The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real write by Audrey Jaffe. This book was released on 2016. The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real' argues that Victorian novelistic realism is a product of the Victorians' overarching desire, both cultural and ideological, for the real. What the book calls 'realist fantasy' describes the way in which the conventions used to represent characters' dreams, daydreams, and fantasies also shape the more general and generalized fantasy that constitutes each particular novel's imagining of the real.
The Great Victorian Collection
The Great Victorian Collection - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Victorian Collection write by Brian Moore. This book was released on 1994. The Great Victorian Collection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Still Life
Still Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Still Life write by Elisha Cohn. This book was released on 2016. Still Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Still Life: Suspended Development in the Victorian Novel rethinks the nineteenth-century aesthetics of agency through the Victorian novel's fascination with states of reverie, trance, and sleep. These states challenge contemporary scientific and philosophical accounts of the perfectibility of the self, which privileged reflective self-awareness. In dialogue with the field of literature and science studies and affect studies, this book shows how Victorian writers used narrative form to respond to the analytical practices and knowledge production of those other disciplines. Drawing upon canonical texts--by Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, George Meredith, and Thomas Hardy--Still Life contends that depictions of non-purposive perceptual experience suspend the processes of self-cultivation (Bildung) central to Victorian aesthetics, science, psychology, and political theory, as well as most critical accounts of the novel form. Departing from the values of individual cultivation and moral revelation associated with the genre, these writers offer an affective framework for understanding the subtly non-instrumental powers of narrative. Victorian novels ostensibly working within the parameters of the Bildungsroman are suspended by moments of "still life": a decentered lyricism associated with states of diminished consciousness. They use this style to narrate what should be unnarratable: experiences not dependent on reflective consciousness, which express a distinctive ambivalence toward dominant developmental frameworks of individual self-culture.
Frankenstein Dreams
Frankenstein Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Frankenstein Dreams write by Michael Sims. This book was released on 2017-09-05. Frankenstein Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Mary Shelley to H.G. Wells, a collection of the best Victorian science fiction from Michael Sims, the editor of Dracula's Guest. Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern science fiction showed up surprisingly early: space and time travel, dystopian societies, even dangerously independent machines, all inspiring the speculative fiction of the Victorian era. In Frankenstein Dreams, Michael Sims has gathered many of the very finest stories, some by classic writers such as Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, and H.G. Wells, but many that will surprise general readers. Dark visions of the human psyche emerge in Thomas Wentworth Higginson's "The Monarch of Dreams," while Mary E. Wilkins Freeman provides a glimpse of “the fifth dimension” in her provocative tale "The Hall Bedroom.' With contributions by Edgar Allan Poe, Alice Fuller, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others, each introduced by Michael Sims, whose elegant introduction provides valuable literary and historical context, Frankenstein Dreams is a treasure trove of stories known and rediscovered.
The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel
The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel write by Julia Sun-Joo Lee. This book was released on 2010-04-09. The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title explores the influence of the American slave narrative on the Victorian novel. The book argues that Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and Robert Louis Stevenson integrated into their works elements of the slave narrative.
