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William Morris and the idea of community
This study focuses on the great polymath William Morris and his contemporaries and followers: from the popular or notorious, like H. Rider Haggard, H. G. Wells, and Friedrich Engels, to the quickly forgotten. In what ways did these Victorians and Edwardians talk about 'community' and 'modernity'? To what uses did they put the notions, and how did different discourses contribute to their formation and appropriate their meanings?
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Korney Chukovsky in Britain
Korney Chukovsky is a neglected figure in the story of the British reception of Russian literature. This essay attempts to recover his place in the complex networks of translation, criticism, and interpretation in the twentieth century by examining his three visits to Britain (1903-4, 1916, and 1962), his activities as an intermediary for British writers in Russia, and the British dissemination of his literary criticism.In his alternate guises as indigent newspaper correspondent, feted member of a wartime delegation, and recipient of an Oxford honorary doctorate, Chukovsky came to be both a key contributor to and a keen observer of British perceptions of Russian literature.
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'IT WAS A SILLY SYSTEM': WRITERS AND SCHOOLS, 1870-1939
This article explores the methodological issues involved in assessing creative writers' attitudes to the far-reaching changes in non-elite school education which took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unlike public-school fiction or children's story magazines, sources dealing with working and lower-middle-class education have barely been explored by literary critics. The first part of the article, therefore, focuses on the portrayal of that education in contemporary novels and autobiographies by writers such as H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, John Buchan, D. H. Lawrence, and George Orwell, while the second offers a case study examining the place of English literature in the radical Socialist Sunday Schools.
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The Late-Victorian Romance Revival: A Generic Excursus
Attempting to define romance is like attempting to define genre itself: an immensely revelatory but ultimately futile exercise. At the very least, it is doomed to circularity and tautology for it starts out already knowing what the definition is--enough, at least, to specify or to extend it. Here, Vaninskaya does not attempt to construct a model that can deal adequately with change, development, and transformation without falling into the formalist trap, or to set up a system of differences of sufficient complexity to account for the evolution of even the most conventional of formula fiction strands. Often, the most effective course of action, she notes, is to avoid model-building altogether. One way of doing this is to adopt the generic theory of the period under consideration, within which its authors consciously operated--to judge them by their own criteria.
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Introduction: Literature and the Press: 1800 / 1900
An introduction to the third issue of 19.
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THE ORWELL CENTURY AND AFTER: RETHINKING RECEPTION AND REPUTATION
The Orwell centenary of 2003 has come and gone, but the pace of academic publications that usually accompany such biographical milestones has not slackened. The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell was released in summer 2007, John Rodden's Every Intellectual's Big Brother: George Orwell's Literary Siblings was published in 2006, On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and Our Future, the proceedings of a 1999 conference, came out in 2005. The striking thing about many of these publications, not to mention the ones which emerged out of the commemorative activities of 2003 itself, is that they are more concerned with Orwell's reputation and relevance today than with his oeuvre as such. As many as five chapters of the Cambridge Companion have a “posthumous” focus; the proceedings of the largest centenary conference, George Orwell: Into the Twenty-First Century, raise the issue of Orwell and the war in Iraq more frequently than that of Orwell and World War II.The latter is not entirely surprising for an American conference which featured the “liberal hawk” and former Trotskyist journalist Christopher Hitchens as the keynote speaker, and whose proceedings were edited in accordance with a corresponding political agenda, but it is also indicative of a larger phenomenon, a phenomenon most thoroughly examined by John Rodden in books like George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation and Scenes from an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell. Few imaginative writers have been so compulsively remoulded, coopted, and invoked outside of their proper literary sphere; as Rodden's scrupulous documentation shows, no modern crisis from the Cold War to the war on terror has gone by without an Orwell headline to define it. What, one may ask, are the mechanisms behind this astounding popularity? How are reputations on this vast scale made? Looking at “the writer and his work” will only get one so far; one must also look outward, for the world's perception of Orwell is as interesting and intriguing a subject as Orwell himself. Rodden, the most prolific Orwell critic publishing today, has made this reception history his focus.
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Education and Association
It has long been known that ‘preaching the socialist word’ (Samuel 1980, 48) was an activity with many of the characteristics of a revivalist religious movement. Socialist street-corner orators, competing with the Salvation Army for the attention of the working class, resembled nothing so much as missionaries fishing for the souls of the unbelievers. They also had a lot to say about Christianity as such: Dennis Hird, first principal of Ruskin College, churned out books like The Believing Bishop and Jesus the Socialist. The penny fortnightly ‘Pass On Pamphlets’ and the ‘Clarion Pamphlets’ featured titles about Christianity and socialism from
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The Romance Revival
‘It is not needful, nor indeed is it possible, to define Romance,’ Sir Walter Raleigh, first Oxford Professor of English Literature, told his Princeton audience in 1915, and immediately went on to contradict himself. He discussed the origins and development of romance, ‘a perennial form of modern literature’ recurring in every period, and most notably in the ‘romance revival’ of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, which rediscovered the medieval as the Renaissance had rediscovered the classical. The romance revival with which this book deals happened much closer to Raleigh’s own time, in the 1880s and 90s. It was
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