Search Results - "Politics"

The Chartist Imaginary : Literary Form in Working-Class Political Theory and Practice / by Loose, Margaret A., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Chartism and the politics of form -- Ernest Jones and the poetics of internationalism -- Epic agency -- Revolutionary strategy and formal hybridity in Chartist fiction -- The gender legacy: women in early to late Chartist literature -- The politics of cognition in Chartist women's poetry.…”
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Crime in Verse : The Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era / by O'Brien, Ellen L., 1970-

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The Improvement of the Estate : A Study of Jane Austen's Novels / by Duckworth, Alistair M., 1936-

Subjects: “…Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 Political and social views. 160924…”
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Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law / by Harris, Sharon M.

Table of Contents: “…Executing race : infanticide narratives -- Belinda : the politics of petitions -- Posthumous constructions : the writings of Ann Eliza Bleecker -- Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres : a post-revolutionary "freedom of mind" -- Lost boundaries : carnivalizing race and sexuality in Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism -- Lucy Terry : a life of radical resistance -- Appendix : Lucy Terry's obituary.…”
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London, Radical Culture, and the Making of the Dickensian Aesthetic / by Sen, Sambudha

Table of Contents: “…Dickens, Thackeray, and "the language of radicalism" -- The aesthetics and politics of caricature : Bleak house, Little Dorrit, and Vanity fair in relation to "radical expression" -- Re-visioning the city : the making of an urban aesthetic from Hogarth to the stereoscope -- Novelizing the city : Bleak house, Vanity fair, and the hybridizing challenge -- Radical culture, the city, and the problem of selfhood : Great expectations and Pendennis -- Working with fragments : Our mutual friend as a reflection on the popular aesthetic.…”
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Deciphering Race : White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose / by Callanan, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Aestheticizing Mid-Victorian Racial Tropism -- Toussaint and the Staging of Political Aesthetics in Normal: Harriet Martineaus The Hour and the Man (1841) -- Life Clothed in Forms: Radical Racism as Formalist Aesthetic in Robert Knoxs The Races of Men (1850) -- The Dialectic of Scapegoat and Fetish: Failed Catharsis in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collinss The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) -- So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth: Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth Seeking in the Royal Commissions Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion -- Race, Ruins, and Rebellion: Spatializing Racial @Normal: Otherness in James Grants First Love and Last Love (1868) -- De-Aestheticizing Sara(h) Ba(a)rtman(n).…”
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Scenes of Sympathy : Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction / by Jaffe, Audrey

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Building a National Literature : The Case of Germany, 1830–1870 / by Hohendahl, Peter Uwe

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Beastly Journeys : Travel and Transformation at the fin de siècle / by Youngs, Tim, 1961-

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Imagined Homelands : British Poetry in the Colonies / by Rudy, Jason R., 1975-

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