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Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers : A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century / / edited by Brenda Ayres
| Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers : A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century / / edited by Brenda Ayres |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 809.034 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in Life Writing |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 19th century
European literature Literature - History and criticism Sex Nineteenth-Century Literature European Literature Literary History Gender Studies |
| ISBN | 3-319-56750-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction; or, What You Will -- Genteel Appropriations of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762): Sex, Sensibility, and Taste in Victorian Family Biography by Magdalena Nerio -- A Vindication of the Woman Known as Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) -- The Constructed Letters of Mary Hays (1759–1843) -- So Irish; so modish, so mixtish, so wild”: Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) (1781–1838) and The Makings of a Life.-Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) -- Whose Poetess?The After-Lives of Felicia Hemans (1793–1835): Biographical Misconstructions.-“Stuck Through with a Pin and Beautifully Preserved”: Curating the Life of “Elizabeth Barrett Browning” -- Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) Autobiography, Biography, and Literary Legacies -- Caroline Norton (1808–1877): The Injured Wife, Scandal, and the Politics of Feminist Memory -- The Biographer as Biographee: Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) -- Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855): (Un)Masked Author to Mythic Woman -- An Unconventional and Contradictory Life: Lady Florence Dixie -- A Woman Whom Men Could More Than Love”: Transfiguring the Unlovely in George Eliot (1819–1880) -- Irony upon Irony: The Persistence of Gordon Haight’s Perceptions of Edith Simcox (1844–1901). |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255092503321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Neo-Victorian Madness : Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media / / edited by Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres
| Neo-Victorian Madness : Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media / / edited by Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (315 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina |
809.93353
800 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 20th century
Literature, Modern - 21st century Literature, Modern - 19th century Fiction Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Motion pictures - Great Britain Science - History Contemporary Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Fiction Literature Adaptation Studies British Film and TV History of Science |
| ISBN | 3-030-46582-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1/Introduction: Neo-Victorian Maladies of the Mind, Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier -- Chapter 2/“I Am Not an Angel”: Madness and Addiction in Neo–Victorian Appropriations of Jane Eyre, Kate Faber Oestreich -- Chapter 3/ “We Should Go Mad”: The Madwoman and Her Nurse, Rachel M. Friars and Brenda Ayres -- Chapter 4/The Daughters of Bertha Mason: Caribbean Madwomen in Laura Fish’s Strange Music, Olivia Tjon-A-Meeuw -- Chapter 5/“A Necessary Madness”: PTSD in Mary Balogh’s Survivors’ Club Novels, Brenda Ayres -- Chapter 6/Unreliable Neo-Victorian Narrators, “Unwomen,” and Femmes Fatales: Nell Lyshon’s The Colour of Milk and Jane Harris’ Gillespie and I, Eckart Voigts -- Chapter 7/“Dear Holy Sister”: Narrating Madness, Bodily Horror and Religious Ecstasy in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White, Marshall Needleman Armintor -- Chapter 8/The Unmentionable Madness of Being a Woman, Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier -- Chapter 9/ Queering the Madwoman: A Mad/Queer Narrative in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and Its Adaptation, Barbara Braid -- Chapter 10/Old Monsters, Old Curses: The New Hysterical Woman and Penny Dreadful, Tim Posada -- Chapter 11/The Glamorisation of Mental Illness in BBC’s Sherlock, John C. Murray -- Chapter 12/ Gendered (De)Illusions: Imaginative Madness in Neo-Victorian Childhood Trauma Narratives, Sarah E. Maier. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484622403321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Neo-Victorian Things : Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film / / edited by Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres, Danielle Mariann Dove
| Neo-Victorian Things : Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film / / edited by Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres, Danielle Mariann Dove |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 pages) |
| Disciplina |
306.1
809.38766 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 19th century
Literature, Modern - 20th century Literature, Modern - 21st century Motion pictures Nineteenth-Century Literature Contemporary Literature Audio-Visual Culture |
| ISBN | 3-031-06201-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Stuff and Things: Introducing Neo-Victorian Materialities -- 2. Objects and Memorabilia in Deborah Lutz’s The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects -- 3. “Around the Mizzenpole”: Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage and African Americanizing the Neo-Victorian-at-sea -- 4. Touching, Writing, Collecting: Opium Paraphernalia and Neo-Victorian Material Culture -- 5. An Instrumental Thing: Pianos Extending and Becoming Postcolonial Bodies in Jane Campion’s The Piano and Daniel Mason’s The Piano Tuner -- 6. “Wilful Phantoms”: Haunted Dress, Memory, and Agentic Materiality in Colm Tóibín’s The Master -- 7. The Thing About Haunted Houses: In The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents and The Haunting of Hill House -- 8. There’s Something in the Tea: Murder and Materiality in Dark Angel -- 9. Criminal Things: Sherlock Holmes’ Details of Detection and Their Neo-Victorian Revisions -- 10. The Sleight of Hand: Appearance and Disappearance of Things in Neo-Victorian Magic. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910584486703321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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