Victorian literary cultures : studies in textual subversion / edited by Kenneth Womack and James M. Decker.
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Womack, Kenneth (redaktör/utgivare)
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Decker, James M., 1967- (redaktör/utgivare)
- ISBN 9781611476644
- Publicerad: 2016
- Publicerad: Madison [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017
- Publicerad: Madison [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2017]
- Engelska xvi, 202 pages
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Subversive women -- Subversive ideologies -- Subversive genres.
- Introduction: Subversive literary cultures / Kenneth Womack -- Part I: Subversive Women. -- The mysterious identity of Helen Dickens, Victorian novelist / Troy J. Bassett -- Moonrise and the ascent of Eve, the woman titan: Charlotte Brontë's epiphanies of the fourfold elemental feminine / Martin Bidney -- Condoning adultery: problems of marriage and divorce in George Eliot's life and w riting / Nancy Henry -- Part II: Subversive Ideologies -- Unraveling Orientalism: Dawe's "Yellow and White" / James M. Decker -- "A familiar kinde of chastisement": fasting in the nineteenth-century / Joseph Lennon.
- The effect of emerging new media on book publishing: lessons from the origins of cross-media storytelling in the early twentieth century for contemporary transmedia researchers / Alexis Weedon -- "And this also has been one of the dark places of the earth": reading Levinasian ethics and literary impressionism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness / Kenneth Womack -- Part III: Subversive genres -- "Count me in": comedy in Dracula / Ira B. Nadel -- "The seasoned spirit of the cunning reader": the textual subversions of The Turn of the Screw / Ruth Robbins -- "Fallen" clergymen: the wages of sin in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Charles Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth, and Henry Arthur Jones's Michael and His Lost Angel / Jeanette Shumaker -- Sherlock Holmes: the criminal in the detective / Joseph Wiesenfarth.
- "Provides readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of subversive acts or tendencies in Victorian literature. By drawing clear cultural contexts for the works under review--including such canonical texts as Dracula, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, and stories featuring Sherlock Holmes--the critics in this anthology offer groundbreaking studies of subversion as a literary motif."--Page [4] of cover.
Ämnesord
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Viktoriansk litteratur -- historia (sao)
Klassifikation
- PR461 (LCC)
- 820.9/008 (DDC)
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