The English University Novel
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The English University Novel
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Author : Mortimer Robinson Proctor
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
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The English University Novel written by Mortimer Robinson Proctor and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Oxford In English Literature
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Author : John Dougill
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1998
Oxford In English Literature written by John Dougill and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Authors, English categories.
As "the English Athens," Oxford has long been seen as central to England's intellectual life. For over six centuries the city has been lauded, slighted, and cited in the pages of English literature. While it has been hailed as the embodiment of excellence, beauty, and truth on the one hand, it has also been attacked for its elitism, insularity, and traditionalism on the other. Oxford in English Literature provides for the first time an overview of these literary representations, ranging from Chaucer's account of medieval students to modern-day detective stories set in the city. The book begins with the early university, possibly founded by an eighth-century princess named Frideswide. The volume moves on through the Middle Ages with Chaucer's clerks and Foxe's martyrs. Oxford in English Literature touches on more recent centuries with Lewis Carroll and Alice in Wonderland, Matthew Arnold, Max Beerbohm and Evelyn Waugh, and the "Infamous St. Oscar." Following the rise of the colleges, the literature becomes characterized by a sense of insulation, for the closed collegiate structure led to elitism and eccentricity. The notion of the university as a paradise of youth, beauty, and intelligence led to the so-called Oxford myth and the backlash against it after World War II. The underlying argument of John Dougill's work is that the defining symbol of Oxford is not so much the dreaming spire as the college wall. In Oxford literature the college is depicted as a world of its own--secluded, conservative, and eccentric, driven by its own rituals. Idealized, it becomes a cloistered utopia, an Athenian city-state, a fantasy wonderland, or an Arcadian idyll. Exclusivity led to resentment from those on the outside, as is evident in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure. With the advent of democratic and egalitarian values in the twentieth century, the privilege and elitism of the university has come under increasing attack, as has the whole notion of the "English Athens." Oxford in English Literature is aimed at the general reader interested in the literature and history of a very unusual town. Its familiar subject and the inclusion of numerous rare and specially commissioned illustrations and photographs make this a compelling book. John Dougill is Associate Professor of English Literature, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan. He is an Oxford graduate and author of The Writers of English Literature.
End Of Empire And The English Novel Since 1945
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Author : Rachael Gilmour
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-01
End Of Empire And The English Novel Since 1945 written by Rachael Gilmour and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Available in paperback for the first time, this first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances. All included reflect on the predicament of an England which no longer lies at the centre of imperial power, arriving at a fascinating diversity of conclusions about the meaning and consequences of the end of empire and the privileged location of the novel for discussing what decolonization meant for the domestic English population of the metropole. The book is written in an easy style, unburdened by large sections of abstract reflection. It endeavours to bring alive in a new way the traditions of the English novel.
The English Novel
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Author : Terry Eagleton
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2004-08-06
The English Novel written by Terry Eagleton and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontës, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce. Distils the essentials of the theory of the novel. Follows the model of Eagleton’s hugely popular Literary Theory: An Introduction (Second Edition, 1996).
Nation Novel
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Author : Patrick Parrinder
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008
Nation Novel written by Patrick Parrinder 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 2008 with History categories.
Patrick Parrinder traces English prose fiction from its late medieval origins through its stories of rogues and criminals, family rebellions and suffering heroines, to the contemporary novels of immigration. He provides both a comprehensive survey and a new interpretation of the importance of the English novel.
The Origins Of The English Novel 1600 1740
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Author : Michael McKeon
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2002-05-22
The Origins Of The English Novel 1600 1740 written by Michael McKeon and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age.
The University In Modern Fiction
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Author : Janice Rossen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-01-01
The University In Modern Fiction written by Janice Rossen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with College stories categories.
The Novel Of Purpose
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Author : Amanda Claybaugh
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-05
The Novel Of Purpose written by Amanda Claybaugh and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the nineteenth century, Great Britain and the United States shared a single literary marketplace that linked the reform movements, as well as the literatures, of the two nations. The writings of transatlantic reformers—antislavery, temperance, and suffrage activists—gave novelists a new sense of purpose and prompted them to invent new literary forms. The result was a distinctively Anglo-American realism, in which novelists, conceiving of themselves as reformers, sought to act upon their readers—and, through their readers, the world. Indeed, reform became so predominant that many novelists borrowed from reformist writings even though they were skeptical of reform itself. Among them are some of the century's most important authors: Anne Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Mark Twain. The Novel of Purpose proposes a new way of understanding social reform in Great Britain and the United States. Amanda Claybaugh offers readings that connect reformist agitation to the formal features of literary works and argues for a method of transatlantic study that attends not only to nations, but also to the many groups that collaborate across national boundaries.
Women And Romance
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Author : Laurie Langbauer
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-15
Women And Romance written by Laurie Langbauer and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues in feminist debate, in particular the relations of feminist to the poststructuralist theories of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. In highlighting questions of gender in this way, Women and Romance contributes to a major debate between skeptical and materialist points of view among poststructuralist critics.
Faculty Towers
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Author : Elaine Showalter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Faculty Towers written by Elaine Showalter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with American fiction categories.
In the days before there were handbooks, self-help guides, or advice columns for graduate students and junior faculty, there were academic novels teaching us how a proper professor should speak, behave, dress, think, write, love, and (more than occasionally) solve murders. If many of thesebooks are wildly funny, others paint pictures of failure and pain, of lives wasted or destroyed. Like the suburbs, Elaine Showalter notes, the campus can be the site of pastoral and refuge. But even ivory towers can be structurally unsound, or at least built with glass ceilings. Though we love toread about them, all is not well in the faculty towers, and the situation has been worsening.In Faculty Towers, Showalter takes a personal look at the ways novels about the academy have charted changes in the university and society since 1950. With her readings of C. P. Snow's idealized world of Cambridge dons or of the globe-trotting antics of David Lodge's Morris Zapp, of the sleuthingKate Fansler in Amanda Cross's best-selling mystery series or of the recent spate of bitter novels in which narratives of sexual harassment seem to serve as fables of power, anger, and desire, Showalter holds a mirror up to the world she has inhabited over the course of a distinguished and oftencontroversial career.