Conflict and difference in nineteenth-century literature [Elektronisk resurs] / Edited by Dinah Birch, Mark Llewellyn.

• List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Introduction-- D.Birch & M.Llewellyn Argument as Conflict -- Then and Now-- H.Small Ever a Fighter: Browning's Struggle with Conflict-- H.F.Tucker Conflict and Imperial Communication: Narrating the First Afghan War-- M.O'Cinneide Off-White Indians-- K.Flint The Interpretation of Daydreams: Reverie as Site of Conflict in Early Victorian Psychiatry-- N.Ford 'If I am not grotesque I am nothing': Aubrey Beardsley and Disabled Identities in Conflict-- A.Tankard Negotiating the Gentle-Man: Male Nursing and Class Conflict in the 'High' Victorian Period-- H.Furneaux 'Resolved in defiance of fool and of knave'?: Chartism, Children and Conflict-- M.Chase Conversing with Monstrosities: evolutionary theory and the contemporary response to Wilkie Collins-- J.M.Allan Dickens and the Heritage Industry: or, Culture and the Commodity-- J.John The King and Who? Dance, Difference, and Identity in Anna Leonowens and The King and I-- S.A.Weltman 'The Utmost Intricacies of the Soul's Pathways': The Significance of Syntax in George Eliot's Felix Holt, The Radical (1866)-- M.Raines Culture Wars? Arnold's Essays in Criticism and the Rise of Journalism 1864-1895-- L.Brake Shrieking Sisters and Bawling Brothers: Sibling Rivalry in Sarah Grand and Mary Cholmondeley-- G.Ofek After Eternal Punishment: 'Fin de Siecle' as Literary Eschatology-- M.Bradley Selected Bibliography Index.

• How should we understand Victorian conflict? The Victorians were divided between multiple views of the political, religious and social issues that motivated their changing aspirations. Such debates are a fundamental aspect of the literature of the period and these essays propose new ways of understanding their significance. -- How should we understand Victorian cultural conflict? The Victorians were fiercely disputatious, divided between multiple views of the political, religious and social issues that motivated their changing aspirations. Such debates are a fundamental aspect of the literary culture of the period, and the essays in this collection propose new ways of understanding their significance. Ranging from detailed readings of key literary figures (Browning, Collins, Dickens, Eliot) to explorations of cross-period themes (the philosophical roots of conflict; dreams and psychology; consumption; imperialism and race) or specific literary movements or moments (Chartism; journalism; writing of the Afghan War; New Woman novels), they address diverse areas of intellectual inquiry about what mattered most to the Victorians. These essays speak collectively in arguing for a reinterpretation of literary and cultural conflict through a greater critical awareness of the productive analyses available within such debates over difference in the period. The aim is not to resolve conflicted cultural moments or movements, but to explore the slippages and instabilities which so fascinated, intrigued and inspired the Victorians themselves. 

Ämnesord

Culture conflict in literature.  (LCSH)

Social conflict in literature.  (LCSH)

Difference (Philosophy) in literature.  (LCSH)

English literature  -- History and criticism -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.  (bicssc)

Literature.  (eflch)

Klassifikation

DSBF (ämneskategori)

LIT (ämneskategori)

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