Saturday Review of Literature

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 708

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Saturday Review of Literature

Saturday Review of Literature PDF Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 708

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Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen

Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen PDF Author: Christopher Ricks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019288283X
Category : Journalism and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894) is still highly valued as a judge, as the historian of the criminal law of England, and as the author of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, a forthright disagreement with John Stuart Mill. Stephen's weekly journalism established him as a vigorous cross-examiner in the controversies--cultural, social, religious, political, moral, and philosophical--of his time (and duly, of our time). Collected here now are his essays on the novel and journalism, the co-operation and collusion of these two, their responsibilities and irresponsibilities. Written between 1855 and 1867, while Stephen prosecuted twin careers as barrister and journalist, these reviews bring to bear his formidable powers of mind and of phrasing, scrutinizing many deep and disconcerting novelists--Dickens and Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe and E. C. Gaskell, Flaubert and Balzac. His work also weighs journalism in the scales: from Addison's The Spectator to the Crimean war correspondence of William Howard Russell; from the scabrously detailed law-reports in The Times to the phenomenon of Letters to its Editor; from the high culture of Matthew Arnold to the mass market of 'Railroad Bookselling'.

Saturday Review of Literature

Saturday Review of Literature PDF Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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Saturday Review of the Sciences

Saturday Review of the Sciences PDF Author:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 868

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Littell's Living Age

Littell's Living Age PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 844

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George Eliot in Context

George Eliot in Context PDF Author: Margaret Harris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107244250
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :

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Prodigiously learned, alive to the massive social changes of her time, defiant of many Victorian orthodoxies, George Eliot has always challenged her readers. She is at once chronicler and analyst, novelist of nostalgia and monumental thinker. In her great novel Middlemarch she writes of 'that tempting range of relevancies called the universe'. This volume identifies a range of 'relevancies' that inform both her fictional and her non-fictional writings. The range and scale of her achievement are brought into focus by cogent essays on the many contexts - historical, intellectual, political, social, cultural - to her work. In addition there are discussions of her critical history and legacy, as well as of the material conditions of production and distribution of her novels and her journalism. The volume enables fuller understanding and appreciation, from a twenty-first-century standpoint, of the life and work of one of the nineteenth century's major writers.

The Battle of the Styles

The Battle of the Styles PDF Author: Bernard Porter
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441174737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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This title explores the controversy surrounding the design of the new Foreign Office in London during Britain's Imperial heyday. In 1855 it was decided to build a new block of government offices in London, starting with the Foreign and War Offices. The government offices competition came at what was probably - looking back on it - the zenith of Britain's confidence as a nation and international power. One would expect the mid-Victorians to have felt, firstly, pride in their current national situation; and secondly, the urge to commemorate this in the most important national building to be projected in twenty years. Porter uses the debates surrounding the building of these important new monuments to interrogate the very fabric of British society, culture and nation building. The discussion on so many issues - religion, nationality, empire, history, modernism, truth, morality, gender - quite apart from considerations of 'pure' aesthetics, offers an unusual, perhaps even unique, insight into the relationship between these matters and the 'culture' of the time.

The Eclectic Review

The Eclectic Review PDF Author: Samuel Greatheed
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 828

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Rodin

Rodin PDF Author: Claudine Mitchell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351550667
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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The expression 'the Zola of Sculpture' was coined in the circles of the Royal Academy in the 1880s as a term of abuse. Rodin: 'The Zola of Sculpture' reveals how the appraisal of Rodin in British culture was shaped by controversies around the literary models of Zola and Baudelaire, in a period when negative notions about French culture were being progressively transformed into positive expressions of modern sculpture. Embedded within this collaborative book is the editor's proposition that Rodin came to play an important role in the cultural politics of the Entente Cordiale at a critical juncture of European history. Encompassing new scholarship in several disciplines, drawn from both sides of the Channel, Rodin: 'The Zola of Sculpture' offers the first in-depth account of Rodin's career in Britain in the period 1880-1914 and weaves this historical trajectory into a complex investigation of the interactions between French and British cultures. The authors examine the cultural agencies in which conceptions of Rodin's practice played a defining role, dealing in turn with artists' professional associations, art criticism, private and public collectors and the education of women sculptors.