Author: David Howard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-08-05
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1317198972
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1966, this book collects six essays which discuss the experience of social change as it reveals itself in the work of several nineteenth century novelists. In the novels studied, and the discussion of fiction that follows, the authors argue that all these novelists’ attempts to confront social change — to connect old with new, past with present and the attempted inclusiveness of vision in a changing society — sooner or later fail. The essays are polemic in arguing against the contemporary critical consensus that this failure is a limitation of imaginative intelligence rather than an endorsement of a receding past which the process of change was charged with destroying.
Author: David Howard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-08-05
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1317198964
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1966, this book collects six essays which discuss the experience of social change as it reveals itself in the work of several nineteenth century novelists. In the novels studied, and the discussion of fiction that follows, the authors argue that all these novelists’ attempts to confront social change — to connect old with new, past with present and the attempted inclusiveness of vision in a changing society — sooner or later fail. The essays are polemic in arguing against the contemporary critical consensus that this failure is a limitation of imaginative intelligence rather than an endorsement of a receding past which the process of change was charged with destroying.
Author: Clare Pettitt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 0198830416
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shows how a series of revolutions that erupted across Europe in the mid to late 1840s were crucial to the creation of modern ideas of constitutional democracy, citizenship, and human rights.
Author: Richard Salmon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-06-27
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1107039622
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fascinating study into the development of the Victorian literary profession that examines literary and visual representations of authorship.
Author: Martin Hewitt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 135195914X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Age of Equipoise by W.L Burn was published in 1964 and became a central text in the canon of interpretations of the Victorian period. The book subsequently fell out of favour but recent claims to establish a new interpretative standard have, paradoxically, prompted reviewers to cast back to Burn's work as the orthodox standard against which such claims should be judged. The essays in this volume by British and American contributors all engage, to varying degrees, with the notion of 'equipoise' and how it can help to illuminate the mid-Victorian period in ways which alternative formulations cannot. Some of the chapters develop arguments embedded in Burn's own book; others take up issues largely absent in The Age of Equipoise, such as the position of children, Britain's interaction with the wider world, and the threats the period experienced to its concept of masculine identity. Together the essays demonstrate the intricacy and turbulence of the forces of cohesion in Victorian society, along with the success of that culture in achieving a working, if shifting, modus vivendi. Moreover, they substantiate the argument that, whatever the limitations of Burn's work, 'equipoise' deserves rehabilitation as a powerful conceptual framework for making sense of mid-Victorian Britain. About the Editor: Martin Hewitt is Director of the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies and editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture. With Robert Poole he has recently produced an edition of The Diaries of Samuel Bamford, 1858-61 (Sutton, 2000).
Author: John Colmer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1978-06-29
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1349158852
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