Creating Identity In The Victorian Fictional Autobiography
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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.
Fictional Selves
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Author : Heidi L. Pennington
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Fictional Selves written by Heidi L. Pennington and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Electronic dissertations categories.
Fictional Selves: Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography is about fictionality and the role that processes of fiction play in our experiences of personal subjectivity. I argue that the particular and historically situated form of the Victorian fictional autobiography helps us to perceive the more widespread importance of fiction to our understanding of identity as both a creative and a social process. In my work, a fictional autobiography is the autobiography of an explicitly fictional character. David Copperfield and Bleak House by Dickens and Jane Eyre and Villette by C. Bronte are openly imaginative works, but they are told through the thematic and formal conventions of the nascent genre of autobiography. I propose that the dual presence of conventions of reference and conventions of fiction encourages a doubled reading stance with respect to the text that allows the sympathetic reader to recognize the fictionality of her own practices of identity formation by seeing them played out in the narrative of an openly fictional character with whom she emotionally identifies. By thus redefining the nature of human identity, the fictional autobiography implicitly engages, and asks us to reconsider, Victorian preoccupations with human potential, especially through the paradigmatic figures of the author and the domestic woman.
Autobiography Sensation And The Commodification Of Identity In Victorian Narrative
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Author : Sean Grass
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-31
Autobiography Sensation And The Commodification Of Identity In Victorian Narrative written by Sean Grass 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 2019-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
An exploration of the commodification of autobiography 1820-1860 in relation to shifting fictional representations of identity.
The Routledge Companion To Victorian Literature
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Author : Dennis Denisoff
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-11
The Routledge Companion To Victorian Literature written by Dennis Denisoff and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and influential political, cultural, and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today. Scholars and students will find this collection both useful and inspiring. Rigorously engaged with current scholarship that is both historically sensitive and theoretically informed, the Routledge Companion places the genres of the novel, poetry, and drama and issues of gender, social class, and race in conversation with subjects like ecology, colonialism, the Gothic, digital humanities, sexualities, disability, material culture, and animal studies. This guide is aimed at scholars who want to know the most significant critical approaches in Victorian studies, often written by the very scholars who helped found those fields. It addresses major theoretical movements such as narrative theory, formalism, historicism, and economic theory, as well as Victorian models of subjects such as anthropology, cognitive science, and religion. With its lists of key works, rich cross-referencing, extensive bibliographies, and explications of scholarly trajectories, the book is a crucial resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, while offering invaluable support to more seasoned scholars.
Strange Novel Worlds
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Author : Caroline-Isabelle Caron
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2024-06-18
Strange Novel Worlds written by Caroline-Isabelle Caron and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Since the publication of the first James Blish novelizations of Star Trek episodes in 1967, close to 900 tie-in novels, anthologies, and omnibus editions have been published. Star Trek tie-in novels have had a significant influence on Western popular culture. The works of beloved science fiction authors have shaped the way fans understand Star Trek and its universe, and many stand as near equal builders of the Star Trek franchise, next to Gene Roddenberry, his producers, and the many creators of the later series. With such a vast and varied body of work, tie-in books form a rich and deep cultural phenomenon, the history and content of which are worthy of concerted study. Despite the enduring popularity of the franchise they are based on, no previous essay collection has ever focused on the numerous and widely diverse books of Star Trek tie-in novels. This collection does just that by examining the tie-in works as relevant literature. The essays primarily focus on tie-in books published from 1990 to 2022, and each author discusses the plot and context of separate novels while simultaneously exploring major themes such as canon vs. fanfiction and merits of the genre. The collection ends with an exploration of the continuity of this period of Star Trek as it stands following a narrative conclusion announced in 2021.
Approaches To Victorian Autobiography
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Author : George P. Landow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Approaches To Victorian Autobiography written by George P. Landow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Victorian Metafiction
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Author : Tabitha Sparks
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2022-11-17
Victorian Metafiction written by Tabitha Sparks 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 2022-11-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Critics agree in the abstract that "metafiction" refers to any novel that draws attention to its own fictional construction, but metafiction has been largely associated with the postmodern era. In this innovative new book Tabitha Sparks identifies a sustained pattern of metafiction in the Victorian novel that illuminates the art and intentions of its female practitioners. From the mid-nineteenth century through the fin de siècle, novels by Victorian women such as Charlotte Brontë, Rhoda Broughton, Charlotte Riddell, Eliza Lynn Linton, and several New Women authors share a common but underexamined trope: the fictional characterization of the woman novelist or autobiographer. Victorian Metafiction reveals how these novels systemically dispute the assumptions that women wrote primarily about their emotions or were restricted to trivial, sentimental plots. Countering an established tradition that has read novels by women writers as heavily autobiographical and confessional, Sparks identifies the literary technique of metafiction in numerous novels by women writers and argues that women used metafictional self-consciousness to draw the reader’s attention to the book and not the novelist. By dislodging the narrative from these cultural prescriptions, Victorian Metafiction effectively argues how these women novelists presented the business and art of writing as the subject of the novel and wrote metafiction in order to establish their artistic integrity and professional authority.
Possibilities Of Hidden Things
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Author : Hsiao-Hung Lee
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1996
Possibilities Of Hidden Things written by Hsiao-Hung Lee and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Hsiao-Hung Lee's «Possibilities of Hidden Things» traces submerged narratives as transgressive actions against self-identities and conventional strategies in three major Victorian fictional autobiographies: Jane Eyre, Villette, David Copperfield. Narrative transgression in these three novels breaks the boundaries between reality and imagination, historical events and fiction, reason and emotion. Instances of the «possibilities of hidden things, » self's wish to become the other, fairy tales taking over personal history are typical of narrative transgression fully exemplified in these novels. Narrative transgression, therefore, has greatly shaken the stability of «I» as the centering voice in the first-person narrative.
A Study Guide New Edition For Charlotte Bronte S Jane Eyre
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Author : Gale, Cengage
language : en
Publisher: Gale, Cengage
Release Date :
A Study Guide New Edition For Charlotte Bronte S Jane Eyre written by Gale, Cengage and has been published by Gale, Cengage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Literary Criticism categories.
A Study Guide (New Edition) for Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs."
Masculinity And The English Working Class
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Author : Ying Lee
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-06
Masculinity And The English Working Class written by Ying Lee and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes. The book also maps the relationship between two trends: the early nineteenth-century efflorescence of published working-class autobiographies (in which working men construct their identities for a broad readership); and a contemporaneous surge of public interest in "the lower orders" that finds reflection in the depiction of working-class characters in popular novels by middle-class authors. The book mimics this point of convergence by pairing three working-class autobiographies with three middle-class novels. Each chapter focuses on a particular type of work: domestic service, manual (not artisanal) labour, and literary labour (and the opportunities it offers for social advancement). Ying considers the specific ways in which classed and gendered consciousness emerges autobiographically and its significance in the writing of working-class subjectivity for public consumption. Then mainstream novels by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Kingsley are re-read from the perspective of these autobiographical pressure points.