Bøger i Victorian Literature & Culture Series serien
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- Fors Clavigera and the Crisis of Victorian Liberalism
498,95 - 668,95 kr. This modern, critical reading of ""Fors Clavigera"" places this classic work in the context of its Victorian contemporaries, such as art journals and popular criticism. By recreating the intellectual climate, this work demonstrates the sense of cultural crisis and change evident at the time.
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- 498,95 kr.
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- Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt
638,95 kr. Scholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of 19th-century British fiction. This study argues that various 19th-century thinkers - John Ruskin, Michael Faraday, Charlotte Bronte - saw suspense as a vehicle for a new approach to knowledge called ""realism"".
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- 638,95 kr.
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- Vindications of Early Victorian Industry
618,95 kr. British social critics in the Romantic tradition stigmatized industry as a threat to aesthetic ""culture"". Bizup argues that early Victorian advocates of industry sought to resist the power inherent in this opposition by portraying automatic manufacture itself as a cultural force or agent.
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- 618,95 kr.
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1.113,95 kr. The third volume of ""Letters..."" covers years in which Christina Rossetti lost several important family members, including her mother, her brother Dante, and a young nephew, Michael. In the face of her loss, she turned increasingly to religion and wrote works of devotional prose.
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- 1.113,95 kr.
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- Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture
653,95 kr. This text seeks to return Marie Corelli, popular novelist of the turn of the 20th century, to conversations about the late-Victorian and Edwardian literary world. It reveals the profusion of the late-Victorian literary imagination and discusses how seriously we should take Corelli's aesthetic.
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- 653,95 kr.
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- Collected Letters, 1861-1875
1.433,95 kr. Sarah Emily Davies (1830-1921) lived and crusaded during a time of profound change for education and women's rights in England. Much of the social change that Davies witnessed was discussed, encouraged and elicited through her personal correspondence. Her letters are collected here.
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- 1.433,95 kr.