A European Version Of Victorian Fiction
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A European Version Of Victorian Fiction
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Author : Allan Conrad Christensen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-04-12
A European Version Of Victorian Fiction written by Allan Conrad Christensen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-12 with History categories.
In this first systematic assessment of Ruffini's literary achievement, the seven novels that are apparently so different from each other emerge as an aesthetically coherent and individualized contribution to the mid-Victorian fictional canon. Composed in English by an Italian exile resident in Paris, they describe interactions among men and women of many nationalities and trace interesting European journeys and pilgrimages during the early days of mass tourism. While thus documenting such phenomena as expanding rail networks, holiday resorts and health spas, the novels dramatize, more importantly, the inadequacy of narrowly local and intolerant perspectives. The protagonists must gain a broadly cosmopolitan vision and sense of mutuality as they pursue the common quest for self-integration and for a purpose in life. A patriotic commitment like that which had engaged Ruffini in his youthful Mazzinian phase cannot now offer that purpose, and the narratives convey strong scepticism about other ideals, such as romantic love, too. More positively the stories contain many dedicated physicians, who practice a holistic medicine and who thereby substitute for the often sinister priests of a corrupt religious establishment. Ministering to the humanity that Ruffini typically portrays as sick or wounded and tormented by misanthropy and guilt, they are the chief mitigators of the bleakness of the modern condition.
History And Cultural Memory In Neo Victorian Fiction
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Author : Kate Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-07-16
History And Cultural Memory In Neo Victorian Fiction written by Kate Mitchell and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. Arguing that neo-Victorian fiction enacts and celebrates cultural memory, this book uses memory discourse to position these novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary.
The Idea Of Music In Victorian Fiction
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Author : Nicky Losseff
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
The Idea Of Music In Victorian Fiction written by Nicky Losseff and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Music categories.
The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction seeks to address fundamental questions about the function, meaning and understanding of music in nineteenth-century culture and society, as mediated through works of fiction. The eleven essays here, written by musicologists and literary scholars, range over a wide selection of works by both canonical writers such as Austen, Benson, Carlyle, Collins, Gaskell, Gissing, Eliot, Hardy, du Maurier and Wilde, and less-well-known figures such as Gertrude Hudson and Elizabeth Sara Sheppard. Each essay explores different strategies for interpreting the idea of music in the Victorian novel. Some focus on the degree to which scenes involving music illuminate what music meant to the writer and contemporary performers and listeners, and signify musical tastes of the time and the reception of particular composers. Other essays in the volume examine aspects of gender, race, sexuality and class that are illuminated by the deployment of music by the novelist. Together with its companion volume, The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry edited by Phyllis Weliver (Ashgate, 2005), this collection suggests a new network of methodologies for the continuing cultural and social investigation of nineteenth-century music as reflected in that period's literary output.
Victorian Life And Victorian Fiction
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Author : Jo McMurtry
language : en
Publisher: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
Release Date : 1979
Victorian Life And Victorian Fiction written by Jo McMurtry and has been published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
McMurtry describes aspects of Victorian life: titles and social rank, fashions, heirarchies of servants, religious custom and controversy, politics, education, courtship and marriage, crime, money, and the whole system of subtle graded snobbery that is important for the understanding of social satire and comedy from the Victorian era.
Britain Ireland And The Italian Risorgimento
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Author : N. Carter
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-04-28
Britain Ireland And The Italian Risorgimento written by N. Carter and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-28 with History categories.
This book offers a unique and fascinating examination of British and Irish responses to Italian independence and unification in the mid-nineteenth century. Chapters explore the interplay of religion, politics, exile, feminism, colonialism and romanticism in fuelling impassioned debates on the 'Italian question' on both sides of the Irish Sea.
The Victorian Novel And Masculinity
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Author : P. Mallett
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-01-22
The Victorian Novel And Masculinity written by P. Mallett and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-22 with Social Science categories.
What did it mean, in the rapidly changing world of Victorian England, to 'be a man'? In essays written specially for this volume, nine distinguished scholars from Britain and the USA show how Victorian novelists from the Brontës to Conrad sought to discover what made men, what broke them, and what restored them.
Reading Victorian Fiction
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Author : Andrew Blake
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-03
Reading Victorian Fiction written by Andrew Blake and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-03 with Fiction categories.
A study of the interrelationship of the Victorian novel with other forms of writings, arguing that the whole literary culture was concerned with the production of Victorian values, including novels, an active part in the compromise between aristocratic and middle class cultures in this period.
The Worlds Of Victorian Fiction
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Author : Jerome Hamilton Buckley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1975
The Worlds Of Victorian Fiction written by Jerome Hamilton Buckley and has been published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Cambridge Companion To The Victorian Novel
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Author : Deirdre David
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-18
The Cambridge Companion To The Victorian Novel written by Deirdre David and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second edition of the Companion to the Victorian Novel has been updated fully, taking account of new research and critical methodologies. There are four new chapters and the others have been thoroughly updated, as has the guide to further reading. Designed to appeal to students, teachers and readers, these essays reflect the latest approaches to reading and understanding Victorian fiction.
The Longman Companion To Victorian Fiction
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Author : John Sutherland
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-10-13
The Longman Companion To Victorian Fiction written by John Sutherland and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction ever published. Now in a second edition, the book has been revised and a generous selection of images have been chosen to illustrate various aspects of Victorian publishing, writing, and reading life. Organised alphabetically, the information provided will be a boon to students, researchers and all lovers of reading. The entries, though concise, meet the high standards demanded by modern scholarship. The writing - marked by Sutherland's characteristic combination of flair, clarity and erudition - is of such a high standard that the book is a joy to read, as well as a definitive work of reference.