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Rhetoric And Resistance - The Literary Arts Of Dissent In Nineteenth-Century Britain

by Maeve Adams

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 This book explores how nineteenth-century literature shaped modern democratic dissent through fiction, poetry, and journalism. It traces dissent's literary history from Romantic and Victorian writers to modern movements like #MeToo. By linking literary forms with modern political theory, it offers insights into sustaining democracy today.
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The Brontes And The Fairy Tale

by Jessica Campbell

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 The first comprehensive study devoted to the role of fairy tales and folklore in the work of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell BrontÃ«. It intervenes in debates on genre, literary realism, the history of the fairy tale, and the position of women in the Victorian period.
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Love Among The Poets - The Victorian Poetics Of Intimacy

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 British literature of the Victorian period has always been celebrated for the quality, innovativeness, and sheer profusion of its love poetry. Every major Victorian poet produced notable poems about love. This includes not only canonical figures, such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Christina Rossetti, but also lesser-known poets whose works have only recently become widely recognized and studied, such as Augusta Webster and the many often anonymous working-class poets whose verses filled the pages of popular periodicals. Modern critics have claimed, convincingly, that love poetry is not just one strain of Victorian poetry among many; it is arguably its representative, even definitive, mode. This collection of essays reconsiders the Victorian poetry of love and, just as importantly, of intimacy—a more inclusive term that comprehends not only romance but love for family, for God, for animals, and for language itself. Together the essays seek to define a poetics of intimacy that arose during the Victorian period and that continues today, a set of poetic structures and strategies by which poets can represent and encode feelings of love. There exist many studies of intimate relations (especially marriage) in Victorian novels. But although poetry rivals the novel in the depth and diversity of its treatment of love, marriage, and intimacy, that aspect of Victorian verse has remained underexamined. Love among the Poets offers an expansive critical overview. With its slate of distinguished contributors, including scholars from the US, Canada, Britain, and Australia, the volume is a wide-ranging account of this vital era of poetry and of its importance for the way we continue to write, love, and live today.
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Textile Orientalisms - Cashmere And Paisley Shawls In British Literature And Culture

by Suchitra Choudhury

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 Considering popular literary images of Indian and Paisley shawls as markers of fashion, class, gender, and race during the long nineteenth century, this book shows how Indian imports and influences shaped wider discussions of British literature, art, politics, and empire.
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Children'S Literature In Hitler'S Germany - The Cultural Policy Of National Socialism

by Christa Kamenetsky

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 Kamenetsky shows how Nazis used children's literature to shape a "Nordic Germanic" worldview, intended to strengthen the German folk community, the Fuhrer, and the fatherland by imposing a racial perspective on mankind. Their thus corroded the last remnants of the Weimar Republic's liberal education, while promoting a following for Hitler.
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Moxon Tennyson - A Landmark In Victorian Illustration

by Simon Cooke

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 Cookeâ€™s analysis of this milestone Victorian publication reveals the fluctuating harmony and dissonance between Tennysonâ€™s poems and their illustrations, the technical challenges and occupations involved in its manufacture, its readersâ€™ contemporary reception, and its subsequent influence as a variously revered and reviled publication.
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The Moxon Tennyson - A Landmark In Victorian Illustration

by Simon Cooke

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 Cookeâ€™s analysis of this milestone Victorian publication reveals the fluctuating harmony and dissonance between Tennysonâ€™s poems and their illustrations, the technical challenges and occupations involved in its manufacture, its readersâ€™ contemporary reception, and its subsequent influence as a variously revered and reviled publication.
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Michael Field - Decadent Moderns

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 As â€œMichael Field,â€ Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper conversed with fin-de-siÃ¨cle aesthetic movements and twentieth-century modernism, articulated ideas associated with the New Woman, and expressed queer desire. Essays address Michael Fieldâ€™s engagements with a range of cultural touchstones, highlighting their workâ€™s radicalism and relevance.
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Collaborative Dickens - Authorship And Victorian Christmas Periodicals

by Melisa Klimaszewski

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 In Collaborative Dickens, Melisa Klimaszewski undertakes the first comprehensive study of Dickensâ€™s Christmas numbers. She argues for a revised understanding of Dickens as an editor who, rather than ceaselessly bullying his contributors, sometimes accommodated contrary views and depended upon multivocal narratives for his own success.
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Transported To Botany Bay - Class, National Identity, And The Literary Figure Of The Australian Convict

by Dorice Williams Elliott

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 In analyzing depictions of Australian convicts in novels, broadsides, and first-person accounts, Dorice Williams Elliott demonstrates how Britain linked class, race, and national identity at a key historical moment when it was still negotiating its relationship with its empire.
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Culture And Money In The Nineteenth Century - Abstracting Economics

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 Grounded in literary studies and spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this book explores the relationship between economic concepts and culture in the period, focusing on how economic tropes were abstracted into other discourses in fields as diverse as evolutionary science, business, or literary narrative.
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Plot Thickens - Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction From Dickens To Du Maurier

by Lisa Surridge e Mary Elizabeth Leighton

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 In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image as partners in meaning-making.These
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The Wake Of Wellington - Englishness In 1852

by Peter W. Sinnema

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 This book provides a unique view of how the English viewed themselves as a people following the death of one of their greatest heroes. The pomp and circumstance following the Duke's death, from the commemorative editions to the funeral itself, gave rise to such practices in a way once re-served only for the highest of royalty.
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Drawing On The Victorians - The Palimpsest Of Victorian And Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts

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 Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of imagesâ€"illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemeraâ€"to a mass readership.
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Reading For Health - Medical Narratives And The Nineteenth-Century Novel

by Erika Wright

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 In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health.
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Illustrated Letters Of Richard Doyle To His Father, 1842-1843

by Richard Doyle

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 Before he joined the staff of Punch and designed its iconic front cover, illustrator Richard â€œDickyâ€ Doyle was a young man whose father (political caricaturist John Doyle) charged him with sending a weekly letter, even though they lived under the same roof.
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Victorian Novel Of Adulthood - Plot And Purgatory In Fictions Of Maturity

by Rebecca Rainof

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 In The Victorian Novel of Adulthood, Rebecca Rainof confronts the conventional deference accorded the bildungsroman as the ultimate plot model and quintessential expression of Victorian nation building.
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Forget Me Not - The Rise Of The British Literary Annual, 1823-1835

by Katherine D. Harris

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 Katherine D. Harris assesses the phenomenal rise of the literary annual and its origins in English, German, and French literary forms as well as its social influence on women, its redefinition of the feminine, and its effects on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century print culture.
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Charity And Condescension - Victorian Literature And The Dilemmas Of Philanthropy

by Daniel Siegel

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 Charity and Condescension explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers how the failure of condescension influenced Victorian efforts to reform philanthropy and to construct new narrative models of social conciliation. In the literary work of authors like Dickens, Eliot, and Tennyson, and in the writing of reformers like Octavia Hill and Samuel Barnett, condescension—once a sign of the power and value of charity—became an emblem of charity’s limitations. This book argues that, despite Victorian charity’s reputation for idealistic self-assurance, it frequently doubted its own operations and was driven by creative self-critique. Through sophisticated and original close readings of important Victorian texts, Daniel Siegel shows how these important ideas developed even as England struggled to deal with its growing underclass and an expanding notion of the state’s responsibility to its poor.
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Wake Of Wellington - Englishness In 1852

by Peter W. Sinnema

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 Soldier, hero, and politician, the Duke of Wellington is one of the best-known figures of nineteenth-century England. From his victory at Waterloo over Napoleon in 1815, he rose to become prime minister of his country. But Peter Sinnema finds equal fascination in Victorian England’s response to the duke’s death. The Wake of Wellington considers Wellington’s spectacular funeral pageant in the fall of 1852—an unprecedented event that attracted one and a half million spectators to London—as a threshold event against which the life of the soldier-hero and High Tory statesman could be re-viewed and represented. Canvassing a profuse and dramatically proliferating Wellingtoniana, Sinnema examines the various assumptions behind, and implications of, the Times’s celebrated claim that the Irish-born Wellington "was the very type and model of an Englishman." The dead duke, as Sinnema demonstrates, was repeatedly caught up in interpretive practices that stressed the quasi-symbolic relations between hero and nation. The Wake of Wellington provides a unique view of how in death Wellington and his career were promoted as the consummation of a national destiny intimately bound up with Englishness itself, and with what it meant to be English at midcentury.
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Poetry, Pictures, And Popular Publishing - The Illustrated Gift Book And Victorian Visual Culture, 1855-1875

by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra

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 In Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing eminent Rossetti scholar Lorraine Janzen Kooistra demonstrates the cultural centrality of a neglected artifact: the Victorian illustrated gift book. Turning a critical lens on "drawing-room books" as both material objects and historical events, Kooistra reveals how the gift book’s visual/verbal form mediated "high" and popular art as well as book and periodical publication. A composite text produced by many makers, the poetic gift book was designed for domestic space and a female audience; its mode of publication marks a significant moment in the history of authorship, reading, and publishing. With rigorous attention to the gift book’s aesthetic and ideological features, Kooistra analyzes the contributions of poets, artists, engravers, publishers, and readers and shows how its material form moved poetry into popular culture. Drawing on archival and periodical research, she offers new readings of Eliza Cook, Adelaide Procter, and Jean Ingelow and shows the transatlantic reach of their verses. Boldly resituating Tennyson’s works within the gift-book economy he dominated, Kooistra demonstrates how the conditions of corporate authorship shaped the production and receptionof the laureate’s verses at the peak of his popularity. Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing changes the map of poetry’s place—in all its senses—in Victorian everyday life and consumer culture.
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Anglophone Poetry In Colonial India, 1780-1913 - A Critical Anthology

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 This collection will significantly reshape the understanding of English language literary culture in India.
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Amy Levy - Critical Essays

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 Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation. Embraced by feminist scholars for her radical experimentation with queer poetic voice and her witty journalistic pieces on female independence, she remains controversial for her representations of London Jewry.
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Religious Imaginaries - The Liturgical And Poetic Practices Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, And Adelaide Procter

by Karen Dieleman

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 Explores liturgical practice as formative for how three Victorian women poets imagined the world and their place in it and, consequently, for how they developed their creative and critical religious poetics. This new study rethinks several assumptions in the field: that Victorian women’s faith commitments tended to limit creativity; that the contours of church experiences matter little for understanding religious poetry; and that gender is more significant than liturgy in shaping women’s religious poetry. Exploring the import of bodily experience for spiritual, emotional, and cognitive forms of knowing, Karen Dieleman explains and clarifies the deep orientations of different strands of nineteenth-century Christianity, such as Congregationalism’s high regard for verbal proclamation, Anglicanism’s and Anglo-Catholicism’s valuation of manifestation, and revivalist Roman Catholicism’s recuperation of an affective aesthetic. Looking specifically at Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Adelaide Procter as astute participants in their chosen strands of Christianity, Dieleman reveals the subtle textures of these women’s religious poetry: the different voices, genres, and aesthetics they create in response to their worship experiences. Part recuperation, part reinterpretation, Dieleman’s readings highlight each poet’s innovative religious poetics. Dieleman devotes two chapters to each of the three poets: the first chapter in each pair delineates the poet’s denominational practices and commitments; the second reads the corresponding poetry. Religious Imaginaries has appeal for scholars of Victorian literary criticism and scholars of Victorian religion, supporting its theoretical paradigm by digging deeply into primary sources associated with the actual churches in which the poets worshipped, detailing not only the liturgical practices but also the architectural environments that influenced the worshipper’s formation. By going far beyond descriptions of various doctrinal positions, this research significantly deepens our critical understanding of Victorian Christianity and the culture it influenced.
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