wyszukanych pozycji: 45
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Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920
ISBN: 9780521022439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siè cle. She argues that as new technologies, such as the telegraph and the telephone, began suffusing the public imagination from the mid-nineteenth century on, they seemed to support the claims of spiritualist mediums. Making unexpected connections between, for instance, speaking on the telephone and speaking to the dead, she examines how psychical research is reflected in the work of Henry James, George DuMaurier and Oscar Wilde among others.
Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siè cle. She argues that as new technologi...
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249,75 zł |
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Voice and the Victorian Storyteller
ISBN: 9780521851930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The nineteenth-century novel has always been regarded as a literary form pre-eminently occupied with the written word, but Ivan Kreilkamp shows it was deeply marked by and engaged with vocal performances and the preservation and representation of speech. He offers a detailed account of the many ways Victorian literature and culture represented the human voice, from political speeches, governesses' tales, shorthand manuals, and staged authorial performances in the early- and mid-century, to mechanically reproducible voice at the end of the century. Through readings of Charlotte Bronte,...
The nineteenth-century novel has always been regarded as a literary form pre-eminently occupied with the written word, but Ivan Kreilkamp shows it was...
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611,75 zł |
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Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry
ISBN: 9780521604222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Matthew Campbell explores the work of four Victorian poets--Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy--in the context of their concern with questions of human agency and will. Through close study of meter, rhyme and rhythm, Campbell reveals how closely, for these poets, questions of poetics are related to issues of psychology, ethics and social change. He goes on to discuss more general questions of poetics, from Milton through Romanticism and into contemporary critical debate, making a major contribution to the current renewal of interest in formalist readings of poetry.
Matthew Campbell explores the work of four Victorian poets--Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy--in the context of their concern with questions of h...
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239,56 zł |
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Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre
ISBN: 9780521026888 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this study Deborah Vlock shows that characters, dialogue, and plots from many of Charles Dickens' novels can be traced to the Victorian stage, and that contemporary readers and writers of fiction were strongly influenced by what they saw at the theater. Through an examination of theatrical and popular-cultural sources--including accounts of noted actors and actresses, and of popular theatrical characters of the time--Vlock uncovers unexpected precursors for some popular Dickensian characters, and throws new light on the conditions in which Dickens' novels were initially received.
In this study Deborah Vlock shows that characters, dialogue, and plots from many of Charles Dickens' novels can be traced to the Victorian stage, and ...
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239,56 zł |
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Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature
ISBN: 9780521025348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book examines the representation of a variety of arts--primarily painting, theater, and music--within the work of major nineteenth-century novelists. It charts a historical progression, from Romantic poetry, through mid-century Realism, to Aestheticism, showing how authors used references to other forms of art to illuminate their own aesthetic ideals. Examining the aesthetic theory and cultural practice of different arts, Alison Byerly demonstrates the importance of artistic representation to the development of Victorian Realism.
This book examines the representation of a variety of arts--primarily painting, theater, and music--within the work of major nineteenth-century noveli...
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239,56 zł |
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Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860
ISBN: 9780521826990 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Arguing that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, Anna Johnson analyzes missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnson reveals how missionaries were caught between imperial and religious interests through an examination of texts published by the largest and most influential nineteenth-century evangelical institution, the London Missionary Society. Texts from Indian, Polynesian, and Australian missions are also examined to highlight their representation of nineteenth-century evangelical activity in relationship to gender, colonialism, and race.
Arguing that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, Anna Johnson analyzes missionary writing under the aegis of the British E...
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611,75 zł |
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Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture
ISBN: 9780521022422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Lucy Hartley examines the emergence of physiognomy as a form of popular science. Physiognomy posited an understanding of the inner meaning of human character from observations of physical appearances, usually facial expressions. Taking the physiognomical teachings of Johann Caspar Lavater as a starting-point, Hartley considers the extent to which attempts to read the mind and judge the character through expression can provide descriptions of human nature.
In Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Lucy Hartley examines the emergence of physiognomy as a form of popular sc...
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254,85 zł |
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Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre
ISBN: 9780521640848 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this study Deborah Vlock shows that characters, dialogue, and plots from many of Charles Dickens' novels can be traced to the Victorian stage, and that contemporary readers and writers of fiction were strongly influenced by what they saw at the theater. Through an examination of theatrical and popular-cultural sources--including accounts of noted actors and actresses, and of popular theatrical characters of the time--Vlock uncovers unexpected precursors for some popular Dickensian characters, and throws new light on the conditions in which Dickens' novels were initially received.
In this study Deborah Vlock shows that characters, dialogue, and plots from many of Charles Dickens' novels can be traced to the Victorian stage, and ...
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611,75 zł |
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The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination
ISBN: 9780521832748 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Gautam Chakravarty explores representations of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 in British popular fiction and historiography and within the wider context of British involvement in India. Drawing on diaries, autobiographies and state papers, Chakravarty demonstrates how narratives of the rebellion were inflected by the concerns of colonial policy and the demands of imperial self-image. The book has a broad interdisciplinary appeal.
Gautam Chakravarty explores representations of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 in British popular fiction and historiography and within the wider context of...
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652,54 zł |
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George Eliot and the British Empire
ISBN: 9780521808453 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this innovative study Nancy Henry introduces new facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. She examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons, and a reader of colonial literature. She highlights the importance of these contexts to our understanding of Eliot's fiction and her position within Victorian culture. The book also reexamines the assumptions of postcolonial criticism about Victorian fiction and its relation to empire.
In this innovative study Nancy Henry introduces new facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century Britis...
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667,83 zł |
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Ruskin's God
ISBN: 9780521574143 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ruskin's God is the first full-length study of the impact that John Ruskin's religion had on his many and varied writings. Part I, "The Author of Modern Painters," covers the first half of his career, when he was an Evangelical Christian and aimed to teach people how to see paintings, buildings and landscapes. In Part II, "Victorian Solomon," Michael Wheeler shows how in his later writings Ruskin, drawing on ancient wisdom, aimed to teach people how to live.
Ruskin's God is the first full-length study of the impact that John Ruskin's religion had on his many and varied writings. Part I, "The Author of Mode...
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611,75 zł |
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Ruskin's God
ISBN: 9780521026819 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ruskin's God is the first full-length study of the impact that John Ruskin's religion had on his many and varied writings. Part I, "The Author of Modern Painters," covers the first half of his career, when he was an Evangelical Christian and aimed to teach people how to see paintings, buildings and landscapes. In Part II, "Victorian Solomon," Michael Wheeler shows how in his later writings Ruskin, drawing on ancient wisdom, aimed to teach people how to live.
Ruskin's God is the first full-length study of the impact that John Ruskin's religion had on his many and varied writings. Part I, "The Author of Mode...
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290,54 zł |
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Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840-1940
ISBN: 9780521024891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Aestheticism and Sexual Parody adds a new and important dimension to the concept of parody as a combative strategy by which sexually marginalized groups undermine the status quo. From W. S. Gilbert's drama, and Vernon Lee and Christopher Isherwood's prose to George Du Maurier's cartoons and Max Beerbohm's caricatures, Dennis Denisoff explores the interactions of late nineteenth and twentieth century parody and aestheticism with the texts of canonical authors such as Alfred Tennyson, Walter Pater, Algernon Swinburne, and Oscar Wilde.
Aestheticism and Sexual Parody adds a new and important dimension to the concept of parody as a combative strategy by which sexually marginalized grou...
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265,04 zł |
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Byron and the Victorians
ISBN: 9780521607087 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Literary-historical account of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on class and sexuality.
Literary-historical account of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on class and sexuality.
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310,93 zł |
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Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels
ISBN: 9780521022071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pamela Gilbert argues that popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. She discusses work by three popular women novelists of the time: M. E. Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and "Ouida." Early and later novels of each writer are interpreted in the context of their reception, showing that attitudes toward fiction drew on Victorian beliefs about health, nationality, class and the body, beliefs that the fictions themselves both resisted and exploited.
Pamela Gilbert argues that popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. She discusses work by three popular wo...
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249,75 zł |
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Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science
ISBN: 9780521527620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America--from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie. Ronald R. Thomas is especially concerned with the authority the literary detective manages to secure through the "devices"--fingerprinting, photography, lie detectors--and the way in which those devices relate to broader questions of cultural authority at decisive moments in the history of the genre.
This is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the new literary genre of dete...
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239,56 zł |
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Rereading Walter Pater
ISBN: 9780521019811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Walter Pater is increasingly being seen as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century culture. His later work is often regarded as an effort to distance himself from his earlier, more controversial texts. William F. Shuter argues that Pater's writings demand a twofold reading. Shuter first offers a conventional account of the texts in the order in which they were written, paying close attention to the changes in Pater's thought and interests over time; he then returns to the earlier texts, showing how the later work serves, paradoxically, as an introduction to the earlier. Drawing extensively on...
Walter Pater is increasingly being seen as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century culture. His later work is often regarded as an effort to distance h...
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239,56 zł |
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Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature
ISBN: 9780521868228 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this innovative study Julia M. Wright addresses rarely asked questions: how and why does one colonized nation write about another? Wright focuses on the way nineteenth-century Irish writers wrote about India, showing how their own experience of colonial subjection and unfulfilled national aspirations informed their work. Their writings express sympathy with the colonised or oppressed people of India in order to unsettle nineteenth-century imperialist stereotypes, and demonstrate their own opposition to the idea and reality of empire. Drawing on Enlightenment philosophy, studies of...
In this innovative study Julia M. Wright addresses rarely asked questions: how and why does one colonized nation write about another? Wright focuses o...
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611,75 zł |
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Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question
ISBN: 9780521641029 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of essays focuses attention on a number of Victorian women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected by literary history, from Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Yonge to Mary Ward, Marie Corelli, "Ouida" and E. Nesbit. Particular emphasis is given to writings concerned with "the woman question." Discussions of marriage, matriarchy and divorce, satire, suffragette writing, writing for children, and links between literature and art illuminate the complex cultural and literary roles, and the engaging contributions, of Victorian women writers.
This collection of essays focuses attention on a number of Victorian women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected by literary hi...
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611,75 zł |
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Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture
ISBN: 9780521863988 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It has long been recognised that the Gothic genre sensationalised beliefs and practices associated with Catholicism. Often, the rhetorical tropes and narrative structures of the Gothic, with its lurid and supernatural plots, were used to argue that both Catholicism and sexual difference were fundamentally alien and threatening to British Protestant culture. Ultimately, however, the Gothic also provided an imaginative space in which unconventional writers from John Henry Newman to Oscar Wilde could articulate an alternative vision of British culture. Patrick O'Malley charts these developments...
It has long been recognised that the Gothic genre sensationalised beliefs and practices associated with Catholicism. Often, the rhetorical tropes and ...
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769,80 zł |