Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Nanette Norris is the editor of this collection of ten essays on popular culture. The essays cover a vast track of time during the twentieth century and are a sampling of current scholarship on Ireland. The collection uses cultural, historical, and economic contextualization to analyze its consumption. The essays are united in their attempt to use hindsight to explain the influence of popular culture depicting iconic images in film, television, music, and even comic books.

Popular culture -- History -- 20th century. --- Popular culture and literature. --- Popular culture --- Popular culture and literature --- History & Archaeology --- History - General --- Literature and popular culture --- Literature --- History

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Late nineteenth-century America saw an explosion in mass culture-from sensationalist tabloid newspapers to amusement parks to Wild West shows. Historians and critics have traditionally observed the advent of mass culture as undermining literature's central role in the public sphere. Literary writers of the time either reacted with a public show of disdain or retreated to conduct their own private experiments in style and form. In Frantic Panoramas, Nancy Bentley questions these narratives of opposition.For literary writers, Bentley explains, the confrontation with mass culture was less a retreat than a transformation, an ordeal through which habits of contemplative appreciation could be refashioned into new forms of critical thought. By grappling with the energies that marked mass culture, authors came to recognize kinds of human experience that were only then becoming visible as public. William Dean Howells shaped the plots of his novels around tabloid events like rail and trolley accidents and the public chaos of apartment house fires. Although Henry James was distressed at the way dime fiction had changed the very definition of literature, his meditations on mass culture led him to reimagine the novel as a collective "workshop" in which authors and readers jointly discovered new meaning. Bentley offers close readings of these and other writers such as Edith Wharton, James Weldon Johnson, Pauline Hopkins, and Gertrude Bonnin to demonstrate how leading artists took inspiration from commercial culture to create new and distinct literary forms.Drawing on original archival research and a historically grounded theory of realism, Frantic Panoramas is an innovative and comprehensive study of how the emergence of mass culture affected literary culture in America.

Popular culture --- Popular culture in literature. --- Popular culture and literature --- Popular literature --- American literature --- Literature and popular culture --- Literature --- History --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

English literature --- History of civilization --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Popular culture and literature --- Popular culture in literature --- Popular culture --- Popular literature --- Literature and popular culture --- Literature --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- History and criticism --- History

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In an ambitious overview of 1000 years of history, from the formation of the city-state of Rome to the establishment of a fully Christian culture, T.P. Wiseman examines the evidence for the oral delivery of 'literature' to mass public audiences. The treatment is chronological, utilising wherever possible contemporary sources and the close reading of texts. Presenting the history of Roman literature as an integral part of the social and political history of the Roman people, he draws some unexpected inferences from the evidence that survives. In particular, he emphasises the significance of the annual series of 'stage games', and reveals the hitherto unexplored common ground of literature, drama and dance.

Latin literature --- Popular culture and literature --- History and criticism --- Latin literature. --- Popular culture and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Rome (Empire) --- Literature and popular culture --- Literature --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic --- Rome --- Romi (Empire) --- Italy --- Byzantine Empire --- Latin literature - History and criticism --- Popular culture and literature - Rome

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Framed within a wide range of ideas, including politics and religion, this volume makes new connections between embodiment, selfhood and the passions. It explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between a cognitive and bodily approach to emotion, and in the process suggests both new models of the self and new models for interactive and inter-disciplinary history.

English literature --- Subjectivity in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Emotions in literature. --- Popular culture and literature --- Literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Literature and popular culture --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy --- History. --- English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism --- Subjectivity in literature --- Self in literature --- Emotions in literature --- Popular culture and literature - England --- Literature - Philosophy - History