Criticism and the Nineteenth Century, Geoffrey Tillotson

Автор: Rosenthal, Debra J.
Название: Race mixture in nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American fictions
ISBN: 0807855642 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807855645
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Описание: Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation ofLatin America. This text examines 19th-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to contemporary dilemmas about interracial sexual and cultural mixing.

Автор: Pisani Michael V.
Название: Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York
ISBN: 1609382307 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609382308
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Описание: Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre--accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lady Audley's Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller--than they did in almost any other area of their lives. But unlike film music, theatrical music has received very little attention from scholars and so it has been largely lost to us. In this groundbreaking study, Michael V. Pisani goes in search of these abandoned sounds.

Mining old manuscripts and newspapers, he finds that starting in the 1790s, theatrical managers in Britain and the United States began to rely on music to play an interpretive role in melodramatic productions. During the nineteenth century, instrumental music--in addition to song--was a common feature in the production of stage plays.

The music played by instrumental ensembles not only enlivened performances but also served other important functions. Many actors and actresses found that accompanimental music helped them sustain the emotional pitch of a monologue or dialogue sequence. Music also helped audiences to identify the motivations of characters. Playwrights used music to hold together the hybrid elements of melodrama, heighten the build toward sensation, and dignify the tragic pathos of villains and other characters. Music also aided manager-directors by providing cues for lighting and other stage effects. Moreover, in a century of seismic social and economic changes, music could provide a moral compass in an uncertain moral universe.

Featuring dozens of musical examples and images of the old theatres, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre charts the progress of the genre from its earliest use in the eighteenth century to the elaborate stage productions of the very early twentieth century.

Автор: Cocks
Название: The Peripheral Child in Nineteenth Century Literature and its Criticism
ISBN: 1137452447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137452443
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Описание: Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives. This book is concerned with children who are not so easily recognized or remembered, the peripheral or overlooked children to be read in works by Dickens, Bronte, Austen and Rossetti.

Автор: Andrew Porter (Editor),
Название: Oxford History of the British Empire. V.3: The Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 0198205651 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198205654
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Описание: This work seeks to elucidate the end of Empire in relation to its beginning, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as for the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. This volume covers the 19th century.

Автор: Schurlknight, Donald E.
Название: Power and dissent: Larra and democracy in nineteenth-century Spain
ISBN: 0838757316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780838757314
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Описание: Investigates how Larra (pseudonym Figaro) exposes the power relations that exist between and among individuals and the classes that form `society`. This work features postmodern vein of the satirical writer`s duly famous articles penned - and published mostly between March 1835 and the summer of 1836.