Ivan Kreilkamp's Books

Minor Creatures

Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel

By: Ivan Kreilkamp

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Minor Creatures

Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel

By: Ivan Kreilkamp

In the nineteenth century, richly-drawn social fiction became one of England’s major cultural exports. At the same time, a surprising companion came to stand alongside the novel as a key embodiment of British identity: the domesticated pet. In works by authors from the Brontës to Eliot, from Dickens to Hardy, animals appeared as markers of domestic coziness and familial kindness. Yet for all their supposed significance, the animals in nineteenth-century fiction were never granted the same fullness of character or consciousness as their human masters: they remain secondary figures. Minor Creatures re-examines a slew of literary classics to show how Victorian notions of domesticity, sympathy, and individuality were shaped in response to the burgeoning pet class. The presence of beloved animals in the home led to a number of welfare-minded political movements, inspired in part by the Darwinian thought that began to sprout at the time. Nineteenth-century animals may not have been the heroes of their own lives but, as Kreilkamp shows, the history of domestic pets deeply influenced the history of the English novel.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

228

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022657637X

ISBN 13

9780226576374

Voice and the Victorian Storyteller

By: Ivan Kreilkamp

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Voice and the Victorian Storyteller

By: Ivan Kreilkamp

The nineteenth-century novel has always been regarded as a literary form pre-eminently occupied with the written word, but Ivan Kreilkamp shows it was deeply marked by and engaged with vocal performances and the preservation and representation of speech. He offers a detailed account of the many ways Victorian literature and culture represented the human voice, from political speeches, governesses' tales, shorthand manuals, and staged authorial performances in the early- and mid-century, to mechanically reproducible voice at the end of the century. Through readings of Charlotte Brontë, Browning, Carlyle, Conrad, Dickens, Disraeli and Gaskell, Kreilkamp re-evaluates critical assumptions about the cultural meanings of storytelling, and shows that the figure of the oral storyteller, rather than disappearing among readers' preference for printed texts, persisted as a character and a function within the novel. This 2005 study will change the way readers consider the Victorian novel and its many ways of telling stories.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

266

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

113944834X

ISBN 13

9781139448345

Voice and the Victorian Storyteller

By: Ivan Kreilkamp

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Voice and the Victorian Storyteller

By: Ivan Kreilkamp

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

266

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

113944834X

ISBN 13

9781139448345

A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread

By: Ivan Kreilkamp

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread

By: Ivan Kreilkamp

Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of the novel in the twenty-first century with an elegiac meditation on how we experience the passage of time. Kreilkamp, a former music critic, examines how Egan’s characters turn to rock and especially punk in search of community and meaning. He considers what the novel’s portrayal of music says about the role of art in contemporary culture as digitization makes older technologies obsolete. Combining personal and critical reflection, he reveals how A Visit from the Goon Squad articulates and responds to the sense of loss many feel as cherished physical objects are replaced with immaterial data. For Kreilkamp, Egan’s novel compellingly combines the psychological realism of the nineteenth-century novel with more recent and transient forms such as the celebrity magazine profile or a PowerPoint presentation to provide a self-reflective diagnosis of the decay and endurance of literature. Arranged like Egan’s novel into A and B sides, this book highlights not only how A Visit from the Goon Squad speaks to our mass-media and digital present but also its page-turning pleasure.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0231547013

ISBN 13

9780231547017

Minor Creatures

Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel

By: Ivan Kreilkamp

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Minor Creatures

Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel

By: Ivan Kreilkamp

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

228

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022657637X

ISBN 13

9780226576374

A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread

By: Ivan Kreilkamp

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread

By: Ivan Kreilkamp

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0231547013

ISBN 13

9780231547017

Book's by Ivan Kreilkamp

Minor Creatures

Minor Creatures

Voice and the Victorian Storyteller

Voice and the Victorian Storyteller

Voice and the Victorian Storyteller

Voice and the Victorian Storyteller

A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread

A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread

Minor Creatures

Minor Creatures

A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread

A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email