"The twelve essays in Modernity and Mass Culture provide a broad and captivating overview of what has come to be known as culture studies." --Texas Journal
This is a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship among industrialization, democracy, and art in the 20th century. U.S. and British scholars discuss the interaction of "high," "popular," and "mass" art, showing how Western culture as a whole is affected by the transition from the modern to the postmodern era.
"The twelve essays in Modernity and Mass Culture provide a broad and captivating overview of what has come to be known as culture studies." --Texas...
" Brantlinger's] writing is admirably lucid, his knowledge impressive and his thesis a welcome reminder of the class bias that so often accompanies denunciations of popular fiction." --Publishers Weekly
"Brantlinger is adept at discussing both the fiction itself and the social environment in which that fiction was produced and disseminated. He brings to his study a thorough knowledge of traditional and contemporary scholarship, which results in an important scholarly book on Victorian fiction and its production." --Choice
"Timely, scrupulously researched, thoroughly...
" Brantlinger's] writing is admirably lucid, his knowledge impressive and his thesis a welcome reminder of the class bias that so often accompanies...
"Cultural Studies" has emerged in British and American higher education as a movement that challenges the traditional humanities and social science disciplines. Influenced by the New Left, feminism, and poststructualist literary theory, cultural studies seeks to analyze everday life and the social construction of "subjectivities." Crusoe's Footprints encompasses the movement of many colleges and universities in the 1960s towards such interdisciplinary and "radical" programs as American Studies, Women's Studies, and Afro-American Studies. Brantlinger...
"Cultural Studies" has emerged in British and American higher education as a movement that challenges the traditional humanities and social science di...
Who killed Shakespeare? asks the world outside the university, convinced that something's rotten in the state of academia. Have English professors really tossed out the Bard to take up theory instead? After public relations disasters surrounding 'political correctness', deconstruction, and the social text hoax it seems that everyone - politicians, parents, and the press - has something to say about what's wrong with universities. Patrick Brantlinger argues that critiques of the university in ruins are misdirected. Shakespeare, English, and the humanities in general are all being marginalized...
Who killed Shakespeare? asks the world outside the university, convinced that something's rotten in the state of academia. Have English professors rea...
Who killed Shakespeare? asks the world outside the university, convinced that something's rotten in the state of academia. Have English professors really tossed out the Bard to take up theory instead? After public relations disasters surrounding 'political correctness', deconstruction, and the social text hoax it seems that everyone - politicians, parents, and the press - has something to say about what's wrong with universities. Patrick Brantlinger argues that critiques of the university in ruins are misdirected. Shakespeare, English, and the humanities in general are all being marginalized...
Who killed Shakespeare? asks the world outside the university, convinced that something's rotten in the state of academia. Have English professors rea...
In this ambitious book, Patrick Brantlinger offers a cultural history of Great Britain focused on the concept of 'public credit' from the 1694 founding of the Bank of England to the present. He draws on literary texts ranging from Augustan satire such as 'Gulliver's Travels' to postmodern satire such as Martin Amis's Money: A suicide Note, all of which critique the misrecognition of public credit as wealth.
In this ambitious book, Patrick Brantlinger offers a cultural history of Great Britain focused on the concept of 'public credit' from the 1694 foundin...
Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, accelerants of the downfall of other races after contact with white civilization. Brantlinger finds at the heart of this belief the stereotype of the self-exterminating savage, or the view that "savagery" is a sufficient explanation for the ultimate disappearance of "savages" from the grand theater of world...
Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed soo...
A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal importance to early and mid-Victorian writers. Patrick Brantlinger asserts that the Empire was central to British culture as a source of ideological and artistic energy, both supported by and lending support to widespread belief in racial superiority, the need to transform "savagery"...
A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Vic...
The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901.
Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published during the Victorian period.
Explains issues such as Victorian religions, class structure, and Darwinism to those who are unfamiliar with them.
Comprises original, accessible chapters written by renowned and emerging scholars in the field of Victorian studies.
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The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1...
..". important and admirable... " --Victorian Studies
..". presents a good picture of many currents of thought that flowed through the Victorian mind, particularly those of a religious nature."--History
"The overall standard of these essays is very high.... should win a deserved place upon our students' reading lists." --ISIS
An outgrowth of a special issue of Victorian Studies, this volume has been expanded to include additional essays which broaden and enrich the collection, including essays on physics, mathematics, chemistry, economics, anthropology, and biology and...
..". important and admirable... " --Victorian Studies
..". presents a good picture of many currents of thought that flowed through the Victor...
