The nineteenth-century was a time of accelerated change and stark contradictions. It was marked by stability, advancement and reform, but also by widening inequalities, spiritual crisis and social unrest. Identity and gender came under pressure, religious belief was called into question, and the condition of women and children seemed to belie the much-vaunted idea of progress. Essays in this book explore how these contradictions and concerns are reflected in nineteenth-century literature. In discussing historical figures, characters and plots that are variously vulnerable and/or resilient, the…mehr
The nineteenth-century was a time of accelerated change and stark contradictions. It was marked by stability, advancement and reform, but also by widening inequalities, spiritual crisis and social unrest. Identity and gender came under pressure, religious belief was called into question, and the condition of women and children seemed to belie the much-vaunted idea of progress. Essays in this book explore how these contradictions and concerns are reflected in nineteenth-century literature. In discussing historical figures, characters and plots that are variously vulnerable and/or resilient, the essays reflect the breadth of nineteenth-century literature, from realist and sensational fiction to autobiography and poetry. Besides providing insights into the transfigurative role writing played, both as a means to express vulnerability and as a resilience process, the essays also foster further reflection on two timeless dimensions of the human condition.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Raffaella Antinucci is a professor of English literature at Parthenope University of Naples (Italy). Her research focuses on Victorian literature and on the Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the nineteenth century. Adrian Grafe is an English professor at Artois University in France. He has published broadly on poetry, fiction and popular music, and is a Fellow of the English Association.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by Phillip Mallett Introduction: Transfiguring the Unbearable Raffaella Antinucci and Adrian Grafe I. Heroic Vulnerability The Resilience of the Anglo-Italian Heroine in Margaret Collier Galletti di Cadilhac's Babel (1887) Claudia Capancioni Elephantine Resilience: The Case of Joseph Merrick Franco Lonati Ordinary Heroes: My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst and the Suffragette Movement Francesca Orestano The Creation of the Modern Superhero: The Vulnerability and Resilience of Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel Agnes Strickland-Pajtok II. Women Under Pressure Resilient Women in Ellen Wood's Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles:Rethinking Feminine Vulnerability Mariaconcetta Costantini Journeying Towards Wholeness in the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge Julia Courtney Nameless and Friendless: Art, Resilience and Catharsis in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) Claudia Zilletti George du Maurier's Trilby (1894) as Self-Loss and Recovery Raffaella Sciarra III. Sensation, Deprivation and Opportunity The Resilience and Vulnerability of Gemstones and Their Owners: Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Rajah's Diamond" Angelo Riccioni Arnold Bennett and "the spectacle of existence": The Battle Against Time in Anna of the Five Towns and The Old Wives' Tale Francesca D'Alfonso Split Self-Fashioning: Benjamin Disraeli and Working-Class Resilience in Sybil Daniele Niedda Life's Threats and Opportunities: Little Dorrit, or Orphans' Mazy Life Carla Fusco IV. The Endurance of Poetry Suffering and the Necessity for Change in Keats's Odes and Hyperion Laure-Hélène Anthony-Gerroldt "Red is the strangest pain to bear": Charlotte Mew's Poetics of Creative Magdalenism Christina Maria Mirza Mourning Economy: Tennyson's Poetry and the "Commerce with the Dead" Saverio Tomaiuolo An Unknown Coleridge: The Trauma of a Court Scandal, Patriarchal Control, and a Poet's Response Tom Zaniello About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by Phillip Mallett Introduction: Transfiguring the Unbearable Raffaella Antinucci and Adrian Grafe I. Heroic Vulnerability The Resilience of the Anglo-Italian Heroine in Margaret Collier Galletti di Cadilhac's Babel (1887) Claudia Capancioni Elephantine Resilience: The Case of Joseph Merrick Franco Lonati Ordinary Heroes: My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst and the Suffragette Movement Francesca Orestano The Creation of the Modern Superhero: The Vulnerability and Resilience of Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel Agnes Strickland-Pajtok II. Women Under Pressure Resilient Women in Ellen Wood's Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles:Rethinking Feminine Vulnerability Mariaconcetta Costantini Journeying Towards Wholeness in the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge Julia Courtney Nameless and Friendless: Art, Resilience and Catharsis in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) Claudia Zilletti George du Maurier's Trilby (1894) as Self-Loss and Recovery Raffaella Sciarra III. Sensation, Deprivation and Opportunity The Resilience and Vulnerability of Gemstones and Their Owners: Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Rajah's Diamond" Angelo Riccioni Arnold Bennett and "the spectacle of existence": The Battle Against Time in Anna of the Five Towns and The Old Wives' Tale Francesca D'Alfonso Split Self-Fashioning: Benjamin Disraeli and Working-Class Resilience in Sybil Daniele Niedda Life's Threats and Opportunities: Little Dorrit, or Orphans' Mazy Life Carla Fusco IV. The Endurance of Poetry Suffering and the Necessity for Change in Keats's Odes and Hyperion Laure-Hélène Anthony-Gerroldt "Red is the strangest pain to bear": Charlotte Mew's Poetics of Creative Magdalenism Christina Maria Mirza Mourning Economy: Tennyson's Poetry and the "Commerce with the Dead" Saverio Tomaiuolo An Unknown Coleridge: The Trauma of a Court Scandal, Patriarchal Control, and a Poet's Response Tom Zaniello About the Contributors Index
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