Author: D. Wynne
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023059672X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Victorian sensation novels, with their compulsive plots of crime, transgression and mystery, were bestsellers. Deborah Wynne analyses the fascinating relationships between sensation novels and the magazines in which they were serialized. Drawing upon the work of Wilkie Collins, Mary Braddon, Charles Dickens, Ellen Wood, and Charles Reade, and such popular family journals as All The Year Round, The Cornhill, and Once a Week , the author highlights how novels and magazines worked together to engage in the major cultural and social debates of the period.
The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine
Author: D. Wynne
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023059672X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Victorian sensation novels, with their compulsive plots of crime, transgression and mystery, were bestsellers. Deborah Wynne analyses the fascinating relationships between sensation novels and the magazines in which they were serialized. Drawing upon the work of Wilkie Collins, Mary Braddon, Charles Dickens, Ellen Wood, and Charles Reade, and such popular family journals as All The Year Round, The Cornhill, and Once a Week , the author highlights how novels and magazines worked together to engage in the major cultural and social debates of the period.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023059672X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Victorian sensation novels, with their compulsive plots of crime, transgression and mystery, were bestsellers. Deborah Wynne analyses the fascinating relationships between sensation novels and the magazines in which they were serialized. Drawing upon the work of Wilkie Collins, Mary Braddon, Charles Dickens, Ellen Wood, and Charles Reade, and such popular family journals as All The Year Round, The Cornhill, and Once a Week , the author highlights how novels and magazines worked together to engage in the major cultural and social debates of the period.
Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel
Author: Professor Deborah Wynne
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409476286
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
How key changes to the married women's property laws contributed to new ways of viewing women in society are revealed in Deborah Wynne's study of literary representations of women and portable property during the period 1850 to 1900. While critical explorations of Victorian women's connections to the material world have tended to focus on their relationships to commodity culture, Wynne argues that modern paradigms of consumerism cannot be applied across the board to the Victorian period. Until the passing of the 1882 Married Women's Property Act, many women lacked full property rights; evidence suggests that, for women, objects often functioned not as disposable consumer products but as cherished personal property. Focusing particularly on representations of women and material culture in Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, Wynne shows how novelists engaged with the vexed question of women's relationships to property. Suggesting that many of the apparently insignificant items that 'clutter' the Victorian realist novel take on new meaning when viewed through the lens of women's access to material culture and the vagaries of property law, her study opens up new possibilities for interpreting female characters in Victorian fiction and reveals the complex work of 'thing culture' in literary texts.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409476286
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
How key changes to the married women's property laws contributed to new ways of viewing women in society are revealed in Deborah Wynne's study of literary representations of women and portable property during the period 1850 to 1900. While critical explorations of Victorian women's connections to the material world have tended to focus on their relationships to commodity culture, Wynne argues that modern paradigms of consumerism cannot be applied across the board to the Victorian period. Until the passing of the 1882 Married Women's Property Act, many women lacked full property rights; evidence suggests that, for women, objects often functioned not as disposable consumer products but as cherished personal property. Focusing particularly on representations of women and material culture in Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, Wynne shows how novelists engaged with the vexed question of women's relationships to property. Suggesting that many of the apparently insignificant items that 'clutter' the Victorian realist novel take on new meaning when viewed through the lens of women's access to material culture and the vagaries of property law, her study opens up new possibilities for interpreting female characters in Victorian fiction and reveals the complex work of 'thing culture' in literary texts.
The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction
Author: Andrew Mangham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521760747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Accessible and comprehensive account of the sensation novel of the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521760747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Accessible and comprehensive account of the sensation novel of the nineteenth century.
Educating the Proper Woman Reader
Author: Jennifer Phegley
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 081420967X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Her analysis of images of influential women readers (in Harper's), intellectual women readers (in The Cornhill), independent women readers (in Belgravia), and proto-feminist women readers/critics (in Victoria) indicates that women played a significant role in determining the boundaries of literary culture within these magazines.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 081420967X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Her analysis of images of influential women readers (in Harper's), intellectual women readers (in The Cornhill), independent women readers (in Belgravia), and proto-feminist women readers/critics (in Victoria) indicates that women played a significant role in determining the boundaries of literary culture within these magazines.
The Heir of Redclyffe
Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Wyllard's Weird
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The Nineteenth-century Sensation Novel
Author: Lyn Pykett
Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN: 0746312121
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This clearly written and wide-ranging study identifies the main features of the sensation novel, analysing its broader cultural significance as well as looking at it in its specific cultural context.
Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN: 0746312121
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This clearly written and wide-ranging study identifies the main features of the sensation novel, analysing its broader cultural significance as well as looking at it in its specific cultural context.
The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature
Author: Rebecca Lemon
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118241150
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 959
Book Description
This Companion explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages. An ambitious overview of the Bible's impact on English literature – as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history – from the medieval period through to the twentieth-century Includes introductory sections to each period giving background information about the Bible as a source text in English literature, and placing writers in their historical context Draws on examples from medieval, early-modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature Includes many 'secular' or 'anti-clerical' writers alongside their 'Christian' contemporaries, revealing how the Bible's text shifts and changes in the writing of each author who reads and studies it
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118241150
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 959
Book Description
This Companion explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages. An ambitious overview of the Bible's impact on English literature – as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history – from the medieval period through to the twentieth-century Includes introductory sections to each period giving background information about the Bible as a source text in English literature, and placing writers in their historical context Draws on examples from medieval, early-modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature Includes many 'secular' or 'anti-clerical' writers alongside their 'Christian' contemporaries, revealing how the Bible's text shifts and changes in the writing of each author who reads and studies it
A Return to the Common Reader
Author: Adelene Buckland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135196190X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Putting readers at the centre of literary culture, Altick anticipated-and helped produce-fifty years of scholarly inquiry into the ways and means by which the Victorians read. Now, A Return to the Common Reader asks what Altick's concept of the 'common reader' actually means in the wake of a half-century of research. Digging deep into unusual and eclectic archives and hitherto-overlooked sources, its authors give new understanding to the masses of newly literate readers who picked up books in the Victorian period. They find readers in prisons, in the barracks, and around the world, and they remind us of the power of those forgotten readers to find forbidden texts, shape new markets, and drive the production of new reading material across a century. Inspired and informed by Altick's seminal work, A Return to the Common Reader is a cutting-edge collection which dramatically reconfigures our understanding of the ordinary Victorian readers whose efforts and choices changed our literary culture forever.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135196190X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Putting readers at the centre of literary culture, Altick anticipated-and helped produce-fifty years of scholarly inquiry into the ways and means by which the Victorians read. Now, A Return to the Common Reader asks what Altick's concept of the 'common reader' actually means in the wake of a half-century of research. Digging deep into unusual and eclectic archives and hitherto-overlooked sources, its authors give new understanding to the masses of newly literate readers who picked up books in the Victorian period. They find readers in prisons, in the barracks, and around the world, and they remind us of the power of those forgotten readers to find forbidden texts, shape new markets, and drive the production of new reading material across a century. Inspired and informed by Altick's seminal work, A Return to the Common Reader is a cutting-edge collection which dramatically reconfigures our understanding of the ordinary Victorian readers whose efforts and choices changed our literary culture forever.
East Lynne
Author: Ellen Wood
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199536031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 695
Book Description
"Looks at the anxieties of the Victorian middle classes who feared a breakdown of the social order as divorce became more readily available and promiscuity threatened the sanctity of the family, [and wherein] the simple act of hiring a governess raises the spectres of murder, disguise, and adultery"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199536031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 695
Book Description
"Looks at the anxieties of the Victorian middle classes who feared a breakdown of the social order as divorce became more readily available and promiscuity threatened the sanctity of the family, [and wherein] the simple act of hiring a governess raises the spectres of murder, disguise, and adultery"--Provided by publisher.