Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction
Title | Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Sussman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 275 |
Release | 2021-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108832946 |
Offers a deep history of style in theory and practice that transforms our understanding of style in the novel.
Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction
Title | Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Sussman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 275 |
Release | 2021-07-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108967248 |
An innovative approach to literary stylistic analysis that targets students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture through provocative interpretations of style in Victorian novels and succinct revaluations of major figures in rhetoric, criticism, and philosophy.
On Style in Victorian Fiction
Title | On Style in Victorian Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Tyler |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 329 |
Release | 2022-01-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108427510 |
Demonstrates the importance of attending to literary style in Victorian novels and provides exemplary readings of major novelists.
On Style in Victorian Fiction
Title | On Style in Victorian Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Tyler |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 329 |
Release | 2022-01-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108583490 |
Suited to students and scholars alike, On Style in Victorian Fiction provides a timely and passionate argument for attending to the style of Victorian fiction as inseparable from meaning. Including a broad scope of major novelists from this period, the volume is indispensable for anyone working on Victorian literature.
Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel
Title | Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Gao |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 237 |
Release | 2021-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108944892 |
Pondering the town he had invented in his novels, Anthony Trollope had 'so realised the place, and the people, and the facts' of Barset that 'the pavement of the city ways are familiar to my footsteps'. After his novels end, William Thackeray wonders where his characters now live, and misses their conversation. How can we understand the novel as a form of artificial reality? Timothy Gao proposes a history of virtual realities, stemming from the imaginary worlds created by novelists like Trollope, Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, and Charles Dickens. Departing from established historical or didactic understandings of Victorian fiction, Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel recovers the period's fascination with imagined places, people, and facts. This text provides a short history of virtual experiences in literature, four studies of major novelists, and an innovative approach for scholars and students to interpret realist fictions and fictional realities from before the digital age. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Title | Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Hosanna Krienke |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 245 |
Release | 2021-05-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108957064 |
Victorian Britain witnessed a resurgence of traditional convalescent caregiving. In the face of a hectic modern existence, nineteenth-century thinkers argued that all medical patients desperately required a lengthy, meandering period of recovery. Various reformers worked to extend the benefits of holistic recuperative care to seemingly unlikely groups: working-class hospital patients, insane asylum inmates, even low-ranking soldiers across the British Empire. Hosanna Krienke offers the first sustained scholarly assessment of nineteenth-century convalescent culture, revealing how interpersonal post-acute care was touted as a critical supplement to modern scientific medicine. As a method of caregiving intended to alleviate both physical and social ills, convalescence united patients of disparate social classes, disease categories, and degrees of impairment. Ultimately, this study demonstrates how novels from Bleak House to The Secret Garden draw on the unhurried timescale of convalescence as an ethical paradigm, training readers to value unfolding narratives apart from their ultimate resolutions.
Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature
Title | Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Steer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2020-01-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108484425 |
A transnational study of how settler colonialism remade the Victorian novel and political economy by challenging ideas of British identity.