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How to Read the Victorian Novel
Author | : George Levine |
Publsiher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105124080156 |
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How to Read the Victorian Novel unpicks our comfortable expectations of the genre to fully explore just how unfamiliar its familiarity is: emphasizing the complexity and contradictions in Victorian writers' attempts to deal with a world heading into modernity at full speed.
The Feeling of Reading
Author | : Rachel Ablow |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780472051076 |
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The first collection of criticism devoted to the problem of reading in Victorian literature
Reading Victorian Literature
Author | : Wolfreys Julian Wolfreys |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 619 |
Release | : 2019-08-28 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 9781474448000 |
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A Festschrift honouring J. Hillis Miller and his contribution to Victorian Studies and nineteenth-century criticismProvides stheoretically informed critical essays on nineteenth-century and Victorian literature, by major internationally recognized scholarsChapters provide detailed close readings of the work of J Hillis Miller, Thomas Hardy, Walter Pater, William Michael Rossetti, George Gissing, Charles Dickens, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Joseph ConradShowcases a major new essay by J Hillis Miller, as well as a previously unpublished interview with MillerReading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad. At the same time, the assembled group of internationally recognised scholars engages with Miller's work, influence and significance in the study of that era. The volume includes original work by Miller and interviews with him.
The House of Fiction
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Author | : Henry James |
Publsiher | : London : Mercury Books |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9080040282 |
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Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature
Author | : Patrick Fessenbecker |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-05-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781474460620 |
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Argues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content.
Railway Reading and Late Victorian Literary Series
Author | : Paul Raphael Rooney |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2018-05-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781351965835 |
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The railway was one of the principal Victorian spaces of reading. This book spotlights one of the leading audience demographics in this late-Victorian market: the newly empowered readers of the expanding middle class. The transactions in which late-Victorian readers acquired the books read whilst travelling are reconstructed by exploring the leading determinants of consumers’ purchasing choices at the railway station bookstalls selling books intended for reading in this zone. This exploration concentrates on the impact of forces like the input of the staff running the bookstalls and the commercial environment in which consumers made their purchases. At the center of this study is a leading (and still relatively under-examined) genre of Victorian print culture circulating in this reading space― the series. Rooney examines three leading examples of late-Victorian series, which sought to satisfy railway passengers’ need for literary reading matter. Many of the period’s principal authors and literary genres featured in their lists. Each venture is representative of one of the three main pricing tiers of series publishing. Employing an eclectic methodological framework combining cultural studies and book history approaches with concepts from the new humanities, the reading experiences furnished by the light fiction of these series are reconstructed. This study reflects the recent growth in scholarship on historical readership, the expansion in the canon of Victorian popular literature, and the broader material turn in nineteenth-century studies.
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Author | : Leah Price |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2012-04-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781400842186 |
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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science
Author | : David Sweeney Coombs |
Publsiher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2019-11-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813943435 |
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The nineteenth-century sciences cleaved sensory experience into two separate realms: the bodily physics of sensation and the mental activity of perception. This division into two discrete categories was foundational to Victorian physics, physiology, and experimental psychology. As David Sweeney Coombs reveals, however, it was equally important to Victorian novelists, aesthetes, and critics, for whom the distinction between sensation and perception promised the key to understanding literature’s seemingly magical power to conjure up tastes, sights, touches, and sounds from the austere medium of print. In Victorian literature, science, and philosophy, the parallel between reading and perceiving gave rise to momentous debates about description as a mode of knowledge as well as how, and even whether, reading about the world differs from experiencing it firsthand. Examining novels and art criticism by George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Vernon Lee, and Walter Pater alongside scientific works by Hermann von Helmholtz, William James, and others, this book shows how Victorian literature offers us ways not just to touch but to grapple with the material realities that Clifford Geertz called the "hard surfaces of life."