Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040129455
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
This book is a collection of biographical records portraying the life of Rudyard Kipling, drawn from official biographies, memoirs, testimonies, letters, diaries, conversations, anecdotes, essays, and reviews.
Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 3
Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040129455
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
This book is a collection of biographical records portraying the life of Rudyard Kipling, drawn from official biographies, memoirs, testimonies, letters, diaries, conversations, anecdotes, essays, and reviews.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040129455
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
This book is a collection of biographical records portraying the life of Rudyard Kipling, drawn from official biographies, memoirs, testimonies, letters, diaries, conversations, anecdotes, essays, and reviews.
Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 1
Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040128785
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
This volume presents documents that roughly follow the chronology of Joseph Conrad's life and deliberately considers two documents that reveal surprising and important facts that Conrad had carefully concealed.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040128785
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
This volume presents documents that roughly follow the chronology of Joseph Conrad's life and deliberately considers two documents that reveal surprising and important facts that Conrad had carefully concealed.
Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 2
Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040129218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book looks at Rider Haggard from a different standpoint, his own. It carries a selection of critical appraisals of Haggard's work by his contemporaries up until the early 1950s.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040129218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book looks at Rider Haggard from a different standpoint, his own. It carries a selection of critical appraisals of Haggard's work by his contemporaries up until the early 1950s.
Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part V, Volume 3
Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040129056
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Considers the reputations and biographical portrayal of three innovative and controversial writers: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins and William Thackeray. These anthologies of contemporary biographical material shed light on the processes at work in the establishment of a public image and a critical reputation.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040129056
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Considers the reputations and biographical portrayal of three innovative and controversial writers: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins and William Thackeray. These anthologies of contemporary biographical material shed light on the processes at work in the establishment of a public image and a critical reputation.
Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part III, Volume 3
Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040129196
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Ruskin grew up in suburban London; in later life, he settled in the Lake District. Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle moved from rural Scotland to London's Cheyne Walk. This title focuses on writers for whom 'the centre' was a pressing concern. Elizabeth Gaskell, like her contemporary Emily Bronte, was from the north of England, though based in Lancashire and Cheshire rather than Yorkshire. Her first novel, Mary Barton 1848) was set in the north and was unusually realistic in its depiction of Manchester working-class life.. The three volumes that comprise a set are facsimile reproductions of contemporary biographical material. They include letters, memoirs, poems and articles on three outstanding Victorian literary persons: John Ruskin, Elzabeth Gaskell and the Carlyles.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040129196
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Ruskin grew up in suburban London; in later life, he settled in the Lake District. Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle moved from rural Scotland to London's Cheyne Walk. This title focuses on writers for whom 'the centre' was a pressing concern. Elizabeth Gaskell, like her contemporary Emily Bronte, was from the north of England, though based in Lancashire and Cheshire rather than Yorkshire. Her first novel, Mary Barton 1848) was set in the north and was unusually realistic in its depiction of Manchester working-class life.. The three volumes that comprise a set are facsimile reproductions of contemporary biographical material. They include letters, memoirs, poems and articles on three outstanding Victorian literary persons: John Ruskin, Elzabeth Gaskell and the Carlyles.
Transitions in Middlebrow Writing, 1880 - 1930
Author: K. Macdonald
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137486775
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137486775
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines.
The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 1
Author: Joanne Shattock
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351220403
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351220403
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies
Author: Jeremy Tambling
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3319624199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1977
Book Description
This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3319624199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1977
Book Description
This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.
The Women Aesthetes vol 1
Author: Jane Spirit
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040233864
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The aesthetic movement dominated the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It was significant for the role women played in it at a time when there were growing opportunities for them, both artistically and professionally. The material in this collection provides a representative selection of essays, fiction, poetry and drama by female authors.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040233864
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The aesthetic movement dominated the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It was significant for the role women played in it at a time when there were growing opportunities for them, both artistically and professionally. The material in this collection provides a representative selection of essays, fiction, poetry and drama by female authors.
A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author: Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520079922
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
This text is an introduction to the full range of standard reference tools in all branches of English studies. More than 10,000 titles are included. The Reference Guide covers all the areas traditionally defined as English studies and all the field of inquiry more recently associated with English studies. British and Irish, American and world literatures written in English are included. Other fields covered are folklore, film, literary theory, general and comparative literature, language and linguistics, rhetoric and composition, bibliography and textual criticism and women's studies.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520079922
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
This text is an introduction to the full range of standard reference tools in all branches of English studies. More than 10,000 titles are included. The Reference Guide covers all the areas traditionally defined as English studies and all the field of inquiry more recently associated with English studies. British and Irish, American and world literatures written in English are included. Other fields covered are folklore, film, literary theory, general and comparative literature, language and linguistics, rhetoric and composition, bibliography and textual criticism and women's studies.