Thinking About Other People In Nineteenth Century British Writing
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Thinking About Other People In Nineteenth Century British Writing
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Author : Adela Pinch
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-08
Thinking About Other People In Nineteenth Century British Writing written by Adela Pinch 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 2010-07-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Nineteenth-century life and literature are full of strange accounts that describe the act of one person thinking about another as an ethically problematic, sometimes even a dangerously powerful thing to do. In this book, Adela Pinch explains why, when, and under what conditions it is possible, or desirable, to believe that thinking about another person could affect them. She explains why nineteenth-century British writers - poets, novelists, philosophers, psychologists, devotees of the occult - were both attracted to and repulsed by radical or substantial notions of purely mental relations between persons, and why they moralized about the practice of thinking about other people in interesting ways. Working at the intersection of literary studies and philosophy, this book both sheds new light on a neglected aspect of Victorian literature and thought, and explores the consequences of, and the value placed on, this strand of thinking about thinking.
The Idea Of Infancy In Nineteenth Century British Poetry
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Author : D.B. Ruderman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-28
The Idea Of Infancy In Nineteenth Century British Poetry written by D.B. Ruderman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book radically refigures the conceptual and formal significance of childhood in nineteenth-century English poetry. By theorizing infancy as a poetics as well as a space of continual beginning, Ruderman shows how it allowed poets access to inchoate, uncanny, and mutable forms of subjectivity and art. While recent historicist studies have documented the "freshness of experience" childhood confers on 19th-century poetry and culture, this book draws on new formalist and psychoanalytic perspectives to rethink familiar concepts such as immortality, the sublime, and the death drive as well as forms and genres such as the pastoral, the ode, and the ballad. Ruderman establishes that infancy emerges as a unique structure of feeling simultaneously with new theories of lyric poetry at the end of the eighteenth century. He then explores the intertwining of poetic experimentation and infancy in Wordsworth, Anna Barbauld, Blake, Coleridge, Erasmus Darwin, Sara Coleridge, Shelley, Matthew Arnold, Tennyson, and Augusta Webster. Each chapter addresses and analyzes a specific moment in a writers’ work, moments of tenderness or mourning, birth or death, physical or mental illness, when infancy is analogized, eulogized, or theorized. Moving between canonical and archival materials, and combining textual and inter-textual reading, metrical and prosodic analysis, and post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the book shows how poetic engagements with infancy anticipate psychoanalytic and phenomenological (i.e. modern) ways of being in the world. Ultimately, Ruderman suggests that it is not so much that we return to infancy as that infancy returns (obsessively, compulsively) in us. This book shows how by tracking changing attitudes towards the idea of infancy, one might also map the emotional, political, and aesthetic terrain of nineteenth-century culture. It will be of interest to scholars in the areas of British romanticism and Victorianism, as well as 19th-century American literature and culture, histories of childhood, and representations of the child from art historical, cultural studies, and literary perspectives. "D. B. Ruderman’s The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry: Romanticism, Subjectivity, Form is an interesting contribution to this field, and it manages to bring a new perspective to our understanding of Romantic-era and Victorian representations of infancy and childhood. ...a supremely exciting book that will be a key work for generations of readers of nineteenth-century poetry." Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck, University of London Victorian Studies (59.4)
Fashionable Fictions And The Currency Of The Nineteenth Century British Novel
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Author : Lauren Gillingham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-05-31
Fashionable Fictions And The Currency Of The Nineteenth Century British Novel written by Lauren Gillingham 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 2023-05-31 with Design categories.
Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.
Sympathetic Realism In Nineteenth Century British Fiction
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Author : Rae Greiner
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2013-01-21
Sympathetic Realism In Nineteenth Century British Fiction written by Rae Greiner and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
British realist novelists of the nineteenth century viewed sympathy not as a feeling but as a form of imaginative thinking useful in constructing their fiction. Rae Greiner proposes that sympathy is integral to the form of the classic nineteenth-century realist novel. Following the philosophy of Adam Smith, Greiner argues that sympathy does more than foster emotional identification with others; it is a way of thinking along with them. By abstracting emotions, feelings turn into detached figures of speech that may be shared. Sympathy in this way produces realism; it is the imaginative process through which the real is substantiated. In Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction Greiner shows how this imaginative process of sympathy is written into three novelistic techniques regularly associated with nineteenth-century fiction: metonymy, free indirect discourse, and realist characterization. She explores the work of sentimentalist philosophers David Hume, Adam Smith, and Jeremy Bentham and realist novelists Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and Henry James.
Everyday Words And The Character Of Prose In Nineteenth Century Britain
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Author : Jonathan Farina
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-14
Everyday Words And The Character Of Prose In Nineteenth Century Britain written by Jonathan Farina 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 2017-09-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the ordinary turns of phrase by which major nineteenth-century British writers created character.
Biopolitics And Animal Species In Nineteenth Century Literature And Science
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Author : Matthew Rowlinson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-02
Biopolitics And Animal Species In Nineteenth Century Literature And Science written by Matthew Rowlinson 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 2024-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Centring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.
Victorian Women Writers And The Other Germany
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Author : Linda Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-09
Victorian Women Writers And The Other Germany written by Linda Hughes 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 2022-06-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shedding new light on the alternative, emancipatory Germany discovered and written about by progressive women writers during the long nineteenth century, this illuminating study uncovers a country that offered a degree of freedom and intellectual agency unheard of in England. Opening with the striking account of Anna Jameson and her friendship with Ottilie von Goethe, Linda K. Hughes shows how cultural differences spurred ten writers' advocacy of progressive ideas and provided fresh materials for publishing careers. Alongside well-known writers – Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Michael Field, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Vernon Lee – this study sheds light on the lesser-known writers Mary and Anna Mary Howitt, Jessie Fothergill, and the important Anglo-Jewish lesbian writer Amy Levy. Armed with their knowledge of the German language, each of these women championed an extraordinarily productive openness to cultural exchange and, by approaching Germany through a female lens, imported an alternative, 'other' Germany into English letters.
Convalescence In The Nineteenth Century Novel
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Author : Hosanna Krienke
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-13
Convalescence In The Nineteenth Century Novel written by Hosanna Krienke 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 2021-05-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
This interdisciplinary study examines how holistic aftercare became a crucial supplement to scientific medicine in nineteenth-century Britain.
Collaborative Writing In The Long Nineteenth Century
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Author : Heather Bozant Witcher
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-17
Collaborative Writing In The Long Nineteenth Century written by Heather Bozant Witcher 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 2022-03-17 with History categories.
Examining social and material dimensions of collaboration, this book reveals the diverse networks of nineteenth-century literary exchange.
Decadent Ecology In British Literature And Art 1860 1910
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Author : Dennis Denisoff
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-12-16
Decadent Ecology In British Literature And Art 1860 1910 written by Dennis Denisoff 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 2021-12-16 with Art categories.
Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and desire in 19th- and early 20th-century decadent literature and art. Combining the environmental humanities with aesthetic, queer and literary theory, this study reveals the interplay of art, eco-paganism and science during the formation of modern ecological and evolutionary thought.