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Cultivating Victorians
Author | : David Wayne Thomas |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2004-01-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812237542 |
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"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
Author | : Sebastian Lecourt |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780192540591 |
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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.
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture
Author | : Juliet John |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2016-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780191082092 |
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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 (on '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 9 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.
Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature
Author | : Philip Steer |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2020-01-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108484428 |
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A transnational study of how settler colonialism remade the Victorian novel and political economy by challenging ideas of British identity.
Music and Victorian Liberalism
Author | : Sarah Collins |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2019-06-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108480055 |
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Examines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture
Author | : Francis O'Gorman |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2010-01-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521886994 |
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Stimulating and informative new essays on many aspects of nineteenth-century culture.
Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture
Author | : Bennett Zon |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107020443 |
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Explores the musical background to Darwinism and the development of the relationship between science and the arts in Victorian Britain.
Literature Journalism and the Vocabularies of Liberalism
Author | : J. Macleod |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230391475 |
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This book examines the impact of the new liberalism on English literary discourse from the fin-de-siècle to World War One. It maps out an extensive network of journalists, men of letters and political theorists, showing how their shared political and literary vocabularies offer new readings of liberalism's relation to an emerging modernist culture.