Author: Gail Marshall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521850630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Publisher description
The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle
Author: Gail Marshall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521850630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Publisher description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521850630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Publisher description
The Fin-de-siècle Poem
Author: Joseph Bristow
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821416278
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Featuring innovative research by emergent and established scholars, The Fin-de-Siecle Poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity of poetry produced at the close of the nineteenth century in England. Opening with a detailed preface that shows why literary historians have frequently underrated fin-de-siecle poetry, the collection explains how a strikingly rich body of lyrical and narrative poems anticipated many of the developments traditionally attributed to Modernism. Each chapter in turn provides insights into the ways in which late-nineteenth-century poets represented their experiences of the city, their attitudes toward sexuality, their responses to empire, and their interest in religious belief. The eleven essays presented by editor Joseph Bristow pay renewed attention to the achievements of such legendary writers as Oscar Wilde, John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, and W.B. Yeats, whose careers have always been associated with the 1890s. This book also explores the lesser-known but equally significant advances made by notable women poets, including Michael Field, Amy Levy, Charlotte Mew, Alice Meynell, A. Mary F. Robinson, and Graham R. Tomson. The Fin-de-Siecle Poem brings together innovative research on poetry that has been typecast as the attenuated Victorianism that was rejected by Modernism. The contributors underscore the remarkable innovations made in English poetry of the 1880s and 1890s and show how woman poets stood shoulder-to-shoulder with their better-known male contemporaries.Joseph Bristow is professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he edits the journal Nineteenth-Century Literature. His recent books include The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, Oscar Wilde: Contextual Conditions, and the variorum edition of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821416278
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Featuring innovative research by emergent and established scholars, The Fin-de-Siecle Poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity of poetry produced at the close of the nineteenth century in England. Opening with a detailed preface that shows why literary historians have frequently underrated fin-de-siecle poetry, the collection explains how a strikingly rich body of lyrical and narrative poems anticipated many of the developments traditionally attributed to Modernism. Each chapter in turn provides insights into the ways in which late-nineteenth-century poets represented their experiences of the city, their attitudes toward sexuality, their responses to empire, and their interest in religious belief. The eleven essays presented by editor Joseph Bristow pay renewed attention to the achievements of such legendary writers as Oscar Wilde, John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, and W.B. Yeats, whose careers have always been associated with the 1890s. This book also explores the lesser-known but equally significant advances made by notable women poets, including Michael Field, Amy Levy, Charlotte Mew, Alice Meynell, A. Mary F. Robinson, and Graham R. Tomson. The Fin-de-Siecle Poem brings together innovative research on poetry that has been typecast as the attenuated Victorianism that was rejected by Modernism. The contributors underscore the remarkable innovations made in English poetry of the 1880s and 1890s and show how woman poets stood shoulder-to-shoulder with their better-known male contemporaries.Joseph Bristow is professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he edits the journal Nineteenth-Century Literature. His recent books include The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, Oscar Wilde: Contextual Conditions, and the variorum edition of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
The Fin de Siècle
Author: Sally Ledger
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198742789
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The fin-de-si cle period--roughly the years 1880 to 1900--was characterized by great cultural and political ambivalence, an anxiety for things lost, and a longing for the new. It also included an outpouring of intellectual responses to the conflicting times from such eminent writers as T. H. Huxley, Emma Goldman, William James, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde. In this important anthology, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students, scholars, and general readers a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of the fin-de-si cle years. That history is here shown to inaugurate many enduring critical and cultural concerns, with sections on Degeneration, Outcast London, The Metropolis, The New Woman, Literary Debates, The New Imperialism, Socialism, Anarchism, Scientific Naturalism, Psychology, Psychical Research, Sexology, Anthropology, and Racial Science. Each section begins with an Introduction and closes with Editorial Notes that carefully situate individual texts within a wider cultural landscape.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198742789
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The fin-de-si cle period--roughly the years 1880 to 1900--was characterized by great cultural and political ambivalence, an anxiety for things lost, and a longing for the new. It also included an outpouring of intellectual responses to the conflicting times from such eminent writers as T. H. Huxley, Emma Goldman, William James, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde. In this important anthology, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students, scholars, and general readers a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of the fin-de-si cle years. That history is here shown to inaugurate many enduring critical and cultural concerns, with sections on Degeneration, Outcast London, The Metropolis, The New Woman, Literary Debates, The New Imperialism, Socialism, Anarchism, Scientific Naturalism, Psychology, Psychical Research, Sexology, Anthropology, and Racial Science. Each section begins with an Introduction and closes with Editorial Notes that carefully situate individual texts within a wider cultural landscape.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London
Author: Lawrence Manley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107495555
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth and poverty, of Conrad and the Empire, of Woolf and the wartime Blitz, of Naipaul and postcolonial immigration, and of contemporary globalism. Contributions from historians, art historians, theorists and media specialists as well as leading literary scholars exemplify current approaches to genre, gender studies, book history, performance studies and urban studies. In showing how the tradition of English literature is shaped by representations of London, this volume also illuminates the relationship between the literary imagination and the society of one of the world's greatest cities.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107495555
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth and poverty, of Conrad and the Empire, of Woolf and the wartime Blitz, of Naipaul and postcolonial immigration, and of contemporary globalism. Contributions from historians, art historians, theorists and media specialists as well as leading literary scholars exemplify current approaches to genre, gender studies, book history, performance studies and urban studies. In showing how the tradition of English literature is shaped by representations of London, this volume also illuminates the relationship between the literary imagination and the society of one of the world's greatest cities.
Modernity and Crises of Identity
Author: Jacques Le Rider
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This book examines the intellectual and cultural life of turn-of-the-century Vienna, one of the most important centers of creativity in Europe.
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This book examines the intellectual and cultural life of turn-of-the-century Vienna, one of the most important centers of creativity in Europe.
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
Author: Walter Kalaidjian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521829953
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The introductory reference guide concludes with a current bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521829953
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The introductory reference guide concludes with a current bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.
The Cambridge Companion to ‘Dracula'
Author: Roger Luckhurst
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107153174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This celebrated Gothic novel is explored through essays providing critical, historical, anthropological, philosophical and intellectual contexts that serve to further the understanding and appreciation of Dracula in all its many guises. Together the essays offer exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107153174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This celebrated Gothic novel is explored through essays providing critical, historical, anthropological, philosophical and intellectual contexts that serve to further the understanding and appreciation of Dracula in all its many guises. Together the essays offer exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing
Author: Linda H. Peterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107064848
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107064848
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.
The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse
Author: Allison Pease
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107052084
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Written by leading international scholars of Woolf and modernism, The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse will be of interest to students and scholars alike.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107052084
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Written by leading international scholars of Woolf and modernism, The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse will be of interest to students and scholars alike.
The New Woman
Author: Sally Ledger
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719040931
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
By comparing fictional representations with "real" New Women in late-Victorian Britain, Sally Ledger makes a major contribution to an understanding of the "Woman Question" at the end of the century. Chapters on imperialism, socialism, sexual decadence, and metropolitan life situate the "revolting daughters" of the Victorian age in a broader cultural context than previous studies.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719040931
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
By comparing fictional representations with "real" New Women in late-Victorian Britain, Sally Ledger makes a major contribution to an understanding of the "Woman Question" at the end of the century. Chapters on imperialism, socialism, sexual decadence, and metropolitan life situate the "revolting daughters" of the Victorian age in a broader cultural context than previous studies.