Cultivating Victorians
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Cultivating Victorians
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Author : David Wayne Thomas
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2004-01-21
Cultivating Victorians written by David Wayne Thomas and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
"This volume makes a bold and highly sophisticated contribution to Victorian cultural studies as it explores the historical interrelations between Victorian aestheticism and liberalism. . . . Extremely ambitious."--
Cultivating Belief
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Author : Sebastian Lecourt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-05
Cultivating Belief written by Sebastian Lecourt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores how a group of Victorian liberal writers that included George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold became attracted to new theories of religion as a function of race and ethnicity. Since the early modern period, British liberals had typically constructed religion as a zone of personal belief that defined modern individuality and interiority. During the 1860s, however, Eliot, Arnold, and other literary liberals began to claim that religion could actually do the most for the modern self when it came as a kind of involuntary inheritance. Stimulated by the emerging science of anthropology, they imagined that religious experiences embedded in race or ethnicity could render the self heterogeneous, while the individual who insisted upon selecting his or her own beliefs would become narrow and parochial. By rethinking the grounds of religion, this book argues, these writers were ultimately trying to shift liberal individualism away from a classical Protestant liberalism that celebrated interiority and agency and toward one that valorized eclecticism and the capacity to keep multiple values in play. More broadly, their work offers us a new picture of secularization, not as a process of religious decline, but as the reinscription of religion as an ordinary feature of human life—like art, or politics, or sex—whose function could be debated.
Growing Up In Victorian Britain
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Author : Sheila Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: B.T. Batsford
Release Date : 1977
Growing Up In Victorian Britain written by Sheila Ferguson and has been published by B.T. Batsford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Social Science categories.
Victorian Britain was a world of overcrowded cities, intensive industrialization, mounting fortunes, and shameful poverty. Yet it was also a world of exciting new discoveries. It was a world of callous indifference to the plight of the working class, but also of far-reaching social and legal reforms. How did the lifestyles of the rich and the poor child differ in Victorian times? Sheila Ferguson looks at their homes and schools, their family life, the books they read, the games they played. She describes the child of the upper classes, his life secure but strictly disciplined; and the poor child at work -- in the mills, down the mines, sweeping the chimneys, and "below stairs."
Aestheticism And The Marriage Market In Victorian Popular Fiction
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Author : Kirby-Jane Hallum
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06
Aestheticism And The Marriage Market In Victorian Popular Fiction written by Kirby-Jane Hallum and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Based on close readings of five Victorian novels, Hallum presents an original study of the interaction between popular fiction, the marriage market and the aesthetic movement. She uses the texts to trace the development of aestheticism, examining the differences between the authors, including their approach, style and gender.
Victorian Aesthetic Conditions
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Author : E. Clements
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-11
Victorian Aesthetic Conditions written by E. Clements and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
The multidisciplinary aesthetics of Walter Pater, the nineteenth century's most provocative critic, are explored by an international team of scholars. 'True aesthetic criticism' takes place working across the arts, Pater insists: acknowledging the differences between media, but seeking possibilities of interconnection.
Victorian Soul Talk
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Author : Julia F. Saville
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-05-19
Victorian Soul Talk written by Julia F. Saville and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the decades between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1884 when British poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Browning, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, along with their transatlantic contemporary Walt Whitman, defended the civil rights of disenfranchised souls as Western nations slowly evolved toward modern democracies with shared transnational connections. For in the decades before the new science of psychology transformed the soul into the psyche, poets claimed the spiritual well-being of the body politic as their special moral responsibility. Exploiting the rich aesthetic potential of language, they created poetry with striking sensory appeal to make their readers experience the complex effects of political decisions on public spirit. Within contexts such as Risorgimento Italy, Civil War America, and Second Empire France, these poets spoke from their souls to the souls of their readers to reveal insights that eluded the prosaic forms of fiction, essay, and journalism.
Victorian Engagements With The Bible And Antiquity
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Author : Simon Goldhill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-07-31
Victorian Engagements With The Bible And Antiquity written by Simon Goldhill 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 2023-07-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
A brilliant exposition of how the Bible and classical antiquity are central to the formation of Victorian self-understanding.
The Oxford Handbook Of Victorian Literary Culture
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Author : Juliet John
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-30
The Oxford Handbook Of Victorian Literary Culture written by Juliet John and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology, Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief, and Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures), the volume is sub-divided into nine sub-sections each with its own 'lead' essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today's Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume's essays: that is, the nature and status of 'literary' culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and established scholars.
Science Language And Reform In Victorian Poetry
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Author : Barbara Barrow
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-05-29
Science Language And Reform In Victorian Poetry written by Barbara Barrow and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-29 with Literary Collections categories.
Barrow’s timely book is the first to examine the link between Victorian poetry, the study of language, and political reform. Focusing on a range of literary, scientific, and political texts, Barrow demonstrates that nineteenth-century debates about language played a key role in shaping emergent ideas about popular sovereignty. While Victorian scientists studied the origins of speech, the history of dialects, and the barrier between human and animal language, poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Thomas Hardy drew on this research to explore social unrest, the expansion of the electorate, and the ever-widening boundaries of empire. Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry recovers unacknowledged links between poetry, philology, and political culture, and contributes to recent movements in literary studies that combine historicist and formalist approaches.
Charlotte Riddell S City Novels And Victorian Business
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Author : Silvana Colella
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-22
Charlotte Riddell S City Novels And Victorian Business written by Silvana Colella and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
In spite of the popularity she enjoyed during her lifetime, Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906) has received little attention from scholars. Silvana Colella makes a strong case for the relevance of Riddell's novels as narrative experiments that shed new light on the troubled experience of Victorian capitalism. Drawing on her impressive knowledge of commerce and finance, Riddell produced several novels that narrate the fate of individuals - manufacturers, accountants, entrepreneurs, City men and their female companions - who pursue the liberal dream of self-determination in the unstable world of London business. Colella situates novels such as Too Much Alone, George Geith, The Race for Wealth, Austin Friars and The Senior Partner in the broader cultural context, examining business manuals, commercial biographies, and essays to highlight Victorian constructions of the business ideal and the changing cultural status of the City of London. Combining historicist and formalist readings, Colella charts the progression of Riddell's imaginative commitment to the business world, focusing on the author's gendered awareness of the promises and disenchantments associated with the changing dynamics of capitalist modernisation. Her book enriches our understanding of Victorian business culture, the literary history of capitalism, and the intersections of gender, genre and economics.