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The Juvenile Tradition

Young Writers and Prolepsis, 1750-1835

By: Laurie Langbauer

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The Juvenile Tradition

Young Writers and Prolepsis, 1750-1835

By: Laurie Langbauer

The Juvenile Tradition' covers the late 18th and early 19th century, drawing on the history of childhood and child studies, along with reception study and audience history to recast literary history.

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Oxford University Press

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0198739206

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9780198739203

Women and Romance

The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel

By: Laurie Langbauer

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The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel

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Cornell University Press

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1501723065

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The Juvenile Tradition

Young Writers and Prolepsis, 1750-1835

By: Laurie Langbauer

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The Juvenile Tradition

Young Writers and Prolepsis, 1750-1835

By: Laurie Langbauer

A juvenile tradition of young writers flourished in Britain between 1750-1835. Canonical Romantic poets as well as now-unknown youthful writers published as teenagers. These teenage writers reflected on their literary juvenilia by using the trope of prolepsis to assert their writing as a literary tradition. Precocious writing, child prodigies, and early genius had been topics of interest since the eighteenth century. Child authors—girl poets and boy poets, schoolboy writers and undergraduate writers, juvenile authors of all kinds—found new publication opportunities because of major shifts in the periodical press, publishing, and education. School magazines and popular juvenile magazines that awarded prizes to child writers all made youthful authorship more visible. Some historians estimate that minors (children and teens) comprised over half the population at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Modern interest in Romanticism, and the self-taught and women writers' traditions, has occluded the tradition of juvenile writers. This first full-length study to recover the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century juvenile tradition draws on the history of childhood and child studies, along with reception study and audience history. It considers the literary juvenilia of Thomas Chatterton, Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey, Leigh Hunt, Jane Austen, and Felicia Hemans (then Felicia Dorothea Browne)-along with the childhood writing of Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and John Keats-and a score of other young poets- "infant bards "-no longer familiar today. Recovering juvenility recasts literary history. Adolescent writers, acting proleptically, ignored the assumptions of childhood development and the disparagement of supposedly immature writing.

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Oxford University Press

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0191059722

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9780191059728

Novels of Everyday Life

The Series in English Fiction, 1850–1930

By: Laurie Langbauer

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Novels of Everyday Life

The Series in English Fiction, 1850–1930

By: Laurie Langbauer

Laurie Langbauer argues that our worldview is shaped not just by great public events but also by the most overlooked and familiar aspects of common life—"the everyday." This sphere of the everyday has always been a crucial component of the novel, but has been ignored by many writers and critics and long associated with the writing of women. Focusing on the linked series of novels characteristic of later Victorian and early modern fiction—such as Margaret Oliphant's Carlingford Chronicles or the Sherlock Holmes stories—she investigates how authors make use of the everyday as a foundation to support their versions of realism. What happens when—in the series novel, or in contemporary theory—the everyday becomes a site of contestation and debate? Langbauer pursues this question through the novels of Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Yonge, Anthony Trollope, and Arthur Conan Doyle—and in the writings of Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, and John Galsworthy as they reflect on their Victorian predecessors. She also explores accounts of the everyday in the works of such theorists as Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and Sigmund Freud, as well as materialist critics, including George Lukacs, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno. Her work shows how these writers link the series and the everyday in ways that reveal different approaches to comprehending the obscurity that makes up daily life.

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Cornell University Press

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1501744577

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9781501744570

Women and Romance

The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel

By: Laurie Langbauer

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Women and Romance

The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel

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According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues in feminist debate, in particular the relations of feminist to the poststructuralist theories of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. In highlighting questions of gender in this way, Women and Romance contributes to a major debate between skeptical and materialist points of view among poststructuralist critics.

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Cornell University Press

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1501723073

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9781501723070

Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

By: Laurie A. Finke

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Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

By: Laurie A. Finke

In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contemporary feminist theory. She maintains that some of the key concepts structuring feminist literary criticism need to be reexamined within both their historical context and the larger framework of current theory concerning language, representation, subjectivity, and value.

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Cornell University Press

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1501726269

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Novels of Everyday Life

The Series in English Fiction, 1850–1930

By: Laurie Langbauer

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Novels of Everyday Life

The Series in English Fiction, 1850–1930

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The Juvenile Tradition

The Juvenile Tradition

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The Juvenile Tradition

The Juvenile Tradition

Novels of Everyday Life

Novels of Everyday Life

Women and Romance

Women and Romance

Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

Novels of Everyday Life

Novels of Everyday Life

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