Author: Joanna Hofer-Robinson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474439551
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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This pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth century.
Author: Carolyn Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110709593X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.
Author: Lynn M. Voskuil
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813922690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Voskuil argues that Victorian Britons saw themselves as "authentically performative," a paradoxical belief that focused their sense of vocation as individuals, as a public, and as a nation.
Author: Sara Lodge
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300277881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account--and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realise that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain, working both with the police and for private agencies, which they sometimes managed themselves. Sara Lodge recovers these forgotten women's lives. She also reveals the sensational role played by the fantasy female detective in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction, enthralling a public who relished the spectacle of a cross-dressing, fist-swinging heroine who got the better of love rats, burglars, and murderers alike. How did the morally ambiguous work of real women detectives, sometimes paid to betray their fellow women, compare with the exploits of their fictional counterparts, who always save the day? Lodge's book takes us into the murky underworld of Victorian society on both sides of the Atlantic, revealing the female detective as both an unacknowledged labourer and a feminist icon.
Author: David Malcolm
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474448372
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Hubert Crackanthorpe was a skilful and technically innovative English realist/naturalist writer. This edition of his powerful first collection of short stories features a carefully contextualised introduction to the A01 and his work.
Author: Lee Michael-Berger
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000874745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Modern Murders is the first comprehensive study of murder representations during the turn of the century, drawing on previously neglected archival material to explore the intellectual, cultural, and artistic contexts of the period. Most studies view the abundance of murder representations throughout the nineteenth century as an indicator of a supposedly typical Victorian appetite for sensation and melodrama. Modern Murders, however, demonstrates the turn of the century's backlash against melodramatic and sensational representations of murder and reads them as an important component in the struggles for better aesthetic standards in art and entertainment, and as a dominant feature in the debates on mass culture. Through a plethora of visual and written texts, representations of fictional and actual "real life" murders, and "high" and "popular" forms of writing, the volume considers the importance of murder in the elite claim to cultural authority versus its perception of plebian taste, in the context of the democratization of culture. This book will be of value to scholars and graduate students in a variety of research areas, as well as general readers interested in the role of murder as a central trope in modern art and culture.
Author: Marie Corelli
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474441920
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Marie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel.
Author: Nicoll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521109338
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
Author: Jane Porter
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474443486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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First scholarly edition of a bestselling historical novelExplores the socio-political themes of the novel and deemed as relevant today as they were over 200 years agoSituates work in the genealogy of the historical novel and examines its literary and cultural influenceScholarly annotations clarify the historical context: the French Revolution, the related war in Poland, and Britain's response to Polish refugees in the 1790sPublished in 1803, Thaddeus of Warsaw is a beguiling romance that also exposes the hardships faced by migrants in Britain two hundred years ago. Jane Porter tells the story of a dashing Polish refugee, Thaddeus Sobieski, who must escape hostilities in his homeland. In London he faces poverty and prejudice, but his courage and goodness bring him to the attention of a circle of women who, in a surprising role reversal, either aid or woo him. He must also solve the mystery of his birth by discovering and confronting the British father who abandoned him.A carefully contextualised introduction to the novel and its author situates the work in the genealogy of the historical novel, examining its literary and cultural influence. Supporting materials include contemporary reviews, poems on Poland and correspondence regarding the novel's early success.
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903427804
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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