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Published on: 1997-12-24
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During the last decades of the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Walter Pater and others changed the nature of thought concerning the human body and the physical environment that had shaped it. In response, the 1890s saw the publication of a series of remarkable literary works that had their genesis in the intense scientific and aesthetic activity of those preceding decades―texts that emphasized themes of degeneration and were themselves stylistically decompositive, with language both a surrogate for physical deformity and a source of anxiety. Susan J. Navarette examines the ways in which scientific and cultural concerns of late nineteenth-century England are coded in the horror literature of the period. By contextualizing the structural, stylistic, and thematic systems developed by writers seeking to reenact textually the entropic forces they perceived in the natural world, Navarette reconstructs the late Victorian mentalite. She analyzes aesthetic responses to trends in contemporary science and explores horror writers' use of scientific methodologies to support their perception that a long-awaited period of cultural decline had begun. In her analysis of the classics Turn of the Screw and Heart of Darkness, Navarette shows how James and Conrad made artistic use of earlier "scientific" readings of the body. She also considers works by lesser-known authors Walter de la Mare, Vernon Lee, and Arthur Machen, who produced fin de siècle stories that took the form of "hybrid literary monstrosities." To underscore the fascination with bodily decay and deformation that these writers explored, The Shape of Fear is enhanced with prints and line drawings by Victor Hugo, James Ensor, and other artists of the day. This elegantly written book formulates a new canon of late Victorian fiction that will intrigue scholars of literature and cultural history. Glossary of Literary Terms - Buzzle Glossary of Literary Terms. Not only do literary terms give greater relevance to words and their meanings but also add to the beauty of a language. Modernism - Wikipedia According to one critic modernism developed out of Romanticism's revolt against the effects of the Industrial Revolution and bourgeois values: "The ground motive of ... List of Jewish atheists and agnostics - Wikipedia Based on Jewish law's emphasis on matrilineal descent even religiously conservative Orthodox Jewish authorities would accept an atheist born to a Jewish mother as ... The Temporary Autonomous Zone COMMUNIQUE 4 The End of the World. THE A.O.A. DECLARES ITSELF officially bored with the End of the World. The canonical version has been used since 1945 to keep us ... Loot.co.za: Sitemap 9789500833301 9500833301 Las 10 Reglas de Oro Para Ser Feliz Robert Ambers 9780953944408 0953944409 Walks from the Gatliff Hostel at Reinigeadal Neil Pinkett ... Cunt: A Cultural History Of The C-Word - Matthew Hunt Reappropriating Cunt 'Cunt' may be the most offensive word in the English language though there have been many attempts to reappropriate it. This ideology which was ... Post Darwin: social Darwinism degeneration eugenics ... Dr Carolyn Burdett explores how Victorian thinkers used Darwin's theory of evolution in forming their own social economic and racial theories thereby extending ... Toutes les soutenances - Universit Paris-Sorbonne Mardi 14 novembre 2006 14 heures Maison de la Recherche salle D116 28 rue Serpente 75006 Paris Mme Patrizia DANDREA soutient sa thse de Doctorat : Loot.co.za: Sitemap 9780153266522 015326652X Florida Trophies Practice Book Banner Days Grade 2 Harcourt School Publishers 9781593881009 1593881002 Jose Antonio Echeverria Julio ... Macmillan - Distinguished & Award Winning Global Publisher ... Cheer the F*ck Up. By Caitlin Peterson. Color your way to a brighter f*cking day!When life gives you lemons you can make lemonade...
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