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The Victorian and the Romantic

Author : Nell Stevens
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385543514
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian and the Romantic written by Nell Stevens and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tale of two writers, Nell Stevens interweaves her own life as a twenty-something graduate student with that of the English author, Elizabeth Gaskell. Although they are separated by more than 150 years, Nell finds herself drawn to the Victorian novelist by their shared experiences of unrequited love—Gaskell for an American critic she met in Rome, Nell for a soulful American screenwriter living in Paris. As Nell’s romance founders and her passion for academia fails to materialize, she finds herself wondering if the indomitable Mrs. Gaskell might rescue her pursuit of love, family, and a writing career. Lively, witty, and impossible to put down, The Victorian and the Romantic is a moving chronicle of two women, each charting a way of life beyond the rules of her time.

Blameless

Author : Gail Carriger
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316082562
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Blameless written by Gail Carriger and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season in the third book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead. While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they're armed with pesto. Blameless is the third book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.

What the Victorians Made of Romanticism

Author : Tom Mole
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691202923
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book What the Victorians Made of Romanticism written by Tom Mole and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the reputations of Romantic writers. Tom Mole provides a new reception history of Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth—one that moves beyond the punctual historicism of much recent criticism and the narrow horizons of previous reception histories. He attends instead to the material artifacts and cultural practices that remediated Romantic writers and their works amid shifting understandings of history, memory, and media. Mole scrutinizes Victorian efforts to canonize and commodify Romantic writers in a changed media ecology. He shows how illustrated books renovated Romantic writing, how preachers incorporated irreligious Romantics into their sermons, how new statues and memorials integrated Romantic writers into an emerging national pantheon, and how anthologies mediated their works to new generations. This ambitious study investigates a wide range of material objects Victorians made in response to Romantic writing—such as photographs, postcards, books, and collectibles—that in turn remade the public’s understanding of Romantic writers. Shedding new light on how Romantic authors were posthumously recruited to address later cultural concerns, What the Victorians Made of Romanticism reveals new histories of appropriation, remediation, and renewal that resonate in our own moment of media change, when once again the cultural products of the past seem in danger of being forgotten if they are not reimagined for new audiences.

The Romantic Friendship Reader

Author : Axel Nissen
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555535902
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Romantic Friendship Reader written by Axel Nissen and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel excerpts, stories, and travel writing exemplifying a resistance to the "domestic ideology" of the later 19th century. Cf. Introduction. With critical commentary.

Between Women

Author : Sharon Marcus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400830850
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Between Women written by Sharon Marcus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture, and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law. Through a close examination of literature, memoirs, letters, domestic magazines, and political debates, Marcus reveals how relationships between women were a crucial component of femininity. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and filled with original readings of familiar and surprising sources, Between Women overturns everything we thought we knew about Victorian women and the history of marriage and family life. It offers a new paradigm for theorizing gender and sexuality--not just in the Victorian period, but in our own.

Mrs Gaskell and Me

Author : NELL. STEVENS
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9781509868216
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Mrs Gaskell and Me written by NELL. STEVENS and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the beloved Bleaker House, Mrs Gaskell and Me is the story of two very modern women and their two love affairs, separated by a hundred and fifty years.

Love in the Time of Victoria

Author : Francoise Barret-Ducrocq
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140173269
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of Victoria written by Francoise Barret-Ducrocq and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-12-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using firsthand documents uncovered in the archives of a London foundling hospital, Barret-Ducrocq offers a marvelously acute census of Victorian sexual and moral attitudes.

Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England

Author : Jennifer Phegley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313375356
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England written by Jennifer Phegley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the popular publications of the Victorian period, illuminating the intricacies of courtship and marriage from the differing perspectives of the working, middle, and upper classes. In contemporary culture, the near obsessive pursuit of love and monogamous bliss is considered "normal," as evidenced by a wide range of online dating sites, television shows such as Sex in the City and The Bachelorette, and an endless stream of Hollywood romantic comedies. Ironically, when it comes to love and marriage, we still wrestle with many of the same emotional and social challenges as our 19th-century predecessors did over 100 years ago. Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England draws on little-known conduct books, letter-writing manuals, domestic guidebooks, periodical articles, letters, and novels to reveal what the period equivalents of "dating" and "tying the knot" were like in the Victorian era. By addressing topics such as the etiquette of introductions and home visits, the roles of parents and chaperones, the events of the London season, model love letters, and the specific challenges facing domestic servants seeking spouses, author Jennifer Phegley provides a fascinating examination of British courtship and marriage rituals among the working, middle, and upper classes from the 1830s to the 1910s.

Victorian Love Stories

Author : Kate Flint
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Love Stories written by Kate Flint and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-two stories, mostly dating from the 1880s and later, originally published in magazines.

Romantic And Victorian Poetry

Author : William Frost
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1446545385
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Romantic And Victorian Poetry written by William Frost and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Fair as a Star

Author : Mimi Matthews
Publisher : Perfectly Proper Press
ISBN 13 : 173305698X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Fair as a Star written by Mimi Matthews and published by Perfectly Proper Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: --A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST ROMANCE of 2020-- "A kindhearted love story that will delight anyone who longs to be loved without limits. Highly recommended." -Library Journal, STARRED review "Historical romance fans won't want to miss this." -Publishers Weekly, STARRED review A Secret Burden... After a mysterious sojourn in Paris, Beryl Burnham has returned home to the village of Shepton Worthy ready to resume the life she left behind. Betrothed to the wealthy Sir Henry Rivenhall, she has no reason to be unhappy--or so people keep reminding her. But Beryl's life isn't as perfect as everyone believes. A Longstanding Love... As village curate, Mark Rivenhall is known for his compassionate understanding. When his older brother's intended needs a shoulder to lean on, Mark's more than willing to provide one. There's no danger of losing his heart. He already lost that to Beryl a long time ago. During an idyllic Victorian summer, friends and family gather in anticipation of Beryl and Sir Henry's wedding. But in her darkest moment, it's Mark who comes to Beryl's aid. Can he help her without revealing his feelings--or betraying his brother?

The Duke's Perfect Wife

Author : Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101561599
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Duke's Perfect Wife written by Jennifer Ashley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Eleanor Ramsay is the only one who knows the truth about Hart Mackenzie. Once his fiancee, she is the sole woman to whom he could ever pour out his heart. Hart has it all--a dukedom, wealth, power, influence, whatever he desires. Every woman wants him--his seductive skills are legendary. But Hart has sacrificed much to keep his brothers safe, first from their brutal father, and then from the world. He's also suffered loss--his wife, his infant son, and the woman he loved with all his heart though he realized it too late. Now, Eleanor has reappeared on Hart's doorstep, with scandalous nude photographs of Hart taken long ago. Intrigued by the challenge in her blue eyes--and aroused by her charming, no-nonsense determination--Hart wonders if his young love has come to ruin him . . . or save him.

Romance's Rival

Author : Talia Schaffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190465093
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Romance's Rival written by Talia Schaffer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance's Rival argues that the central plot of the most important genre of the nineteenth century, the marriage plot novel, means something quite different from what we thought. In Victorian novels, women may marry for erotic desire--but they might, instead, insist on "familiar marriage," marrying trustworthy companions who can offer them socially rich lives and futures of meaningful work. Romance's Rival shows how familiar marriage expresses ideas of female subjectivity dating back through the seventeenth century, while romantic marriage felt like a new, risky idea. Undertaking a major rereading of the rise-of-the-novel tradition, from Richardson through the twentieth century, Talia Schaffer rethinks what the novel meant if one tracks familiar-marriage virtues. This alternative perspective offers new readings of major texts (Austen, the Bront s, Eliot, Trollope) but it also foregrounds women's popular fiction (Yonge, Oliphant, Craik, Broughton). Offering a feminist perspective that reads the marriage plot from the woman's point of view, Schaffer inquires why a female character might legitimately wish to marry for something other than passion. For the past half-century, scholars have valorized desire, individuality, and autonomy in the way we read novels; Romance's Rival asks us to look at the other side, to validate the yearning for work, family, company, or social power as legitimate reasons for women's marital choices in Victorian fiction. Comprehensive in its knowledge of several generations of scholarship on the novel, Romance's Rival convinces us to re-examine assumptions about the nature and function of marriage and the role of the novel in helping us not simply imagine marriage but also process changing ideas about what it might look like and how it might serve people.

Perspectives

Author : Jalal Uddin Khan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443875074
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives written by Jalal Uddin Khan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives: Romantic, Victorian, and Modern Literature is an up-to-date explication of various popular and classic subjects and authors arranged chronologically. The book, composed of thirteen essays, examines Blake; Coleridge; Byron; Shelley; Keats; Victorian medievalism; the Victorian reaction to British India; (Ben) Jonsonian elements in Yeats; Yeats and Maud Gonne; the treatment of the Irish civil war and Irish nationalism in Yeats; and the treatment of the Spanish civil war in the selected works of modern fiction and nonfiction. Marked by an originality of approach and a freshness and simplicity, the book takes note of contemporary theoretical, interdisciplinary and cultural discourse drawn from literature, history, politics and religion as necessary. However, it is far from being unnecessarily outweighed by the loaded clichés, oft-repeated jargon and overused euphemisms of modern literary or critical theory. The result is, regardless of its specialized treatment of otherwise commonplace or well-known texts or topics, that the overall discussion is as lucid, introductory and expository as it is deep and scholarly, making the book easily accessible and understandable to non-specialist readers, in addition to specialist researchers and academics.

Wild Romance

Author : Chloë Schama
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408814722
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Wild Romance written by Chloë Schama and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-09-06 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1852, on a steamer from France to England, nineteen-year-old Theresa Longworth met William Charles Yelverton, a soldier destined to become the Viscount of Avonmore. Their flirtation soon blossomed into a clandestine, epistolary affair, and five years later they married secretly in Edinburgh. Then, that same summer, they married again in Dublin - or did they? Separated by circumstance soon after they were wed, Theresa and Charles would never live together as husband and wife. And when Yelverton married another woman, an abandoned Theresa found herself forced to prove the validity of her marriage. Multiple trials ensued, and the press and the public seized upon the scandal and reported its every detail with relish. Wild Romance is the inspiring tale of a woman who never gave up, and who held on to her ideals of independence, dignity and - despite everything - love.

A Victorian Grimoire: Enchantment, Romance, Magic

Author : Patricia Telesco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781959883340
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book A Victorian Grimoire: Enchantment, Romance, Magic written by Patricia Telesco and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magic and romances of the past are brought back to life in Patricia Telesco's A Victorian Grimoire. Take an inspiring look at the Victorian era and let your magic be inspired by the beautiful yet simple ways of conjuring magic that could very well have been practiced in yesteryear. Whether you are looking to explore Victorian herbal magic or learn some Victorian era-inspired love charms, this book will prove to be a treasured keepsake for years to come.

Unmentionable

Author : Therese Oneill
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316357913
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Unmentionable written by Therese Oneill and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't question.) UNMENTIONABLE is your hilarious, illustrated, scandalously honest (yet never crass) guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood, giving you detailed advice on: ~ What to wear ~ Where to relieve yourself ~ How to conceal your loathsome addiction to menstruating ~ What to expect on your wedding night ~ How to be the perfect Victorian wife ~ Why masturbating will kill you ~ And more Irresistibly charming, laugh-out-loud funny, and featuring nearly 200 images from Victorian publications, UNMENTIONABLE will inspire a whole new level of respect for Elizabeth Bennett, Scarlet O'Hara, Jane Eyre, and all of our great, great grandmothers. (And it just might leave you feeling ecstatically grateful to live in an age of pants, super absorbency tampons, epidurals, anti-depressants, and not-dying-of-the-syphilis-your-husband-brought-home.)