: Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel: George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Samuel Butler . U. C. Knoepflmacher.

1966 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-97
Author(s):  
Thomas Pinney
Keyword(s):  
George Eliot ◽  
Victorian Novel ◽  
Walter Pater ◽  
Samuel Butler

XIIIThe Victorian Period

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Pond ◽  
Elizabeth Parker ◽  
Lois Burke ◽  
Ana Alicia Garza ◽  
Helen Williams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
George Eliot ◽  
Elizabeth Gaskell ◽  
Wilkie Collins ◽  
Anthony Trollope ◽  
George Gissing ◽  
Walter Pater ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Publishing History ◽  
Victorian Period

Abstract This chapter has six sections: 1. General and Prose; 2. The Novel; 3.Poetry; 4. Periodicals and Publishing History; 5. Drama; 6. Miscellaneous and Cross-Genre. Section 1 is by Kristen Pond with the assistance of Elizabeth Parker; section 2 is by Lois Burke with the assistance of Ana Alicia Garza, who writes on Dickens; section 3 is by Ana Alicia Garza; section 4 is by Helen Williams; section 5 is by Caroline Radcliffe; section 6 is by William Baker. In a departure from previous years, and in order to avoid confusion as to who has contributed what to this chapter, section 6 contains material on George Borrow, Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, and Richard Jefferies previously found in the General and Prose section, and on Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing, Meredith, Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, and Walter Pater previously found in other sections. Also included in section 6 are miscellaneous and cross-genre items and additional items that arrived too late to be included elsewhere in this chapter. Thanks for assistance with this chapter must go to Dominic Edwards, Nancy S. Weyant, the bibliographer of Mrs Gaskell, and Patrick Scott.

Tact

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Russell
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Walter Pater ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population growth. In an era when more and more people lived more closely than ever before with people they knew less and less about, tact was a new mode of feeling one's way with others in complex modern conditions. This book traces how the essay genre came to exemplify this sensuous new ethic and aesthetic. It argues that the essay form provided the resources for the performance of tact in this period and analyzes its techniques in the writings of Charles Lamb, John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Walter Pater. The book shows how their essays offer grounds for a claim about the relationship among art, education, and human freedom—an “aesthetic liberalism”—not encompassed by traditional political philosophy or in literary criticism. For these writers, tact is not about codes of politeness but about making an art of ordinary encounters with people and objects and evoking the fullest potential in each new encounter. The book demonstrates how their essays serve as a model for a critical handling of the world that is open to surprises, and from which egalitarian demands for new relationships are made. Offering fresh approaches to thinking about criticism, sociability, politics, and art, the book concludes by following a legacy of essayistic tact to the practice of British psychoanalysts like D. W. Winnicott and Marion Milner.

Beginning Again: Darwin’s Caterpillar from George Eliot to Beckett

2019 ◽  
pp. 163-187
Author(s):  
Daniel Aureliano Newman
Keyword(s):  
George Eliot ◽  
Samuel Beckett ◽  
Lewis Carroll ◽  
Repetition Compulsion ◽  
Origin Of Species ◽  
Samuel Butler

The chapter examines one particularly evident case of literature borrowing from biology: the case of what Samuel Beckett calls “Darwin’s caterpillar.” This caterpillar, described in The Origin of Species, exemplifies a kind of repetition compulsion which prevents it from completing the stages of its metamorphosis into a moth. I trace the increasingly innovative ways in which novelists incorporated the repetitions of Darwin’s caterpillar into their novels. I briefly chart the caterpillar’s role in the narrative dynamics of fiction by George Eliot, Lewis Carroll, Samuel Butler, and Henry Green, before devoting the bulk of the chapter to its function in Molloy, Malone, The Unnamable, and How It Is, where it evidences the continuing relevance of development in Beckett’s fiction.

The Victorian Period

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Alicia Garza ◽  
Lois Burke ◽  
Sally Blackburn-Daniels ◽  
William Baker
Keyword(s):  
George Eliot ◽  
Wilkie Collins ◽  
Anthony Trollope ◽  
William Makepeace Thackeray ◽  
George Gissing ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Publishing History ◽  
Samuel Butler ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
Mixed Genre

Abstract This chapter has five sections: 1. General and Prose, including Dickens; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry; 4. Periodicals, Publishing History, and Drama; 5. Miscellaneous. Section 1 is by Ana Alicia Garza; section 2 is by Lois Burke; section 3 is by Sally Blackburn-Daniels; sections 4 and 5 are by William Baker. In somewhat of a departure from previous accounts, this chapter concludes with a mixed-genre section that covers Samuel Butler Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot and George Henry Lewes, George Gissing, Richard Jefferies, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope. This is followed by a section containing additional materials that came too late to be included elsewhere. These sections have been contributed by William Baker, who thanks for their assistance Dominic Edwards, Olaf Berwald, Beth Palmer, Sophie Ratcliffe, and Caroline Radcliffe.

scholarly journals Class conflict in Victorian fiction with especial Reference to Hardy’s novels

Al-Burz ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-45
Author(s):  
Dr Saima Manzoor ◽  
Ghulam Rasool ◽  
Shumaila Barozai
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Victorian Novel ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
Charles Kingsley ◽  
George Meredith ◽  
Victorian Fiction ◽  
Class Distinction

The Victorian novel is dominated by class conflict. This research paper is an attempt to define the different classes of the society and the attitude of the Victorian novelists, especially, that of Hardy’s, towards class distinction. The present study includes the nineteenth century novelists, namely, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, George Meredith and Thomas Hardy who in their works focus upon class conflict. The paper, while highlighting the attitude of the Victorian writers towards class conflict, mainly explores the major novels of Hardy who, being highly conscious about his humble origin, presents such characters who are inclined to social improvement. In Victorian fiction the elite class is marked with meanness and moral degradation. The research study would provide relevant information about the conflict between haves and have not especially with reference to Hardy’s fiction.

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