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A Victorian Engagement
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Author : Walter Cunningham Hume
language : en
Publisher: St. Lucia, Q. : University of Queensland Press
Release Date : 1975
A Victorian Engagement written by Walter Cunningham Hume and has been published by St. Lucia, Q. : University of Queensland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Promises Broken
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Author : Ginger Suzanne Frost
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 1995
Promises Broken written by Ginger Suzanne Frost and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Family & Relationships categories.
COURTSHIP, CLASS AND GENDER IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND.
The Runaway Debutante
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Author : Elizabeth Harmon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-10
The Runaway Debutante written by Elizabeth Harmon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-10 with categories.
Step outside the ballrooms of Mayfair and into a Dickensian adventure through Victorian England.London, 1873 She wants to shape her own destiny Lady Constance Barrett rejects society's expectations of marriage and conformity. She wants to change the world for the better and has set her sights on attending England's most prestigious women's college. Unfortunately, her parents have betrothed her to a wealthy but cruel man twice her age. She flees to the East End of London, where she'll pawn jewelry to secure her freedom. It's a brilliant plan, until a cut-purse gang steals her treasure. He's the gang's leader Streetwise and handsome, Alexander Blackwood is at the top of his game, as a thief and a ladies' man. But while the East End's top crime boss relies on Alex to lead his crew of street thieves, Alex is drawn to the promise of America, where he'll be free from a life of crime. When Lady Constance arrives at his boss's brothel demanding return of her jewels, Alex is smitten -- and driven to protect her, even if it means defying his sadistic boss. A forbidden love they can't deny Society will never accept their cross-class romance. Their only hope is a future in America. But first, they must outwit the ruthless crime boss, in a daring escape which could cost them their lives. ♥ Class differences ♥ Slow burn ♥ Fish out of water ♥ Sweeping saga ♥ Happily ever after
Promising Language
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Author : Randall T.Craig
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1999-12-02
Promising Language written by Randall T.Craig and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-12-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Promising Language explores the linguistic and social ramifications of promising, and specifically promising to marry, in Victorian fiction. The concept of the promise—as speech act, as social practice and legal contract, and as structural principle and topos—lies at the intersection of several emergent nineteenth-century discourses: the science of language (notably etymology and philology), utilitarian jurisprudence (especially the freedom of contract applied to personal relations), and the aesthetics of the novel (predominantly realism). With this in mind, Craig offers new readings of several classic Victorian novels, including Pickwick Papers, Jane Eyre, Adam Bede, The Egoist, and The Wings of the Dove.
Oceania And The Victorian Imagination
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Author : Peter H. Hoffenberg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-23
Oceania And The Victorian Imagination written by Peter H. Hoffenberg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceania’s impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world of children. Each of these had significant impact. The literature discussed affected mainly the middle and upper classes, while exhibitions and photography reached down into the working classes, as did missionary presentations. The experience of children was central to the Pacific’s effects, as youthful encounters at exhibitions, chapel, home, or school formed lifelong impressions and experience. It would be difficult to fully understand the Victorians as they understood themselves without considering their engagement with Oceania. While the contributions of India and Africa to the nineteenth-century imagination have been well-documented, examinations of the contributions of Oceania have remained on the periphery of Victorian studies. Oceania and the Victorian Imagination contributes significantly to our discussion of the non-peripheral place of Oceania in Victorian culture.
Jane Austen And The Victorian Heroine
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Author : Cheryl A. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-09-05
Jane Austen And The Victorian Heroine written by Cheryl A. Wilson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book uses the figure of the Victorian heroine as a lens through which to examine Jane Austen’s presence in Victorian critical and popular writings. Aimed at Victorianist readers and scholars, the book focuses on the ways in which Austen was constructed in fiction, criticism, and biography over the course of the nineteenth century. For the Victorians, Austen became a kind of cultural shorthand, representing a distant, yet not too-distant, historical past that the Victorians both drew on and defined themselves against with regard to such topics as gender, literature, and national identity. Austen influenced the development of the Victorian literary heroine, and when cast as a heroine herself, was deployed in debates about the responsibilities of the novelist and the ability of fiction to shape social and cultural norms. Thus, the study is as much, if not more, about the Victorians than it is about Jane Austen.
Rewriting The Victorians
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Author : Andrea Kirchknopf
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-05-28
Rewriting The Victorians written by Andrea Kirchknopf and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--as one can see from, for example, large-scale adaptations of written works, as well as the explosion of commodities and even interactive theme parks. This book is an introduction to the novelistic refashionings that have come after the Victorian age with a special focus on revisions of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. As post-Victorian research is still in the making, the first part is devoted to clarifying terminology and interpretive contexts. Two major frameworks for reading post-Victorian fiction are developed: the literary scene (authors, readers, critics) and the national-identity, political and social aspects. Among the works examined are Caryl Phillips's Cambridge, Matthew Kneale's English Passengers, Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs, Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, D.M. Thomas's Charlotte, and Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair.
The Victorian Eighteenth Century
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Author : B. W. Young
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2007-10-18
The Victorian Eighteenth Century written by B. W. Young and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-18 with History categories.
The Victorians were preoccupied by the eighteenth century. It was central to many nineteenth-century debates, particularly those concerning the place of history and religion in national life. This book explores the diverse responses of key Victorian writers and thinkers, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman, Leslie Stephen, Vernon Lee, and M.R. James to a period which commanded their interest throughout the Victorian era, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the opening decades of the twentieth century. They were, on the one hand, appalled by the apparent frivolity of the eighteenth century, which was denounced by Carlyle as a dispiriting successor to the culture of Puritan England, and, on the other they were concerned to continue its secularising influence on English culture, as is seen in the pioneering work of Leslie Stephen, who was passionately keen to transform the legacy of eighteenth-century scepticism into Victorian agnosticism. The Victorian interest in the eighteenth century was never a purely insular matter, and the history of eighteenth-century France, Germany, and Italy played a dominant role in the nineteenth-century historical understanding. A debate between generations was enacted, in which Romanticism melded into Victorianism. The Victorians were haunted by the eighteenth century, both metaphorically and literally, and the book closes with consideration of the culturally resonant eighteenth-century ghosts encountered in the fiction of Vernon Lee and M.R. James.
Creating Identity In The Victorian Fictional Autobiography
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Author : Heidi L. Pennington
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2018-04-30
Creating Identity In The Victorian Fictional Autobiography written by Heidi L. Pennington and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first book-length study of the fictional autobiography, a subgenre that is at once widely recognizable and rarely examined as a literary form with its own history and dynamics of interpretation. Heidi L. Pennington shows that the narrative form and genre expectations associated with the fictional autobiography in the Victorian period engages readers in a sustained meditation on the fictional processes that construct selfhood both in and beyond the text. Through close readings of Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and other well-known examples of the subgenre, Pennington shows how the Victorian fictional autobiography subtly but persistently illustrates that all identities are fictions. Despite the subgenre’s radical implications regarding the nature of personal identity, fictional autobiographies were popular in their own time and continue to inspire devotion in readers. This study sheds new light on what makes this subgenre so compelling, up to and including in the present historical moment of precipitous social and technological change. As we continue to grapple with the existential question of what determines “who we really are,” this book explores the risks and rewards of embracing conscious acts of fictional self-production in an unstable world.
The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic
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Author : Lauren M. E. Goodlad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic written by Lauren M. E. Goodlad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
How did realist fiction alter in the effort to craft forms and genres receptive to the dynamism of an expanding empire and globalizing world? Do these nineteenth-century variations on the "geopolitical aesthetic" continue to resonate today? Crossing literary criticism, political theory, andlongue duree history, The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic explores these questions from the standpoint of nineteenth-century novelists such as Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, and Anthony Trollope, as well as successors including E. M. Forster and the creators of recent televisionserials. By looking at the category of "sovereignty" at multiple scales and in diverse contexts, Lauren M. E. Goodlad shows that the ideological crucible for "high" realism was not a hegemonic liberalism. It was, rather, a clash of modern liberal ideals struggling to distintricate themselves from apowerful conservative vision of empire while striving to negotiate the inequalities of power which a supposedly universalistic liberalism had helped to generate. The material occasion for the Victorian era's rich realist experiments was the long transition from an informal empire of trade that couldbe celebrated as liberal to a neo-feudal imperialism that only Tories could warmly embrace.The book places realism's geopolitical aesthetic at the heart of recurring modern experiences of breached sovereignty, forgotten history, and subjective exile. The Coda, titled "The Way We Historicize Now", concludes the study with connections to recent debates about "surface reading", "distantreading", and the hermeneutics of suspicion.