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Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

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Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

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Lyn Pykett offers a lively exploration of the novels of Wilkie Collins, author of the first recognised detective novel

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Oxford University Press

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0199556113

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The Nineteenth-century Sensation Novel

By: Lyn Pykett

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The Nineteenth-century Sensation Novel

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This clearly written and wide-ranging study identifies the main features of the sensation novel, analysing its broader cultural significance as well as looking at it in its specific cultural context.

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Northcote House Pub Limited

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0746312121

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The 'Improper' Feminine

The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing

By: Lyn Pykett

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The 'Improper' Feminine

The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing

By: Lyn Pykett

The women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s were two major examples of a perceived feminine invasion of fiction which caused a critical furore in their day. Both genres, with their shocking, `fast' heroines, fired the popular imagination by putting female sexuality on the literary agenda and undermining the `proper feminine' ideal to which nineteenth-century women and fictional heroines were supposed to aspire. By exploring in impressive depth and breadth the material and discursive conditions in which these novels were produced, The `Improper' Feminine draws attention to key gendered interrelationships within the literary and wider cultures of the mid-Victorian and fin-de-diècle periods.

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Routledge

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1134944829

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9781134944828

Charles Dickens

By: Lyn Pykett

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Charles Dickens

By: Lyn Pykett

To many of his contemporaries, Charles Dickens was the greatest writer of his age; a one-man fiction industry who produced fourteen massive novels, and numerous sketches, essays and stories, many of which appeared in the two magazines which he founded and edited. Today the work of one of the first and most successful mass-circulation authors continues to enthrall readers around the world. This wide-ranging book examines the writings of Dickens, not only in his time but also in ours. It looks at the author as a Victorian 'man of letters', and explores his cultural and critical impact both on the definition of the novel in the nineteenth century and the subsequent development of the form in the twentieth. Lyn Pykett focuses on Dickens as journalist, literary entrepreneur, the conductor of magazines, the shaper of the serial novel, the manipulator of the multiple plot, and the creator of eccentric characters. She also assesses the modernity of the writer's alienated protagonists and their social environments, as well as reassessing his representations of the vivid, bleak and at times menacing spectacle of the metropolis, from the late modern/postmodern perspective of the twenty first century. Each chapter of this text analyses the work of a particular decade in Dickens's career, providing a lively contextual study which places his writings in relation to the worlds that made him, and the literary worlds which he made. It is essential reading for all those with an interest in one of the most popular, and enduring, British novelists of all time.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350317659

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Emily Brontë

By: Lyn Pykett

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Emily Brontë

By: Lyn Pykett

Emily Bront%'s writings explore, expand, and transgress limited nineteenth-century ideas of the nature of the female lot and of women's creativity. This study offers an extensive rereading of the poems which focuses on Emily Bront%'s problematic relationship to the Romantic tradition in which they were produced, and to the critical tradition in which they have been reproduced. Using recent feminist work on gender and genre Lyn Pykett throws fresh light on the complexities of Wuthering Heights, and suggests that much of this novel's distinctiveness may be attributed to the particular ways in which it both combines and explores Female Gothic and the emerging realist domestic novel, a genre also widely used and read by women. Contents: Emily Bront%: A Life Hidden from History; The Writings of Ellis Bell; 'Not at all like the poetry women generally write' Emily Bront% and the Problem of the Woman Poet; Death Dreams and Prison Songs; Gender and Genre in^R Wuthering Heights; Changing the Names: The Two Catherines; Nelly Dean: Memoirs of a Survivor; The Male Part of the Poem; Reading Women's Writing: Emily Bront% and the Critics

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164

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0389208817

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9780389208815

Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions

By: Lyn Pykett

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Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions

By: Lyn Pykett

The fin de siècle, the period 1880-1914, long associated with decadence and with the literary movements of aestheticism and symbolism, has received renewed critical interest recently. The essays in this volume form a valuable introduction to fin de siècle cultural studies and provide a commentary on important aspects of current critical debate and the place of culture in society.

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Routledge

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The Nineteenth-century Sensation Novel

By: Lyn Pykett

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This clearly written and wide-ranging study identifies the main features of the sensation novel, analysing its broader cultural significance as well as looking at it in its specific cultural context.

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Lady Audley's Secret

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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Lady Audley's Secret

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

it only rests with yourself to become Lady Audley, and the mistress of Audley Court' When beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future look secure. But Lady Audley's past is shrouded in mystery, and to Sir Michael's nephew Robert, she is not all that she seems. When his good friend George Talboys suddenly disappears, Robert is determined to find him, and to unearth the truth. His quest reveals a tangled story of lies and deception, crime and intrigue, whose sensational twists turn the conventional picture of Victorian womanhood on its head. Can Robert's darkest suspicions really be true? Lady Audley's Secret was an immediate bestseller, and readers have enjoyed its thrilling plot ever since its first publication in 1862. This new edition explores Braddon's portrait of her scheming heroine in the context of the nineteenth-century sensation novel and the lively, often hostile debates it provoked. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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OUP Oxford

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0191622214

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Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

By: Lyn Pykett

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Lyn Pykett offers a lively exploration of the novels of Wilkie Collins, author of the first recognised detective novel

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The 'Improper' Feminine

The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing

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Emily Brontë

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Engendering Fictions

The English Novel in the Early Twentieth Century

By: Lyn Pykett

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Engendering Fictions

The English Novel in the Early Twentieth Century

By: Lyn Pykett

Why did turn-of-the-century England produce the kind of writing it did? That deceptively simple question is at the heart of Lyn Pykett's enquiry. She re-examines the beginning of the age of modernism, exploring its origins in nineteenth-century discourses: particularly discourses about womenand gender.

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Hodder Education

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0340645776

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9780340645772

Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions

By: Lyn Pykett

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Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions

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Improper' Feminine

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Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

The Nineteenth-century Sensation Novel

The Nineteenth-century Sensation Novel

The 'Improper' Feminine

The 'Improper' Feminine

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë

Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions

Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions

The Nineteenth-century Sensation Novel

The Nineteenth-century Sensation Novel

Lady Audley's Secret

Lady Audley's Secret

Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

The 'Improper' Feminine

The 'Improper' Feminine

Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë

Engendering Fictions

Engendering Fictions

Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions

Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions

Improper' Feminine

Improper' Feminine

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