Download e-book for iPad: The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (Cambridge by Deirdre David

By Deirdre David
ISBN-10: 0521641500
ISBN-13: 9780521641500
ISBN-10: 0521646197
ISBN-13: 9780521646192
By Deirdre David
ISBN-10: 0521641500
ISBN-13: 9780521641500
ISBN-10: 0521646197
ISBN-13: 9780521646192
By Simon Goldhill
ISBN-10: 0691149844
ISBN-13: 9780691149844
How did the Victorians have interaction with the traditional global? Victorian tradition and Classical Antiquity is an excellent exploration of the way the traditional worlds of Greece and Rome encouraged Victorian tradition. via Victorian paintings, opera, and novels, Simon Goldhill examines how sexuality and hope, the politics of tradition, and the position of faith in society have been thought of and debated in the course of the Victorian obsession with antiquity.
taking a look at Victorian paintings, Goldhill demonstrates how hope and sexuality, relatively anxieties approximately male wish, have been represented and communicated via classical imagery. Probing into operas of the interval, Goldhill addresses rules of citizenship, nationalism, and cultural politics. and during fiction--specifically nineteenth-century novels concerning the Roman Empire--he discusses faith and the fierce battles over the church as Christianity started to lose dominance over the innovative stance of Victorian technology and research. Rediscovering a few nice forgotten works and reframing a few extra standard ones, the booklet bargains outstanding insights into how the Victorian feel of antiquity and our experience of the Victorians got here into being.
With a variety of examples and tales, Victorian tradition and Classical Antiquity demonstrates how curiosity within the classical prior formed nineteenth-century self-expression, giving antiquity a different position in Victorian culture.
By Leah Price
ISBN-10: 069111417X
ISBN-13: 9780691114170
ISBN-10: 0691159548
ISBN-13: 9780691159546
How to Do issues with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our tradition got here to frown on utilizing books for any function except studying. whilst did the coffee-table booklet turn into an item of scorn? Why did legislations courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who concealed in the back of the newspaper, girls who matched their books' binding to their costume, and servants who decreased newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap?
laying off new gentle on novels through Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, in addition to the city sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah rate additionally uncovers the lives and afterlives of nameless spiritual tracts and loved ones manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways in which can't be defined via their revealed content material on my own. And no matter if displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, revealed subject participated, and nonetheless participates, in a number transactions that stretches a long way past reading.
Supplementing shut readings with a delicate reconstruction of ways Victorians suggestion and felt approximately books, expense deals a brand new version for integrating literary conception with cultural heritage. How to Do issues with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our realizing of the interaction among phrases and items within the 19th century and beyond.
By Richard Doyle,Grant F. Scott
ISBN-10: 0821421859
ISBN-13: 9780821421857
Before he joined the workers of Punch and designed its iconic entrance disguise, illustrator Richard “Dicky” Doyle used to be a tender guy whose father (political caricaturist John Doyle) charged him with sending a weekly letter, even if they lived lower than an identical roof. This quantity collects the fifty-three illustrated missives of their entirety for the 1st time and offers an unusual peek into the intimate yet expansive observations of a precocious social commentator and artist.
In a sequence of vibrant manuscript canvases, Doyle observes Victorian customs and society. He visits operas, performs, and parades. He watches the queen vacationing the home of Commons and witnesses the kingdom funeral of the Duke of Sussex. he's stuck up within the Chartist riots of August 1842 and is robbed in the course of one of many melees. And he offers numerous illustrations of standard humans walking within the streets and swarming the parks and imagine galleries of the city. The sketches supply a clean point of view on significant social and cultural occasions of London in the course of the early 1840s by way of a prepared observer no longer but two decades old.
Doyle’s epistles count on the fashionable cartoon and the photograph novel, in particular of their experimentation with sequential narrative and their inventive use of house. The letters are observed through a whole biographical and important creation with new fabric approximately Doyle’s life.
By Lillian Craton
ISBN-10: 1604976535
ISBN-13: 9781604976533
By Ross Forman
ISBN-10: 1107013151
ISBN-13: 9781107013155
ISBN-10: 1316600998
ISBN-13: 9781316600993
By Fred Kaplan
ISBN-10: 0691067007
ISBN-13: 9780691067001
ISBN-10: 1536647039
ISBN-13: 9781536647037
By K. Collins
ISBN-10: 0333993632
ISBN-13: 9780333993637
ISBN-10: 1349432172
ISBN-13: 9781349432172
By S. Karschay
ISBN-10: 1137450320
ISBN-13: 9781137450326
ISBN-10: 1349496995
ISBN-13: 9781349496990
By Isobel Armstrong
ISBN-10: 0199205205
ISBN-13: 9780199205202