Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Demonstrating that Renaissance interpretive formations concerning economic behaviour were flexible and innovative, this book argues that the notion of self-interest was a coherent locus of interpretation in the early seventeenth century.

This book explicates long-standing literary celebrations of 'India' and 'Indian-ness' by charting a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments (in intellectual, religious and cultural history) where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral, ethical and political questions in the 'West.' Beginning in the early 1800s, South Asians actively seek to occupy and modify spaces created by the scholarly discourses of Orientalism: the study of the East ('Orient') via Western ('European') epistemological frameworks. Tracing the varying fortunes of...

Visionary Dreariness: Readings in Romanticism's Quotidian Sublime undertakes a reconceptualization of the theoretical and experiential framework of the Romantic sublime by shifting the focus from Burke's and Kant's prescriptions of natural vastness and grandeur to the narrower but no less wondrous spaces, objects and experiences of everyday life.

This shift is defined as a descent from mountaintops to an encounter, in William Blake's terms, with 'a World in a Grain of Sand.' The purpose of this book is to sift the literature of the Romantic everyday, both prose and poetry,...

The book provides an original investigation of the double trope as a central area of Dicken's writings in their relation to Victorian culture, using this examination of the double to shed light on such issues as urban space and imperialism in the Victorian era.

This book investigates the portrayal of school life in Victorian literature, which played out a profound cultural debate between the rapid institutionalization of education and the shrinking realm of domestic instruction that was changing the face of Victorian childhood. As schools increasingly mapped out a schema of time schedules, standardized grades or forms, separate disciplines, and standardized hierarchical architectural spaces, childhood development also came to be seen as increasingly regularized and standardized according to clear developmental categories. Elizabeth Gargano...

With the rise of womens studies in the 1980s, however, came a shift in critical perspective. Scholars such as Margaret Homans and Susan Levin...

Oscar Wilde was a consumer modernist. His modernist aesthetics drove him into the heart of the mass culture industries of 1890s London, particularly the journalism and popular theatre industries.

Wilde was extremely active in these industries: as a journalist at the Pall Mall Gazette; as magazine editor of the Women's World; as commentator on dress and design through both of these; and finally as a fabulously popular playwright.

Because of his desire to impact a mass audience, the primary elements of Wilde's consumer aesthetic were superficial...

This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes.

The book also maps the relationship between two trends: the early nineteenth-century efflorescence of published working-class autobiographies (in which working men construct their identities for a broad readership); and a contemporaneous surge of public interest in "the lower orders" that...