Description: Varieties of Victorianism by Gary Day The essays collected here all take issue with the claim that the Victorian period is the antithesis of our own. Covering everything from attitudes to drink to the poetry of Browning, from the Great Exhibition to the Elephant Man, this volume shows not only how the Victorians coped with these challenges but also what lessons they have for us today. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The essays collected here all take issue with the claim that the Victorian period is the antithesis of our own. They show how characteristic postmodern anxieties and celebrations concerning truth, certainty and identity informed Victorian culture at all levels. Covering everything from attitudes to drink to the poetry of Browning, from the Great Exhibition to the Elephant Man, this volume shows not only how the Victorians coped with these challenges but also what lessons they have for us today. Author Biography STEVEN EARNSHAW Senior Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University NADINE HOLDSWORTH Lecturer in Drama, De Montfort University, Bedford CHRIS HOPKINS Course Leader of B.A. English Studies, Sheffield Hallam University SIMON MALPAS Lecturer, Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University JESSICA MAYNARD Tutorial Assistant, University of Wales, Bangor ROBERT MIGHALL Editor, Penguin Classics KEN NEWTON Professor of English, Dundee University JOHN PECK Senior Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Cardiff CARL PLASA Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Cardiff NICK RANCE Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University MARY ANGELA SCHWER Lecturer, University of Notre Dame PETER R. SEDGWICK Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Wales, Cardiff JONATHAN SKINNER Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology, University of Abertay, Dundee DARRYL WADSWORTH Lecturer, University of Pennslyvania ALISTAIR WALKER Senior Lecturer in English, De Montford University, Bedford. Table of Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Past and Present: The Case of Samuel Smiless Self Help ; Gary Day Imperial Muscular Christianity: Thomas Hughes Biography of David Livingstone; Mary Angela Schwer Victorian Modernity? Writing the Great Exhibition; Chris Hopkins Black Silk and Red Paisley: the Toxic Woman in Wilkie Collins Armadale ; Jessica Maynard A Postmodern Victorian: Lewis Carroll and the Critique of Totalising Reason; Simon Malpas Politics as Antagonism and Diversity: Mill and Lyotard; Peter R. Sedgwick Victorian Values and Silas Marner ; K.M. Newton Racism in the Mid-Victorian Novel: Thackerays Philip ; John Peck The Reason for Drinking in Hardys The Mayor of Casterbridge ; Steven Earnshaw To Whom Does He Address Himself?: Reading Wordsworth in Brownings Pauline ; Carl Plasa A Rose is a Rose is a Rover; Alistair Walker Havent I Seen You Somewhere Before? Melodrama, Postmodernism and Victorian Culture; Nadine Holdsworth A Low Borne Labourer Like You:Audience and Victorian Working-Class Melodrama; Darryl Wadsworth Victorian Values and Fast Young Ladies: From Madeleine Smith to Ruth Rendall; Nick Rance Vampires and Victorians: Count Dracula and the Return of the Repressive Hypothesis; Robert Mighall Of Elephants and Men: The Freak as Victorian and Contemporary Spectacle; Jonathan Skinner Index Long Description The essays collected here all take issue with the claim that the Victorian period is the antithesis of our own. They show how characteristic postmodern anxieties and celebrations concerning truth, certainty and identity informed Victorian culture at all levels. Covering everything from attitudes to drink to the poetry of Browning, from the Great Exhibition to the Elephant Man, this volume shows not only how the Victorians coped with these challenges but also what lessons they have for us today. Details ISBN1349267449 Author Gary Day Language English ISBN-10 1349267449 ISBN-13 9781349267446 Format Paperback Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Short Title VARIETIES OF VICTORIANISM 1998 Media Book Residence ENK Birth 1956 Edition 1st Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle The Uses of a Past Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Year 1998 Publication Date 1998-01-01 Pages 270 UK Release Date 1998-01-01 AU Release Date 1998-01-01 NZ Release Date 1998-01-01 Illustrations XII, 270 p. Edition Description 1st ed. 1998 DEWEY 820.9008 Audience Professional & Vocational Alternative 9780312217198 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:99145121;
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