Victoriana

Author : Cora Kaplan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231142175
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victoriana written by Cora Kaplan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victoriana, leading feminist cultural critic Cora Kaplan reflects on our modern obsession with Victorian culture. She considers evocations of the nineteenth century in literature (The French Lieutenants' Woman by John Fowles, Possession by A. S. Byatt, Nice Work by David Lodge, The Master by Colm Tóibín, Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst), film (Jane Campion's The Piano), and biography (Peter Ackroyd's Dickens). Why, she asks, does Jane Eyre still evoke tears and rage from its readers, and why has Henry James become fiction's favorite late-Victorian author? Within Victoriana, Kaplan argues, lies a modern history of its own that reflects the shifting social and cultural concerns of the last few decades. Distance has lent a sense of antique charm and exoticism to even the worst abuses of the period, but it has also allowed innovative writers and filmmakers to use Victorian settings and language to develop a new and challenging aesthetic. Issues of class, gender, empire, and race are explored as well as the pleasures and dangers of imitating or referencing narrative forms, individual histories, and belief systems. As Kaplan makes clear, Victoriana can be seen as a striking example of historical imagination on the move, restless and unsettled.

Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445658860
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Victoriana written by Jan Bondeson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Victorians in their strangest forms.

Author : Walt Ciechanowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857441423
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victoriana written by Walt Ciechanowski and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900446915X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Neo-Victoriana written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Neo-Victoriana is the first book-length study on contemporary re-imaginations of Blackness in the long nineteenth century. Contributions engage with novels, drama, film, television and material culture, while also covering cultural formations such as Black fandom, Black dandyism, or steamfunk.

Author : Sister Julia Benjamin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victoriana: Missionary Sister in Papua, New Guinea written by Sister Julia Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jess Nevins
Publisher : Monkeybrain
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana written by Jess Nevins and published by Monkeybrain. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enormous volume is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of fantastic literature of the nineteenth century. From detective fiction to historical novels, from well-known authors like Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, to Russian newspaper serials and Chinese martial arts novels, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASTIC VICTORIANA is a truly exhaustive look at every aspect of fantastic literature in the days of Queen Victoria. Readers of science fiction and fantasy will be surprised to find here the roots of genres thought to be strictly contemporary, and students of literature will be amazed at the breadth and scope of writings produced in the Victoriana era. This is an invaluable reference, and truly one-of-a-kind.

Author : Gretchen Gerzina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813532158
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Victorians/Black Victoriana written by Gretchen Gerzina and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Victorians/Black Victoriana is a welcome attempt to correct the historical record. Although scholarship has given us a clear view of nineteenth-century imperialism, colonialism, and later immigration from the colonies, there has for far too long been a gap in our understanding of the lives of blacks in Victorian England. Without that understanding, it remains impossible to assess adequately the state of the black population in Britain today. Using a transatlantic lens, the contributors to this book restore black Victorians to the British national picture. They look not just at the ways blacks were represented in popular culture but also at their lives as they experienced them--as workers, travelers, lecturers, performers, and professionals. Dozens of period photographs bring these stories alive and literally give a face to the individual stories the book tells. The essays taken as a whole also highlight prevailing Victorian attitudes toward race by focusing on the ways in which empire building spawned a "subculture of blackness" consisting of caricature, exhibition, representation, and scientific racism absorbed by society at large. This misrepresentation made it difficult to be both black and British while at the same time it helped to construct British identity as a whole. Covering many topics that detail the life of blacks during this period, Black Victorians/Black Victoriana will be a landmark contribution to the emergent field of black history in England.

Author : Patience Coster
Publisher : Chartwell Books
ISBN 13 : 9780785830436
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victoriana Coloring Book written by Patience Coster and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calling kids and art lovers of all ages: get creative and make the patterns in this beautiful coloring book take shape and come to life by adding your own color and detail. Use the imaginative outlines in this book to produce your own beautiful works of art featuring vintage and Victoriana patterns with colored pencils. Each delightful scenario is guaranteed to bring out your creative instincts, enabling you to complete it with colors of your choosing. Also check out the other volumes in this gorgeous coloring book series, featuring fairies, victoriana patterns, tattoos, and impressionist artwork. By the end you will have a gallery of personalized pictures that you will be proud to call your own.

Author : Eric Knowles
Publisher : Antique Collectors Club Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781857321760
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miller's Victoriana to Art Deco written by Eric Knowles and published by Antique Collectors Club Limited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book looks in detail at the important craftsmen of this hundred-year period in Britain, Europe, and United states, and at the types of object they produced in a range of media including Furniture, Glass, Ceramics, Sculpture, Prints and Posters, Silver and Metalwork, Jewelry and Precious Objects, and Rugs and Textiles. It discusses all the great makers among them William Morris, Rene Lalique, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Clarice Cliff."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jean Latham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victoriana written by Jean Latham and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: