The Century

The Century PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1180

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The Century

The Century PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1180

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Victorian Poetry

Victorian Poetry PDF Author: Clarence Edward Andrews
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Herald of the Star

Herald of the Star PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 728

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Thomas Hardy and Empire

Thomas Hardy and Empire PDF Author: Jane L. Bownas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317010450
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Unlike many of his contemporaries, Thomas Hardy is not generally recognized as an imperial writer, even though he wrote during a period of major expansion of the British Empire and in spite of the many allusions to the Roman Empire and Napoleonic Wars in his writing. Jane L. Bownas examines the context of these references, proposing that Hardy was a writer who not only posed a challenge to the whole of established society, but one whose writings bring into question the very notion of empire. Bownas argues that Hardy takes up ideas of the primitive and civilized that were central to Western thought in the nineteenth century, contesting this opposition and highlighting the effect outsiders have on so-called 'primitive' communities. In her discussion of the oppressions of imperialism, she analyzes the debate surrounding the use of gender as an articulated category, together with race and class, and shows how, in exposing the power structures operating within Britain, Hardy produces a critique of all forms of ideological oppression.

Swinburne

Swinburne PDF Author: George Edward Woodberry
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Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Modern Men of Letters Honestly Criticised

Modern Men of Letters Honestly Criticised PDF Author: James Hain Friswell
Publisher: London Hodder and Stoughton 1870.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Literary essays

Literary essays PDF Author: George Edward Woodberry
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Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Collected Essays: Literary essays

Collected Essays: Literary essays PDF Author: George Edward Woodberry
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Languages : en
Pages : 352

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A.C. Swinburne

A.C. Swinburne PDF Author: Ricky Rooksby
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351961365
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was one of the literary sensations of the Victorian period. His iconoclastic poetry and prose challenged attitudes to sex, politics, religion and censorship. Not only writing some of the most original lyric poetry of the time and pioneering criticism, Swinburne became a cultural icon. In the 1860s his very name was a symbol of progressive forces emerging in a repressive age. Readers across the world identified with the paganism and humanism of his poetry. Swinburne's was a turbulent life lived against a backdrop of beautiful settings in the Isle of Wight and Northumberland, and shared with a host of Victorian luminaries, or artists and writers such as D G Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal, Burne-Jones, Morris and Simeon Solomon. It is a life touched by early tragedy and romantic disappointment, by extraordinary fame and abject loneliness, by masochism and alcoholism, but above all by an unquenchable vivacity. At the centre was the charmingly spoken, excitable genius whom Burne-Jones described as 'quite the most poetic personality I have ever known.' the artistic prodigy who seemed to have read almost everything, who was as happy revelling in the sea as in literary discourse. Based on new research and many unpublished letters, Rikky Rooksby sheds light on Swinburne's personality and relationships, and discusses how Swinburne's poetry develops from early pessimism to a recovered joy in the energies of the natural world. This biography is a sympathetic and fresh account of one of the most colourful figures in English literature.

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography PDF Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 926

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