Society and Cultural Forms in Nineteenth Century England

Maps out the social and cultural changes that accompanied the radical political and economic changes that engulfed the country during the century. Among them are shifts from minority to mass literacy, from rule by a tiny elite to at least glimmers of democracy, and from women's exclusion from the public sphere to the age of the New Women and a return to the labor market in vastly different circumstances. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Society and Cultural Forms in Nineteenth Century England (Social History in Perspective)

History

Dentith, Simon

Europe

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The transformation of British society in the course of the 19th century is a commonplace of historical description. The transition from an industrial but still predominantly agricultural society, with many of its traditional, vertically organized forms of social organization still intact, to a predominantly urban, class divided and recognizably modern society remains one of the striking transformations of social history, the prototype indeed for much of human history in the 20th century. The simultaneous transformation of Britain, from one imperial power among others, to the most powerful imperium in history, is equally important.

Palgrave HE UK

George Eliot (Harvester new readings)

Humanities Press International

Bakhtinian Thought:Intro Read (Critical Readers in Theory and Practice)

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Bakhtinian Thought: An Introductory Reader (Critical Readers in Theory and Practice)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Routledge

<p>First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.</p>

Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 52)

In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explores the relationship between epic and the evolution of Britain's national identity in the nineteenth century up to the apparent demise of all notions of heroic warfare in the catastrophe of the First World War. Paradoxically, writers found equivalents of the societies which produced Homeric or Northern epics not in Europe, but on the margins of empire and among its subject peoples. Dentith considers the implications of the status of epic for a range of nineteenth-century writers, including Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Morris and Rudyard Kipling. He also considers the relationship between epic poetry and the novel and discusses late nineteenth-century adventure novels, concluding with a brief survey of epic in the twentieth century.

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

Harvester Press

Bakhtinian Thought: An Introductory Reader

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