The Rise Of The Office Clerk In Literary Culture 1880 1939
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The Rise of the Office Clerk in Literary Culture 1880 1939
Author | : J. Wild |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2006-01-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230514669 |
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This innovative study investigates the emergence and impact of the lower middle class on British print culture through the figure of the office clerk. This interdisciplinary work offers important insights into a previously neglected area of social and book history, and explores key works by George Gissing, Forster and JB Priestley.
London Clerical Workers 1880 1914
Author | : Michael Heller |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781317323709 |
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This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period.
Modernist Work
Author | : John Attridge,Helen Rydstrand |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781501344022 |
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Through a wide-ranging selection of essays representing a variety of different media, national contexts and critical approaches, this volume provides a broad overview of the idea of work in modernism, considered in its aesthetic, theoretical, historical and political dimensions. Several individual chapters discuss canonical figures, including Richard Strauss, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and Gertrude Stein, but Modernist Work also addresses contexts that are chronologically and geographically foreign to the main stream of modernist studies, such as Swedish proletarian writing, Haitian nationalism and South African inheritors of Dada. Prominent historical themes include the ideas of class, revolution and the changing nature of women's work, while more conceptual chapters explore topics including autonomy, inheritance, intention, failure and intimacy. Modernist Work investigates an important but relatively neglected topic in modernist studies, demonstrating the central relevance of the concept of “work” to a diverse selection of writers and artists and opening up pathways for future research.
Middlebrow Literary Cultures
Author | : E. Brown,M. Grover |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2011-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230354647 |
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The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, is the site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to this day. In short, the middlebrow matters . These essays examine the prejudices and aspirations at work in the 'battle of the brows', and show that cultural value is always relative and situational.
Literature in the Public Service
Author | : C. Sullivan |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137287427 |
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How can one make state administrative systems interesting, embody an abstract public ethos and give heroism to homogeneity? The discipline of literature and bureaucracy dismisses Weber's 'neurocrat'. Milton, Trollope and Hare are case studies on implementing the 'what if' visions literature explored during a period of great change in public service
The Masculine Middlebrow 1880 1950
Author | : K. Macdonald |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2011-10-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230316577 |
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Who was the early twentieth-century masculine middlebrow reader? How did his reading choices respond to his environment? This book looks at British middlebrow writing and reading from the late Victorian period to the 1950s and examines the masculine reader and author, and how they challenged feminine middlebrow and literary modernism.
The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic
Author | : Clive Bloom |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 867 |
Release | : 2021-02-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783030408664 |
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By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic—the literature of disturbance and uncertainty—now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany and even Russia. From 1830 to 1914, the period covered by this volume, we saw the emergence of the greats of Gothic literature and the supernatural from Edgar Allan Poe to Emily Bronte, from Sheridan Le Fanu to Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Contributors also examine the fin-de-siècle dreamers of decadence such as Arthur Machen, M P Shiel and Vernon Lee and their obsession with the occult, folklore, spiritualism, revenants, ghostly apparitions and cosmic annihilation. This volume explores the period through the prism of architectural history, urban studies, feminism, 'hauntology' and much more. 'Horror', as Poe teaches us, 'is the soul of the plot'.
Walter Besant
Author | : Kevin A. Morrison |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2019-11-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781789624533 |
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In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britain’s most lionized living novelists.Today he is comparatively unknown.Bringing together literary critics and book historians, as well as social and cultural historians, this volume provides a major reassessment of Besant.