Author: Oliver Lovesey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040156045
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1429
Book Description
The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction.
Victorian Social Activists' Novels
Victorian Social Activists' Novels Vol 1
Author: Oliver Lovesey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100041907X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction. Volume 1 includes a general introduction ‘ The Wife’ and ‘Janet Doncaster’.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100041907X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction. Volume 1 includes a general introduction ‘ The Wife’ and ‘Janet Doncaster’.
Victorian Social Activists' Novels Vol 3
Author: Oliver Lovesey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000419983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction. Volume 3 includes ‘At Sundry Times and in Divers Manners’(1891).
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000419983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction. Volume 3 includes ‘At Sundry Times and in Divers Manners’(1891).
Victorian Social Activists' Novels Vol 2
Author: Oliver Lovesey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000419991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction. Volume 2 includes ‘Rose Turquand' (1876).
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000419991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction. Volume 2 includes ‘Rose Turquand' (1876).
Victorian Social Activists' Novels Vol 1
Author: Oliver Lovesey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138765870
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Victorian period was a time of massive social change. Novels played a key part in this process. While today the women authors of these works are better known for their campaigns and non-fiction, the novels presented in this four-volume reset edition are key in fully understanding them as individuals, as well as the causes they were fighting for.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138765870
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Victorian period was a time of massive social change. Novels played a key part in this process. While today the women authors of these works are better known for their campaigns and non-fiction, the novels presented in this four-volume reset edition are key in fully understanding them as individuals, as well as the causes they were fighting for.
Victorian Social Activists' Novels
Author: Oliver Lovesey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781851966295
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Victorian period was a time of massive social change. Novels played a key part in this process. While today the women authors of these works are better known for their campaigns and non-fiction, the novels presented in this four-volume reset edition are key in fully understanding them as individuals, as well as the causes they were fighting for.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781851966295
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Victorian period was a time of massive social change. Novels played a key part in this process. While today the women authors of these works are better known for their campaigns and non-fiction, the novels presented in this four-volume reset edition are key in fully understanding them as individuals, as well as the causes they were fighting for.
Cholera and Nation
Author: Pamela K. Gilbert
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 0791478904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Drawing from sermons, novels, newspaper editorials, poetry, medical texts, and the writings of social activists, Cholera and Nation explores how the coming of the cholera epidemics during a period of intense political reform in Britain set the terms by which the social body would be defined. In part by historical accident, epidemic disease and especially cholera became foundational to the understanding of the social body. As the healthy body was closely tied to a particular vision of nation and modernity, the unhealthy body was proportionately racialized and othered. In turn, epidemic disease could not be separated from issues of social responsibility, political management, and economic unrest, which perpetually threatened the nation and its identity. For the rest of the century, the emergent field of public health would be central to the British national imaginary, defining the nation's civilization and modernity by its sanitary progress.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 0791478904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Drawing from sermons, novels, newspaper editorials, poetry, medical texts, and the writings of social activists, Cholera and Nation explores how the coming of the cholera epidemics during a period of intense political reform in Britain set the terms by which the social body would be defined. In part by historical accident, epidemic disease and especially cholera became foundational to the understanding of the social body. As the healthy body was closely tied to a particular vision of nation and modernity, the unhealthy body was proportionately racialized and othered. In turn, epidemic disease could not be separated from issues of social responsibility, political management, and economic unrest, which perpetually threatened the nation and its identity. For the rest of the century, the emergent field of public health would be central to the British national imaginary, defining the nation's civilization and modernity by its sanitary progress.
A Critical Edition of Caroline Norton's Love in "The World"
Author: Ross Nelson
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1839987294
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Caroline Norton’s forgotten novel, which has remained unpublished until now, tells of the perils of courtship facing a naïve young girl Alixe, who has been launched onto the London social season. Her encounters with both a worthy and an undesirable suitor open an intriguing window onto the fashionable society of the 1820s in which Love in "the World" takes place. In placing her heroine in these predicaments Norton was able to draw upon her own experiences of the bon ton, as the time in which the novel is set coincides with her first ball in March 1826, when she burst upon the scene with all her beauty and brilliance, later recalling, “I came out [...] to find all London at my feet.” She believed that London could be as callous as the metropolitan social scene might prove treacherous, and in alerting the reader to the dangers of fashionable society she makes ample use of her own observations as a debutante at her first London season. In a highly readable and coherent narrative with an indeterminate ending, which throws a spotlight onto her life and times, the plot of Love in 'the World' initially follows a pattern broadly representative of her own experience before developing in unexpected and surprising ways.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1839987294
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Caroline Norton’s forgotten novel, which has remained unpublished until now, tells of the perils of courtship facing a naïve young girl Alixe, who has been launched onto the London social season. Her encounters with both a worthy and an undesirable suitor open an intriguing window onto the fashionable society of the 1820s in which Love in "the World" takes place. In placing her heroine in these predicaments Norton was able to draw upon her own experiences of the bon ton, as the time in which the novel is set coincides with her first ball in March 1826, when she burst upon the scene with all her beauty and brilliance, later recalling, “I came out [...] to find all London at my feet.” She believed that London could be as callous as the metropolitan social scene might prove treacherous, and in alerting the reader to the dangers of fashionable society she makes ample use of her own observations as a debutante at her first London season. In a highly readable and coherent narrative with an indeterminate ending, which throws a spotlight onto her life and times, the plot of Love in 'the World' initially follows a pattern broadly representative of her own experience before developing in unexpected and surprising ways.
Victorian Medicine and Social Reform
Author: L. Penner
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230106595
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Victorian Medicine and Social Reform traces Florence Nightingale s career as a reformer and Crimean war heroine. Her fame as a social activist and her writings including Notes on Nursing and Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army influenced novelists such as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot. Their novels of social realism, in turn, influenced Nightingale's later essays on poverty and Indian famine. This study draws original conclusions on the relationship between Nightingale s work and its historical context, gender politics, and such twenty-first-century analogues as celebrity activists Angelina Jolie, Al Gore, and Nicole Kidman.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230106595
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Victorian Medicine and Social Reform traces Florence Nightingale s career as a reformer and Crimean war heroine. Her fame as a social activist and her writings including Notes on Nursing and Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army influenced novelists such as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot. Their novels of social realism, in turn, influenced Nightingale's later essays on poverty and Indian famine. This study draws original conclusions on the relationship between Nightingale s work and its historical context, gender politics, and such twenty-first-century analogues as celebrity activists Angelina Jolie, Al Gore, and Nicole Kidman.
Activist Sentiments
Author: Pier Gabrielle Foreman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252076648
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Examining how nineteenth-century Black women writers engaged radical reform, sentiment and their various readerships
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252076648
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Examining how nineteenth-century Black women writers engaged radical reform, sentiment and their various readerships