Author: H. Momma
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521518865
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An exploration of how philology contributed to the study of English language and literature in the nineteenth century.
From Philology to English Studies
Author: H. Momma
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521518865
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An exploration of how philology contributed to the study of English language and literature in the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521518865
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An exploration of how philology contributed to the study of English language and literature in the nineteenth century.
Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
Author: Joshua King
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814255292
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814255292
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
The Nineteenth-Century History of English Studies
Author: Alan Bacon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351884921
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This study collects together many of the original texts from the long-running debate which surrounded the rise of English as an academic subject. Most of the texts were ephemeral and have been long out of print, but they are essential to an understanding of how English studies developed. They show how English was influenced by pre-existing subjects like rhetoric and classics, and how it assumed different faces in different academic institutions. Each text is given an introduction which sets it in context and highlights themes. A general introduction to the book sketches the history of English studies in the nineteenth century. London was central to the early history, with University College, King’s College and Queen’s College all looming large. Oxford figured later in the century, and became the centre of a truly national debate over the future of the subject. Schools played a part, especially grammar schools catering for middle-class pupils who were commonly identified as the main market for English.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351884921
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This study collects together many of the original texts from the long-running debate which surrounded the rise of English as an academic subject. Most of the texts were ephemeral and have been long out of print, but they are essential to an understanding of how English studies developed. They show how English was influenced by pre-existing subjects like rhetoric and classics, and how it assumed different faces in different academic institutions. Each text is given an introduction which sets it in context and highlights themes. A general introduction to the book sketches the history of English studies in the nineteenth century. London was central to the early history, with University College, King’s College and Queen’s College all looming large. Oxford figured later in the century, and became the centre of a truly national debate over the future of the subject. Schools played a part, especially grammar schools catering for middle-class pupils who were commonly identified as the main market for English.
Nineteenth-century English
Author: Richard W. Bailey
Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape.
The Routledge Concise History of Nineteenth-Century Literature
Author: Josephine Guy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136884459
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
Nineteenth-century Britain saw the rise of secularism, the development of a modern capitalist economy, multi-party democracy, and an explosive growth in technological, scientific and medical knowledge. It also witnessed the emergence of a mass literary culture which changed permanently the relationships between writers, readers and publishers. Focusing on the work of British and Irish authors, The Routledge Concise History of Nineteenth-Century Literature: considers changes in literary forms, styles and genres, as well as in critical discourses examines literary movements such as Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism and Decadence considers the work of a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writers discusses the impact of gender studies, queer theory, postcolonialism and book history contains useful, student-friendly features such as explanatory text boxes, chapter summaries, a detailed glossary and suggestions for further reading. In their lucid and accessible manner, Josephine M. Guy and Ian Small provide readers with an understanding of the complexity and variety of nineteenth-century literary culture, as well as the historical conditions which produced it.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136884459
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
Nineteenth-century Britain saw the rise of secularism, the development of a modern capitalist economy, multi-party democracy, and an explosive growth in technological, scientific and medical knowledge. It also witnessed the emergence of a mass literary culture which changed permanently the relationships between writers, readers and publishers. Focusing on the work of British and Irish authors, The Routledge Concise History of Nineteenth-Century Literature: considers changes in literary forms, styles and genres, as well as in critical discourses examines literary movements such as Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism and Decadence considers the work of a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writers discusses the impact of gender studies, queer theory, postcolonialism and book history contains useful, student-friendly features such as explanatory text boxes, chapter summaries, a detailed glossary and suggestions for further reading. In their lucid and accessible manner, Josephine M. Guy and Ian Small provide readers with an understanding of the complexity and variety of nineteenth-century literary culture, as well as the historical conditions which produced it.
Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now
Author: Professor Simon Dentith
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472418875
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Envisioning today’s readers as poised between an impossible attempt to read texts as their original readers experienced them and an awareness of our own temporal moment, Simon Dentith complicates traditional prejudices against hindsight to approach issues of interpretation and historicity in nineteenth-century literature. Suggesting that the characteristic aesthetic attitude encouraged by the backward look is one of irony rather than remorse or regret, he examines works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, William Morris and John Ruskin in terms of their participation in significant histories that extend to this day. Liberalism, class, gender, political representation and notions of progress, utopianism and ecological concern as currently understood can be traced back to the nineteenth century. Just as today’s critics strive to respect the authenticity of nineteenth-century writers and readers who responded to these ideas within their historical world, so, too, do those nineteenth-century imaginings persist to challenge the assumptions of the present. It is therefore possible, Dentith argues, to conceive of the act of reading historical literature with an awareness of the historical context and of the difference between the past and the present while allowing that friction or difference to be part of how we think about a text and how it communicates. His book summons us to consider how words travel to the reality of the reader’s own time and how engagement with nineteenth-century writers’ anticipation of the judgements of future generations reveal hindsight’s capacity to transform our understanding of the past in the light of subsequent knowledge.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472418875
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Envisioning today’s readers as poised between an impossible attempt to read texts as their original readers experienced them and an awareness of our own temporal moment, Simon Dentith complicates traditional prejudices against hindsight to approach issues of interpretation and historicity in nineteenth-century literature. Suggesting that the characteristic aesthetic attitude encouraged by the backward look is one of irony rather than remorse or regret, he examines works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, William Morris and John Ruskin in terms of their participation in significant histories that extend to this day. Liberalism, class, gender, political representation and notions of progress, utopianism and ecological concern as currently understood can be traced back to the nineteenth century. Just as today’s critics strive to respect the authenticity of nineteenth-century writers and readers who responded to these ideas within their historical world, so, too, do those nineteenth-century imaginings persist to challenge the assumptions of the present. It is therefore possible, Dentith argues, to conceive of the act of reading historical literature with an awareness of the historical context and of the difference between the past and the present while allowing that friction or difference to be part of how we think about a text and how it communicates. His book summons us to consider how words travel to the reality of the reader’s own time and how engagement with nineteenth-century writers’ anticipation of the judgements of future generations reveal hindsight’s capacity to transform our understanding of the past in the light of subsequent knowledge.
English in Nineteenth-Century England
Author: Manfred Görlach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521476843
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This book surveys the features of nineteenth-century English and provides over 100 sample texts and numerous exercises.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521476843
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This book surveys the features of nineteenth-century English and provides over 100 sample texts and numerous exercises.
The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature
Author: Stefanie Markovits
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814210406
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
"We think of the nineteenth century as an active age - the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, and railroads, of great exploration and the Great Exhibition. But in reading the works of Romantic and Victorian writers one notices a conflict, what Stefanie Markovits terms "a crisis of action." In her book, The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Markovits maps out this conflict by focusing on four writers: William Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Eliot, and Henry James. Each chapter offers a "case-study" that demonstrates how specific historical contingencies - including reaction to the French Revolution, laissez-faire economic practices, changes in religious and scientific beliefs, and shifts in women's roles - made people in the period hypersensitive to the status of action and its literary co-relative, plot."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814210406
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
"We think of the nineteenth century as an active age - the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, and railroads, of great exploration and the Great Exhibition. But in reading the works of Romantic and Victorian writers one notices a conflict, what Stefanie Markovits terms "a crisis of action." In her book, The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Markovits maps out this conflict by focusing on four writers: William Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Eliot, and Henry James. Each chapter offers a "case-study" that demonstrates how specific historical contingencies - including reaction to the French Revolution, laissez-faire economic practices, changes in religious and scientific beliefs, and shifts in women's roles - made people in the period hypersensitive to the status of action and its literary co-relative, plot."--BOOK JACKET.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Henry Augustin Beers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Dialect and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
Author: Jane Hodson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131715147X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation in the literary uses of dialect, with dialect becoming a key feature in the development of the realist novel, dialect songs being printed by the hundreds in urban centres and dialect poetry becoming a respected form. In this collection, scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, including dialectology, literary linguistics, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the history of the English language, have come together to examine the theory, context and ideology of the use of dialect in the nineteenth century. The texts considered range from the Cumberland poetry of Josiah Relph to the novels of Frances Trollope and Elizabeth Gaskell, and from popular Tyneside song to the dialect poetry of Alfred Tennyson. Throughout the volume, the contributors debate whether or not 'authenticity' is a meaningful category, the significance of metalanguage and paratext in the presentation of dialect, the differences between 'literary dialect' and 'dialect literature', the responses of 'insider' versus 'outsider' audiences and whether the representation of dialect is a hegemonic or resistant strategy. This is the first book to focus on practices of dialect representation in literature in the nineteenth century. Taken together, the chapters offer an exciting overview of the challenging work currently being undertaken in this field.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131715147X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation in the literary uses of dialect, with dialect becoming a key feature in the development of the realist novel, dialect songs being printed by the hundreds in urban centres and dialect poetry becoming a respected form. In this collection, scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, including dialectology, literary linguistics, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the history of the English language, have come together to examine the theory, context and ideology of the use of dialect in the nineteenth century. The texts considered range from the Cumberland poetry of Josiah Relph to the novels of Frances Trollope and Elizabeth Gaskell, and from popular Tyneside song to the dialect poetry of Alfred Tennyson. Throughout the volume, the contributors debate whether or not 'authenticity' is a meaningful category, the significance of metalanguage and paratext in the presentation of dialect, the differences between 'literary dialect' and 'dialect literature', the responses of 'insider' versus 'outsider' audiences and whether the representation of dialect is a hegemonic or resistant strategy. This is the first book to focus on practices of dialect representation in literature in the nineteenth century. Taken together, the chapters offer an exciting overview of the challenging work currently being undertaken in this field.