Émile Zola: A Very Short Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Nelson
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Emile Zola ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Literary Movement

Émile Zola was a 19th-century novelist and social commentator, and the leader of the literary movement known as ‘naturalism’. Émile Zola: A Very Short Introduction explores key themes in his life and work, looking in detail at several major novels from his twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. His novels examine the changing cultural landscape of the late 19th century, creating an epic sense of social transformation. In so doing, they opened the novel up to a new realm of subjects, and they embodied a new freedom of expression in their depiction. Zola was often accused of sensationalism and vulgarity; his English publisher Henry Vizetelly was jailed on charges of obscenity.

The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Kahn
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
The Press ◽  
Character Study ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Plot Design

The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction charts the rise of the short story from its original appearance in magazines and newspapers. For much of the 19th century, tales were written for the press, and the form’s history is marked by engagement with popular fiction. The short story then earned a reputation for its skilful use of plot design and character study distinct from the novel. This VSI considers the continuity and variation in key structures and techniques such as the beginning, the creation of voice, the ironic turn or plot twist, and how writers manage endings. Throughout, it draws on examples from an international and flourishing corpus of work.

scholarly journals Mother Behavior to Their Daughters As Seen in ''Pride and Prejudice" and "Little Women"

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 620-625
Author(s):  
Fitri Arniati ◽  
Muhammad Darwis ◽  
Nurhayati Rahman ◽  
Fathu Rahman
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Little Women ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
The Right

This research is to study about the mother behavior to their daughters as seen in "Pride and Prejudice" and "Little Women". The mother behavior to their daughters show the different way of women as a mother in bringing up their children according to their social and condition at the time. The data were taken from two novels entitled "pride and prejudice" and "little women" is the topic of the study. The  women held in the early 19th century and the late 19th century was described as one that belonged in the home as a wife and mother, and that should marry a man who can support their family. Also throughout the novel women's role in society was described as one that is to be accomplished in household  chore and those of entertainment, such as singing  and playing music. The role of women in society was a major theme throughout the novel "Pride and Prejudice" and "Little Women" The method used in this research  is a study of comparative literature to analyze mother behavior especially for Mrs. Bennet, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, These women have similarities and different behavior in find the right mate for their daughters. This study shows that every woman has characteristics in caring for their children and paying attention to the survival of their children.

Leffler (Edgren), Anne Charlotte (1849–1892)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Hron
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Sexual Morality ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
Del Pezzo

Anne Charlotte Leffler was one of the most acclaimed Swedish women writers of the modern breakthrough in late 19th-century Scandinavia. Joining the circle known as Young Sweden, a leading literary movement of the 1880s, she was part of the Ibsen-inspired debate about women’s rights, sexual morality, and the normative bourgeois family structure. During her lifetime, Leffler’s plays were performed more frequently than Strindberg’s, and she was known as a notable salon hostess. After her divorce from Gustaf Edgren in 1889, she married the Italian mathematician Pasquale del Pezzo, duke of Cajanello, and settled in Italy. In 1892 she died of appendicitis at the age of forty-three. In her provocative works, sometimes close to popular fiction, Leffler depicts not only dysfunctional middle-class marriages but also 19th-century notions of love, in particular eroticism. Her major works are translated into several languages, including English, German, Russian, Italian, Croatian and Dutch.

scholarly journals Naturalistic Elements in Ahmed Ali's Novel "Twilight in Delhi"

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (II) ◽  
pp. 174-180
Author(s):  
Bilal Khan ◽  
Akbar Ali ◽  
Salma Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Human Actions ◽  
Social Obligation ◽  
Key Features

The paper aims at analyzing the novel Twilight in Delhi written by Ahmad Ali in the light of naturalistic elements. Naturalism as literary theory originated in the late 19th century focuses that human actions are controlled and determined by hereditary, fate, environment and other social obligation, thus represents a very grim picture of life. Besides these features, the study has also explored many other features of naturalism in this literary work.by the researcher in the current study through qualitative analysis. The researcher has selected the text which clearly represent such features. The study resulted that the text and themes of the said novel represents many key features of naturalism.

scholarly journals National internationalism in late 19th-century utopias by Mór Jókai, Edward Bellamy, and William Morris

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sándor Hites
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
The Novel ◽  
William Morris ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Edward Bellamy ◽  
Historical Aspects ◽  
Utopian Fiction ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
To Come

The paper looks at two major representatives of fin-de-siècle utopian fiction, Edward Bellamy’s 1888 Looking Backward 2000–1887, William Morris’s 1890 News from Nowhere, and an earlier work by the Hungarian novelist Mór Jókai, The Novel of the Century to Come (A jövő század regénye, 1872–1874). I examine their various strategies regarding the spatial and historical aspects of utopian transformation as well as their respective positions toward the relation of commerce and community. On the whole, I suggest that the pattern of nationally informed or biased internationalism that seems to underlie all three novels might be traced back to the enlightened concept of patriotic cosmopolitanism.

God's Brain. Some Critical Remarks on Modern Neurotheology

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-264
Author(s):  
FRIEDRICH WILHELM GRAF
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Modern Methods

The author starts from an observed increase in theoretical contributions to the debate on neurotheology, illustrated by the example of the moral implications of certain discourse types in the novel God's Brain (Johler and Burow). Central scriptural passages of the Judeo-Christian tradition are then interpreted; a crucial shared aspect of these is the implication of an eternal divine memory, the physiological dimension of which has fostered, not just in terminology, a general openness of theology from the ‘neuronal turn’ to the neurotheological diagnostics since the late 19th century. Once the question of a possible self-reflection by the neurologist is systematically excluded, it becomes obvious that the ‘twilight of neurosciences’ still contains a considerable ideological potential. This is particularly evident in light of the questions addressed since the 1970s, despite the most modern methods in imaging and measurement.

Zwischen Tradition und Emanzipation

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-73
Author(s):  
Eldi Grubišić Pulišelić
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Women's Literature ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Moral Integrity ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Civil Marriage ◽  
The 19Th Century

SummaryThis paper analyses the criticism of the position of women, the existing gender relations and marriage in women’s literature at the end of the 19th century, taking the examples of the novel Plein air (1897) by Croatian author Jagoda Truhelka (1864–1957) and of the short story Wieder die Alte (1886) by Austrian writer Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916). These authors, from the area of the then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, in spite of different ethnicity, but also of different social status, published stories in the late 19th century where they discussed a similar topic. Both authors are concerned with the issue of women’s work and existence outside or inside civil marriage, but the endings of their works are completely different. While Truhelka’s heroine manages to realize a marriage of love, the heroine of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach becomes a victim of existing social relationships. Despite the sharp critique of patriarchy and the disruption of the stereotype of a woman as an angel in the home in Plein air, at the end of the novel there is a harmonization of interpersonal relations and the resolution of all existing conflicts, both at a personal and socio-political level. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach does not show such optimism in Wieder die Alte and her emancipated women are left alone to build their moral integrity into a life without male love. However, we can conclude Truhelka’s, as well as Ebner-Eschenbach’s heroine remain trapped between tradition and emancipation because of, or despite the fact that love shows (no) power in the tyranny of society.

scholarly journals The Awakening's Rediscovery: A literary Stimulus for Raising Women's Struggle in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol V (II) ◽  
pp. 382-393
Author(s):  
Imran Ali ◽  
Uzma Imtiaz ◽  
Zainab Akram
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Sexual Rights ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
American Novel ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Women's Voice ◽  
The World

The awakening has spoken to women's issues across time in many corners of the world regardless of caste, faith, nationality. Being a semi-autobiographical American-Novel, The Awakening was a catharsis against the late-19th-century Victorian constraints on Southern American women. The text challenged the hold of Victorian shackles on women's social, personal, marital, and sexual rights. Although the text had poor critical reception in its own time, it was reaccredited in the 1950s. Since then, the novel has kept on enlightening its readers through its powerful female-characters across times and cultures. This study revisits how the text reflected women's individualism; how readers responded to it, and how it has contributed a change to women's position. The analogy also signifies the degree to which the study could encourage the suppressed women's voice in Pakistan against�social, personal, marital, sexual �injustices that are done to them under cultural shackles, religious romanticizing, and androcentric norms.

4. Revolutionary terrorism

2018 ◽  
pp. 54-73
Author(s):  
Charles Townshend
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Majority Group ◽  
Nation States

The word ‘revolutionary’ has been applied over the last century in three social-political contexts: within existing nation-states; in external colonial situations; and in ‘internal colonial’ situations where ethnic groups are oppressed by a majority group within a single area. ‘Revolutionary terrorism’ explores contrasting motives for revolution: social transformation, assertion of ethnic identity, and progressive ideology. Terrorism can be divided into two ages: the late 19th century to early 20th century, where the aim was to seize political power from the established regime to bring about profound political and social change; and the early 20th century onwards, on the sidelines of political action, a terrorism of resistance.

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