Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.Stiles PART I: CATALYSTS Howled Out of the Country: Wilkie Collins and H.G. Wells Retry David Ferrier; L.Otis Our Lady of Darkness: Decadent Arts and the Magnetic Sleep of...

This study sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating writing for the stage during an era of censorship, the monopolistic royal theatres, and an emerging plebeian public sphere of drama located in London's new playhouses and "spouting...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2,7, Universität Bremen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Roman "Unterm Rad" von Hermann Hesse und konzentriert sich auf die...

This book explores the significance of the now-lost pavilion built in the Buckingham Palace Gardens in the time of Queen Victoria for understanding experiments in British art and architecture at the outset of the Victorian era. It introduces the curious...

This study explores the role of fiction in the social production of the West Central district of London in the nineteenth century. It tells a new history of the novel from a local geographical perspective, tracing developments in the form as it engaged...

This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot's works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot - whose novelistic career paralleled the...

This remarkable study of the constructive and ultimately canon-forming relationship between satiric and Romantic modes of writing from 1760 to 1832 provides us with a new understanding of the historical development of Romanticism as a literary movement...

By comparison of late nineteenth-century ghost stories between China and Britain, this monograph traces the entangled dynamics between ghost story writing, history-making, and the moulding of a gendered self.Associated with times of anxiety, groups under...

This 50th anniversary reissue of G.R. Thompson's Poe's Fiction makes available for Poe scholars, students, and aficionados the groundbreaking work that changed the course of Poe studies. Written in highly accessible prose, the book reads as fresh today...

This book makes an important contribution to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and print culture in the Atlantic world. The collection identifies the ways in which historically-situated but malleable...

Drawing evidence from transatlantic literary texts of childhood as well as from nineteenth and early twentieth century children's and family card, board, and parlor games and games manuals, Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of...

Providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of scholarship on nineteenth-century British periodicals, this volume surveys the current state of research and offers researchers an in-depth examination of contemporary methodologies, including...

General Editor's Preface - Preface - List of Abbreviations - A HARDY CHRONOLOGY - Principal Sources - Index

Note on Editions, Abbreviations, References and Italics List of Abbreviations Introduction: Memory, History, and George Eliot Narrative and 'Immovable Roots': Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede Sources of the Self and Moral Agency in The Lifted Veil,...

Acknowledgements (as the Crisis of Credit) - Introduction: 'The Outside as Inside': Echo's(') Narrative Domain - 'The Persistence of the Vocalic': Scott and the Early Strategies of Accommodation - 'A-Filiative Families and Subversive Reproduction':...

Acknowledgements - Preface - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; P.W.Martin & R.Jarvis - A Modern Electra: Matricide in the Writings of Mary and Charles Lamb; J.Aaron - Editing the Waverley Novels; J.H.Alexander & P.Garside - Reviewing Romanticism: The...

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Hardy and the Conjurors - Desperate Remedies (1871): Making the Trojan Horse - Far from the Madding Crowd (1874): Priapus in Arcadia - The Hand of Ethelberta (1875): The Writer's Contract - The Return of the Native...

General Editor's Preface Introduction List of Abbreviations The Poe Family Map of Atlantic Seaboard, United States AN EDGAR ALLAN POE CHRONOLOGY The Poe Circle Chronology of Poe's Works Sources Index

General Editor's Preface - Introduction - A Dickens Chronology - Sources - Genealogical Table - Index

List of Plates Preface to Volume 2 Letters The Moonstone to the Death of his Mother (1866-1868) Martha and the American Triumph (1869-February 1874) Domesticity (March 1874-1879) Illness, Work, and Family (1880-1885) Letters to 'Nannie' (1885-1888)...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Didaktik für das Fach Deutsch - Literatur, Werke, Note: 3,0, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germanistisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Bertolt Brecht, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Bertolt Brecht...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1966 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: Verbale Beurteilung, Universität zu Köln, Veranstaltung: Proseminar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Hugo von Hofmannsthal und Stefan George lösen sich von der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2,0, Universität Mannheim (Philosophische Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: „Paragraphenwerk. Kafka Roman Der Process", Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ziel...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,70, Universität Kassel (Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Dem Autor auf der Spur, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird...

Es gibt eine Vorgeschichte des Ehebruchromans, der in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts zu einem gesamteuropäischen literarischen Paradigma wurde. Im Zuge der Französischen Revolution entsteht eine säkulare Ehegesetzgebung, die einen metaphorischen...

In diesem Buch analysiert Edvin Cami Polaritäten wie Ost und West, Islam und Christentum, Religion und Säkularität, Eigenheit und Fremdheit, Konflikt und Begegnung im literarischen Schaffen Goethes. Über die Gedichtsammlung West-östlicher Divan hinaus...

Master's Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Trier, language: English, abstract: This thesis seeks to expand on this topic and will try to give another input to the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Sonstiges, Note: 1,7, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der arbeitsscheue Dieb, die geheimnisvolle Wahrsagerin, die verführerische Tänzerin, bunte Planwagen und Musik...

At a time when biblical authority was under challenge from the Higher Criticism and evolutionary science, 'what providence meant' was the most keenly contested of questions. This book takes up the controversial subject of Dickens and religion, and offers...

For over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children's Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the...

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Keats's 'Posthumous Life': Corpus and Body Keats, Sexuality, and Tennyson's Reticence 'Curled Minion': Keats and Arnold's Dandyism 'The Sordidness of Things': Keats, Hopkins, and the Landscapes of...

General Editor's Preface - Introduction - List of Abbreviations - A SHELLEY CHRONOLOGY - The Shelley Circle - Select Bibliography - Index

Preface - Acknowledgements - Author's Note - Introduction - Early Influences: 'A History of the Jews' - Frankenstein and the 'Good Cause' - 'Connected in a Thousand Ways': Mary Shelley and Lord Byron - That Masterpiece of His Malice: Valperge - 'This...

Notes on the Contributors - Preface - Introduction: Coming and Going in Victorian Literature; R.Barreca - 'You did not come': Absence, Death and Eroticism in Tess; J.Kincaid - Loving You All Ways: Vamps, Vampires, Necrophiles and Necrofilles in...

Acknowledgements - Introduction to the Second Edition - Introduction to the First Edition - Jane Eyre - The Professor - Shirley - Villette - The Structure of Charlotte Bronte's Fiction - Wuthering Heights - Anne Bronte - Notes - Index

Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: the editors - 'Hieroglyphical Truth' in Sartor Resartus: Carlyle and the Language of Parable; J.Hillis Miller - Elegant Jeremiahs: The Genre of the Victorian Sage; G.P.Landow - Prodigals and Prodigies: Trollope's...

Preface - Critical Introduction - Textual Introduction - Editorial Symbols - Literary Notes 1 - Notes - Index

List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Editorial Procedures - A Note on the Illustrations - THE LIFE AND WORK OF THOMAS HARDY - Early Life and Architecture - Novels to Illness - Illness, Novels and Italy - Between Town and Country -...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 1,3, Universität Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der Arbeit geht es um Rassismus in Kinderliteratur. Hierfür analysiert der Autor das Kinderbuch Jim...