Aestheticism And The Marriage Market In Victorian Popular Fiction

Author : Kirby-Jane Hallum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131731798X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aestheticism and the Marriage Market in Victorian Popular Fiction written by Kirby-Jane Hallum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on close readings of five Victorian novels, Hallum presents an original study of the interaction between popular fiction, the marriage market and the aesthetic movement. She uses the texts to trace the development of aestheticism, examining the differences between the authors, including their approach, style and gender.

Author : Bénédicte Coste
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317265084
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism written by Bénédicte Coste and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting the period that extends from the 1860s to the 1940s, this volume offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. By acknowledging that both movements had a passion for the ‘new’, it goes beyond the alleged divide between Modernism and its predecessors. Rather than reading the modernist credo, ‘Make it New!’, as a desire to break away from the past, the authors of this book suggest reading it as a continuation and a reappropriation of the spirit of the ‘New’ that characterizes Aestheticism. Basing their arguments on recent reassessments of Aestheticism and Modernism and their articulation, contributors take up the challenge of interrogating the connections, continuities, and intersections between the two movements, thus revealing the working processes of cultural and aesthetic change so as to reassess the value of the new for each. Attending to well-known writers such as Waugh, Woolf, Richardson, Eliot, Pound, Ford, Symons, Wilde, and Hopkins, as well as to hitherto neglected figures such as Lucas Malet, L.S. Gibbon, Leonard Woolf, or George Egerton, they revise assumptions about Aestheticism and Modernism and their very definitions. This collection brings together international scholars specializing in Aestheticism or Modernism who push their analyses beyond their strict period of expertise and take both movements into account through exciting approaches that borrow from aesthetics, philosophy, or economics. The volume proposes a corrective to the traditional narratives of the history of Aestheticism and Modernism, revitalizing definitions of these movements and revealing new directions in aestheticist and modernist studies.

Author : Andrew Nash
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317320107
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Clark Russell and the Victorian Nautical Novel written by Andrew Nash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Clark Russell wrote more than forty nautical novels. Immensely popular in their time, his works were admired by contemporary writers, such as Conan Doyle, Stevenson and Meredith, while Swinburne, considered him 'the greatest master of the sea, living or dead'. Based on extensive archival research, Nash explores this remarkable career.

Author : Anna Bogen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317319575
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's University Fiction, 1880–1945 written by Anna Bogen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of the middle classes brought a sharp increase in the number of young men and women able to attend university. Developing in the wake of this increase, the university novel often centred on male undergraduates at either Oxford or Cambridge. Bogen argues that an analysis of the lesser known female narratives can provide new insights.

Author : Francesca Saggini
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317319508
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gothic Novel and the Stage written by Francesca Saggini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements of the theatre provided inspiration to novelists.

Author : Jenni Calder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction written by Jenni Calder and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shirley Foster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415524113
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Women's Fiction written by Shirley Foster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have challenged contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women's fiction shows how 19th century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and alternative of single or professional life.

Author : Mrs. Oliphant
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marriage of Elinor written by Mrs. Oliphant and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Marriage of Elinor" by Mrs. Oliphant. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Richard Marsh
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Arnott's Marriage written by Richard Marsh and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Miss Arnott's Marriage' is a romance novel set in England. Upon the traumatic event of the sentencing of her husband for a violent crime, a young woman reverts to her maiden name, Miss Arnott. As soon as she does however, she is contacted by a solicitor who informs her that her now deceased uncle Septimus, had not died in childhood as she had always thought, but had amassed a huge fortune overseas before returning to England. A fortune that is now hers. Now a young, beautiful woman, with great wealth, she is set to become an attraction to many suitors, some with sinister intentions...

Author : Hilary Fraser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521307678
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Beauty and Belief written by Hilary Fraser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is an important contribution to the intellectual history of Victorian England which examines the religio-aesthetic theories of some central writers of the time. Dr Fraser begins with a discussion of the aesthetic dimensions of Tractarian theology and then proceeds to the orthodox certainties of Hopkins' theory of inscape, Ruskin's and Arnold's moralistic criticism of literature and the visual arts, and Pater's and Wilde's faith in a religion of art. The author identifies significant cultural and historical conditions which determined the interdependence of aesthetic and religious sensibility in the period. She argues that certain tensions in the thought of Wordsworth and Coleridge - tensions between poetry and religion, rebellion and reaction, individualism and authority - continued to manifest themselves throughout the Victorian age, and as society became increasingly democratic, religion in turn became increasingly personal and secular.