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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.
The Victorians And The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Francis O'Gorman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Victorians And The Eighteenth Century written by Francis O'Gorman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Disrupting the common assumption that the Victorians regarded their eighteenth-century predecessors with little interest or with disdain, the essays in The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century propose a re-examination of these relationships. Together, they expose some of the significant and complex ways in which key aspects and texts of the eighteenth century were situated, read, and transacted within the post-Romantic nineteenth century. Individual essays examine the influence of the work of Pope and the eighteenth-century novelists such as Johnson, Chatterton, and Rousseau on a range of Victorian writers and cultural productions, including Dickens, Eliot, Oliphant, Ruskin, historical fiction, late Victorian art criticism, The English Men of Letters series, and the Oxford English Dictionary. The contributors challenge long-held views about Victorian uses of the past, and offer new insights into how the literature and culture of the eighteenth century helped shape the culture and identity of the nineteenth. This collection of essays by an impressive array of scholars, with a Preface by David Fairer, represents a unique approach to this area of literary history and offers new perspectives on the nature and methodology of 'periodization'. While it is obviously of great interest to students of eighteenth-century and Victorian literature, it will also appeal to readers more broadly concerned with questions of literary influence, periodization, and historiography.
English Literature And Society In The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Leslie Stephen
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-11-22
English Literature And Society In The Eighteenth Century written by Leslie Stephen and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-22 with History categories.
English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century is a set of lectures in literary history by Leslie Stephen. Stephen was an English writer, critic, historian and biographer, here exploring the depths of 18th century literature and its famous authors.
The Victorian Reappraisal Of The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Joseph Benedict Connors
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
The Victorian Reappraisal Of The Eighteenth Century written by Joseph Benedict Connors and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with English literature categories.
The Victorian Age
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Author : William Ralph Inge
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-02
The Victorian Age written by William Ralph Inge 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 2015-04-02 with History categories.
This book presents the Rede Lecture for 1922, which was delivered by William Ralph Inge at the University of Cambridge.
The Idea Of The Gentleman In The Victorian Novel
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Author : Robin Gilmour
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-08-05
The Idea Of The Gentleman In The Victorian Novel written by Robin Gilmour and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
First published in 1981, this book represents the first comprehensive examination of Victorian society’s preoccupation with the ‘notion of the gentleman’ and how this was reflected in the literature of the time. Starting with Addison and Lord Chesterfield, the author explores the influence of the gentlemanly ideal on the evolution of the English middle classes, and reveals its central part in the novels of Thackeray, Dickens and Trollope. Combining social and cultural analysis with literary criticism, this book provides new readings of Vanity Fair and Great Expectations, a fresh approach to Trollope, and a detailed account of the various streams that fed into the idea of the gentleman.
Victorian Prelude
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Author : Maurice James Quinlan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Victorian Prelude written by Maurice James Quinlan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Great Britain categories.
The Victorian Eighteenth Century
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Author : B.W. Young
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-10-18
The Victorian Eighteenth Century written by B.W. Young 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 2007-10-18 with History categories.
Exploring the Victorian fascination with the generation of their grandparents and great-grandparents, Brian Young illuminates Victorian intellectual, religious, and cultural history. Examining the work of men such as Thomas Carlyle, the book reveals how the Victorians were haunted by the eighteenth century, both metaphorically and literally.
The Victorian Home Some Aspects Of Nineteenth Century Taste And Manners
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Author : Ralph Dutton
language : en
Publisher: London, Batsford
Release Date : 1954
The Victorian Home Some Aspects Of Nineteenth Century Taste And Manners written by Ralph Dutton and has been published by London, Batsford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Architecture, Domestic categories.
English Furniture Designs Of The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Peter W. Ward-Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
English Furniture Designs Of The Eighteenth Century written by Peter W. Ward-Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.