Josephine M. Guy and Ian Small, The Routledge Concise History of Nineteenth-Century Literature (Oxford: Routledge, 2011), 275 + vii pp., £15.99, $28.95 (USD), €18.35, ISBN-13: 978-0415487115

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-197
Author(s):  
Shayne Husbands
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Century Literature

scholarly journals Cultural Aspect of Regional Patriotism Fostered in the Nineteenth-Century Literature of Autochthon Upper Silesians

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
Krystyna Kossakowska-Jarosz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
National Minority ◽  
Upper Silesia ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Century Literature

This text is part of the author’s research on the literary culture of the nineteenth-century UpperSilesia. The author shows that at the forefront of modern Europe (at the beginning of industrializationand urbanization of the continent) the autochthon writers of Upper Silesia undertook actionsaimed at fostering cultural awareness amongst their compatriots, who were considered to belong toa national minority, in order to instil patriotic feelings in them. In the current post-colonial discoursetheir struggles are recognized as the “voice of the periphery”. Striving to achieve civic maturity intheir Polish ecumene, these writers demonstrated considerable knowledge of their own Polish rootsas the inhabitants of this region. They assumed they must be aware of their distinctness from thedominant society in the Prussian state. The messages conveyed to their compatriots consisted inemphasizing the common history of Silesians and Poles and remembering the glorious past of thelatter. These were the foundations for shaping the sense of identity as well as for creating strongties with their own land. The development of such an emotional attitude towards the place and itspast among the readers allowed for effective building of patriotic attitudes, which was confirmed bycontemporary observers of the writers’ efforts. They continued coming to Upper Silesia from otherregions of the former Polish Republic to learn about ways of writing “for people.”

Counting

Overwhelmed ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 108-164
Author(s):  
Maurice S. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
Historical Argument ◽  
History Of ◽  
Treasure Island ◽  
Adventure Novels ◽  
Century Literature

This chapter talks about penetration of quantification into literary discourse. Lovers of literature could resist information and wax nostalgic for the deserted island reading of their youths, but adventure novels of the long nineteenth century show how “the accounting of literature” could also be aesthetically enchanting. British and American adventure novels from the period register a productive tension: guided by atavistic, preindustrial texts, characters flee from civilized realms marked by information overload only to impose informational modernity on the deserted islands and lost worlds they find. The chapter also explores the limits and wonders of quantification by using a sustained multiscalar approach—a close reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, a literary-historical argument that draws on a dozen transatlantic adventure fictions, and a distant reading project based on keyword frequencies in a corpus of 105 adventure novels. The chapter does not only explain how nineteenth-century literature accommodated the rise of information but also the prospect that the digital humanities might begin to tell a deeper history of itself.

The electronic harvest

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-467
Author(s):  
JAMES SECORD
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Century Literature

Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, v. 1.0, hriOnline <http://www.sciper.org> [accessed 30 June 2005].Geoffrey Cantor and Sally Shuttleworth (eds.), Science Serialized: Representations of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals. Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2004. Pp. vi+358. ISBN 0-262-03318-6. £25.95 (hardback).Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth and Jonathan Topham (eds.), Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xi+329. ISBN 0-521-83637-9. £45.00 (hardback).Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth and Jonathan R. Topham (eds.), Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media. The Nineteenth Century Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xxv+296. ISBN 0-7546-3574-0. £47.50 (hardback).

scholarly journals Clough, Emerson, and Knowingness

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (300) ◽  
pp. 413-432
Author(s):  
Fergus McGhee
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ralph Waldo Emerson ◽  
Matthew Arnold ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
Arthur Hugh Clough ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Century Literature

Abstract The poetry of Arthur Hugh Clough has tended to be read in dialogue with the writings of his friend and critic, Matthew Arnold. This essay explores how bringing Clough’s work into conversation with that of a very different friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson, offers to cast his intellectual affinities and poetic technique in a new light. Interweaving close readings of Clough’s verse with detailed attention to the essays he is known to have read and admired, I trace how Clough adapts and revises Emerson’s critique of ‘knowingness’. Beginning by tracing the history of this term in nineteenth-century literature and culture, I argue that Clough’s Dipsychus shapes an Emersonian ethic and aesthetic of encounter as an alternative to complacent and proprietorial forms of knowing. Turning to the rest of Clough’s oeuvre, especially Amours de Voyage, I then consider how fantasies of the future are central to what it means to be knowing about oneself, and examine how Clough applies poetic pressure to Emerson’s conviction that ‘A man … never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going’.

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