A double dose of death in Iginio Ugo Tarchetti’s ‘I fatali’

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Petraglia
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Double Dose ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Father And Son ◽  
Otto Rank

This chapter posits a psychoanalytic reading of Iginio Ugo Tarchetti’s short story ‘I fatali’ (‘The Fated Ones’) published posthumously in the collection Racconti fantastici (Fantastic Tales) (1869). It focuses on the mortal rivalry between the father and son figures, Count Sagrezwitch and Baron Saternez, who become known in late nineteenth-century Milanese society of the short story as true embodiments of fatal beings belonging to popular superstition, known as jinxes – bringers of bad fortune, illness, harm, and even death to others. Drawing from Otto Rank and Sigmund Freud’s conceptions of the Doppelgänger, it is argued that these protagonists emerge as complementary doubles for one another, as opposing incarnations of Death in the form of mysterious foreigners. This chapter also highlights the post-Unification, socio-cultural undertones of Tarchetti’s fantastic tale, affirms the existence of an Italian Gothic, and reveals the author’s portrayal of death’s spectacular nature.

Cosmopolitan Space: Political Topographies in ‘Lord Arthur Savile's Crime’

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-142
Author(s):  
Giles Whiteley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This essay responds to Julian Wolfreys's suggestion that Oscar Wilde's London is primarily psycho-geographical by seeking to read his texts within the historical and spatial context of late nineteenth-century London. Taking as a test the short story ‘Lord Arthur Saville's Crime’, this essay deploys the critical insights of Henri Lefebvre to suggest that Wilde's city writing engages more closely with London life than has been hitherto suggested. Following Lord Arthur on his three perambulations across the city, from Hyde Park and Piccadilly to Covent Garden, through Soho, and finally from St James's to the Embankment, the article focuses particularly on the ways in which Wilde's use of what might easily be assumed to be an incidental location, namely Cleopatra's Needle, invites us to reread the text's revolutionary politics within the context of the French Revolution. Concluding with a discussion of Wilde's treatment of London's ‘cosmopolitan space’, the essay shows that the way in which seemingly stock imagery deployed in Wilde's representation of the city may in fact be read as part of a wider and complex engagement with both the politics and the aesthetics of space.

scholarly journals Of Women and Decadence

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Macura-Nnamdi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Narrative Construction ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Decadent Aesthetics

This paper reads Ella D’Arcy’s short story “The Pleasure-Pilgrim” as a text engaging with late-nineteenth century discourses of femininity and decadence as they are enacted in the realm of travelling, on one hand, and of decadent aestheticism, on the other. The particular narrative construction of the main heroine, Lulie, is seen here as problematising the gendering of the consumption/production dichotomy and as challenging the masculinist bias of the aesthetic transgressions of decadence. Given this, D’Arcy’s story emerges here as a text that reveals how and why certain assumptions of late-Victorian aestheticism only made room for women as objects but never as subjects of decadent aesthetics.

GENDER AND GENRE IN FANNY VAN DE GRIFT STEVENSON’S PERIODICAL WRITING

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Wånggren
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Gender And Genre ◽  
Periodical Publishing

Abstract Despite scholarly recovery of many nineteenth-century women writers, especially those publishing mainly in periodicals, the fiction, travel writing and journalism of Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1840–1914) are still neglected. Situating Van de Grift Stevenson in the context of late nineteenth-century US periodical culture, this article considers how many of the author’s periodical writings cross not only geographical but also generic boundaries. Van de Grift Stevenson’s periodical publishing appears in a variety of modes and genres, at times with journalistic material entering her fiction, domestic life including recipes inserted in her journalism, and autobiography glimpsed in both fiction and journalism. The article examines this author’s transatlantic periodical writings in the context of gender and genre, noting the ways in which these categories intersect throughout her authorship. Focusing especially on the author’s regional writing as seen in her non-fiction ‘cookbook articles’ Ramblings of a Housewife and the short story ‘The Warlock’s Shadow’, the article argues that Van de Grift Stevenson’s blending of regional and domestic modes of writing presents a specific interrogation of cultural and geographical identities.

The Unknown One

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigbjørn Obstfelder ◽  
Edward Barger
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth

A short story set in Paris by the late nineteenth-century Norwegian author Sigbjørn Obstfelder. Translated from Norwegian by Edward Jordan Barger.

The railway as a catalyst of change in nineteenth century provincial Spain

2016 ◽  
pp. 161-178
Author(s):  
Jacqueline A. Jordán ◽  
Marta Manrique Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Railway System ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This article analyzes the significance of the emergence of the railway system in the Spain of the late nineteenth century through the study of the short story ¡Adiós, Cordera! by Alas Clarín and the novel El tren directo by ortega y Munilla. Both authors represent the arrival of the train as a distorting element of the Spanish countryside which ends up destroying the lives of the main characters in both works and, in particular, the weakest, women and children.

Contents of Western Sociology of Religion as a Science and Educational Discipline

2002 ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
Liudmyla O. Fylypovych
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
International Society ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Sociology of religion in the West is a field of knowledge with at least 100 years of history. As a science and as a discipline, the sociology of religion has been developing in most Western universities since the late nineteenth century, having established traditions, forming well-known schools, areas related to the names of famous scholars. The total number of researchers of religion abroad has never been counted, but there are more than a thousand different centers, universities, colleges where religion is taught and studied. If we assume that each of them has an average of 10 religious scholars, theologians, then the army of scholars of religion is amazing. Most of them are united in representative associations of researchers of religion, which have a clear sociological color. Among them are the most famous International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) and the Society for Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR).

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