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Manchester University Press eBooks, Aug 30, 2017
In this chapter David Amigoni focuses on Arnold Bennett’s essay entitled 'The Rising Storm of... more In this chapter David Amigoni focuses on Arnold Bennett’s essay entitled 'The Rising Storm of Life' written for the popular magazine T.P's Weekly in 1907. While there has emerged a canon of Victorian literature and science writers, shaped substantially by the work of Gillian Beer and George Levine and their focus on Darwin, a focus on Bennett's essay permits a concentration on the retrospective and prospective moods that structured the self-conscious end of century transition. Bennett's essay enables a reconsideration of science's contribution to the experience of modernity through technological development and the harnessing of energy sciences (the work of Crosbie Smith on 'North British' science is also considered). The relative impacts of evolutionary thinkers is also explored, and Bennett's sense of the importance of Herbert Spencer's evolutionism provides an opportunity to discuss some of the revisionist work that has appeared on Spencer (from Thomas Dixon and Chris Renwick), to balance against the dominance of Darwin. Finally, Bennett's use of the popular essay/popular magazine format provides an opportunity to review developments in the 'history of the book', and contributions to Victorian literature and science studies, from the work of James Secord to the work of Gowan Dawson
Boydell and Brewer eBooks, Dec 30, 2020
Routledge eBooks, Sep 25, 2014
Routledge eBooks, May 18, 2017
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 1, 2012
Pickering & Chatto eBooks, 2011
Genomics, society and policy, Apr 15, 2008
Journal of Victorian Culture, 2005
... in cultural and edu-cational institutions and public service: as late as 1948 (just a few ...... more ... in cultural and edu-cational institutions and public service: as late as 1948 (just a few ... the story about CJVaughan to a friend during an argument about 'Arcadian love', and was ... The big regal figures com-manded attention; however, queer little morsels of oddity and pathos also ...
English Studies in Canada, 2008
Critical Survey, 2001
In her justly influential work on nineteenth-century strategies of self representation, Subjectiv... more In her justly influential work on nineteenth-century strategies of self representation, Subjectivities (1990), Reginia Gagnier describes the dominant characteristics of the 'high' literary tradition of nineteenth-century auto/biography as consisting of a meditative and self-reflective sensibility; faith in writing as a tool of self-exploration; an attempt to make sense of life as a narrative progressing in time, with a narrative typically structured upon parent/child relationships and familial development; and a belief in personal creativity, autonomy and freedom for the future.
... An example of this can be found in the diary of Joseph Romilly, by profession the Registrary ... more ... An example of this can be found in the diary of Joseph Romilly, by profession the Registrary for the University of Cambridge. ... the Senate, but it still establishes grounds for a 'thick descriptive' account of the public and private meanings attached to reading a life in Victorian culture ...
University of Toronto Press eBooks, Jan 31, 2007
Manchester University Press eBooks, Aug 30, 2017
In this chapter David Amigoni focuses on Arnold Bennett’s essay entitled 'The Rising Storm of... more In this chapter David Amigoni focuses on Arnold Bennett’s essay entitled 'The Rising Storm of Life' written for the popular magazine T.P's Weekly in 1907. While there has emerged a canon of Victorian literature and science writers, shaped substantially by the work of Gillian Beer and George Levine and their focus on Darwin, a focus on Bennett's essay permits a concentration on the retrospective and prospective moods that structured the self-conscious end of century transition. Bennett's essay enables a reconsideration of science's contribution to the experience of modernity through technological development and the harnessing of energy sciences (the work of Crosbie Smith on 'North British' science is also considered). The relative impacts of evolutionary thinkers is also explored, and Bennett's sense of the importance of Herbert Spencer's evolutionism provides an opportunity to discuss some of the revisionist work that has appeared on Spencer (from Thomas Dixon and Chris Renwick), to balance against the dominance of Darwin. Finally, Bennett's use of the popular essay/popular magazine format provides an opportunity to review developments in the 'history of the book', and contributions to Victorian literature and science studies, from the work of James Secord to the work of Gowan Dawson
Boydell and Brewer eBooks, Dec 30, 2020
Routledge eBooks, Sep 25, 2014
Routledge eBooks, May 18, 2017
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 1, 2012
Pickering & Chatto eBooks, 2011
Genomics, society and policy, Apr 15, 2008
Journal of Victorian Culture, 2005
... in cultural and edu-cational institutions and public service: as late as 1948 (just a few ...... more ... in cultural and edu-cational institutions and public service: as late as 1948 (just a few ... the story about CJVaughan to a friend during an argument about 'Arcadian love', and was ... The big regal figures com-manded attention; however, queer little morsels of oddity and pathos also ...
English Studies in Canada, 2008
Critical Survey, 2001
In her justly influential work on nineteenth-century strategies of self representation, Subjectiv... more In her justly influential work on nineteenth-century strategies of self representation, Subjectivities (1990), Reginia Gagnier describes the dominant characteristics of the 'high' literary tradition of nineteenth-century auto/biography as consisting of a meditative and self-reflective sensibility; faith in writing as a tool of self-exploration; an attempt to make sense of life as a narrative progressing in time, with a narrative typically structured upon parent/child relationships and familial development; and a belief in personal creativity, autonomy and freedom for the future.
... An example of this can be found in the diary of Joseph Romilly, by profession the Registrary ... more ... An example of this can be found in the diary of Joseph Romilly, by profession the Registrary for the University of Cambridge. ... the Senate, but it still establishes grounds for a 'thick descriptive' account of the public and private meanings attached to reading a life in Victorian culture ...
University of Toronto Press eBooks, Jan 31, 2007