The Turn of Rhythm

Ewan J Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• Incredibly, until the cusp of the nineteenth century, the word rhythm was not widely used. It likewise had no cultural connotations. This book traces ... Lees meer

Stoddart, Ruskin's Culture Wars

Judith Stoddart

• Paperback | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• "When I consider the quantity of wise talking which has passed in at one long ear of the world, and out at the other, without making the smallest impr... Lees meer

The Romance of the Harem

Anna Leonowens

• Paperback | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• From setting foot in Asia in 1849 (or was it 1845?) as Anna Crawford (or was it Anna Edwards?) to waltzing with Yul Brynner in glorious technicolor, A... Lees meer

The Physics of Possibility

Michael Tondre

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• The Physics of Possibility traces the sensational birth of mathematical physics in Victorian literature, science, and statistics. As scientists took u... Lees meer

Feeling for the Poor

Carolyn Betensky

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• What if the political work of Victorian social-problem novels was precisely to make the reader feel as if reading them--in and of itself--mattered? Su... Lees meer

Promises Broken

Ginger S Frost

• Paperback | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• In the nineteenth century, a woman who could prove a man had broken his promise to marry her was legally entitled to compensation for damages. Bridgin... Lees meer

The Private Rod

Marlene Tromp

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• Sensation novels, a genre characterized by scandalous narratives and emotionally and socially provocative dialogue and plots, had their heyday in Engl... Lees meer

The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester

Felicia Bonaparte

• Paperback | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• Despite feminist reassessments to the contrary, the conventional view that Elizabeth Gaskell personified the Victorian feminine ideal is still very mu... Lees meer

Culture and Irony

Anthony Winner

• Paperback | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• Conrad's major novels-Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and Under Western Eyes-tell of illusions and betrayals, dreams and lies. Ambiguity, contra... Lees meer

Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work

Linda K Hughes, Michael Lund

• Paperback | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• For much of her own century, Elizabeth Gaskell was recognized as a voice of Victorian convention&emdash;-the loyal wife, good mother, and respected wr... Lees meer

Victorian Connections

• Paperback | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• In Victorian Connections , each contributor was asked to write about anything in the Victorian period, with only one proviso: that the essay seek to d... Lees meer

The Dynamics of Genre

Dallas Liddle

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• Newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals reached a peak of cultural influence and financial success in Britain in the 1850s and 1860s, out-publish... Lees meer

The Mysteries of Paris and London

Richard Maxwell

• Paperback | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• In this ambitious and exciting work Richard Maxwell uses nineteenth century urban fiction- particularly the novels of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens-... Lees meer

Modified Rapture

Alan Fischler

• Paperback | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• The professional success achieved by W. S. Gilbert was unique in nineteenth-century English theater: he was the first dramatist ever to be knighted fo... Lees meer

Narrative and Its Nonevents

Carra Glatt

• Paperback | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• This book is about what does not happen in the Victorian novel. The description may sound absurd, yet consideration of alternatives to a given state o... Lees meer

The Letters of Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover) | nr. 4
• In recent years Christina Rossetti's star has soared. Rossetti (1830-1894) has come to be considered one of the major poets--not just one of the major... Lees meer

Emily Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• Sarah Emily Davies (1830-1921) lived and crusaded during a time of profound change for education and women's rights in England. At the time of her bir... Lees meer

Artist of Wonderland

Frankie Morris

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• Best known today as the illustrator for Lewis Carroll's Alice books, John Tenniel was the Victorian era's chief political cartoonist. This extensively... Lees meer

Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science

David Sweeney Coombs

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• The nineteenth-century sciences cleaved sensory experience into two separate realms: the bodily physics of sensation and the mental activity of percep... Lees meer

Tennyson's Fixations

Matthew Rowlinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• Matthew Rowlinson has given us the most penetrating analysis of Tennyson's poetry to date. He proposes a revitalized and properly analytic formalism a... Lees meer

The Fowl and the Pussycat

Michael Field

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• Michael Field was the pseudonym used by Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913) coauthors and lovers for the poetry and verse drama... Lees meer

Christina Rossetti

Constance W Hassett

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• Although the cultural and literary influence of Christina Rossetti has recently been widely acknowledged, the belatedness of this critical attention h... Lees meer

The Antagonist Principle

Lawrence Poston

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• The Antagonist Principle is a critical examination of the works and sometimes controversial public career of John Henry Newman (1801-1890), first as a... Lees meer

Supposing Bleak House

John O Jordan

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)
• Supposing "Bleak House" is an extended meditation on what many consider to be Dickens's and nineteenth-century England's greatest work of narrative fi... Lees meer