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Book Synopsis The Old Curiosity Shop by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop written by Charles Dickens and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens’s story of selfless Little Nell and her ailing grandfather and their persecution by the magnificently malignant villain Quilp has seized the imaginations and wrung the hearts of generations of readers. Dickens’s talent was superabundant in every way: in his dramatic force and his massive productivity, in his almost surreal comic power, in his compassion and thirst for justice, and in the imaginative pressure he brought to bear on even the most incidental of his characters. The delightfully various figures in The Old Curiosity Shop range memorably from jaunty Dick Swiveller and his little half-starved Marchioness to the hard-hearted siblings Sampson and Sally Brass, jovial Mrs. Jarley, devoted Kit Nubbles, the hunchbacked Daniel Quilp, and, of course, tragic Little Nell herself. Dickens’s depiction of the fate of his main characters is famously harrowing and unfailingly suspenseful, but not the least of its charms is that it is embellished with a supporting cast of figures as grotesque and colorful as anything in the Old Curiosity Shop itself. This edition reprints the original Everyman’s preface by G. K. Chesterton and features seventy-five illustrations by Cattermole and Phiz.
Book Synopsis Prose by Victorian Women by : Andrea Broomfield
Download or read book Prose by Victorian Women written by Andrea Broomfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. The first modern collection of its kind, this anthology includes unabridged essays written by 19th century Britain’s' most eminent women intellectuals- the female counter-parts to the Victorian men of letters. Writing on topics ranging from animal rights and trade unions to aesthetic theory and literary criticism, the women whose rare and hard-to-find woks are presented in this anthology include Mary Russell Mitford, George Eliot, Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, Isabella Bird Bishop, Anne Thackerary Ritchie, Sarah Grand and others.
Download or read book The Monumental News written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women in the English Novel, 1800-1900 by : Merryn Williams
Download or read book Women in the English Novel, 1800-1900 written by Merryn Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-06-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Masters of English Literature by : Edwin Watts Chubb
Download or read book Masters of English Literature written by Edwin Watts Chubb and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Heroines Of Fiction by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book Heroines Of Fiction written by William Dean Howells and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2020 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The numerous class of novel readers who for a lifetime have wandered through the fields of fiction, not premeditatedly seeking mental or moral improvement, but with a mind chiefly on “pleasure bent,” have a treat in store in 'Heroines of Fiction.' Mr. Howells does not write of his own heroines of fiction — it is the creations of the English and American novelists of times long ago who have filled an imaginative world with a galaxy of feminine loveliness and charm that he considers. The dear old friends of fiction who have become as real to us, in name and appearance, as if we and they had lived side by side in the passing years. Mr. Howells presents them to us again, recalling many endearing traits and captivating graces—looking at them also from the literary standpoint and their special relation to the story to which they belong. Mr. Howells has his favorites among novel writers, and he frankly avows his likings. Jane Austen, George Eliot and Henry James he places on a high pedestal far above their contemporaries. Second only to these is the place he awards to Thomas Hardy and Mrs. Humphry Ward. Beginning with Richardson's “Clarissa Harlowe,” he gives us loving and graceful sketches often set in a dramatic scene from the novel under discussion of the heroines of Dickens, Scott, Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Reade, and many others.
Book Synopsis Charles Dickens's Networks by : Jonathan H. Grossman
Download or read book Charles Dickens's Networks written by Jonathan H. Grossman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The same week in February 1836 that Charles Dickens was hired to write his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, the first railway line in London opened. Charles Dickens's Networks explores the rise of the global, high-speed passenger transport network in the nineteenth century and the indelible impact it made on Dickens's work. The advent first of stage coaches, then of railways and transoceanic steam ships made unprecedented round-trip journeys across once seemingly far distances seem ordinary and systematic. Time itself was changed. The Victorians overran the separate, local times kept in each town, establishing instead the synchronized, 'standard' time, which now ticks on our clocks. Jonathan Grossman examines the history of public transport's systematic networking of people and how this revolutionized perceptions of time, space, and community, and how the art form of the novel played a special role in synthesizing and understanding it all. Focusing on a trio of road novels by Charles Dickens, he looks first at a key historical moment in the networked community's coming together, then at a subsequent recognition of its tragic limits, and, finally, at the construction of a revised view that expressed the precarious, limited omniscient perspective by which passengers came to imagine their journeying in the network.
Book Synopsis "The Autocar" Road Book: North and South Wales and West Midlands by : Charles George Harper
Download or read book "The Autocar" Road Book: North and South Wales and West Midlands written by Charles George Harper and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Russian Literature on Film by : Marina Korneeva
Download or read book The History of Russian Literature on Film written by Marina Korneeva and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most previous studies of literature and film, which tend to privilege particular authors, texts, or literary periods, David Gillespie and Marina Korneeva consider the multiple functions of filmed Russian literature as a cinematic subject in its own right-one reflecting the specific political and aesthetic priorities of different national and historical cinemas. In this first and only comprehensive study of cinema's various engagements of Russian literature focusing on the large period 1895-2015, The History of Russian Literature on Film highlights the ways these adaptations emerged from and continue to shape the social, artistic, and commercial aspects of film history.
Book Synopsis Heroes and Heroines of Fiction by : William S. Walsh
Download or read book Heroes and Heroines of Fiction written by William S. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Heroines of Fiction by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book Heroines of Fiction written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Dean Howells (1837-1920), autodidact from the farmlands of Ohio, was a realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". In his "Editor's Study" column at The Atlantic Monthly and, later, at Harper's, he formulated and disseminated his theories of "realism" in literature. Heroines of Fiction is a study of the characters of the female protagonists in the Anglo-American novel from Defoe to James. It is something of an anomaly in Howells's canon of literary texts for reasons of style, rhetorical stance, and purpose. As a critic, Howells was less concerned with psychological or social realism than with an ideal of human character, and in this collection, expands that concern with character within a thesis asserting that "a novel is great or not, as its women are important or unimportant." These character 'portraits' illustrate Howells impressions of which of these female characters are important, and how this status is achieved.
Download or read book Bleak Houses written by Lisa Surridge and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates’ courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedings, and in this way the Victorian scrutiny of domestic conduct began. But how did popular fiction treat “private” family violence? Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction traces novelists’ engagement with the wife-assault debates in the public press between 1828 and the turn of the century. Lisa Surridge examines the early works of Charles Dickens and reads Dombey and Son and Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in the context of the intense debates on wife assault and manliness in the late 1840s and early 1850s. Surridge explores George Eliot’s Janet’s Repentance in light of the parliamentary debates on the 1857 Divorce Act. Marital cruelty trials provide the structure for both Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White and Anthony Trollope’s He Knew He Was Right. Locating the New Woman fiction of Mona Caird and the reassuring detective investigations of Sherlock Holmes in the context of late-Victorian feminism and the great marriage debate in the Daily Telegraph, Surridge illustrates how fin-de-siècle fiction brought male sexual violence and the viability of marriage itself under public scrutiny. Bleak Houses thus demonstrates how Victorian fiction was concerned about the wife-assault debates of the nineteenth century, debates which both constructed and invaded the privacy of the middle-class home.
Book Synopsis The Lure of Babylon by : Michael E. Schiefelbein
Download or read book The Lure of Babylon written by Michael E. Schiefelbein and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the effect of Catholicism on the imagination and the fiction of Protestant novelists in England during the decades surrounding Catholic Emancipation (1829) and the reestablishment of the Roman Catholic Church in England (1850). This book examines anti-Catholicism in popular and respected novelists such as Scott and Dickens, showing the secret attraction to Catholicism of staunch anti-Catholic Protestants.
Download or read book Word Wizard written by Richard Lederer and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a multi-decade career of stimulating readers to appreciate and laugh at the glories and oddities of our English language, beloved language maven Richard Lederer has collected his very best and most popular pieces in Word Wizard. In this career-capping anthology the reader will find essays that enlighten, inspire, and tickle the funny bone. From his hilarious bloopers to his hymns of praise to the English language, these essays are the brightest gems of a storied career. Word Wizard includes a new introduction, prefaces for each essay, sprightly verse, and material never before published in Leader's language books. With classic chapters such as "The World According to Student Bloopers," "English Is a Crazy Language," and "The Case for Short Words," and shiny new essays such as "The Way We Word" and "Add Wealth to Your Vocabulary," Word Wizard is sure to delight language lovers and Lederer fans everywhere.
Book Synopsis Some nineteenth-century heroines in the eighteenth century by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book Some nineteenth-century heroines in the eighteenth century written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Dean Howells (1837-1920), autodidact from the farmlands of Ohio, was a realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". In his "Editor's Study" column at The Atlantic Monthly and, later, at Harper's, he formulated and disseminated his theories of "realism" in literature. Heroines of Fiction is a study of the characters of the female protagonists in the Anglo-American novel from Defoe to James. It is something of an anomaly in Howells's canon of literary texts for reasons of style, rhetorical stance, and purpose. As a critic, Howells was less concerned with psychological or social realism than with an ideal of human character, and in this collection, expands that concern with character within a thesis asserting that "a novel is great or not, as its women are important or unimportant." These character 'portraits' illustrate Howells impressions of which of these female characters are important, and how this status is achieved.
Book Synopsis Married, Middlebrow, and Militant by : Teresa Mangum
Download or read book Married, Middlebrow, and Militant written by Teresa Mangum and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and work of this daring nineteenth-century author and women's rights advocate
Download or read book Lady's Realm written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
