Formtreuer Klassizist oder »verkappter Programmmusiker«? Kaum ein Komponist des 19. Jahrhunderts vereinte derart widersprechende Einschätzungen auf sich wie Johannes Brahms. Wovon »sprechen« Brahms’ Symphonien, was ist ihr musikalischer Gehalt? Das Buch wagt einen neuen Blick ins Innere dieser Musik und rückt das »Rätsel Brahms« in eine ungewohnte Perspektive. Eine »symphonische Tetralogie« nennt es die vier Symphonien, denn die fruchtbare Rivalität zum 20 Jahre älteren Wagner findet darin deu...
Cahiers d'Etudes Nodieristes (Cahiers d'Etudes Nodieristes, #2020.1)
by Marie Mennessier-Nodier
A Hardy Chronology provides the Hardy student with an abbreviated biography and reference guide, listing year by year the full details of a remarkably full life and prodigious literary output. Background information is provided, especially for those historical events in which Hardy took most interest, but the chief aim has been to provide the reader with an account of Hardy's life which uses the author's own words wherever possible.
This book examines the outbreak of print in late Victorian Britain. It joins categories that are normally separated: literature/popular culture, books/magazines, publishers/newsagents, and media studies/media history. The approach is through material culture, archival material that is theorised and gendered. Chapters focus on authorship, production, and gender in relation to Dickens, Pater, Ruskin, Eliot, Symons, and James, and serials such as Master Humphrey's Clock, the Westminster Review, Art...
This book provides a lively exploration of the way in which several of the major British Romantic poets confront the writing and theorising of poetry. The question 'What is a poet?' is asked and answered with great frequency and variety; invariably there is an underlying sense of unease, often in the shadow, as it were, of Wordsworth's lines: We poets in our youth begin in gladness;/ But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness . The apparent confidence of the manifestoes is undermined b...
Focusing on narrative structure, irony, satire and allusion, The Hidden Hardy offers a radical new perspective on Thomas Hardy's novels. Hardy's own accounts of himself and his work have long been seen as calculated impostures; it is argued here that the same qualities are not only present in his novels, but are critical factors in the way they are made. The respectable and acceptable surfaces are the impostures, masking hidden texts which are extremely hostile to established social, economic an...
Authentication Failed: The False Dimitrii and Other Impostors
by Sander Brouwer
The most popular hero of Russian nineteenth-century historical literature was the False Dimitrii, Ivan the Terrible's "son," who had miraculously escaped murder and who with Polish help ascended the throne in 1605. He was the problematic protagonist of Pushkin's famous Boris Godunov (1825, opera by Mussorgskii 1869- 1872), but also of a host of lesser known plays and novels. This book's thesis is that Russian literature chose the impostor figure for a critical self-reflection on the elite being...
Victorian Identities
The Victorian period was one of enormous cultural diversity with places for figures as different as Alfred Tennyson and Oscar Wilde. Victorian Identities simultaneously celebrates that diversity whilst drawing out the connections between disparate voices. With essays on the 'Greats' of the period - Dickens, Tennyson, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins and Wilde - as well as on the less well-known sensation writer, Rhoda Broughton, and on the formation of children's voices in Victorian literature - the...
Sonnets Humouristiques (Societe Des Textes Francais Modernes, #260)
by Josephin Soulary
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility/ Pride and Prejudice/ Emma (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)
by Annika Bautz
This Guide discusses the range of critical reactions to three of Jane Austen's most widely-studied and popular novels. Annika Bautz takes the reader chronologically through the profusion of criticism by selecting key approaches from the immense variety of responses these three Austen novels have provoked over the last two centuries.
Each of the nine essays in this illuminating study of Der Nachsommer focuses on heretofore overlooked details of the novel. As all the phenomena presented are oriented toward fulfillment of their highest potential, the novel emerges as a powerful assertion of the intent to achieve classical form in all things despite the ever-present threat of dissolution and chaos. With such emphasis upon the achievement of perfection, Der Nachsommer itself becomes a masterly exemplification of Stifter's concep...
Techno-Magism explores how British Romantic literature abuts and is organized around both print and non-print media. The book explores not only the print, pictorial art, and theater of early nineteenth-century England and Europe but also communicative technologies invented after the British Romantic period, such as photography, film, video, and digital screens. This proleptic abutting points to one way we can understand the implicit exceptionality wagered by reading Romanticism through media st...
Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment)
First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Oeuvres, Tome II (Bibliotheque Du Xixe Siecle, #80)
by Catulle Mendes
James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry, and Music is the first full-length and in-depth study to position this painter within the overall trajectory of French modernism during the second half of the nineteenth century and to view the artist as integral to the aesthetic projects of its most original contributors. Suzanne M. Singletary maintains that Whistler was in a unique situation as an insider within the emerging French avant-garde, thereby in an enviable position to b...
Henry James's Feminist Afterlives (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)
by Kathryn Wichelns
This book explores Henry James's negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substantively examined in light of their relationships to his work. Writing in different times and places, Annie Fields, Emily Dickinson, and Marguerite Duras nevertheless share complex navigations of womanhood and authorship, as well as a history of feminist scholarly responses to their work. Kathryn Wichel...
Politics and Emotions in Romantic Periodicals
This book comprises eleven essays by leading scholars of early nineteenth-century British literature and periodical culture. The collection addresses the many and varied links between politics and the emotions in Romantic periodicals, from the revolutionary decade of the 1790s, to the 1832 Reform Bill. In so doing, it deepens our understanding of the often conflicted relations between politics and feelings, and raises questions relevant to contemporary debates on affect studies and their rela...
Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Education (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
by Leanne Grech
This book focuses on the role that the Oxford classical curriculum has had in shaping Oscar Wilde's aestheticism. It positions Wilde as a classically trained intellectual and outlines the path he took to gain recognition as a writer and promoter of the aesthetic movement. This narrative is conveyed through a broad range of literary sources, including Wilde's travel poetry, American lectures, and canonical works like 'The Critic as Artist', The Soul of Man, The Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profu...
Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections (Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism)
by Louise Joy
This book assesses the mediating role played by 'affections' in eighteenth-century contestations about reason and passion, questioning their availability and desirability outside textual form. It examines the formulation and idealization of this affective category in works by Isaac Watts, Lord Shaftesbury, Mary Hays, William Godwin, Helen Maria Williams, and William Wordsworth. Part I outlines how affections are invested with utopian potential in theology, moral philosophy, and criticism, re-ima...