The Nineteenth-Century Church and English Society

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Knight
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Society

scholarly journals Evolution of Verse Form, Plots and Characters in English Plays (mid-16th to mid-19th centuries)

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Marina Tarlinskaja
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
The Social ◽  
English Society ◽  
Verse Form ◽  
Iambic Pentameter

The aim of this essay is to demonstrate how the rhythmical evolution of English dramatic iambic pentameter parallelled the changes of aesthetic tastes and social values of English society from the mid-sixteenth to mid-nineteenth century. During 250 years the evolution of such features as the abundance or absence of enjambments, the use of constrained or loose iambs, and some others corresponds to the changes in the architecture of the theaters, the social structure of the audience, the manners of declamation, the complexity of poetic language, and the types of characters and plots the playwrights used.

scholarly journals HERO SEARCHING FOR IDENTITY IN THE ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE WORKS BY J. S. LE FANU AND R. L. STEVENSON)

2019 ◽  
pp. 67-76
Author(s):  
T. Kyrpyta
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gothic Novel ◽  
English Society ◽  
Split Personality ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Political Economic

In this article, we aim to examine how English writers of the second half of the nineteenth century attempted to answer the question of the identity of their representative, the way they saw human nature, and the nature of good and evil in a person, in what they saw the integrity of personality, from which the ideals were repelled in search of a hero of his time. Using cultural, historical, and comparative methods, we contrasted the momentous events that influenced nineteenth-century English society with such a literary phenomenon as the revival of interest in the techniques characteristic of the Gothic novel, in particular, characters' doubles, the split personality, expressed through physicality. We have considered the reasons why the idea of the dualism of human nature became relevant in this era. The political, economic and social shifts in the life of England in the second half of the nineteenth century caused the writers to rethink their own identities as representative of nation and humanity. Scientific discoveries, above all, the work of Darwin, forced a new look at the nature of man, his inner world. As a projection of Darwinism as well as the search for self-determination of the colonized peoples, there is a fear of degradation, which is reflected in the appearance of animal characters (the monkey-like ghost in Le Fanu's novel Green Tea, Hyde in the novel by R. L. Stevenson "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"). The literary hero of the late nineteenth century is a multifaceted combination of archetypal images such as Prometheus, Satan, Pygmalion, and the embodiment of the idea of the dualism of human soul, in which the divine and animal principles are combined. Such a split personality is also associated with the destruction of the image of the good patriarch as the embodiment of the English nation. Keywords: Victorian literature, double, duality, rebel hero, identity, Prometheus myth, English "Gothic" tradition.

Book Review: The Nineteenth-century Church and English Society

Theology ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 99 (791) ◽  
pp. 385-386
Author(s):  
Leslie Houlden
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Society

The “Difference” in Babbage's Difference Engine

1985 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. 366-372
Author(s):  
Mary L. Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Society ◽  
The Difference

Have you ever wondered how mathematical tables were developed, who was interested in producing them, and what kinds of calculations were involved? Recently, I found myself asking these questions while reading a biography of Charles Babbage (1791 1871). Mathematician, scientist, economist, and inventor, Babbage was an important figure in nineteenth-century English society.

scholarly journals 'Weighty Celebrity': Corpulency, Monstrosity, and Freakery in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Whitney Dirks
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Conjoined Twins ◽  
Fat Studies ◽  
Additional Input ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
English Society ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Source Materials

Obesity seems to have become prevalent in English society in the eighteenth century, likely as a result of changes in the country's diet such as an increasing consumption of sugar. With the greater incidence of corpulence in the population came more fat individuals on England's lucrative show circuit, joining the conjoined twins, hermaphrodites, dwarfs, giants, and individuals of different ethnicities who had peopled London's pubs, coffee houses, and exhibition halls for centuries. This article contextualizes historical corpulency in terms of early modern monstrosity and nineteenth-century freakery, with additional input from the modern Fat Studies and Disability Studies movements, in order to explore public consciousness about and fascination with particularly obese individuals, epitomized by the fattest men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the 616-pound (279 kg) Edward Bright and the 739-pound (335 kg) Daniel Lambert. Using a variety of source materials—newspaper articles, dieting pamphlets, medical and scientific essays, advertising leaflets and etchings, and popular histories about the lives of famous individuals—this essay argues that, though extremely corpulent individuals needed to exist in the first place in order to be incorporated into the show circuit, it was society's fascination with these new, unusual bodies that allowed them to rise into prominence as an entertainment feature in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England.

THE PERSISTENCE OF THE BRAHMIN PRIESTS IN WILKIE COLLINS'STHE MOONSTONE

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 783-800
Author(s):  
Niketa G. Narayan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
Detective Story ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
The Family ◽  
English Society ◽  
The Moonstone ◽  
The Impact

When T. S. Eliotfamously called Wilkie Collins's 1868 novelThe Moonstone“the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels” (The Moonstone1966, v), the implication, presumably, was that the “detectives” are the hero Franklin Blake and other English characters who carry out the detective function, such as the family lawyer, Mr. Bruff. In addition to a detective story, the novel has been read variously as imperialist, anti-imperialist, a narrative invested with economic undertones, and as an exploration of gift theory, among others. In all these iterations, however, the underlying assumption has been that the only real “detectives” in the novel are the English characters; it is they who solve the theft of the diamond and work to police it. The Brahmin priests, whose pursuit of the diamond parallels that of the English, have generally been viewed as peripheral to the main narrative; a marginal acknowledgement of the impact that India, in its various facets, had upon nineteenth-century English society. Vicki Corkran Willey calls the priests, tongue-in-cheek, “‘villains’. . . working in tandem with two other imported troublemakers – [John] Herncastle's stolen diamond and the drug, opium” (226). Timothy L. Carens describes them as practicing “dutiful self-renunciation” (246) in their search for the diamond, implying that passivity is inherent in such dutifulness, and Jenny Bourne Taylor suggests they are important only because of their use of “[c]lairvoyance [which] is projected on to them as a form of romantic fascination, [and] which they then internalize and represent” (193). Critics are in general agreement, then, that the priests are not central to the novel, and their involvement in the solving of the crime is minimal. The present essay will refute this perspective and argue that, in fact, the Brahmin priests are central to the narrative and far more active (and effective) policing agents than the English characters.

A Union of Christianity, Humanity, and Philanthropy: The Christian Tradition and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Nineteenth-Century England.

2000 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chien-Hui Li
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Animal Protection ◽  
English Society ◽  
Aims And Scope ◽  
Cruelty To Animals ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Christian Discourse ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis paper offers an historical perspective to the discussion of the relationship between Christianity and nonhuman-human animal relationships by examining the animal protection movement in English society as it first took root in the nineteenth century. The paper argues that the Christian beliefs of many in the movement, especially the evangelical outlook of their faith, in a considerable way affected the character as well as the aims and scope of the emergent British animal welfare movement - although the church authorities did not take an active part in the discussion and betterment of the conditions of animals. An explicitly Christian discourse, important in creating and sustaining the important philanthropic tradition in Britain, mobilized the movement. The paper also traces the gradual decrease of the centrality of the movement's Christian elements later in the century when evolutionary ideas as well as other developments in society shed alternative light on the relationship between human and nonhuman animals and brought about different trends in the movement. This paper sees Christianity not as a static and defining source of influence but as a rich tradition containing diverse elements that people drew upon and used to create meanings for them. The paper implicitly suggests that both a religion's doctrines in theory and the outcome of a complex interaction with the changing society in which the religion is practiced determine its potential to influence animal-human relationships.

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