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Post-Jungian Criticism
Rereads Jung in light of contemporary theoretical concerns, and offers a variety of examples of post-Jungian literary and cultural criticism.
The Victorian Novel and the Space of Art
An interdisciplinary study of the relationship between the Victorian novel and visual art including galleries, museums and The Great Exhibition.
The Maternal Image of God in Victorian Literature
This book is the study of a religious metaphor: the idea of God as a mother, in British and US literature 1850–1915. It uncovers a tradition of writers for whom divine motherhood embodied ideals felt to be missing from the orthodox masculine deity. Elizabeth Gaskell, Josephine Butler, George Macdonald, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Charlotte Perkins Gilman independently reworked their inherited faith to create a new symbol that better met their religious needs, based on ideal Victorian notions of motherhood and ‘Mother Nature’. Divine motherhood signified compassion, universal salvation and a realised gospel of social reform led primarily by women to establish sympathetic community. Conn...
A Companion to the Victorian Novel
Victorian novels remain enormously popular today: some continue to be made into films, while authors such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot are firmly established in the canon and taught at all levels. These works have also attracted a great deal of critical attention, with much current scholarship examining the novel in relation to its historical, political, and cultural contexts. This reference book is an introductory guide to the Victorian novel, its background, and its legacy. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and offers a fresh account of past, current, and new directions in scholarship. The volume is divided into several broad sections, with chapters in each section tr...
Elizabeth Gaskell’s "North and South" and the ‘Monstrosity’ of Manchester
Il volume si incentra sulla rivalutazione di un classico vittoriano di Elizabeth Gaskell "North and South" attraverso un'analisi multi-livellare, dallo studio topologico del setting, agli aspetti sociologicamente e antropologicamente rilevanti della diegesi, per finire alla critica letteraria e sociolinguistica. Vincenzo Longo, docente di lingua e cultura inglese, è specializzato in letteratura inglese. Da diversi anni, ricerca e si occupa di studi vittoriani ed edoardiani, in particolare di Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell e Virginia Woolf. E' autore di The Paradigm of Childhood in Thomas Hardy's Narrative e L'Armonia della Morte: il Simbolismo dell'Acqua da Shakespeare a Virginia Woolf. Nel 2018 ha ricoperto una cattedra di letteratura inglese al Clare College, presso l'Università di Cambridge.
Sexual Visuality From Literature To Film 1850-1950
A must-read for scholars of visuality, gender and sexuality. Denisoff's study explores the ways in which gothic, sensation and noir literature and cinema manipulated common notions of the visual in order to challenge sex- and gender-based assumptions that marginalized certain people and desires. Addressing authors and directors such as Mary Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Virigina Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang, this study shows that what a society gets is often what it tries hardest not to see.
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830-1914
A volume of essays on Victorian themes, genres and authors, aimed at students and lecturers.
George Eliot and the British Empire
In this study Nancy Henry introduces a set of facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. Henry examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons, and a reader of colonial literature. She highlights the importance of these contexts to our understanding of both Eliot's fiction and her situation within Victorian culture. Henry argues that Eliot's decision to represent the empire only as it infiltrated the imaginations and domestic lives of her characters illuminates the nature of her Realism. The book also re-examines the assumptions of postcolonial criticism about Victorian fiction and its relation to empire.
Reading Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A revolutionary figure throughout his career, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s work provides a distinctly revolutionary lens through which the Victorian period can be viewed. Suggesting that Rossetti’s work should be approached through his poetry, Brian Donnelly argues that it is both inscribed by and inscribes the development of verbal as well as visual culture in the Victorian era. In his discussions of modernity, aestheticism, and material culture, he identifies Rossetti as a central figure who helped define the terms through which we approach the cultural productions of this period. Donnelly begins by articulating a method for reading Rossetti’s poetry that highlights the intertextual rela...
Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell
Critical assessments of Elizabeth Gaskell have tended to emphasise the regional and provincial aspects of her writing, but the scope of her influence extended across the globe. Building on theories of space and place, the contributors to this collection bring a variety of geographical, industrial, psychological, and spatial perspectives to bear on the vast range of Gaskell’s literary output and on her place within the narrative of British letters and national identity. The advent of the railway and the increasing predominance of manufactory machinery reoriented the nation’s physical and social countenance, but alongside the excitement of progress and industry was a sense of fear and loss...
