The Victorian period saw some of the most important developments in Britain's history. Rapid industrialisation, social and welfare reform, ground-breaking scientific discoveries, and an unprecedented rise in literacy, all had their impact on fiction of the time. Mapping the developments in fiction against the key political, cultural, and social events of the nineteenth century, this book looks at issues of humanism, domestic politics, religion, colonialism, class identity, and sexuality, while at the same time providing an introduction to the works of Dickens, the Brontes, Thackeray, Gaskell, Trollope, Eliot, Collins, Gissing, Hardy, and Stevenson.

Victorian Fiction: Contexts (Contexts Series)

Literature & Fiction

Marshall, Gail

British & Irish

Hodder Education Publishers

The Victorian period saw some of the most important developments in Britain's history: rapid industrialization, social and welfare reform, ground-breaking scientific discoveries. All this lead to an unprecedented rise in literacy and had their impact on fiction of the time. 
Mapping the developments in fiction against the key political, cultural, and social events of the nineteenth century, this book looks at issues of humanism, domestic politics, religion, colonialism, class identity, and sexuality, while at the same time providing an introduction to the works of Dickens, the Brontes, Thackeray, Gaskell, Trollope, Eliot, Collins, Gissing, Hardy, and Stevenson.

Victorian Fiction (Contexts)

Bloomsbury Academic

Gail Marshall looks at actresses on the English stage of the later nineteenth century, and argues that much of their work was determined by the popularity at the time of images of Classical sculpture. They were often encouraged to look as much as possible like statues, and thus to appear to their audiences as sexually desirable objects rather than creative artists. The book draws for its evidence on theatrical fictions, visual representations, and popular culture's assimilation of the sculptural image, as well as on theatrical productions.

Actresses on the Victorian Stage: Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 16)

Dramas & Plays

Cambridge University Press

Much has been written on the cultural significance of Shakespeare, his influence on particular periods, and his appropriation and subsequent transformation. However, no book until now has specifically addressed the nature of the relationship between Shakespeare and Victorian women. In this book, Gail Marshall gives an account of the actresses who played an essential part in redeeming Shakespeare for the Victorian stage, the writers who embraced him as part of the texture of their own writing as well as their personal lives, and those women readers who, educated to be alert to the female voices of Shakespeare, often went on to re-read Shakespeare for their own ends. Dr Marshall argues that women form a fundamental part of the narrative of how the Victorian Shakespeare was made, and that translation, rather than terms such as appropriation or adaptation, is the most appropriate metaphor for understanding the symbiosis between Shakespeare and Victorian women.

Shakespeare and Victorian Women (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 64)

The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siècle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can be seen in action. In this, more than any previous decade, literature was an active and controversial participant within debates over morality, aesthetics, politics and science, as Victorian certainties began to break down. Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker and Olive Schreiner were among the most prominent, occasionally even notorious, writers and artists of the period, challenging establishment values and producing a distinctive literature of their own. This volume includes the main currents of radical and innovative thinking in the period, as well as the attempts to resist them. It will be of great interest to students of Victorian and twentieth-century literature, art and cultural history.

Gail Marshall looks at actresses on the English stage of the later nineteenth century, and argues that much of their work was determined by the popularity at the time of images of Classical sculpture. They were often encouraged to look as much as possible like statues, and thus to appear to their audiences as sexually desirable objects rather than creative artists. The book draws for its evidence on theatrical fictions, visual representations, and popular culture's assimilation of the sculptural image, as well as on theatrical productions.

Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage as they were infamous for their activities off it. It draws a selection of the actors' own words with those of their contemporaries and critics.

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 1: David Garrick, Charles Macklin and Margaret Woffington by Their Contemporaries

Biographies & Memoirs

Goring, Paul

Caines, Michael

Shaughnessy, Nicola

Kishi, Tetsuo

Reference & Collections

Routledge

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 2: David Garrick, Charles Macklin and Margaret Woffington by Their Contemporaries

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 3: David Garrick, Charles Macklin and Margaret Woffington by Their Contemporaries

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Victorian Fiction: Contexts (Contexts Series)

Victorian Fiction (Contexts)

Actresses on the Victorian Stage: Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 16)

Shakespeare and Victorian Women (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 64)

The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Actresses on the Victorian Stage: Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 16)

Shakespeare and Victorian Women (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 64)

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 1: David Garrick, Charles Macklin and Margaret Woffington by Their Contemporaries

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 2: David Garrick, Charles Macklin and Margaret Woffington by Their Contemporaries

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 3: David Garrick, Charles Macklin and Margaret Woffington by Their Contemporaries