scholarly journals Author Country: Longfellow, the Brontës, and Anglophone Homes and Haunts

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Booth
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Century Development ◽  
Literary Reception

Abstract This essay explores the nineteenth-century development of pilgrimage to authors’ houses and locales in light of British and American regionalism and literary reception. It focuses on the trope of “author country” in the celebrated careers and commemoration of Longfellow and the Brontës, and examines American “homes and haunts” books that represent ritual visits to these different authors. Various representations and sites, including portraits, statues, waterfalls, and houses, mark the indigenous qualities of national literature and international attractions.

The Rule of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew S. Natsios
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Nile River ◽  
Century Development

How did the British and Egyptian colonial period set the stage for later Sudanese conflicts after independence? The British and Egyptian rule continued and accelerated the discontinuities of nineteenth-century development in Sudan. The disparity between the development of the Nile River Valley and the neglect...

Cousin Phillis and Other Stories

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Gaskell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Elizabeth Gaskell ◽  
The Other ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Fallen Woman ◽  
Periodical Publication ◽  
Century Development

‘I see her now – cousin Phillis. The westering sun shone full upon her, and made a slanting stream of light into the room within.’ Elizabeth Gaskell has long been one of the most popular of Victorian novelists, yet in her lifetime her shorter fictions were equally well loved, and they are among the most accomplished examples of the genre. The novella-length Cousin Phillis is a lyrical depiction of a vanishing way of life and a girl’s disappointment in love: deceptively simple, its undercurrent of feeling leaves an indelible impression. The other five stories in this selection were all written during the 1850s for Dickens’s periodical Household Words. They range from a quietly original tale of urban poverty and a fallen woman in ‘Lizzie Leigh’ to an historical tale of a great family in ‘Morton Hall’; echoes of the French Revolution, the bleakness of winter in Westmorland, and a tragic secret are brought vividly to life. Heather Glen reflects on the stories’ original periodical publication and on the nineteenth-century development of the short story in her Introduction to these immensely readable and sophisticated tales.

Byron’s Spanish Afterlives: Emilio Castelar’s Vida de Lord Byron

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-134
Author(s):  
SARA MEDINA CALZADA
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Keen Interest ◽  
Tragic Hero ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Literary Reception

This article examines Emilio Castelar’s Vida de Lord Byron (1873), the first Spanish biography of Byron. Borrowing most information from Moore’s and, especially, Lescure’s biographies of the poet, Castelar provides an apologetic and over-romantic portrait of Byron, in which he tries to reconstruct his private life and inner self, depicting him as a tragic hero who, despite his excesses, should be recognised as a universal genius. Castelar’s biography, which became an immediate success, illustrates the keen interest that Byron still aroused in Spain in the late nineteenth century and it deserves to be considered in the study of Spanish Byronism, a cultural phenomenon that includes but should not be limited to the literary reception of his poetry.

6. The Promised Land

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Ilan Stavans
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Jewish State ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Zionist Movement ◽  
Theodor Herzl ◽  
Palestinian Literature

“The promised land” looks at the Zionist movement at the end of the nineteenth century in its commitment to create a Jewish state that could not only normalize diaspora Jewish life but also establish a national literature. It meditates on the work of Theodor Herzl, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Chaim Nakhman Bialik, Sh. Y. Agnon, and Amos Oz as canonical voices in Israeli literature. It is worth reflecting on Palestinian literature written in Hebrew, as in Anton Shammas’s Arabesques, and ask the question: ought it to be considered part of Jewish literature? Israeli literature, despite argument to the contrary, is another facet of modern Jewish literature in the diaspora.

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