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  • Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Narratives of Consumption, 1700D1900

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edición de Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Leer más

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  • Two Cultures?

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    de F. R. Leavis ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    In this first annotated edition of F. R. Leavis' famous critique of C. P. Snow's influential argument about 'the two cultures', Stefan Collini reappraises both its literary tactics and its purpose as cultural criticism. The edition will enable new generations of readers to understand what was at stake in the dispute and to appreciate the enduring relevance of Leavis's attack on the goal of ... Leer más

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  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    de Leah Price ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    Edición de John Richetti ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of ... Leer más

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  • Henry James in Context

    Edición de David McWhirter ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Long misread as a novelist conspicuously lacking in historical consciousness, Henry James has often been viewed as detached from, and uninterested in, the social, political, and material realities of his time. As this volume demonstrates, however, James was acutely responsive not only to his era's changing attitudes toward gender, sexuality, class, and ethnicity, but also to changing conditions of ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period

    Edición de Richard Maxwell, Katie Trumpener ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle

    Edición de Gail Marshall ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siècle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can be seen in action. In this, more than any previous decade, literature was an active and controversial participant within debates over morality, aesthetics, politics and science, as Victorian ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel

    Edición de Lisa Rodensky ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to this thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics (the novel and science, the Victorian Bildungroman) as well as essays on topics often overlooked ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture

    Edición de Juliet John ...
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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 ... Leer más

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  • The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

    Series series British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
    From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, businessmen, travel writers, and philosophers brooded about the merits and demerits of the French language. The decades under consideration encompass a particularly tumultuous period in Anglo-French relations that witnessed the Seven Years' War (1756 ... Leer más

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  • A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture

    Edición de Herbert F. Tucker ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A NEW COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTUREThe Victorian period was a time of rapid cultural change, which resulted in a huge and varied literary output. A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture offers experienced guidance to the literature of nineteenth-century Britain and its social and historical context. This revised and expanded edition comprises contributions from over 30 ... Leer más

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