Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s

by Penny Fielding
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s
Author: Penny Fielding
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-08-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316856933
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What does it mean to focus on the decade as a unit of literary history? Emerging from the shadows of iconic Victorian authors such as Eliot and Tennyson, the 1880s is a decade that has been too readily overlooked in the rush to embrace end-of-century decadence and aestheticism. The 1880s witnessed new developments in transatlantic networks, experiments in lyric poetry, the decline of the three-volume novel, and the revaluation of authors, journalists and the reading public. The contributors to this collection explore the case for the 1880s as both a discrete point of literary production, with its own pressures and provocations, and as part of literature's sense of its expanded temporal and geographical reach. The essays address a wide variety of authors, topics and genres, offering incisive readings of the diverse forces at work in the shaping of the literary 1880s.

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s

by John Gardner
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 649
Release: 2024-06-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009268503
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This instalment in the Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition series concerns a decade that was as technologically transitional as it was eventful on a global scale. It collects work from a group of internationally renowned scholars across disciplinary boundaries in order to engage with the wide array of cultural developments that defined the 1830s. Often overlooked as a boundary between the Romantic and Victorian periods, this decade was, the book proposes, the central pivot of the nineteenth century. Far from a time of peaceful reform, it was marked by violent colonial expansion, political resistance, and revolutionary technologies such as the photograph, the expansion of steam power, and the railway that changed the world irreversibly. Contributors explore a flurry of cultural forms to take the pulse of the decade, from Silver Fork fiction to lithography, from working-class periodicals to photographs, and from urban sketches to magazine fiction.

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s

by John Gardner
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781009268516
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This instalment in the Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition series concerns a decade that was as technologically transitional as it was eventful on a global scale. It collects work from a group of internationally renowned scholars across disciplinary boundaries in order to engage with the wide array of cultural developments that defined the 1830s. Often overlooked as a boundary between the Romantic and Victorian periods, this decade was, the book proposes, the central pivot of the nineteenth century. Far from a time of peaceful reform, it was marked by violent colonial expansion, political resistance, and revolutionary technologies such as the photograph, the expansion of steam power, and the railway that changed the world irreversibly. Contributors explore a flurry of cultural forms to take the pulse of the decade, from Silver Fork fiction to lithography, from working-class periodicals to photographs, and from urban sketches to magazine fiction.

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War

by Cody Marrs
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War
Author: Cody Marrs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2015-07-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107109833
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Nineteenth-century American literature is often divided into two asymmetrical halves, neatly separated by the Civil War. Focusing on the later writings of Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson, this book shows how the war took shape across the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms for decades after 1865.

Irish Literature in Transition, 1780-1830:

by Claire Connolly
Irish Literature in Transition, 1780-1830:
Author: Claire Connolly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781108492980
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The years between 1780 and 1830 are vital decades in the history of Irish writing in English. This book charts the confluence of Enlightenment, antiquarian, and romantic energies within Irish literary culture and shows how different writers and genres absorbed, dispersed and remade those interests during five decades of political change. During those same years, literature made its own history. By the 1840s, Irish writing formed a recognizable body of work, which later generations would draw on, quote, anthologize and dispute. Questions raised by novels, poems and plays of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - the politics of language and voice; the relationship between literature and locality; the possibility of literature as a profession - resonated for many Irish writers over the centuries that followed and continue to matter today. This comprehensive volume will be a key reference for scholars and students of Irish literature and romantic literary studies.

Serials to Graphic Novels

by Catherine J. Golden
Serials to Graphic Novels
Author: Catherine J. Golden
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2018-10-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813063736
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The Victorian illustrated book came into being, flourished, and evolved during the long nineteenth century. While existing scholarship on Victorian illustrators largely centers on the realist artists of the "Sixties," this volume examines the entire lifetime of the Victorian illustrated book. Catherine Golden offers a new framework for viewing the arc of this vibrant genre, arguing that it arose from and continually built on the creative vision of the caricature-style illustrators of the 1830s. She surveys the fluidity of illustration styles across serial installments, British and American periodicals, adult and children’s literature, and--more recently--graphic novels. Serials to Graphic Novels examines widely recognized illustrated texts, such as The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Rabbit, and Trilby. Golden explores factors that contributed to the early popularity of the illustrated book—the growth of commodity culture, a rise in literacy, new printing technologies—and that ultimately created a mass market for illustrated fiction. Golden identifies present-day visual adaptations of the works of Austen, Dickens, and Trollope as well as original Neo-Victorian graphic novels like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Victorian-themed novels like Batman: Noël as the heirs to the Victorian illustrated book. With these adaptations and additions, the Victorian canon has been refashioned and repurposed visually for new generations of readers.

Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain

by Cheryl A. Wilson
Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Cheryl A. Wilson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-03-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521519098
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The first full-length study of the treatment of social dance in the literature of the nineteenth century.