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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Victorianism"”.
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The Transcendent Victorianism of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins was born at Stradford, near London, on July 28, 1844.1 That year, incidentally, was a year of significance. The Oxford Tracts had done their work; the face of religion was changed; art and literature were taking on the buoyancy of progress and the weightiness of scientism. The …
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Neo-Victorianism and empathy : time, affect, and the ethics of reading
… In contrast to the popular understanding of neoVictorianism as a genre that seeks to explore the afterlife of the Victorians, my focus is on the wide-ranging ethical and political implications of its ‘empathetic narrative’, both with respect to the representation of intra-diegetic characters and …
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Libertas Reborn: A Legend of Florence and Leigh Hunt's Literary Revival
… the two dynamic movements of Romanticism and Victorianism. It was during this transitional period, however, that Leigh Hunt, one of the most radical of Romantic figures, wrote and staged A Legend of Florence (1840) in an attempt to stimulate a literary revival. Hunt's play reasserts the …
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Lilian Westcott Hale and Nancy Hale: From Victorian to Modern in Art and Text
… in an open manner, a result of the break with Victorianism. Hale‘s use of a literary medium allows her direct examination of the turmoil caused by the modern breakdown of Victorian structures. Lilian Westcott Hale refrains from harsh judgment of her daughter‘s world, while Nancy Hale‘s modern …
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Genius, heredity, and family dynamics. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his children : a literary biography.
… and intellectual terms, to later Romanticism and Victorianism.
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Epistolary Encounters : Diary and Letter Pastiche in Neo-Victorian Fiction.
… the intertextual processes of metafiction in neo-Victorianism as an area that has as yet received little critical attention, with no specific investigation of epistolary forms in the genre.
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The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in Fin de Siècle Jamesian Narratives
… of autonomous identity at the end point of Victorianism. </p> <p>Festinger defines the notion of cognitive dissonance as the human mind’s innate tendency to ensure all its metaphysical components (one’s personal thoughts, behaviors, attitudes, and opinions) are consistently harmonious at all …
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The Making of Audubon Park: Competing Ideologies for Public Space
<p>The emergence of Progressivism at the beginning of the twentieth century influenced many aspects of American society. One of those aspects was urban parks. In the latter half of the nineteenth century Frederick Law Olmsted led a nationwide implementation of "Victorian" parks. These parks …