the 'childhood scale', which provides different categories along the lines of power relations, and literary possible-worlds theory. The usefulness of both is exemplified by detailed discussions of Philippa Pearce's "Tom's Midnight Garden" (1958), Eva Ibbotson's "Journey to the River Sea" (2001), Sarah Waters' "Fingersmith" (2002) and Dianne Setterfield's "The Thirteenth Tale" (2006).

Literature Against Criticism

Author : Martin Paul Eve
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783742763
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Literature Against Criticism written by Martin Paul Eve and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside the academy. Meanwhile, the role that the university plays in contemporary literary fiction is becoming increasingly complex and metafictional, moving far beyond the ‘campus novel’ of the mid-twentieth century. Martin Paul Eve’s engaging and far-reaching study explores the novel's contribution to the ongoing displacement of cultural authority away from university English. Spanning the works of Jennifer Egan, Ishmael Reed, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Waters, Percival Everett, Roberto Bolaño and many others, Literature Against Criticism forces us to re-think our previous notions about the relationship between those who write literary fiction and those who critique it.

Rewriting the Victorians

Author : Andrea Kirchknopf
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786471344
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting the Victorians written by Andrea Kirchknopf and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--as one can see from, for example, large-scale adaptations of written works, as well as the explosion of commodities and even interactive theme parks. This book is an introduction to the novelistic refashionings that have come after the Victorian age with a special focus on revisions of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. As post-Victorian research is still in the making, the first part is devoted to clarifying terminology and interpretive contexts. Two major frameworks for reading post-Victorian fiction are developed: the literary scene (authors, readers, critics) and the national-identity, political and social aspects. Among the works examined are Caryl Phillips's Cambridge, Matthew Kneale's English Passengers, Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs, Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, D.M. Thomas's Charlotte, and Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair.

London, Queer Spaces and Historiography in the Works of Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst

Author : Júlia Braga Neves
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839457343
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book London, Queer Spaces and Historiography in the Works of Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst written by Júlia Braga Neves and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer spaces are crucial for the construction of LGBTQ+ communities, as they constitute places where queer subjects can create political, social, and affective alliances. Júlia Braga Neves shows how these spaces are pivotal for the representation of queer history in the fictional works by the British authors Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst, whose characters and plots are articulated through and within London's sexual geographies. Considering the intersection between gender, sexuality, and class, this study engages with spatial, queer, feminist, and Marxist theories as a means to reflect on London, queer historiography, and the relationship between subject and urban space.

Inner and Outer Worlds

Author : Anthony Uhlmann FAHA
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743327803
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Inner and Outer Worlds written by Anthony Uhlmann FAHA and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gail Jones is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary novelists. Her books have won or been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the Miles Franklin Award, the Stella Prize, and numerous state literary awards. They are taught in high schools and universities across the country. This collection of essays offers reflections on Jones’ fiction by leading Australian and international literary critics. For readers who loved Sixty Lights, Five Bells, Sorry and Jones’ other novels, and for students of Jones’ work, this book will be an illuminating companion. With chapters on her use of language, her thematic preoccupations, and her place in local and global literary culture, it is a timely guide to the work of an exceptional Australian writer.

Adventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical Fiction

Author : Jeannette King
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030941264
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Adventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical Fiction written by Jeannette King and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together for the first time nine groundbreaking historical novels by women from the United States, Canada and Latin America, united by their focus on female adventurers. These novels introduce the neglected women of history, real and imagined, who accompanied their menfolk to the New World, and enabled its settlement or colonisation. Familiar novelists include Isabel Allende, Audrey Thomas and Jane Smiley, but this book also introduces less familiar writers who have produced richly textured and densely historical novels. In addition to putting women back into history, these writers engage with the literature of the past, including the American canon of male fiction which dominated literary history before the intervention of feminist scholars. The book begins with an introduction to the history of historical fiction and provides a theoretical, historical and geographical context for the novels themselves.

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set

Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405192445
Total Pages : 1581 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set written by Brian W. Shaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 1581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile