English Literature From The 19th Century Through Today

Author : J. E. Luebering Manager and Senior Editor, Literature
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1615301178
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Literature from the 19th Century Through Today written by J. E. Luebering Manager and Senior Editor, Literature and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the works, writers, and movements that shaped the British literary canon from the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Author : Professor Simon Dentith
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472418875
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now written by Professor Simon Dentith and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Envisioning today’s readers as poised between an impossible attempt to read texts as their original readers experienced them and an awareness of our own temporal moment, Simon Dentith complicates traditional prejudices against hindsight to approach issues of interpretation and historicity in nineteenth-century literature. Suggesting that the characteristic aesthetic attitude encouraged by the backward look is one of irony rather than remorse or regret, he examines works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, William Morris and John Ruskin in terms of their participation in significant histories that extend to this day. Liberalism, class, gender, political representation and notions of progress, utopianism and ecological concern as currently understood can be traced back to the nineteenth century. Just as today’s critics strive to respect the authenticity of nineteenth-century writers and readers who responded to these ideas within their historical world, so, too, do those nineteenth-century imaginings persist to challenge the assumptions of the present. It is therefore possible, Dentith argues, to conceive of the act of reading historical literature with an awareness of the historical context and of the difference between the past and the present while allowing that friction or difference to be part of how we think about a text and how it communicates. His book summons us to consider how words travel to the reality of the reader’s own time and how engagement with nineteenth-century writers’ anticipation of the judgements of future generations reveal hindsight’s capacity to transform our understanding of the past in the light of subsequent knowledge.

Author : Stefanie Markovits
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814210406
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature written by Stefanie Markovits and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : Richard W. Bailey
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-century English written by Richard W. Bailey and published by University of Michigan Press ELT. This book was released on 1996 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape.

Author : George Saintsbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) written by George Saintsbury and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sean Michael Wilson
Publisher : Rosen Education Service
ISBN 13 : 9781615301591
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Britannica Guide to World Literature written by Sean Michael Wilson and published by Rosen Education Service. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the evolution of literature and explores the writers, works, and events that have shaped literature.

Author : Carol A. Senf
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299263835
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vampire in Nineteenth Century English Literature written by Carol A. Senf and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol A. Senf traces the vampire’s evolution from folklore to twentieth-century popular culture and explains why this creature became such an important metaphor in Victorian England. This bloodsucker who had stalked the folklore of almost every culture became the property of serious artists and thinkers in Victorian England, including Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. People who did not believe in the existence of vampires nonetheless saw numerous metaphoric possibilities in a creature from the past that exerted pressure on the present and was often threatening because of its sexuality.

Author : John Lucas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Politics in the Nineteenth Century written by John Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the relationship between 19th-century political events and attitudes and prophetic propagandistic, and revolutionary literary expression.

Author : Brian Martin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349201596
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nineteenth Century written by Brian Martin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1989-08-29 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19th century volume demonstrates the variety of English literature in an age of social, intellectual, religious and scientific ferment. The shift to Romanticism is portrayed with extracts from major figures such as Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge and the contribution of women writers is fully recognised, with selections from Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Elizabeth Gaskell. The anthology concludes with selections of Victorian poetry and extracts from Wilde and Stevenson and altogether offers a comprehensive sample of the vast treasure-house of 19th century literature.

Author : Sarah Wadsworth
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558495418
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Company of Books written by Sarah Wadsworth and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the segmentation of the literary marketplace in 19th century America, this book analyses the implications of the subdivided literary field for readers, writers, and literature itself.