Litteraturstudier: fra 1800 til 1900

The emergent culture of crime writings in late 19th century colonial Bengal (India) is an interesting testimony to how literature is shaped by various material forces including the market. This book deals with true crime writings of the late 1800s published by 'lowbrow publishing houses' - infamous for publishing 'sensational' and the 'vulgar' literature - which had an avid bhadralok (genteel) readership.The volume focuses on select translations of true crime writings by Bakaullah and Priyanath Mukhopadhyay who worked as darogas (Detective Inspectors) in the police department in mid-late nineteenth century colonised Bengal. These published accounts of cases investigated by them are among the very first manifestations of the crime genre in India. The writings reflect their understandings of criminality and guilt, as well as negotiations with colonial law and policing. Further, through a selection of cases in which women make an appearance either as victims or offenders, (or sometimes as both,) this book sheds light on the hidden gendered experiences of the time, often missing in mainstream Bangla literature.Combining a love for suspense with critical readings of a cultural phenomenon, this book will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of comparative literature, translation studies, gender studies, literary theory, cultural studies, modern history, and lovers of crime fiction from all disciplines.

This volume provides engaging accounts with transmedia practices in the long nineteenth century and offers model analyses of Victorian media (e.g., theater, advertising, books, games, newspapers) alongside the technological, economic, and cultural conditions under which they emerged in the Anglophone world.By exploring engagement tactics and forms of audience participation, the book affords insight into the role that social agents - e.g., individual authors, publishing houses, theatre show producers, lithograph companies, toy manufacturers, newspaper syndicates, or advertisers - played in the production, distribution, and consumption of Victorian media. It considers such examples as Sherlock Holmes, Kewpie Dolls, media forms and practices such as cut-outs, popular lectures, telephone conversations or early theater broadcasting, and such authors as Nellie Bly, Mark Twain, and Walter Besant, offering insight into the variety of transmedia practices present in the long nineteenth century.The book brings together methods and theories from comics studies, communication and media studies, English and American studies, narratology and more, and proposes fresh ways to think about transmediality. Though the target audiences are students, teachers, and scholars in the humanities, the book will also resonate with non-academic readers interested in how media contents are produced, disseminated, and consumed, and with what implications.

This book argues for the importance of narrative theories which consider gender and sexuality through the analysis of a diverse range of texts and media.

This book relocates the long life and literary career of the poet, playwright, novelist, philanthropist and teacher Hannah More (1745-1833) in the wider social and cultural contexts that shaped her, and which she helped shape in turn. One of the most influential writers and campaigners of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, More's reputation has suffered unfairly from accusations of paternalism and provincialism, and misunderstandings of her sincerely-held but now increasingly unfamiliar evangelical beliefs. Now, in this book, readers can explore a range of essays rooted in up-to-the-minute research which examines newly-recovered archival materials and other evidence in order to present the fullest picture yet of this complex and compelling author, and the era she helped mould with her words.

Conrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity is the first major work that extensively explores the dynamic interplay between Conrad's autobiographical remembering and storytelling in relation to his identity construction within a historical and cultural context.

A collaborative book on the works of Charles Dickens that takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors. The literary conversation prioritizes the act of live reading and the experience of encountering an intense or problematic feeling when reading Dickens's works.

Goethe als Naturforscher findet bei deutschen und ausländischen Naturforschern und Medizinern des 19. Jahrhunderts durchgängig Beachtung und führt zu einer Fülle spezifischer Goethe in dieser Hinsicht gewidmeten Studien mit Interpretationen und Beurteilungen ¿ neben wiederholt vorkommenden knapperen Ausführungen oder kurzen Hinweisen in naturwissenschaftlichen und medizinischen Publikationen der Zeit. Übergreifende Veröffentlichungen über Goethe und die Romantik, über seine Stellung in Europa, über seine Beziehungen zu England, Frankreich, Italien, Spanien, den skandinavischen und slavischen Ländern behandeln meist nur seine literarischen und geisteswissenschaftlichen Werke und gehen allenfalls begrenzt auf seine naturwissenschaftlichen Beiträge und ihre Aufnahme in den Naturwissenschaften und Medizin ein. Diese fachspezifische Zurückhaltung gilt auch für Bibliographien der Übersetzungen deutscher Veröffentlichungen des 19. Jahrhunderts in europäische Sprachen; naturwissenschaftliche und medizinische Publikationen kommen in ihnen nicht oder nur sporadisch vor. Der vorliegende Band schließt diese Lücke. Neben einer umfassenden Bibliographie von 260 Titeln von Naturwissenschaftlern und Medizinern über Goethe als Naturforscher steht eine Wiedergabe von 48 entsprechenden nicht nur deutschen, sondern vor allem auch internationalen und oft an entlegenen Orten erschienenen Arbeiten.

This edited volume explores the historical, cultural and literary legacies of Polish Britain, and their significance for both the British and Polish nations. The focus of the book is twofold. First, it investigates the history of Polish immigration and the ways in which Polish immigrants have conceptualised their own experiences and encounters with Britain and the British. Second, it examines how Poles and Poland have been represented by Anglophone writers in both fictional and non-fictional forms of discourse. Inevitably, these issues are intertwined. Polish experiences of Britain have been shaped, in part, by British ideas about Poland, just as British notions of Poland have been transformed by the emergence of large and culturally active Polish communities in the UK. By studying these issues together, this volume develops a wide-ranging and original analysis of Polish Britain.

Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life casts new light on nineteenth-century poetry by examining the period through its popular verse forms and their surrounding social and media landscape. The volume offers insight into two central concepts of both the Victorian era and our own¿status and taste¿and how cultural hierarchies then and now were and are constructed and broken. By recovering the lost diversity of Victorian verse, the book maps the breadth of Victorian writing and reading practices, illustrating how these seemingly minor verse genres actually possessed crucial social functions for Victorians, particularly in education, leisure practices, the cultural production of class, and the formation of individual and communal identities. The essays consider how ¿major¿ Victorian poets, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were also committed to writing and reading ¿minor¿ verse, further troubling the clear-cut notions of canonicity by examining the contradictions of value.

This book examines the idea of the self in Anglophone literatures from British colonies in Africa and the subcontinent, and in the context of intercultural encounter, literary hybridity and globalization. The project examines texts by eight authors across the colonial, postwar and post-9/11 eras ¿ Olaudah Equiano, Sake Dean Mahomet, Henry Callaway, R.C. Temple, Amos Tutuola, G.V. Desani, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Aravind Adiga ¿ in order to map different strategies of selfhood across four fields of literature: autobiographical life writing, folk anthology, postwar fabulism, and contemporary realism. Drawing on historical analysis, psychological inquiry, comparative linguistics, postcolonial criticism and social theory, this book responds to a renewed emphasis on the narrative strategies and creative choices involved in a literary construction of the self. Threaded through this investigation is an analysis of the effects of globalization, or the intensification of intercultural and dialogic complexity over time.

"Die Welt steht auf kein' Fall mehr lang", singt der Schuster Knieriem in Nestroys Stück Lumpazivagabundus (1833) und Karl Kraus bezeichnete Österreich einmal als "Versuchsstation des Weltuntergangs". Dystopien, aber umgekehrt auch Utopien durchziehen die österreichische, wie die europäische Literatur. In einer Reihe von Beiträgen werden in dem Band solche Krisen-, aber auch Hoffnungsphänomene vom 18. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert nachgezeichnet. Dabei entsteht das Bild einer von Utopien und Dystopien gekennzeichneten Literatur der Moderne und Postmoderne. Utopien, seit Thomas Morus' Utopia (1516), sind vor allem als Staatsutopien weit verbreitet und entwickeln Alternativmodelle zu gegenwärtigen Staatsgebilden. Für sie alle gilt, dass sie ohne "Möglichkeitssinn" (Robert Musil) und "Möglichkeitsdenken" (Wilhelm Voßkamp) nicht konzipiert werden hätten können. Dystopien beschreiben oft futuristische Weltuntergangsszenarien, die sich aufgrund der multiplen Krisen nicht zuletzt seit der Jahrtausendwende einer großen Beliebtheit erfreuen. Bemerkenswerterweise ziehen Leser/-innen, wie Thomas Macho bemerkt hat, aus Untergangsszenarien mehr subjektiven Lustgewinn als aus utopischen Konstruktionen. In Beiträgen zu Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Johann Nestroy, Arthur Schnitzler, Ödön von Horváth, Alfred Kubin, Thomas Bernhard, Péter Nádas, Fedor Ivanovic Panferov und Elfriede Jelinek u.a. wird den titelgebenden thematischen Konzepten nachgegangen. Der Band richtet sich an Literaturwissenschaftler/-innen, aber auch an nichtgermanistische Leser/-innen, die Interesse an den Phänomenen von Utopie und Dystopie in der österreichischen und europäischen Literatur haben.

"An in-depth exploration and reappraisal of the 1860s in British literature, featuring chapters by a wide range of scholars on characteristic literary genres and themes. Thematic chapters range from empire and slavery to evolution, economics, and the environment. The Introduction limns historical as well as current scholarly context"--

Voici la première étude française consacrée à un auteur méconnu et pourtant essentiel pour comprendre la littérature américaine de ce premier xixe siècle. À travers son écriture singulière, John Neal, prenant son contemporain James Fenimore Cooper pour anti-modèle, ambitionne de réformer la littérature américaine, afin de satisfaire au besoin naissant d¿indépendance et de renouveau national. Dans une certaine tradition américaine, la frontière est moins une limite territoriale qüun seuil dynamique, un locus americanus, lieu de tous les possibles. Et c¿est bien en ce sens que le romancier du Maine, homme des transgressions, homme de l¿entre-deux, écrit « à la frontière » : entre littérature et engagement, entre la scène et la chaire, le masculin et le féminin, l¿Indien et le Blanc, sa prose hésite, souvent. Il conviendra en somme d¿analyser au plus près cette fabrique alternative de littérarité qüest l¿écriture nealienne, dans l¿incertitude des commencements, lorsque l¿expression du « génie national » prétend s¿instaurer en critère de jugement et faire table rase des modèles d¿importation.

At begrebet ”værdikriger” ikke er et postmoderne fænomen, står klart for én, når man stifter bekendtskab med Johannes Jørgensens litteratur- og kunstanmeldelser. Til gengæld har nutidens kulturelle værdikrigere svært ved at hamle op med Jørgensens enorme viden og belæsthed, endsige hans elegante og kirurgisk præcise pen. Johannes Jørgensens europæiske udsyn, kombineret med hans forankring i det danske, gør denne samling anmeldelser til en tour de force i europæisk og dansk kulturhistorie fra 1890’erne og frem til tiden efter anden verdenskrig. Når man læser Johannes Jørgensens anmeldelser, forstår man, hvorfor han – efter H.C. Andersen – er den mest oversatte danske forfatter. Uddrag af bogen Thi for Symbolismen er det Subjektive væsentligt og Virkelighedsgengivelsen uden Værd. For Symbolismen er Virkeligheden kun udtryk for Stemningen, og den symbolistiske Maler omdanner derfor paa sine Billeder Naturens Former og Farver efter sin Stemnings Behov. Det indses heraf, hvor urimeligt man handler i at forarge sig over et symbolistisk Billedes usandsynlige Farver eller urimelige Konturer. Meningen med et saadant Maleri er jo ikke at efterligne Naturen, at afbilde et Stykke Virkelighed – men i Beskuerens Sjæl at fremkalde en Stemning svarende til den, hvoraf Kunstneren i Frembringelsens Øjeblik har været opfyldt. Da Vincent van Gogh vilde fremstille Kristi Passionshistorie gjorde han det i en Række Landskaber, gennem hvis Melankoli og Majestæt han søgte at udtrykke Guddommens Lidelser. Om forfatteren Johannes Jørgensen (1866-1956) var som lyriker, prosaist, journalist og tidsskriftsudgiver en central skikkelse i firsernes og halvfemsernes danske litteratur. Efter sin konvertering til katolicismen i 1896 skrev han fortrinsvis helgenbiografier, men fra denne periode stammer også selvbiografien Mit Livs Legende (1916-28). Han boede med kortere afbrydelser i Assisi i Italien fra 1915 til 1953 og blev et stort navn i den katolske verden. Martin Bergsøe er mag.art. i nordisk litteratur med en bachelor i filosofi og en master i teologi. Er bosiddende på Falster. Han har tidligere udgivet En røst i ørkenen: Ånd og liv i Johannes Jørgensens forfatterskab (2019) samt bidraget til antologien Fagerø om Johannes Jørgensen og hans forfatterskab.

This book builds upon recent theoretical approaches that define queerness as more of a temporal orientation than a sexual one to explore how Edgar Allan Poe's literary works were frequently invested in imagining lives that contemporary readers can understand as queer, as they stray outside of or aggressively reject normative life paths, including heterosexual romance, marriage, and reproduction, and emphasize individuals' present desires over future plans. The book's analysis of many of Poe's best-known works, including "e;The Raven,"e; "e;The Fall of the House of Usher,"e; "e;The Black Cat,"e; "e;The Masque of the Red Death,"e; and "e;The Murders in the Rue Morgue,"e; show that his attraction to the liberation of queerness is accompanied by demonstrations of extreme anxiety about the potentially terrifying consequences of non-normative choices. While Poe never resolved the conflicts in his thinking, this book argues that this compelling imaginative tension between queerness and temporal normativity is crucial to understanding his canon.

"Matthew Leporati examines the explosive Romantic revival of epic alongside the contemporary revival of missionary activity. His study contributes to charged political debates around British imperialism. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details"--

This new study provides fresh readings of Thomas Hardy¿s work and illuminates the social and cultural history of dress in the nineteenth century. The book argues that Hardy had a more detailed and acute understanding of the importance of dress in forming and regulating personal identity and social relations than any other writer of his time. Structured thematically, it takes into account both nineteenth-century and modern theoretical approaches to the significance of what we wear.The author gives an extended analysis of individual works by Hardy, showing, for example, that A Pair of Blue Eyes is central to the study of the function of clothing in the expression and perception of sexuality. The Hand of Ethelberta, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d¿Urbervilles and The Woodlanders are examined in order to show the extent to which dress obscures or reveals the nature of the self. Hardy¿s other novels, as well as the short stories and poems, are used to confirm the centrality of dress and clothing in Hardy¿s work. The book also raises issues such as the gendering of dress, cross-dressing, work clothes and working with clothes, dress and the environment, the symbolism of colour in clothes, and the dress conventions relating to death.