A large body of nineteenth-century British women's literature highlights the use of verbal illusions, even while its essence remains the premise of inward and personal experience. In the age of commercial distribution, the nonequivalence of personal feeling and printed product is sometimes rendered bitterly, but sometimes that nonequivalence evokes the opulence of artifice. "Colour'd Shadows" is a sequence of arguments about such relationships of material form and material exchange with literary meaning, proceeding from specific examples in the writings and careers of women writers and...
A large body of nineteenth-century British women's literature highlights the use of verbal illusions, even while its essence remains the premise of in...
Ledbetter explores themes and patterns of poetry publication in a variety of women's periodicals published throughout the Victorian era using taste, style and the significance of poetry to advance our understanding of women's lives in the nineteenth century.
Ledbetter explores themes and patterns of poetry publication in a variety of women's periodicals published throughout the Victorian era using taste, s...
Victorian Needlework explores these ubiquitous pastimes--their practice and their meaning in women's lives. Covering the period from 1837-1901, the book looks specifically at the crafts themselves examining quilting, embroidery, crochet, knitting, and more. It discusses required skills and the techniques women used as well as the technological innovations that influenced needlework during this period of rapid industrialization.
This book is unique in its comprehensive treatment of the topic ranging across class, time, and technique. Readers will learn what needlework...
Victorian Needlework explores these ubiquitous pastimes--their practice and their meaning in women's lives. Covering the period from 1837-19...
Terence Allan Hoagwood Kathryn Ledbetter T. Hoagwood
"Colour'd Shadows" interprets nineteenth-century British women writers' works in connection with the material contexts of writing, printing, and publishing, and the book illustrates methods of "reading" the material book for what it reveals about the meanings of the literary work that it embodies.
"Colour'd Shadows" interprets nineteenth-century British women writers' works in connection with the material contexts of writing, printing, and publi...
Ledbetter explores themes and patterns of poetry publication in a variety of women's periodicals published throughout the Victorian era using taste, style and the significance of poetry to advance our understanding of women's lives in the nineteenth century.
Ledbetter explores themes and patterns of poetry publication in a variety of women's periodicals published throughout the Victorian era using taste, s...
