London

2019 ◽  
pp. 168-220
Author(s):  
Andrew Thacker
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War Two ◽  
Hill Area ◽  
Secret Agent ◽  
The City ◽  
Literary Networks

This chapter considers how London developed as a modernist city, from the late nineteenth century to the period after World War Two. It analyses the geographical emotions produced by particular locations within London, such as the London Underground and Metro-Land suburbs; the cultural institutions of Bloomsbury and Fleet Street; the bohemia of Soho and the nightlife of Piccadilly Circus; and the Notting Hill area settled by postwar immigrants to the city. It considers the affective responses of writers such as Virginia Woolf and Henry James to the material restructuring of the city, before turning to the role of publishers, bookshops, and literary networks in helping establish modernism in the city, in the shape of poetic movements such as the Rhymers and the Imagists. The final part of the chapter analyses texts by two important outsiders in London: Joseph Conrad in The Secret Agent and Sam Selvon in The Lonely Londoners.

scholarly journals CONRAD AND THE COMIC TURN

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Ford Madox Ford ◽  
Financial Centre ◽  
Music Hall ◽  
East End ◽  
City Of London ◽  
Secret Agent ◽  
The City

Of his nineteen years as a sailor, from 1874 to 1894, Joseph Conrad actually worked on ships for ten years and eight months, of which just over eight years were spent at sea, including nine months as a passenger (Najder 161–62). During these nomadic years, London was the place to which he returned again and again to seek his next berth, staying in a series of sailors’ homes, lodgings, and boarding houses. How did he spend his time, a single man with no family and few friends, whose main occupation was waiting? He recalled, in the preface toThe Secret Agent, “solitary and nocturnal walks all over London in my early days” (7). Ford Madox Ford says that Conrad knew all the bars around Fenchurch Street (which links the financial centre of the City of London to Whitechapel and the East End) from his days of waiting for a ship. Returning to the area later in life, according to Ford's slightly improbable memory, he “became at once the city-man gentleman-adventurer with an eye for a skirt,” who “could tell you where every husky earringed fellow with a blue, white-spotted handkerchief under his arm was going to. . . .” (Joseph Conrad116, 117). The reality of these London sojourns was probably less romantic, most of the time. But there was one place where a sailor ashore, without much money, could always go for company and entertainment: the music-hall.

Centenary newspapers in Porto: Identity editorial features and the construction of audiences in a city background. Main evolutionary journalistic lines in the late nineteenth century until the First Republic

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Lima
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
First Republic ◽  
Identification Processes ◽  
The City

O Comércio do Porto, O Primeiro de Janeiro and Jornal de Notícias were the main newspapers launched in Porto during the nineteenth century. They were founded at a time the city was of central importance for its trade and international relations, but also because it was the epicentre of the main political movements that led to great changes in the country’s governance. They evolved according to the city developments and gradually gained prestige and national reach. Ideological models of press gave way to news editorial projects, and Porto newspapers also followed that path. Each editorial profile was built from the initial matrix, but also by gradually adapting to reader preferences and enhancing identification processes within the novelty of news formats. These daily newspapers were, at some point, led by charismatic owners and directors who became key factors in their evolution. The aim of this study is to identify these specific editorial lines and how they gained the loyalty of readers, taking into consideration the role of these newspapers in building common identity.

The Novel in the Era of Plessy

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-86
Author(s):  
Christine Holbo
Keyword(s):  
Henry James ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary Realism ◽  
Sentimental Novel ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Uncle Tom's Cabin ◽  
Literature And Philosophy ◽  
The Relationship

The transformation of literary realism in the late nineteenth century took place within the context of a categorical shift in American social epistemologies. The first chapter presents an interdisciplinary, generational portrait of this shift by examining a set of key texts from the years 1896–98 as summaries of the reconstruction of law, literature, and philosophy since the Civil War. Two important works by the James brothers, philosopher William James’s “The Sentiment of Rationality” and Henry James’s What Maisie Knew, demonstrate how the relationship between “sentiment” and “rationality” had been transformed. By attacking the nineteenth century’s trust in the emotions alongside its belief in a transcendent concept of reason, William and Henry James made a case for a new kind of moral imagination grounded in the uncertainty of the emotions and the unknowability of other selves. While the James brothers greeted the collapse of the sentimental paradigm as an emancipatory moment for individuals and for the novel itself, the lawyer and novelist Albion Tourgée saw it as imperiling the ability of Americans to speak, write, or think about freedom. Best known as Homer Plessy’s lawyer in Plessy v. Ferguson, Tourgée was also the most passionate defender of the emancipatory role of the sentimental novel. Exploring Tourgée’s opposition to pluralistic relativism in his brief on behalf of Homer Plessy and his literary analysis of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, this chapter explores the opposition between the Jameses’ celebratory vision of epistemological perspectivalism and Tourgée’s defense of sentimental reason.

The Role of Religion in the Cultural Structure of the Later Victorian City

1973 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 153-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. S. Kent
Keyword(s):  
Class Action ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Industrial Town ◽  
Single Form ◽  
Single Pattern ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The City ◽  
Cultural Structure

One obviously cannot make generalizations covering all the towns and cities of late nineteenth-century England. London was a case by itself; Liverpool a very different port from Bristol; an industrial town like Rochdale seems very remote from Dorchester. Nor is it possible to give a single brief definition of a city, though many have tried. ‘Just as there is no single form of the pre-industrial city,’ wrote R. E. Pahl, ‘urbanization as concentration of population does not lead to any single pattern of class action and conflict.’ Attempts to provide a definition of a city culminate in David Riesman's comment that the city is what we choose to make it for the purposes of analysis. One has to accept that Bristol, Dorchester, Rochdale and Liverpool were towns without exaggerating what they had in common.

scholarly journals MODERNISM IN MRS.DALLOWAY

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1609-1613
Author(s):  
Fatbardha Doko ◽  
Hyreme Gurra ◽  
Lirije Ameti
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Marcel Proust ◽  
Stream Of Consciousness ◽  
World War ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
Life Path ◽  
Style Of Writing

Modernism is a very interesting and important movement in literature, characterized by a very self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction. However, the most important literary genre of modernism is the novel. Although prewar works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and other writers are considered Modernist, Modernism as a literary movement is typically associated with the period after World War I. Other European and American Modernist authors whose works rejected chronological and narrative continuity include Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, and William Faulkner. After First World War a lot of developments took place, new inventions opened up the mind of artists in the 1920s, one of them was Virginia Woolf, a very specific novelist. So, this paper deals with Virginia Woolf’s novel, Mrs. Dalloway, and the main focus is on the elements of modernism in this masterpiece. It is a modern novel which has also most of the features of modernism, or we can say that there are several ways in which one can see Mrs. Dalloway as a Modernist novel. The most dominant characteristic is the content and the narrative style. Virginia Woolf overstepped the traditional writing by describing characters not only superficially but also their inner thoughts. Rather than having a straightforward narrative with a beginning and end and a narrator who knows it all, with Mrs Dalloway we have several narrators, flashbacks, stream-of-consciousness style, and a totally fragmented story. Also there is a connection of the author and her characters; she putted a piece of herself in each one of them. This is how you can find about the author’s life path and how her sufferings, mental illness affected into her writing. Thus, Virginia Woolf is considered an iconic modernist writer and pioneer not only of the stream of consciousness narrative technique, but of the use of free indirect speech, psychological as well as emotional motives of characters. Nevertheless, the unconventional use of figures of speech also makes a great characteristic and a symbol of her novels. Stream of consciousness writing allows readers to “listen in” on a character's thoughts. This will make you explore yourself in ways you have never thought before. Specifically, in Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations to host a party that evening Virginia Woolf records all her thoughts, remembrances and impressions, as well as the thoughts of other characters. There is no actual story, no plots or sub-plots, in fact, there is no action in the traditional sense in this novel, except from the “myriad of impressions” created by Virginia Woolf’s new style of writing.

James, Henry (1843–1916)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harrington Weihl
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Henry James ◽  
English Language ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Realism ◽  
Portrait Of A Lady

One of the major literary figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Henry James was one of the foremost English-language practitioners of literary realism at its height, and was one of the most influential novelists among the modernists that followed him, receiving praise and admiration from T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, and others. His novel Portrait of A Lady and novellas Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw are among his most widely read, and in The Spoils of Poynton he made some of the first forays into the complexity and depth that would later characterize modernism. Also an accomplished travel writer and memoirist, James's produced literary criticism that is considered some of the deepest and most detailed work on theorizing the English-language novel before the twentieth century. Born in the United States and spending much of his adult life in Britain, James is a transatlantic figure whose influence has been so great as to posthumously justify his nickname of Master.

The 1893 bogotazo: Artisans and Public Violence in Late Nineteenth–Century Bogotá

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 267-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Sowell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Violence ◽  
Reform Period ◽  
Regular Army ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Bogotá suffered its most severe outbreak of public violence of the nineteenth century on 15 and 16 January 1893. Indeed apart from the bogotazo of 9 April 1948, it was perhaps the worst violence that the Colombian capital has ever experienced.1 For twenty-four hours the city experienced serious social disorder, which was brought under control only by the use of regular army troops at a cost of an unknown number of casualties. Surprisingly, the January 1893 bogotazo has not been subjected to serious historical examination. The role of craftsmen in the outbreak of violence offers a window in the largely unknown course of artisan political activity in Bogotá after the decline of the Democratic Society of Artisans in the mid-century reform period. More broadly, whereas the relationship between wage labourers and violence has attracted many scholars, the propensity of the artisan class to engage in violent activities in nineteenth-century Colombia (and in Latin America as a whole) deserves more scholarly investigation. What were the causes and the nature of the 1893 riot? Were they typical of nineteenth-century urban violence? Finally, how does the 1893 riot fit within the broad sweep of Colombian collective violence?2 Before attempting to answer these questions it is necessary to look briefly, by way of background, at Bogotá in the late nineteenth century, its economy and society, at the nature of Colombian politics and, in particular, at the role of artisans in bogotano politics and in earlier episodes of urban disorder.

scholarly journals ENTREVISTA: La angustia y el gozo de traducir. Entrevista a Miguel Martínez Lage

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grupo de Investigación HUM-807
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Samuel Beckett ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
Rudyard Kipling ◽  
Aldous Huxley ◽  
Martin Amis ◽  
Roddy Doyle ◽  
The University

ResumenMiguel Martínez-Lage es uno de los más importantes traductores literarios del inglés que hay actualmente en nuestro país. Tras cursar estudios universitarios en Navarra y en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, se dedica profesionalmente a la traducción desde 1984. Entre los autores que ha traducido destacan Martin Amis, W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, J. M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Roddy Doyle, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, Nick Hornby, Aldous Huxley, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, John Steinbeck, Dylan Thomas y Virginia Woolf, entre muchos otros. Ha sido también ponente en numerosos congresos sobre traducción y escritor de artículos y reseñas. Miguel Martínez-Lage mantuvo esta conversación para Odisea en octubre de 2007 como anticipo a una visita a la Universidad de Almería.Palabras clave: Traducción literaria, traducir del inglés, ofi cio del traductor, Samuel Beckett, Samuel Johnson.AbstractMiguel Martínez-Lage is one of the most important English-Spanish literary translators currently working in Spain. He studied at the University of Navarra and at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid, and he is a full-time translator since 1984. Among the list of authors he has translated into Spanish some names stand out: Martin Amis, W.H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, J. M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Roddy Doyle, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, Nick Hornby, Aldous Huxley, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, John Steinbeck, Dylan Thomas and Virginia Woolf, among many others. He has also given papers in several conferences on translation and has written articles and reviews. He had this conversation with Odisea in October 2007 previous to a visit to the University of Almería.Key words: Literary translation, translating from English, the profession of a translator, Samuel Beckett, Samuel Johnson. 

scholarly journals Urban landscape of Okazaki in Kyoto

2015 ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Olimpia Niglio ◽  
Noriko Inoue
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Landscape Conservation ◽  
Edo Period ◽  
Heian Period ◽  
Meiji Restoration ◽  
Kyoto City ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
The City

<p>Kyoto has been the capital of Japan from 794 until when the capital has moved in 1868 to Tokyo with the end of Tokugawa Shoguns and the beginning of the Meiji Restoration. The loss of the seat of government was a shock to citizens of Kyoto as the city had been the Imperial and Cultural center of the nation for over 1.000 years. The combination of the court and the great temples had enlivened and enriched the life of the city. At the beginning of the founding of the capital, in the Heian period (794-1185) to east of Kyoto, was built a noble and religious place. This area is Okazaki. Here the Emperor Kammu (736-805) had created the city of Heian-kyo (Kyoto) in 794. This area was full of Temples and Shrines. Only in the Edo period (1603-1867) Okazaki area assumed the role of suburban agricultural zone which provided the food production to the urban habitants. But after the Meiji Restoration (1868-1912), the role of Okazaki area changes completely. In 1885, Kyoto prefecture started the great public canalization project as the water supply between Kyoto and Otsu of Shiga prefecture. Kyoto prefecture also planed the industrial district construction in Okazaki area. From the late nineteenth century Okazaki area became a symbol of the modernization of Kyoto city. This contribution intends to analyze the urban landscape composed of the different styles of architecture especially constructed after the Meiji period (1868-1912). Tangible and intangible signs remained as modern gardens, significant museums and cultural institutions among the ancient temples provide opportunities to reflect on the important role of suburban area of the historic city. These studies are supported by archival documents and by current measures and policies for landscape conservation by Kyoto Municipality.</p>

‘A Source of Enjoyment': The Social Dimension of the Melbourne Liedertafels in the Late Nineteenth Century

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-105
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hill
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Social Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The City

The city Liedertafels of Melbourne in the late colonial era were extraordinarily active, essentially amateur societies, with burgeoning memberships through to the early 1890s and a busy and varied calendar of men-only and mixed concerts and social events. This article examines aspects of the Melbourne (previously Melbourner Deutsche) Liedertafel (est. 1879) and the Metropolitan (later Royal Metropolitan) Liedertafel (est. 1870) as they functioned within late nineteenth-century Melbourne society, particularly the 1880s to Federation (1901). Opening with preliminary discussion of the social class of the participants and the role of women in the societies, it focuses on the balance in these choirs between the amateur and professional and the social and musical. The article begins with a consideration of the participants’ status as amateur or professional. It looks at any tensions between the two and charts the ways in which the balance between amateur and professional elements changed over the period and gives reasons for those changes. A second section outlines some of the varied and often picturesque types of semi-social, social and ceremonial functions in which the societies involved themselves, but places these briefly in the context of their avowed priorities and aims.

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