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Reconnecting Aestheticism And Modernism - Continuities, Revisions, Speculations

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 This book offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. Acknowledging both movementsâ€™ passion for the â€˜newâ€™, it goes beyond the alleged divide between Modernism and its predecessors. Essays interrogate connections, continuities, and intersections, revealing the working processes of cultural and aesthetic change so as to reassess the v
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Aestheticism And The Marriage Market In Victorian Popular Fiction - The Art Of Female Beauty

by Kirby-Jane Hallum

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 Based on close readings of five Victorian novels, Hallum presents an original study of the interaction between popular fiction, the marriage market and the aesthetic movement. She uses the texts to trace the development of aestheticism, examining the differences between the authors, including their approach, style and gender. Wider issues concer
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The Gothic Novel And The Stage - Romantic Appropriations

by Francesca Saggini

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 In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements of the theatre provided inspiration to novelists.
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William Clark Russell And The Victorian Nautical Novel - Gender, Genre And The Marketplace

by Andrew Nash

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 William Clark Russell wrote more than forty nautical novels. Immensely popular in their time, his works were admired by contemporary writers, such as Conan Doyle, Stevenson and Meredith, while Swinburne, considered him 'the greatest master of the sea, living or dead'. Based on extensive archival research, Nash explores this remarkable career.
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Railway Reading And Late-Victorian Literary Series

by Paul Raphael Rooney

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 Focusing on the publisherâ€™s series, this book explores the leading audience demographics in the late-Victorian railway with particular focus on key variables like socio-economic status, gender, and cultural aptitude. It examines three leading examples of late-Victorian series, which sought to satisfy railway passengersâ€™ need for literary reading
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Rethinking G.K. Chesterton And Literary Modernism - Parody, Performance, And Popular Culture

by Michael Shallcross

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 This book comprehensively rethinks the relationship between G.K. Chesterton and a range of key literary modernists. When Chesterton and modernism have previously been considered in relation to one another, the dynamic has typically been conceived as one of mutual hostility, grounded in Chestertonâ€™s advocacy of popular culture and modernist liter
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Virginia Woolfâ€™S Good Housekeeping Essays

by Christine (University Paul-Valery Montpellier, France) Reynier

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 This first book-length study of what Woolf calls â€˜little articlesâ€™ proposes to reassess the commissioned essays and read them in a chronological sequence in their original context as well as in the larger context of Woolfâ€™s work.
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Railway Reading And Late-Victorian Literary Series

by Paul Raphael Rooney

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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.
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Railway Reading And Late-Victorian Literary Series

by Paul Raphael Rooney

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 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.
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Virginia Woolf'S Good Housekeeping Essays

by Christine Reynier

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 This first book-length study of what Woolf calls â€˜little articlesâ€™ proposes to reassess the commissioned essays and read them in a chronological sequence in their original context as well as in the larger context of Woolfâ€™s work.
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Virginia Woolf'S Good Housekeeping Essays

by Christine Reynier

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 This first book-length study of what Woolf calls â€˜little articlesâ€™ proposes to reassess the commissioned essays and read them in a chronological sequence in their original context as well as in the larger context of Woolfâ€™s work.
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Virginia Woolfâ€™S Good Housekeeping Essays

by Christine (University Paul-Valery Montpellier, France) Reynier

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 This first book-length study of what Woolf calls â€˜little articlesâ€™ proposes to reassess the commissioned essays and read them in a chronological sequence in their original context as well as in the larger context of Woolfâ€™s work.
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Rethinking G.K. Chesterton And Literary Modernism - Parody, Performance, And Popular Culture

by Michael Shallcross

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 This book comprehensively rethinks the relationship between G.K. Chesterton and a range of key literary modernists. When Chesterton and modernism have previously been considered in relation to one another, the dynamic has typically been conceived as one of mutual hostility, grounded in Chesterton’s advocacy of popular culture and modernist literature’s appeal to an aesthetic elite. In setting out to challenge this binary narrative, Shallcross establishes for the first time the depth and ambivalence of Chesterton’s engagement with modernism, as well as the reciprocal fascination of leading modernist writers with Chesterton’s fiction and thought. Shallcross argues that this dynamic was defined by various forms of parody and performance, and that these histrionic expressions of cultural play not only suffused the era, but found particular embodiment in Chesterton’s public persona. This reading not only enables a far-reaching reassessment of Chesterton’s corpus, but also produces a framework through which to re-evaluate the creative and critical projects of a host of modernist writers—most sustainedly, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and Ezra Pound—through the prism of Chesterton''s disruptive presence. The result is an innovative study of the literary performance of popular and ‘high’ culture in early twentieth-century Britain, which adds a valuable new perspective to continuing critical debates on the parameters of modernism.
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Gothic Novel And The Stage - Romantic Appropriations

by Francesca Saggini

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 In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements of the theatre provided inspiration to novelists.
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Gothic Novel And The Stage - Romantic Appropriations

by Francesca Saggini

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements of the theatre provided inspiration to novelists.
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Reconnecting Aestheticism And Modernism - Continuities, Revisions, Speculations

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 Charting the period that extends from the 1860s to the 1940s, this volume offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. By acknowledging that both movements had a passion for the ‘new’, it goes beyond the alleged divide between Modernism and its predecessors. Rather than reading the modernist credo, ‘Make it New!’, as a desire to break away from the past, the authors of this book suggest reading it as a continuation and a reappropriation of the spirit of the ‘New’ that characterizes Aestheticism. Basing their arguments on recent reassessments of Aestheticism and Modernism and their articulation, contributors take up the challenge of interrogating the connections, continuities, and intersections between the two movements, thus revealing the working processes of cultural and aesthetic change so as to reassess the value of the new for each. Attending to well-known writers such as Waugh, Woolf, Richardson, Eliot, Pound, Ford, Symons, Wilde, and Hopkins, as well as to hitherto neglected figures such as Lucas Malet, L.S. Gibbon, Leonard Woolf, or George Egerton, they revise assumptions about Aestheticism and Modernism and their very definitions. This collection brings together international scholars specializing in Aestheticism or Modernism who push their analyses beyond their strict period of expertise and take both movements into account through exciting approaches that borrow from aesthetics, philosophy, or economics. The volume proposes a corrective to the traditional narratives of the history of Aestheticism and Modernism, revitalizing definitions of these movements and revealing new directions in aestheticist and modernist studies.
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Reconnecting Aestheticism And Modernism - Continuities, Revisions, Speculations

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 Charting the period that extends from the 1860s to the 1940s, this volume offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. By acknowledging that both movements had a passion for the ‘new’, it goes beyond the alleged divide between Modernism and its predecessors. Rather than reading the modernist credo, ‘Make it New!’, as a desire to break away from the past, the authors of this book suggest reading it as a continuation and a reappropriation of the spirit of the ‘New’ that characterizes Aestheticism. Basing their arguments on recent reassessments of Aestheticism and Modernism and their articulation, contributors take up the challenge of interrogating the connections, continuities, and intersections between the two movements, thus revealing the working processes of cultural and aesthetic change so as to reassess the value of the new for each. Attending to well-known writers such as Waugh, Woolf, Richardson, Eliot, Pound, Ford, Symons, Wilde, and Hopkins, as well as to hitherto neglected figures such as Lucas Malet, L.S. Gibbon, Leonard Woolf, or George Egerton, they revise assumptions about Aestheticism and Modernism and their very definitions. This collection brings together international scholars specializing in Aestheticism or Modernism who push their analyses beyond their strict period of expertise and take both movements into account through exciting approaches that borrow from aesthetics, philosophy, or economics. The volume proposes a corrective to the traditional narratives of the history of Aestheticism and Modernism, revitalizing definitions of these movements and revealing new directions in aestheticist and modernist studies.
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Women'S University Fiction, 1880â€“1945

by Anna Bogen

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 The rise of the middle classes brought a sharp increase in the number of young men and women able to attend university. Developing in the wake of this increase, the university novel often centred on male undergraduates at either Oxford or Cambridge. Bogen argues that an analysis of the lesser known female narratives can provide new insights.
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Comedy And The Feminine Middlebrow Novel - Elizabeth Von Arnim And Elizabeth Taylor

by Erica Brown

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 Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor wrote witty and entertaining novels about the domestic lives of middle-class women. Widely read and enjoyed, their work was often dismissed as middlebrow. Brown argues their skilful use of comedy and irony provided the receptive reader with subversive commentary on the cruelties and disappointments of life.
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Fashioning The Silver Fork Novel

by Cheryl A Wilson

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 Fashion and celebrity may be twenty-first century obsessions, but they were also key concepts in Regency culture. Both celebrated and condemned for their popularity, silver fork novels were extremely prolific during this period. This study looks at the social and literary impact of this significant genre.
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John Buchan And The Idea Of Modernity

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 Considered a quintessentially 'popular' author, John Buchan was a writer of fiction, journalism, philosophy and Scottish history. By examining his engagement with empire, psychoanalysis and propaganda, the contributors to this volume place Buchan at the centre of the debate between popular culture and the modernist elite.
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The Business Of The Novel - Economics, Aesthetics And The Case Of Middlemarch

by Simon R Frost

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 This study shows how aesthetics and economics have been combined in a great work of literature. Frost examines the history of Middlemarchâ€™s composition and publication within the context of Victorian demand, then goes on to consider the interpretation, reception and consumption of the book.
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Modernism, Middlebrow And The Literary Canon - The Modern Library Series, 1917â€“1955

by Lise Jaillant

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 In the 1920s and 1930s the Modern Library series began to bring out cheap editions of modernist works. Jaillant provides a thorough analysis of the series' mix of highbrow and popular literature and argues that the availability and low cost of modernist works helped to expand modernism's influence as a literary movement.
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Aestheticism And The Marriage Market In Victorian Popular Fiction - The Art Of Female Beauty

by Kirby-Jane Hallum

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 Based on close readings of five Victorian novels, Hallum presents an original study of the interaction between popular fiction, the marriage market and the aesthetic movement. She uses the texts to trace the development of aestheticism, examining the differences between the authors, including their approach, style and gender.
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