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The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel

Author : Laura C. Berry
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813934570
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel written by Laura C. Berry and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as "childhood" became a distinct category, Laura C. Berry contends, stories of children in danger were circulated as part of larger debates about child welfare and the role of the family in society. Berry examines the nineteenth-century fascination with victimized children to show how novels and reform writings reorganize ideas of self and society as narratives of childhood distress. Focusing on classic childhood stories such as Oliver Twist and novels that are not conventionally associated with particular social problems, such as Dickens's Dombey and Son, the Brontë sisters' Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot's Adam Bede, Berry shows the ways in which fiction that purports to deal with private life, particularly the domain of the family, nevertheless intervenes in public and social debates. At the same time she examines medical, legal, charitable, and social-relief writings to show how these documents provide crucial sources in the development of social welfare and modern representations of the family.

Parents and Children in the Mid-Victorian Novel

Author : Madeleine Wood
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303045469X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Parents and Children in the Mid-Victorian Novel written by Madeleine Wood and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book produces an original argument about the emergence of ‘trauma’ in the nineteenth-century through new readings of Dickens, Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Collins, Gaskell and Elliot. Madeleine Wood argues that the mid-Victorian novels present their protagonists in a state of damage, provoked and defined by the conditions of the mid-century family: the cross-generational relationship is presented as formative and traumatising. By presenting family relationships as decisive for our psychological state as well as our social identity, the Victorian authors pushed beyond the contemporary scientific models available to them. Madeleine Wood analyses the literary and historical conditions of the mid-century period that led to this new literary emphasis, and which paved the way for the emergence of psychoanalysis in Vienna at the fin de siècle. Analysing a series of theoretical texts, Madeleine Wood shows that psychoanalysis shares the mid-Victorian concern with the unequal relationship between adult and child, focusing her reading through Freud’s early writings and Jean Laplanche’s ‘general theory of seduction’.

Acting Naturally

Author : Lynn M. Voskuil
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813922690
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book Acting Naturally written by Lynn M. Voskuil and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voskuil argues that Victorian Britons saw themselves as "authentically performative," a paradoxical belief that focused their sense of vocation as individuals, as a public, and as a nation.

Victorian Childhood

Author : Thomas E. Jordan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438408056
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Childhood written by Thomas E. Jordan and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1987-09-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a broad range of original data on childhood in Victorian Britain. It combines a social science approach to data with historical context, resulting in a highly readable account based on sound historiography. Against a backdrop of the industrial revolution, an expanding economy, and a rising standard of living, Victorian Childhood explores life and death, child development, the family, work, education, social life, cities, crime, and advocacy and reform. Presenting data on the deteriorating health of children during the nineteenth century and on their increasing displacement of adults in the workplace, the author demonstrates that they did not share proportionately in the increased standard of living. Jordan's book is a unique piece of scholarship in its range, focus, and presentation. Original sources such as diaries and memoirs not previously cited elsewhere, literature from the period, and anecdotes from the children themselves animate the statistical background and provide vivid pictures of their lives.

Evangelical Gothic

Author : Christopher Herbert
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813943418
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Evangelical Gothic written by Christopher Herbert and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evangelical Gothic explores the bitter antagonism that prevailed between two defining institutions of nineteenth-century Britain: Evangelicalism and the popular novel. Christopher Herbert begins by retrieving from near oblivion a rich anti-Evangelical polemical literature in which the great religious revival, often lauded in later scholarship as a "moral revolution," is depicted as an evil conspiracy centered on the attempted dismantling of the humanitarian moral culture of the nation. Examining foundational Evangelical writings by John Wesley and William Wilberforce alongside novels by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Bram Stoker, and others, Herbert contends that the realistic popular novel of the time was constitutionally alien to Evangelical ideology and even, to some extent, took its opposition to that ideology as its core function. This provocative argument illuminates the frequent linkage of Evangelicalism in nineteenth-century fiction with the characteristic imagery of the Gothic–with black magic, with themes of demonic visitation and vampirism, and with a distinctive mood of hysteria and panic.

A Companion to the Victorian Novel

Author : Patrick Brantlinger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470997206
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Victorian Novel written by Patrick Brantlinger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901. Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published during the Victorian period. Explains issues such as Victorian religions, class structure, and Darwinism to those who are unfamiliar with them. Comprises original, accessible chapters written by renowned and emerging scholars in the field of Victorian studies. Ideal for students and researchers seeking up-to-the-minute coverage of contexts and trends, or as a starting point for a survey course.

The Victorian Country Child

Author : Pamela Horn
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780750914994
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Country Child written by Pamela Horn and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A totally fascinating account of Victorian country life' -- The Good Book Guide This book describes the varied aspects of country life in the last century from a child's point of view. The author discusses all aspects of their day-to-day experiences, including living conditions, food, school life, work on the land, agricultural policies and how they affected children, local and cottage industries, the Church and its influence, and crime and punishment.

The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel

Author : Daniel Hack
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813923451
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel written by Daniel Hack and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as his point of departure the competing uses of the critical term the materiality of writing, Daniel Hack turns to the past in this provocative new book to recover the ways in which the multiple aspects of writing now conjured by that term were represented and related to one another in the mid-nineteenth century. Diverging from much contemporary criticism, he argues that attention to the writing's material components and contexts does not by itself constitute reading against the grain. On the contrary, the Victorian discourse on authorship and the novels Hack discusses--including works by Thackeray, Dickens, Collins, and Eliot--actively investigate the significance and mutual relevance of the written word or printed word's physicality, the exchange of texts for money, the workings of signification, and the corporeality of writers, readers, and characters. Hack shows how these investigations, which involve positioning the novel in relation to such widely denigrated forms of writing as the advertisement and the begging letter, bring into play such basic novelistic properties as sympathetic identification, narrative authority, and fictionality itself. Combining formalist and historicist critical methods in innovative fashion, Hack changes the way we think about the Victorian novel's simultaneous status as text, book, and commodity.

Narrative Bonds

Author : Alexandra Valint
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814214633
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Bonds written by Alexandra Valint and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While narrative fracturing, multiplicity, and experimentalism are commonly associated with modernist and postmodern texts, they have largely been understudied in Victorian literature. Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel focuses on the centrality of these elements and address the proliferation of multiple narrators in Victorian novels. In Narrative Bonds, Alexandra Valint explores the ways in which the Victorian multi-narrator form moves toward the unity of vision across characters and provides inclusivity in an era of expanding democratic rights and a growing middle class. Integrating narrative theory, gothic theory, and disability studies with analyses of works by Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins, Emily Brontë, and Bram Stoker, this comprehensive and illuminating study illustrates the significance and impact of the multi-narrator structure in Victorian novels.

Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Author : Sibylle Baumbach
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030753972
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture written by Sibylle Baumbach and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the politics and poetics of Victorian surfaces in their manifold manifestations. In so doing, it examines various cultural products ‘as they are’ and highlights the art of surface composition in the Victorian era as well as the socio-cultural ramifications of the preoccupation with the exterior. By closely reading the various surfaces materialising in Victorian literature and culture, the individual contributions explore the dialectics of surface and depth in Victorian (and Neo-Victorian) cultures as well as the legibility of surfaces. They look into the surfaces of literary narratives, paintings, and film but also into natural surfaces such as skin or bark. Each chapter foregrounds what is present rather than absent in a text, while also paying attention to the surfaces that become manifest on the diegetic level of the text, be they cloth, landscapes, or human bodies or faces. This is an open access book.

British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900

Author : Alisa Clapp-Itnyre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113479620X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900 written by Alisa Clapp-Itnyre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining nineteenth-century British hymns for children, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre argues that the unique qualities of children's hymnody created a space for children's empowerment. Unlike other literature of the era, hymn books were often compilations of many writers' hymns, presenting the discerning child with a multitude of perspectives on religion and childhood. In addition, the agency afforded children as singers meant that they were actively engaged with the text, music, and pictures of their hymnals. Clapp-Itnyre charts the history of children’s hymn-book publications from early to late nineteenth century, considering major denominational movements, the importance of musical tonality as it affected the popularity of hymns to both adults and children, and children’s reformation of adult society provided by such genres as missionary and temperance hymns. While hymn books appear to distinguish 'the child' from 'the adult', intricate issues of theology and poetry - typically kept within the domain of adulthood - were purposely conveyed to those of younger years and comprehension. Ultimately, Clapp-Itnyre shows how children's hymns complicate our understanding of the child-adult binary traditionally seen to be a hallmark of Victorian society. Intersecting with major aesthetic movements of the period, from the peaking of Victorian hymnody to the Golden Age of Illustration, children’s hymn books require scholarly attention to deepen our understanding of the complex aesthetic network for children and adults. Informed by extensive archival research, British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900 brings this understudied genre of Victorian culture to critical light.

Ungovernable

Author : Therese Oneill
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316481890
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Ungovernable written by Therese Oneill and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the "hysterically funny and unsettlingly fascinating"* New York Times bestseller Unmentionable, a hilarious illustrated guide to the secrets of Victorian child-rearing [*Jenny Lawson] Feminist historian Therese Oneill is back, to educate you on what to expect when you're expecting . . . a Victorian baby! In Ungovernable, Oneill conducts an unforgettable tour through the backwards, pseudoscientific, downright bizarre parenting fashions of the Victorians, advising us on: - How to be sure you're not too ugly, sickly, or stupid to breed - What positions and room decor will help you conceive a son - How much beer, wine, cyanide and heroin to consume while pregnant - How to select the best peasant teat for your child - Which foods won't turn your children into sexual deviants - And so much more Endlessly surprising, wickedly funny, and filled with juicy historical tidbits and images, Ungovernable provides much-needed perspective on -- and comic relief from -- the age-old struggle to bring up baby.

Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England

Author : Monica Flegel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317162331
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England written by Monica Flegel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving nimbly between literary and historical texts, Monica Flegel provides a much-needed interpretive framework for understanding the specific formulation of child cruelty popularized by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in the late nineteenth century. Flegel considers a wide range of well-known and more obscure texts from the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth, including philosophical writings by Locke and Rousseau, poetry by Coleridge, Blake, and Caroline Norton, works by journalists and reformers like Henry Mayhew and Mary Carpenter, and novels by Frances Trollope, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Morrison. Taking up crucial topics such as the linking of children with animals, the figure of the child performer, the relationship between commerce and child endangerment, and the problem of juvenile delinquency, Flegel examines the emergence of child abuse as a subject of legal and social concern in England, and its connection to earlier, primarily literary representations of endangered children. With the emergence of the NSPCC and the new crime of cruelty to children, new professions and genres, such as child protection and social casework, supplanted literary works as the authoritative voices in the definition of social ills and their cure. Flegel argues that this development had material effects on the lives of children, as well as profound implications for the role of class in representations of suffering and abused children. Combining nuanced close readings of individual texts with persuasive interpretations of their influences and limitations, Flegel's book makes a significant contribution to the history of childhood, social welfare, the family, and Victorian philanthropy.

Children's Literature and Capitalism

Author : C. Parkes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137265094
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Children's Literature and Capitalism written by C. Parkes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of children's and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

Child Murder and British Culture, 1720-1900

Author : Josephine McDonagh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521781930
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Child Murder and British Culture, 1720-1900 written by Josephine McDonagh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

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).

The Victorian Baby in Print

Author : Tamara S. Wagner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198858019
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Baby in Print written by Tamara S. Wagner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to focus exclusively on the baby in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Drawing on novels by writers such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, as well as parenting magazines and manuals, it analyses how representations of infancy shaped an iconography that has defined the Victorian age.