The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume I: The Renaissance

Arts & Photography

Fraser, Hilary

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Gender and the Victorian Periodical (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 41)

Examining the important role played by the Victorian periodical in defining and refining gender roles during the second half of the nineteenth century, this study analyzes the periodical press in nineteenth-century culture. It considers issues of gender in the presses' development as a powerful political and social medium. The authors examine broad questions as they are explored in a range of periodicals, from literary and political reviews to comic magazines.

Literature & Fiction

Green, Stephanie

Johnston, Judith

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

This study is an important contribution to the intellectual history of Victorian England which examines the religio-aesthetic theories of some central writers of the time. Dr Fraser begins with a discussion of the aesthetic dimensions of Tractarian theology and then proceeds to the orthodox certainties of Hopkins' theory of inscape, Ruskin's and Arnold's moralistic criticism of literature and the visual arts, and Pater's and Wilde's faith in a religion of art. The author identifies significant cultural and historical conditions which determined the interdependence of aesthetic and religious sensibility in the period. She argues that certain tensions in the thought of Wordsworth and Coleridge - tensions between poetry and religion, rebellion and reaction, individualism and authority - continued to manifest themselves throughout the Victorian age, and as society became increasingly democratic, religion in turn became increasingly personal and secular.

Beauty and Belief: Aesthetics and Religion in Victorian Literature

This study is an important contribution to the intellectual history of Victorian England which examines the religio-aesthetic theories of some central writers of the time. Dr Fraser begins with a discussion of the aesthetic dimensions of Tractarian theology and then proceeds to the orthodox certainties of Hopkins' theory of inscape, Ruskin's and Arnold's moralistic criticism of literature and the visual arts, and Pater's and Wilde's faith in a religion of art. The author identifies significant cultural and historical conditions which determined the interdependence of aesthetic and religious sensibility in the period. She argues that certain tensions in the thought of Wordsworth and Coleridge - tensions between poetry and religion, rebellion and reaction, individualism and authority - continued to manifest themselves throughout the Victorian age, and as society became increasingly democratic, religion in turn became increasingly personal and secular.

Examining the important role played by the Victorian periodical in defining and refining gender roles during the second half of the nineteenth century, this study analyzes the periodical press in nineteenth-century culture. It considers issues of gender in the presses' development as a powerful political and social medium. The authors examine broad questions as they are explored in a range of periodicals, from literary and political reviews to comic magazines.

Reference

Hilary Fraser provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of English prose in the nineteenth century which draws from a wide variety of fields including art, literary theory and criticisim, biography, letters, journals, sermons, and travel reportage. Through these works the cultural, social, literary and political life of the twentieth century - a period of great intellectual activity - can be charted, discussed and assessed. For the first time, an inclusive critical survey of nineteenth-century non-fiction is presented, that traces the century's ideological and cultural upheavals as they are registered in the literary textures of some of its most widely read and influential writings.The book explores the relations between writers who are generally perceived as occupying different discursive spheres, for example between John Stuart Mill, Florence Nightingale and Mrs Beeton; between Cardinal Newman, Elizabeth Gaskell and Hannah Cullwick; and between Charles Darwin, David Livingstone and Henry Mayhew. The establishment and development of different genres and their interactions over the century are clearly mapped. The genre of the periodical essay, a distinctively modern and flexible form catering to the mass readership, is the subject of the introduction, and then more specialist fields are discussed, covering scientific writing, travel and exploration literature, social reportage, biography, autobiography, journals, letters, religious and philosophical prose, political writing and history.

English Prose of the Nineteenth Century (Longman Literature In English Series)

Brown, Daniel

Routledge

Providing a comprehensive survey of English prose in the 19th century, this volume draws material from a wide variety of fields including art, literary theory and criticism, biography, letters, journals, sermons, and travel reportage. Through these works, the cultural, social, literary and political life of the 19th century can be charted, discussed and assessed.

English Prose of the Nineteenth Century (Longman Literature in English Series)

Longman Pub. Group

The book examines a wide range of Victorian literary, visual and historical representations of the Italian Renaissance. It looks at the High Renaissance poetic forms, such as the sonnet, by Victorian poets as diverse as Christina Rossetti and Coventry Patmore; at the poems and novels set in Renaissance Italy by writers such as Robert Browning and George Eliot; and at the different interpretations of the Renaissance put forward by cultural historians such as Ruskin, Pater and Symonds. The Victorians and Renaissance Italy is a fascinating examination of the Renaissance as a historical construct, invented by the nineteenth century, and reflecting nineteenth-century interests, preoccupations and ideologies.

The Victorians and Renaissance Italy

History

Europe

Blackwell Pub.

This book sets out to correct received accounts of the emergence of art history as a masculine field. It investigates the importance of female writers from Anna Jameson, Elizabeth Eastlake and George Eliot to Alice Meynell, Vernon Lee and Michael Field in developing a discourse of art notable for its complexity and cultural power, its increasing professionalism and reach, and its integration with other discourses of modernity. Proposing a more flexible and inclusive model of what constitutes art historical writing, including fiction, poetry and travel literature, this book offers a radically revisionist account of the genealogy of a discipline and a profession. It shows how women experienced forms of professional exclusion that, whilst detrimental to their careers, could be aesthetically formative; how working from the margins of established institutional structures gave women the freedom to be audaciously experimental in their writing about art in ways that resonate with modern readers.

Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century: Looking Like a Woman (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 95)

This book sets out to correct received accounts of the emergence of art history as a masculine field. It investigates the importance of female writers from Anna Jameson, Elizabeth Eastlake and George Eliot to Alice Meynell, Vernon Lee and Michael Field in developing a discourse of art notable for its complexity and cultural power, its increasing professionalism and reach, and its integration with other discourses of modernity. Proposing a more flexible and inclusive model of what constitutes art historical writing, including fiction, poetry and travel literature, this book offers a radically revisionist account of the genealogy of a discipline and a profession. It shows how women experienced forms of professional exclusion that, whilst detrimental to their careers, could be aesthetically formative; how working from the margins of established institutional structures gave women the freedom to be audaciously experimental in their writing about art in ways that resonate with modern readers.

Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 95)

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The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume I: The Renaissance

Gender and the Victorian Periodical (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 41)

Beauty and Belief: Aesthetics and Religion in Victorian Literature

Beauty and Belief: Aesthetics and Religion in Victorian Literature

Gender and the Victorian Periodical (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 41)

English Prose of the Nineteenth Century (Longman Literature In English Series)

English Prose of the Nineteenth Century (Longman Literature in English Series)

The Victorians and Renaissance Italy

Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century: Looking Like a Woman (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 95)

Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 95)