Kenneth Millard
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198122258
- eISBN:
- 9780191671395
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198122258.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Although nearly fifty years separate the births of Hardy and Brooke, they nevertheless share characteristics that are common to the Edwardian period. Each of the poets included here is imbued with a ...
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Although nearly fifty years separate the births of Hardy and Brooke, they nevertheless share characteristics that are common to the Edwardian period. Each of the poets included here is imbued with a sense of nostalgia for an earlier time which they seek to vivify. The poets of this book are engaged in attempts to offer an expression of the definitive or quintessential England. Edwardian poetry is characterized in part by its annihilation of the traditional romantic self of poetry, and it expresses a corresponding loss of faith in writing, and occasionally in the faculty of imagination in whatever form it takes.Less
Although nearly fifty years separate the births of Hardy and Brooke, they nevertheless share characteristics that are common to the Edwardian period. Each of the poets included here is imbued with a sense of nostalgia for an earlier time which they seek to vivify. The poets of this book are engaged in attempts to offer an expression of the definitive or quintessential England. Edwardian poetry is characterized in part by its annihilation of the traditional romantic self of poetry, and it expresses a corresponding loss of faith in writing, and occasionally in the faculty of imagination in whatever form it takes.
Kirsty Hooper
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781789621327
- eISBN:
- 9781800341654
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789621327.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
What did the Edwardians know about Spain, and what was that knowledge worth? The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession draws on a vast store of largely unstudied primary source ...
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What did the Edwardians know about Spain, and what was that knowledge worth? The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession draws on a vast store of largely unstudied primary source material to investigate Spain’s place in the turn-of-the-century British popular imagination. Set against a background of unprecedented emotional, economic and industrial investment in Spain, the book traces the extraordinary transformation that took place in British knowledge about the country and its diverse regions, languages and cultures between the tercentenary of the Spanish Armada in 1888 and the outbreak of World War I twenty-six years later. This empirically-grounded cultural and material history reveals how, for almost three decades, Anglo-Spanish connections, their history and culture were more visible, more colourfully represented, and more enthusiastically discussed in Britain’s newspapers, concert halls, council meetings and schoolrooms, than ever before. It shows how the expansion of education, travel, and publishing created unprecedented opportunities for ordinary British people not only to visit the country, but to see the work of Spanish and Spanish-inspired artists and performers in British galleries, theatres and exhibitions. It explores the work of novelists, travel writers, journalists, scholars, artists and performers to argue that the Edwardian knowledge of Spain was more extensive, more complex and more diverse than we have imagined.Less
What did the Edwardians know about Spain, and what was that knowledge worth? The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession draws on a vast store of largely unstudied primary source material to investigate Spain’s place in the turn-of-the-century British popular imagination. Set against a background of unprecedented emotional, economic and industrial investment in Spain, the book traces the extraordinary transformation that took place in British knowledge about the country and its diverse regions, languages and cultures between the tercentenary of the Spanish Armada in 1888 and the outbreak of World War I twenty-six years later. This empirically-grounded cultural and material history reveals how, for almost three decades, Anglo-Spanish connections, their history and culture were more visible, more colourfully represented, and more enthusiastically discussed in Britain’s newspapers, concert halls, council meetings and schoolrooms, than ever before. It shows how the expansion of education, travel, and publishing created unprecedented opportunities for ordinary British people not only to visit the country, but to see the work of Spanish and Spanish-inspired artists and performers in British galleries, theatres and exhibitions. It explores the work of novelists, travel writers, journalists, scholars, artists and performers to argue that the Edwardian knowledge of Spain was more extensive, more complex and more diverse than we have imagined.
Anna Vaninskaya
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748641499
- eISBN:
- 9780748651672
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748641499.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
The great polymath William Morris and his contemporaries and followers — from H. Rider Haggard to H. G. Wells — are the focus of this study, which draws upon a wide array of primary sources, from ...
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The great polymath William Morris and his contemporaries and followers — from H. Rider Haggard to H. G. Wells — are the focus of this study, which draws upon a wide array of primary sources, from working-class fiction and articles in fringe socialist newspapers to historical treatises, autobiographies and diaries, in order to explore the many ways Victorians and Edwardians talked about community and modernity. The book's narrative moves from the realm of romance bestsellers and sniggering reviews to debates in weighty historical tomes, and then to the headquarters of revolutionary parties, to street-corners and shabby lecture halls. It demonstrates how in each domain the dream of community clashed with the reality of the modern state and market. The book brings together the worlds of fin de siècle literature, politics and historiography, redefines the terms of the critical debate about the late-Victorian romance revival, uncovers the full extent of the contemporary radical appropriations of nineteenth-century scholarship, and incorporates previously unexamined archival material.Less
The great polymath William Morris and his contemporaries and followers — from H. Rider Haggard to H. G. Wells — are the focus of this study, which draws upon a wide array of primary sources, from working-class fiction and articles in fringe socialist newspapers to historical treatises, autobiographies and diaries, in order to explore the many ways Victorians and Edwardians talked about community and modernity. The book's narrative moves from the realm of romance bestsellers and sniggering reviews to debates in weighty historical tomes, and then to the headquarters of revolutionary parties, to street-corners and shabby lecture halls. It demonstrates how in each domain the dream of community clashed with the reality of the modern state and market. The book brings together the worlds of fin de siècle literature, politics and historiography, redefines the terms of the critical debate about the late-Victorian romance revival, uncovers the full extent of the contemporary radical appropriations of nineteenth-century scholarship, and incorporates previously unexamined archival material.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226063898
- eISBN:
- 9780226063911
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226063911.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter evaluates how Prince Edwardians responded to the closure of public schools. Most whites enrolled at Prince Edward Academy. As a party to Brown, Prince Edward was one of the first ...
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This chapter evaluates how Prince Edwardians responded to the closure of public schools. Most whites enrolled at Prince Edward Academy. As a party to Brown, Prince Edward was one of the first communities to confront the reality of federally mandated desegregation. The school closings evidently redounded to the financial benefit of whites with some land; for black landowners, tax breaks scarcely made up for the hardships imposed by no available schooling in the county. Several outside groups took an immediate interest in the Prince Edward situation. Outside organizations and Reverend L. Francis Griffin agreed to develop some incounty educational maintenance that did not obscure the crisis of no public education. Black Prince Edwardians refused to drop their lawsuit, nor would they accept offers to help form their own private schools.Less
This chapter evaluates how Prince Edwardians responded to the closure of public schools. Most whites enrolled at Prince Edward Academy. As a party to Brown, Prince Edward was one of the first communities to confront the reality of federally mandated desegregation. The school closings evidently redounded to the financial benefit of whites with some land; for black landowners, tax breaks scarcely made up for the hardships imposed by no available schooling in the county. Several outside groups took an immediate interest in the Prince Edward situation. Outside organizations and Reverend L. Francis Griffin agreed to develop some incounty educational maintenance that did not obscure the crisis of no public education. Black Prince Edwardians refused to drop their lawsuit, nor would they accept offers to help form their own private schools.
