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Author : Richard Stang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Theory of the Novel in England, 1850-1870 written by Richard Stang and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Maioli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319398598
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Empiricism and the Early Theory of the Novel written by Roger Maioli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the empiricist challenge to literature, and its influence on eighteenth-century theories of fiction. British empiricism from Bacon to Hume challenged the notion that imaginative literature can be a reliable source of knowledge. This book argues that theorists of the novel, from Henry Fielding to Jane Austen, recognized the force of the empiricist challenge but refused to capitulate. It traces how, in their reflections on the novel, these writers attempted to formulate a theoretical link between the world of experience and the products of the imagination, and thus update the old defenses of poetry for empirical times. Taken together, the empiricist challenge and the responses it elicited signaled a transition in the longstanding debate about literature and knowledge, as an inaugural round in the persisting conflict between the empirical sciences and the literary humanities.
Author : David Bruce Suchoff
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299140847
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Critical Theory and the Novel written by David Bruce Suchoff and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the historical origins of cultural criticism in the novel since the mid-19th century, using the critical theory of the Frankfurt School to declare the critical force of mass culture as crucial to the making of the modern novel. Discusses how mass audiences and politics presented problems to major novelists and how they responded in their writings and lives. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Walter F. Greiner
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823351726
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Realismustheorien in England (1692-1919) written by Walter F. Greiner and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1997 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Dames
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199208964
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Physiology of the Novel written by Nicholas Dames and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Victorians read novels? Nicholas Dames answers that deceptively simple question by revealing a now-forgotten range of nineteenth-century theories of the novel, a range based in a study of human physiology during the act of reading, He demonstrates the ways in which the Victorians thought they read, and uncovers surprising responses to the question of what might have transpired in the minds and bodies of readers of Victorian fiction. His detailed studies of novelcritics who were also interested in neurological science, combined with readings of novels by Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, and Gissing, propose a vision of the Victorian novel-reader as far from the quietly immersed being we now imagine - as instead a reader whose nervous system was addressed, attacked, andsoothed by authors newly aware of the neural operations of their public. Rich in unexpected intersections, from the British response to Wagnerian opera to the birth of speed-reading in the late nineteenth century, The Physiology of the Novel challenges our assumptions about what novel-reading once did, and still does, to the individual reader, and provides new answers to the question of how novels influenced a culture's way of reading, responding, and feeling.
Author : Arnold Kettle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317356578
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the English Novel (2 Vols) written by Arnold Kettle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1951, the two volumes of An Introduction to the English Novel discuss how and why the novel developed in England in the eighteenth century. The books look at the function and background of prose fiction, focusing its arguments around the study of carefully selected books that have had a significant impact on its development. The author examines the progress in the long struggle of the novelist to see life steadily and whole, and points out some of the problems and hazards that beset the writer still.
Author : E. Courtemanche
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230304982
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction, 1818-1860 written by E. Courtemanche and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'invisible hand', Adam Smith's metaphor for the morality of capitalism, is explored in this text as being far more subtle and intricate than is usually understood, with many British realist fiction writers (Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot) having absorbed his model of ironic causality in complex societies and turned it to their own purposes.
Author : Jordan Alexander Stein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674987047
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book When Novels Were Books written by Jordan Alexander Stein and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary scholar explains how eighteenth-century novels were manufactured, sold, bought, owned, collected, and read alongside Protestant religious texts. As the novel developed into a mature genre, it had to distinguish itself from these similar-looking books and become what we now call “literature.” Literary scholars have explained the rise of the Anglophone novel using a range of tools, from Ian Watt’s theories to James Watt’s inventions. Contrary to established narratives, When Novels Were Books reveals that the genre beloved of so many readers today was not born secular, national, middle-class, or female. For the first three centuries of their history, novels came into readers’ hands primarily as printed sheets ordered into a codex bound along one edge between boards or paper wrappers. Consequently, they shared some formal features of other codices, such as almanacs and Protestant religious books produced by the same printers. Novels are often mistakenly credited for developing a formal feature (“character”) that was in fact incubated in religious books. The novel did not emerge all at once: it had to differentiate itself from the goods with which it was in competition. Though it was written for sequential reading, the early novel’s main technology for dissemination was the codex, a platform designed for random access. This peculiar circumstance led to the genre’s insistence on continuous, cover-to-cover reading even as the “media platform” it used encouraged readers to dip in and out at will and read discontinuously. Jordan Alexander Stein traces this tangled history, showing how the physical format of the book shaped the stories that were fit to print.
Author : Rosalind Crone
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527566978
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book New Perspectives in British Cultural History written by Rosalind Crone and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is composed of a selection of papers presented at a conference in Cambridge in December 2005. Cultural history is a relatively new sub-discipline. Over the past few decades, it has become increasingly apparent that a new generation of historians has emerged. These scholars have become concerned with research, sources and questions traditionally beyond the scope of the discipline of history. Indeed, recent monographs in history have demonstrated a growing awareness of the cultural imagination in analyses of patterns of change and continuity in the past. Such a movement has also encouraged the development of new networks between different disciplines in the Arts and Social Sciences. The authors of these chapters come from a wide range of academic backgrounds. While all are concerned with crucial issues of the past, they represent a substantial variety of disciplines. In addition to the historians are those trained and working in literary studies, art history, design, music and science. As early-career scholars, the research they present is cutting edge: these contributions represent the very latest trends in cultural studies and demonstrate the attempts of new researchers to answer the most current and challenging questions that are being proposed in this field.
Author : Christopher Harvie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134998244
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Centre of Things written by Christopher Harvie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An historical and critical work on the role of fiction in British politics, focusing on Disraeli, Galt, Eliot, Trollope, Wells and Cary among others. This witty book is the first treatment of its subject for nearly seventy years.
Author : Vivien Jones
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349178934
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book James the Critic written by Vivien Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-08-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzanne Keen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199884145
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Empathy and the Novel written by Suzanne Keen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to altruistic actions on behalf of real others? Empathy and the Novel presents a comprehensive account of the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism. Drawing on psychology, narrative theory, neuroscience, literary history, philosophy, and recent scholarship in discourse processing, Keen brings together resources and challenges for the literary study of empathy and the psychological study of fiction reading. Empathy robustly enters into affective responses to fiction, yet its role in shaping the behavior of emotional readers has been debated for three centuries. Keen surveys these debates and illustrates the techniques that invite empathetic response. She argues that the perception of fictiveness increases the likelihood of readers' empathy in part by releasing them from the guarded responses necessitated by the demands of real others. Narrative empathy is a strategy and subject of contemporary novelists from around the world, writers who tacitly endorse the potential universality of human emotions when they call upon their readers' empathy. If narrative empathy is to be taken seriously, Keen suggests, then women's reading and responses to popular fiction occupy a central position in literary inquiry, and cognitive literary studies should extend its range beyond canonical novels. In short, Keen's study extends the playing field for literature practitioners, causing it to resemble more closely that wide open landscape inhabited by readers.
Author : Elinor S. Shaffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521222969
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Comparative Criticism: Volume 1, The Literary Canon written by Elinor S. Shaffer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a yearbook sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association which promotes comparative literary studies.
Author : Joanne Shattock
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040129552
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part I Volume 1 written by Joanne Shattock and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.
Author : Deirdre David
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107495644
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel written by Deirdre David and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second edition of the Companion to the Victorian Novel has been updated fully, taking account of new research and critical methodologies. There are four new chapters and the others have been thoroughly updated, as has the guide to further reading. Designed to appeal to students, teachers and readers, these essays reflect the latest approaches to reading and understanding Victorian fiction.
Author : Kerry McSweeney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317288696
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Middlemarch written by Kerry McSweeney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984. Although Middlemarch was extravagantly praised by Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf, it is only in the last few decades that the novel has been widely recognised as George Eliot’s finest work, one of the greatest English novels, and one of the classic texts of nineteenth-century fiction. The intellectual, religious and aesthetic background to Middlemarch are fully examined, with particular attention paid to Eliot’s key doctrines of fellow-feeling and the humanistic economy of salvation. Professor McSweeney also provides fresh and thought-provoking discussions of the role of the omniscient narrator, and of character and characterisation. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
Author : K. J. M. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521892247
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (922 download)
Download or read book James Fitzjames Stephen written by K. J. M. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important study Dr Smith uses a wide range of primary materials to provide the first modern comprehensive examination of the work, writings and ideas of James Fitzjames Stephen. Stephen's broad rationalist/utilitarian ethical and intellectual stance manifested itself most prominently in law and social and political philosophy. Stephen's turn of mind led him to perceive the substance of literature and religious orthodoxy as of complementary interest and relevance to the social and political mores of Victorian England, making him one of Dickens' and Cardinal Newman's most formidable and trenchant critics. Dr Smith's account is the first to set Stephen's life and thought in its proper Victorian context, and marks a significant addition to the growing literature on the intellectual history of nineteenth-century England.
