English Prose of the Nineteenth Century

English Prose of the Nineteenth Century
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 413
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ISBN-10 : 9781315505350
ISBN-13 : 1315505355
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Synopsis English Prose of the Nineteenth Century by : Hilary Fraser

Hilary Fraser provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of English prose in the nineteenth century which draws from a wide variety of fields including art, literary theory and criticisim, biography, letters, journals, sermons, and travel reportage. Through these works the cultural, social, literary and political life of the twentieth century - a period of great intellectual activity - can be charted, discussed and assessed. For the first time, an inclusive critical survey of nineteenth-century non-fiction is presented, that traces the century's ideological and cultural upheavals as they are registered in the literary textures of some of its most widely read and influential writings.The book explores the relations between writers who are generally perceived as occupying different discursive spheres, for example between John Stuart Mill, Florence Nightingale and Mrs Beeton; between Cardinal Newman, Elizabeth Gaskell and Hannah Cullwick; and between Charles Darwin, David Livingstone and Henry Mayhew. The establishment and development of different genres and their interactions over the century are clearly mapped. The genre of the periodical essay, a distinctively modern and flexible form catering to the mass readership, is the subject of the introduction, and then more specialist fields are discussed, covering scientific writing, travel and exploration literature, social reportage, biography, autobiography, journals, letters, religious and philosophical prose, political writing and history.

Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France: French Text

Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France: French Text
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Publisher : Modern Language Association of America
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ISBN-10 : 1603294937
ISBN-13 : 9781603294935
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Synopsis Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France: French Text by : Masha Belenky

The city of Paris experienced rapid transformation in the middle of the nineteenth century: the population grew, industry and commerce increased, and barriers between social classes diminished. Innovations in printing and distribution gave rise to new mass-market genres: literary guidebooks known as tableaux de Paris and illustrated physiologies examined urban social types and fashions for a broad audience of Parisians hungry to explore and understand their changing society. The works in this volume offer a lively, humorous tour of the manners and characters of the flâneur (a leisurely wanderer), the grisette (a young working-class woman), the gamin (a street urchin), and more. While the names of authors such as Paul de Kock are no longer familiar, their works still open a window onto a vivid time and place.

A History of English Prose Fiction

A History of English Prose Fiction
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Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015030839818
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Synopsis A History of English Prose Fiction by : Bayard Tuckerman

The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature

The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature
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Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9780814210406
ISBN-13 : 0814210406
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Synopsis The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature by : Stefanie Markovits

"We think of the nineteenth century as an active age - the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, and railroads, of great exploration and the Great Exhibition. But in reading the works of Romantic and Victorian writers one notices a conflict, what Stefanie Markovits terms "a crisis of action." In her book, The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Markovits maps out this conflict by focusing on four writers: William Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Eliot, and Henry James. Each chapter offers a "case-study" that demonstrates how specific historical contingencies - including reaction to the French Revolution, laissez-faire economic practices, changes in religious and scientific beliefs, and shifts in women's roles - made people in the period hypersensitive to the status of action and its literary co-relative, plot."--BOOK JACKET.

The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9781317034544
ISBN-13 : 1317034546
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Synopsis The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel by : Terence Dawson

The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel is an experiment in post-Jungian literary criticism and methodology. Its primary aim is to challenge current views about the correlation between narrative structure, gender, and the governing psychological dilemma in four nineteenth-century British novels. The overarching argument is that the opening situation in a novel represents an implicit challenge facing not the obvious hero/heroine but the individual that Terence Dawson defines as the "effective protagonist." To illustrate his claim, Dawson pairs two sets of novels with unexpectedly comparable dilemmas: Ivanhoe with The Picture of Dorian Gray and Wuthering Heights with Silas Marner. In all four novels, the effective protagonist is an apparently minor figure whose crucial function in the ordering of the events has been overlooked. Rereading these well-known texts in relation to hitherto neglected characters uncovers startling new issues at their heart and demonstrates innovative ways of exploring both narrative and literary tradition.

Literature and Politics in the Nineteenth Century

Literature and Politics in the Nineteenth Century
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9781317190172
ISBN-13 : 1317190173
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Synopsis Literature and Politics in the Nineteenth Century by : John Lucas

The intention of this collection of essays, first published in 1971, is to explore the political aspects of some nineteenth century English writers. Under the influence of the great revolutionary upheavals of the period almost all its most important writers were involved, explicitly or otherwise, in political ideas. This is an exploratory volume, and will be of absorbing interest to anyone studying the interaction between literature and ideas in the nineteenth century.