Complicity In Fin De Siecle Literature

Author : Helen Craske
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198910215
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complicity in Fin-de-si?cle Literature written by Helen Craske and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complicity in Fin-de-si?cle Literature examines late-nineteenth century French understandings of literature as a morally collusive medium, which implicates readers, writers, and critics in risqu? or illicit ideas and behaviour. It considers definitions of complicity from the period's evolving legal statutes, critical debates about literary 'bad influence', and modern theories of reader response, in order to achieve a deeper understanding of how cultural production of the period forged relationships of implication and collusion. While focusing on fin-de-si?cle French culture, the book's theoretical discussions provide a new terminology and conceptual framework through which to analyse literary influence and reception, applicable to different historical periods and national settings. Interdisciplinary in nature, the study draws on methods associated with close reading, literary history, law and literature studies, cultural studies, and sociology of literature. Each of the book's chapters highlights how particular literary themes or techniques encouraged readers' identification with transgression and facilitated alternative forms of solidarity. The analysis draws on a range of case studies from different media forms, including: Naturalist, Decadent, and psychological novels, biographically revealing fiction ('romans ? clefs'), little magazines ('petites revues'), and saucy magazines ('revues l?g?res'). Texts written by well-known literary figures--such as ?mile Zola, Octave Mirbeau, and Rachilde--appear alongside previously overlooked periodical and archival sources. The book's varied corpus reveals the widespread appeal of risqu? topics and illicit solidarity across the literary spectrum.

Author : Helen Craske
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198910190
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complicity in Fin-De-Siècle Literature written by Helen Craske and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the representation and creation of shared crime and guilt in late nineteenth-century France: exploring how particular genres--from murder fiction to saucy magazines--encouraged the creation of collusive relationships between writers, readers, and critics.

Author : Josephine M. Guy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474408931
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siecle Literature, Culture and the Arts written by Josephine M. Guy and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly comparative analysis of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze's philosophies of difference.

Author : Jayne Hildebrand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192888471
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Novel Environments written by Jayne Hildebrand and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environment concept has shaped humanity's relationship to the natural world and has drawn attention to the effects of human actions on our natural surroundings. But when did we learn that we live in an environment? While scholars have often located the emergence of the environment concept in twentieth-century ecological and political thought, Novel Environments: Science, Description, and Victorian Fiction reconstructs a longer--and a specifically literary--history. It was in the descriptive worldmaking of the Victorian novel that the environment was first transformed from an abstraction into a vivid object of imagination and feeling. Engaging the scientific theories of their contemporaries, Mary Russell Mitford, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Robert Louis Stevenson turned to detailed description--from gardens and landscapes to weather and atmospheres--to model interactions between life and its surroundings. Far from merely furnishing static background, the descriptive apparatus of the Victorian novel imagined the nonhuman environment as dynamically involved with human action, feeling, and development. In making this argument, Novel Environments recovers the scientific vocabulary the Victorians used to name the surroundings of living organisms. The word "environment" dominates our own way of speaking about the nonhuman world, but nineteenth-century scientific writers and novelists availed themselves of a richer conceptual lexicon, which included "environment" along with less familiar concepts such as "milieu," "medium," and "circumstance". Jayne Hildebrand's story begins at the earliest theorization of environmental forces as a dynamic influence in the life sciences, moves through the apotheosis of the idea of a singular "medium" in mid-century organicist philosophy, and ends at the conception of the planet as an environmental system at the fin-de-siècle. By showing how novelistic description helped to elaborate the environment concept over the nineteenth century, Hildebrand sheds new light on the relationship between Victorian literature and the life sciences, and reveals how literary form has shaped the ecological concepts through which we apprehend the nonhuman world.

Author : Christine Ferguson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351923323
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle written by Christine Ferguson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of language in forming a crucial nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the Victorian fin-de-siècle. Focusing on a variety of literary and non-literary texts, the book maps out the dialogue between the Victorian life and social sciences most involved in the study of language and the literary genre frequently indicted for causing linguistic corruption and debasement - popular fiction. Ferguson demonstrates how Darwinian biological, philological, and anthropological accounts of 'primitive' and animal language were co-opted into wider cultural debates about the apparent brutality of popular fiction, and shows how popular novelists such as Marie Corelli, Grant Allen, H.G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, and Bram Stoker used their fantastic narratives to radically reformulate the relationships among language, thought, and progress that underwrote much of the contemporary prejudice against mass literary taste. In its alignment of scientific, cultural, and popular discourses of human language, Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle stands as a corrective to assessments of best-selling fiction's intellectual, ideological, and aesthetic simplicity.

Author : Adrienne E. Gavin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230354262
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Women of the Fin de Siècle written by Adrienne E. Gavin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on a period of significant social and political change and exploring both canonical and newly rediscovered texts, this book critically assess the changing culture of the late-Victorian period as represented by a range of women writers through a range of essays by leading academics in the field and cutting-edge work by newer scholars.

Author : Christopher Gair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complicity and Resistance in Jack London's Novels written by Christopher Gair and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents Jack London's novels as representations of a particular moment in American history, situating this attention within the wider project of historical understanding. There is an historical overview, followed by readings of London's most important novels. The study illuminates the constant tension in London's work between dominant and counterhegemonic voices, arguing that it is this tension that makes his fiction such a rich resource for the cultural historian.

Author : C. Forth
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230246842
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle France written by C. Forth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turn of the twentieth century represented a crossroads in the French experience of modernization, especially in regard to ideas about gender and sexuality. Drawing together prominent scholars in French gender history, this volume explores how historians have come to view this period in light of new theoretical developments since the 1980s.

Author : Pierre Louÿs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman and Puppet, Etc written by Pierre Louÿs and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gunilla Lindberg-Wada
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110920557
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studying Transcultural Literary History written by Gunilla Lindberg-Wada and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our globalised world, literature is less and less confined to national spaces. Europe-centred frameworks for literary studies have become insufficient; academics are increasingly called upon to address matters of cultural difference. In this unique volume, leading scholars discuss the critical and methodical challenges that these developments pose to the writing of literary history. What is the object of literary history? What is the meaning of the term “world literature”? How do we compare different cultural systems of genres? How do we account theoretically for literary transculturation? What are the implications of postcolonial studies for the discipline of comparative literature? Ranging in focus from the Persian epic of Majnun Layla and Zulu praise poetry to South Korean novels and Brazilian antropofagismo, the essays offer a concise overview of these and related questions. Their aim is not to reach a consensus on these matters. They show instead what is at stake in the emergent field of global comparatism.