Examines how reading is represented within the novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. This book shows that female characters are often active and critical readers, and develop a range of strategies for reading both texts and the world around them.
Examines how reading is represented within the novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. This book shows that female characters are ...
What is a literary text? How have 'experimental' works expanded the boundaries of the literary, and what are the effects of new media on literary criticism? In this age of gadgets, widgets, twitters and blogs, Sony Readers and Apple iPads, the boundaries of what we consider literature and narrative have been blurred beyond recognition. The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature maps this expansive and diverse field, looking at: the history of the term and the debate on what constitutes 'experimental literature' the impact of new media on literature, including digital literacies and...
What is a literary text? How have 'experimental' works expanded the boundaries of the literary, and what are the effects of new media on literary crit...
What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging, but never more so than in our age of digital media and social networking, when the very category of the literary is coming under intense pressure. How will literature reconfigure itself in the future? The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature maps this expansive and multifaceted field, with essays on: the history of literary experiment from the beginning of the twentieth century...
What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Lit...
Beginning with the premise that the portrait was undergoing a shift in both form and function during the Romantic age, Joe Bray examines how these changes are reflected in the fiction of writers such as Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Hamilton and Amelia Opie. Bray considers portraiture in a broad sense as encompassing caricature and the miniature, as well as the classic portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds and others. He argues that the portrait in fiction often functions not as a transparent index to character or as a means of producing a straightforward likeness, but...
Beginning with the premise that the portrait was undergoing a shift in both form and function during the Romantic age, Joe Bray examines how these cha...
