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Coulson, John, and Nigel Odin. "Continental Great Spotted Woodpeckers in mainland Britain ‐ fact or fiction?" Ringing & Migration 23, no. 4 (January 2007): 217–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03078698.2007.9674367.

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Γκότση, Γεωργία. "Elizabeth Mayhew Edmonds: Greek prose fiction in English dress." Σύγκριση 25 (May 16, 2016): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/comparison.9064.

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Elizabeth Mayhew Edmonds (1823-1907) played a significant role in the mediation of Modern Greek literature and culture in late nineteenth-century Britain, with her translations forming a vital aspect of her activity as a cultural broker. Focusing on Edmond’s transmission of late nineteenth-century Greek prose fiction, the article discusses her translation practices in the contemporary contexts of the publishing domain and the marketplace as well as of her effort to acquire authority in the literary field. Albeit impressive for a woman who was an autodidact in Modern Greek, the narrow scope of Edmonds’ translations offered a limited image of the developments in Modern Greek fiction. Her correspondence with John Gennadius and Thomas Fisher Unwin sheds light on her sense of superiority regarding male Greek authors such as Drosines and Xenopoulos, whose texts she rendered into English. Against this background, the article seeks to explain her translating choices and examines how a self-conscious translator such as Edmonds tried to shape the reception of Greek fiction in Victorian England by portraying it in terms of an ethnographic study of cultural survivals. Finally, through a parallel reading of the original texts and her somewhat mundane renderings, the article seeks to illuminate her translating craft: although worthy for their contribution to the promotion of Modern Greek literature in Great Britain, Edmond’s translations suffered from her inability to recreate the density of the original texts.
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Ritchie, J. M., and Nicole Brunnhuber. "The Faces of Janus: English-Language Fiction by German-Speaking Exiles in Great Britain, 1933-1945." Modern Language Review 102, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 283. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20467257.

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Campbell Ross, Ian. "‘Damn these printers … By heaven, I'll cut Hoey's throat’: The History of Mr. Charles Fitzgerald and Miss Sarah Stapleton (1770), a Catholic Novel in Eighteenth-Century Ireland." Irish University Review 48, no. 2 (November 2018): 250–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2018.0353.

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The History of Mr Charles Fitzgerald and Miss Sarah Stapleton (Dublin, 1770) is a satirical marriage-plot novel, published by the Roman Catholic bookseller James Hoey Junior. The essay argues that the anonymous author was himself a Roman Catholic, whose work mischievously interrogates the place of English-language prose fiction in Ireland during the third-quarter of the eighteenth century. By so doing, the fiction illuminates the issue, so far neglected by Irish book historians, of how the growing middle-class Roman Catholic readership might have read the increasingly popular ‘new species of writing’, as produced by novelists in Great Britain and Ireland. The essay concludes by reviewing the question of the authorship of The History and offering a new attribution to the Catholic physician and poet, Dr Dominick Kelly, of Ballyglass, Co. Roscommon.
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Brinson, Charmian. "The Faces of Janus: English-language Fiction by German-speaking Exiles in Great Britain, 1933-1945 (review)." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 25, no. 2 (2007): 212–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sho.2007.0010.

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Janicki, Joel J. "Forgotten Books: On the Making of Jane Porter’s "Thaddeus of Warsaw"." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 47, no. 2 (July 10, 2020): 309–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.485.

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This article attempts to identify and examine some of the factors and sources that led to the creation of a largely forgotten prose work of English fiction titled Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803) which became an immediate and extraordinary success. Jane Porter’s novel deals with a fictitious Polish patriot Thaddeus Sobieski, who is modelled on the Polish national hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko. The novel presents an excellent illustration of the cultural links between Great Britain and Poland towards the end of the 18th century and constitutes a cautionary tale for Porter’s English readers, one that creates a basis for moral reform and political engagement.
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Michel Mondenessi, Alfredo. ""Stands Scotland Where it did?": Re-locating and Dis-locating the Scottish Play on Scottish Film." Anuario de Letras Modernas 14 (July 31, 2009): 33–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/ffyl.01860526p.2008.14.671.

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Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a problematic fiction of 11th century Scotland constructed from the viewpoint of an early modern English playwright, chiefly through his reading of a black legend that developed over 400 years of violent re-arrangement of national powers and cultural and political identities in Great Britain. Given the questionable but common expectations of “realism” that cinema often invites, films of the play purporting to be "faithful to the original" have attempted to locate — or more significantly and accurately, to re-locate — Shakespeare’s fiction in "authentic" settings. A version of the "Scottish play" making such a claim was filmed by director Jeremy Freeston in Scotland in 1996. Using contrasting perspectives, on the one hand this paper explores how, when viewed merely from a "theoretical/filmic" approach, Freeston’s Macbeth may very likely be found "foul", while on the other, if approached from a broader, "cultural", stand, it turns out rather "fair".
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Mehedinți, Mihaela. "Great Britain and the United States of America as alterity figures for Romanians in the modern epoch: Ethno-cultural images and social representations." Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies 14, no. 1 (August 1, 2022): 99–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rjbns-2022-0006.

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Abstract The main characteristics of any given social group are defined through comparisons with members of other communities and result from a complex interplay. Identity and alterity are thus constructed simultaneously and interdependently in accordance with group representations emerging from various sources: direct contact through travelling, mere legends or more verifiable accounts, scientific or fictional works, press articles tackling diverse topics, school textbooks, almanacs, etc. The British and the Americans were not identified as the most noteworthy alterity figures by the Romanian mentality of the modern period, but they were surely perceived distinctively from other foreigners. Despite the cultural and/or geographical distance between Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia, on the one hand, and Great Britain and the United States of America, on the other hand, towards the end of the 19th century average Romanians were able to interwove information gathered from a wide range of sources and to transform it into realistic depictions of these two countries and their inhabitants. This process of defining the Other combined diachronic and synchronous tendencies, fiction and facts, stereotypes and truth. By synthesising the work done by previous researchers, the present study provides an overall image of the ways in which Great Britain and the United States of America were perceived by Romanians throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Ritchie, J. M. "The Faces of Janus: English-Language Fiction by German-Speaking Exiles in Great Britain, 1933-1945 by Nicole Brunnhuber." Modern Language Review 102, no. 1 (2007): 283–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2007.0378.

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Brunnhuber, Nicole. "Explaining the Enemy: Images of German Culture in English-Language Fiction by German-Speaking Exiles in Great Britain, 1933-45." Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 42, no. 3 (2006): 277–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/smr.2006.0028.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Extortion – Great Britain – Fiction"

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Kobritz, Sharon J. "Why Mystery and Detective Fiction was a Natural Outgrowth of the Victorian Period." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2002. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/KobritzSJ2002.pdf.

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Gill, Josephine Ceri. "Race, genetics and British fiction since the Human Genome Project." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610822.

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Floyd, William David. "Orphans of British fiction, 1880-1911." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3601.

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Orphans of British Fiction, 1880-1911 Abstract William David Floyd Orphans of British Fiction, 1880-1911 focuses on the depiction of orphans in genre fiction of the Victorian fin-de-siecle. The overwhelming majority of criticism focusing on orphans centers particularly on the form as an early- to middle-century convention, primarily found in realist and domestic works; in effect, the non-traditional, aberrant, at times Gothic orphan of the fin-de-siecle has been largely overlooked, if not denied outright. This oversight has given rise to the need for a study of this potent cultural figure as it pertains to preoccupations characteristic of the turn of the century. The term “orphan” may typically elicit images of the Dickensian type, such as Oliver Twist, the homeless waif with no family or fortune with which he or she may discern identity and totality of self. The earlier-century portrayals of orphanhood that produced this stereotype dealt almost exclusively with issues arising from industrialization, such as class affiliation, economic disparity and social reform and were often informed by the cult of the ideal Victorian family. Beginning with an overview of orphanhood as presented in earlier fiction of the long nineteenth century, including its metaphorical import and the conventions associated with it, Orphans of British Literature, 1880-1911 goes on to examine the notable variance in literary orphans in genre fiction at the turn of the century. Indicators of the zeitgeist of modernism’s advent, turn-of-the-century orphans functioned as registers of burgeoning cultural anxieties particular to the fin-de-siecle, such as sexual ambiguity, moral and physical degeneration and concerns about the imperial enterprise. Furthermore, toward the century’s end, the notion of the ideal family fell under suspicion and was even criticized as limiting and oppressive rather than reliable and inclusive, casting into doubt the institution to which the orphan historically aspired and through which the orphan state was typically rectified. As a result, in contrast to the sentimental street urchin of early and middle century fiction, fin-de-siecle orphans are often unsettling, irresolute, even monstrous and violent figures.
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Smith, Helen. "The Fire and the Ash." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2002. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1644.

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This thesis comprises two parts. Part One is a novel (The Fire and the Ash), set in the latter half of the nineteenth century. lt chronicles, for the most part, the marriage of a young Irish couple. Part Two is an essay entitled Victorian Women and the Law. This area of research was selected because the life span of the woman in my novel coincides almost precisely with the reign of Queen Victoria. The life of women in Victorian Britain is commonly known to have been difficult. The social dictates of the time required that they be groomed from early childhood for a life of servitude to father and, hopefully, later a husband. There was little room, apart for a small minority of exceptional women, for self-expression, other than through the domestic arts within the home.
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Dredge, Sarah. "Accommodating feminism : Victorian fiction and the nineteenth-century women's movement." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36917.

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The research field of this thesis is framed by the major political and legal women's movement campaigns from the 1840s to the 1870s: the debates over the Married Women's Property Act; over philanthropy and methods of addressing social ills; the campaign for professional opportunities for women, and the arguments surrounding women's suffrage. I address how these issues are considered and contextualised in major works of Victorian fiction: Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South (1855), Charlotte Bronte's Villette (1853), and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871--2).
In works of fiction by women, concepts of social justice were not constrained by layers of legal abstraction and the obligatory political vocabulary of "disinterest." Contemporary fiction by women could thus offer some of the most developed articulations of women's changing expectations. This thesis demonstrates that the Victorian novel provides a distinct synthesis of, and contribution to, arguments grouped under the rubric of the "woman question." The novel offers a perspective on feminist politics in which conflicting social interests and demands can be played out, where ethical questions meet everyday life, and human relations have philosophical weight. Given women's traditional exclusion from the domain of legitimate (authoritative) speech, the novels of Gaskell, the Bronte's, and Eliot, traditionally admired for their portrayal of moral character, play a special role in giving voice to the key political issues of women's rights, entitlements, and interests. Evidence for the political content and efficacy of these novels is drawn from archival sources which have been little used in literary studies (including unpublished materials), as well as contemporary periodicals. Central among these is the English Woman's Journal. Conceived as the mouthpiece of the early women's movement, the journal offers a valuable record of the feminist activity of the period. Though it has not been widely exploited, particularly in literary studies, detailed study of the journal reveals close parallels between the ideological commitments and concerns of the women's movement and novels by mid-Victorian women.
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Khulpateea, Veda Laxmi. "State of the union cross cultural marriages in nineteenth century literature and society /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.

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McKernan, Niall Luke Davis. "'Something more than a mere picture show' : Charles Urban and the early non-fiction film in Great Britain and America, 1897-1925." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.412685.

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Chung, Wing-yu, and 鍾詠儒. "British women writers and the city in the early twentieth century." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B2702409X.

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Welstead, Adam. "Dystopia and the divided kingdom : twenty-first century British dystopian fiction and the politics of dissensus." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17104.

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This doctoral thesis examines the ways in which contemporary writers have adopted the critical dystopian mode in order to radically deconstruct the socio-political conditions that preclude equality, inclusion and collective political appearance in twenty-first century Britain. The thesis performs theoretically-informed close readings of contemporary novels from authors J.G. Ballard, Maggie Gee, Sarah Hall and Rupert Thomson in its analysis, and argues that the speculative visions of Kingdom Come (2006), The Flood (2004), The Carhullan Army (2007) and Divided Kingdom (2005) are engaged with a wave of contemporary dystopian writing in which the destructive and divisive forms of consensus that are to be found within Britain's contemporary socio-political moment are identified and challenged. The thesis proposes that, in their politically-engaged extrapolations, contemporary British writers are engaged with specifically dystopian expressions of dissensus. Reflecting key theoretical and political nuances found in Jacques Rancière's concept of 'dissensus', I argue that the novels illustrate dissensual interventions within the imagined political space of British societies in which inequalities, oppressions and exclusions are endemic - often proceeding to present modest, 'minor' utopian arguments for more equal, heterogeneous and democratic possibilities in the process. Contributing new, theoretically-inflected analysis of key speculative fictions from twenty-first century British writers, and locating their critiques within the literary, socio-political and theoretical contexts they are meaningfully engaged with, the thesis ultimately argues that in interrogating and reimagining the socio-political spaces of twenty-first century Britain, contemporary writers of dystopian fiction demonstrate literature working in its most dissensual, political and transformative mode.
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Sneddon, Sarah J. "The girls' school story : a re-reading." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14883.

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The very mention of the genre of the 'girls' school story' tends to provoke sniggers. Critics, teachers and librarians have combined throughout the century to attack a genre which encourages loyalty, hard work, team spirit, cleanliness and godliness. This dissertation asks why this attack took place and suggests one possible answer - the girls' school story was a radical and therefore feared genre. The thesis provides a brief history of the genre with reference to its connections with the Victorian novel and its peculiarly British status. Through examination of reading surveys, newspapers and early critical works it establishes both the popularity of the genre amongst its intended audience and the vitriolic nature of the attack against it. Biographical information about the writers of the school story begins to answer why the establishment may have been afraid of the influence of the purveyors of girls' school stories. By discussing their depiction of education, religion, women's roles and war the dissertation shows in what respects the genre can be seen as radical and shows how the increasing conventionality of the genre coincided with its decline in vigour and popularity. The influence of the oeuvre is then revealed in the discussion of its effects on adult literature.
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Books on the topic "Extortion – Great Britain – Fiction"

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Beaton, M. C. Hasty death. London: Robinson, 2010.

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McNeile, H. C. Bulldog Drummond. London: Hodder Paperbacks, 2007.

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McNeile, H. C. Bulldog Drummond. London: Atlantic, 2008.

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Read, MacDonald Margaret. The great smelly, slobbery, small-tooth dog: A folktale from Great Britain. Atlanta: August House LittleFolk, 2007.

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Company, Walt Disney, and Nancy Hall Inc, eds. The castle ghost: An adventure in Great Britain. Danbury, Conn: Grolier Enterprises, 1990.

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Whitfield, Kit. In great waters. New York: Del Rey-Ballantine Books, 2009.

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Whitfield, Kit. In great waters. London: Jonathan Cape, 2009.

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ill, Freeberg Eric, and Dickens Charles 1812-1870, eds. Great expectations. New York: Sterling, 2010.

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Kulling, Monica. Great expectations. New York: Random House, 1996.

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Olsen, D. H. Spitfire sunrise: A Battle of Britain novel. [Bloomington, IN]: Trafford Pub., 2010.

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Book chapters on the topic "Extortion – Great Britain – Fiction"

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Link, Sarah J. "Defining Detective Fiction." In Crime Files, 17–38. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33227-2_2.

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AbstractThis chapter identifies common features of detective fiction and provides an overview of the history of the genre in order to explain the strong conceptual link between lists and detective fiction. The chapter explains how the idea of lists as an ordering principle is rooted in the genre’s history, and it illustrates the clearly marked reader positions that develop across various subgenres. Particular attention is paid to the Newgate Calendar, to the central role that Edgar Allan Poe and French detective fiction played in establishing the genre in Great Britain, to the genre’s close relation to sensation fiction, and to the role of the police. The chapter also discusses the influence of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and the importance of genre rules established during the Golden Age of detective fiction. It concludes with the numerous rule catalogs produced by writers in the Golden Age period that highlights the genre’s affinity to enumerative forms.
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McKeon, Michael. "Prose fiction: Great Britain." In The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, 238–63. Cambridge University Press, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521300094.009.

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Potter, Jane. "‘A great purifier’: The Great War in Women’s Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918." In Women’s Fiction and the Great War, 85–106. Oxford University PressOxford, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198182832.003.0005.

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Abstract Romance and memoir are by far the most common forms used by women writers during the First World War. Most of the authors are unknown to us now. The works themselves are not ‘great literature’, but they are of literary and historical interest for what they say about the place of women in, and their attitudes towards, the Great War. The texts I shall examine in this chapter all share a common theme: that of the transformative power of war. They also share the eugenic anxieties about physical, mental, and spiritual deterioration which emerged in Britain towards the end of the nineteenth century. If society was suffering from a ‘degenerative’ disease, ‘a falling-off from original purity, a reversion to less complex forms of structure’, then war was a means of regeneration and purification. It was a eugenic good. The ‘conservative polemic of popular fiction’ had a number of ‘unfit’ targets. Among them were exotic and erotic artistic tastes such as highbrow art, aestheticism, and art nouveau. A further threat to both women and men was the suffrage movement. It was blamed for de-sexing women, encouraging them to become pseudo-men, and causing them to lose all touch with their ‘feminine’ natures. Such were the ideas that abounded in the press and in various sections of society.
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"The Sphinx of the European World. German Fiction and the “Novel” in Great Britain after the Time of Napoleon." In The Novel in Anglo-German Context, 129–44. BRILL, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004486720_011.

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"William Heinemann, ‘The Hardships of Publishing’, Athenaeum, 3 December 1892, 779—80." In Victorian Print Media, edited by Andrew King and John Plunkett, 150–55. Oxford University PressOxford, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199270378.003.0031.

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Abstract Heinemann (1863—1920) launched his publishing firm in 1890. Its fiction list included well-known figures such as Sarah Grand, Rudyard Kipling, and Robert Louis Stevenson. This article, which was later expanded into a pamphlet, provoked a fierce debate in a prestigious literary weekly, the Athenaeum (1828—1921), between authors and publishers. Walter Besant published several letters in response defending the rights of authors. Heinemann helped to set up the Publishers’ Association of Great Britain and Ireland in 1896.
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"Mary Hays (1760-1843)." In A Century of Sonnets, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Daniel Robinson, 41. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195115611.003.0011.

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Abstract The pioneering feminist Mary Hays was the friend of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Joseph Priestley. Hays’s writing was unconventional and progressive. Her radical novels, Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) and The Victim of Prejudice (1799), revise the conventions of eighteenth-century fiction while condemning the ways in which a patriarchal culture exploits and victimizes women. Hays was also the author of Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous (1793) and An Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Wcimen (1798). Her six-volume Female Biography (1803) is an important feminist chronicle of the achievements of women throughout history.
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Wood, Michael. "Rational Distortions." In On Essays, 277–92. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198707868.003.0015.

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This chapter explores the revival of various forms of the essay in fiction written in Great Britain from the 1970s to the present day. Angela Carter, Julian Barnes, W. G. Sebald and Kazuo Ishiguro are shown to integrate speculation and reflection into experimental narratives that open up spaces for these notionally old-fashioned strangers. Under the disguised and perhaps indirectly borrowed aegis of Jorge Luis Borges, these writers ask questions about time, history, laughter, invention, and much else. Dark fantasy in Carter, unreliable knowledge in Barnes, trauma in Sebald, memory and forgetting in Ishiguro all give rise to stories that think, and thinking that can’t do without stories.
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Hammond, Brean S. "Defoe and London." In The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe, 471–87. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827177.013.30.

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Abstract Daniel Defoe was a Londoner born and bred, and across his writings he explores the significance of the capital at a time when London underwent rapid growth and modernization. Defoe chronicles, celebrates, and wrestles with the implication of that growth, recognizing it as a sign of national prosperity but contemplating it in the wake of the South Sea Bubble as a potential sign of corruption. The chapter analyses Defoe’s representations of London in tracts about economics, in periodicals, and in A Tour thro’ the whole Island of Great Britain (1724–6). It also examines representations of London in Defoe’s fiction, both the historical novel A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), which depicts a city in peril during the 1665 Great Plague, and criminal narratives such as Moll Flanders and Colonel Jack (both 1722), in which Defoe’s conception of personal identity and agency is bound up with urban experience.
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Parkes, Adam. "Introduction: The Trials of Modernism." In Modernism and the Theater of Censorship, 3–20. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195097023.003.0001.

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Abstract At a brief trial in November 1915, the British authorities invoked the 1857 Obscene Publications Act to suppress D. H. Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow,and in so doing made it virtually impossible for Lawrence to publish fiction in Britain until the Great War ended in 1918.1 Six years later, a New York court fined the editors of the Little Review,Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, for printing “Nausicaa,” the thirteenth episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses.This novel remained banned in the United States until 1933. It was also banned in Britain, where the censorship of “obscene” modern literature reached its well known climax in 1928 with the trial of Radcliffe Hall’s polemical lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness,and the suppression of Lawrence’s last novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. These events were not the only instances of censorship in the early twentieth century. Censorship was common in Britain during the Great War, when the Defence of the Realm Act (1914) was used to suppress anything that deviated from the views presented in wartime propaganda. But censorship plagued modern authors before and after the war as well. The entire careers of Lawrence and Joyce evolved in the context of censorship. From Joyce’s early skirmishes over the publication of Dubliners(1914) to the appearance of Ulysses(1922), and from the efforts of the British libraries to prevent circulation of Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers(1913) to the seizure of his paintings (1929), both writers were so beset by the pressure of censorship that they could rarely ignore it.
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Nies, Betsy. "Anglophone Caribbean Children’s Literature A Snapshot." In Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 1, 72–82. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496844514.003.0004.

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This chapter reviews the transition in children’s literature after the 1960s from colonialist to postcolonialist content as a framework for understanding contemporary Anglophone Caribbean children’s literature. Local voices integrated folklore into curricular material beginning in the 1930s, with far more expansive output after 1960. Writers offer historical and realistic fiction that countered colonialist paradigms. Waves of immigration to the US, Canada, and Great Britain (with its Caribbean Arts Movement) contributed to the rise of such literature, proliferating into children’s poetry, folklore, and rhyming books that integrating tastes of the region’s linguistic Creole-informed cadences. In the past two decades, festival awards, non-profit organizations, and local publishing houses have fostered the development of young adult literature that now treats problems common to the genre—emerging sexuality, mental health, sports, romance, and issues of identity. Writers address contemporary problems such as poverty, global warming, and political corruption through multiple genres popular among the age group including dystopian fiction, romance, mystery, and new realism, often laced with bits of Caribbean mythology.
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Conference papers on the topic "Extortion – Great Britain – Fiction"

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ZHOROVA, Iryna, Serhiy DANYLYUK, and Olha KHUDENKO. "Civic education of students by means of literature: european experience." In Învățământul superior: tradiţii, valori, perspective. "Ion Creanga" State Pedagogical University, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.46727/c.29-30-09-2023.p108-122.

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The article reveals the theoretical and methodical aspects of students’ civic education by means of literature. Emphasis is placed on the fact that in the conditions of unstable development of society, escalation of conflicts both between states and between fellow citizens, the issue of students’ civic education is actualized. The authors understand this concept as a form of social education, the formation of a citizen of a specific state, capable of successfully acting for the sake of preserving democracy and peace. Currently, informal education, in addition to the content of “social and civic competencies” that is understandable for Ukrainian educators, uses the term “competencies for the culture of democracy”, which, according to the authors, is a structured concept implemented in the European dimension of civic education. The authors emphasize that fiction affects human feelings and consciousness, it is a powerful means of moral, aesthetic and civic education. Through artistic images, writers provide an opportunity to form their attitude to the events described, to draw certain conclusions, to reflect on universal values, on the actions of one or another character, to see models of civic active/passive behavior. The article analyzes the European experience of civic education, in particular Great Britain and Germany. The authors take into account the literature of these countries and identify aspects that can serve as a basis for students’ civic education, compare them with the Ukrainian realities of civic education. The authors present the main vectors of civic education in Germany, which are determined by the content of literary works and encourage pluralism of opinions, tolerance for the views and judgments of others, motivate students to actively participate in civic life, awareness of the value of freedom, respect for human dignity, the right to self-expression, responsibility for an individual’s moral choice. The works are also the basis for establishing in teenagers such democratic values as the right to life, to fair treatment, dignity, freedom from discrimination, the right to equality, understanding the need to protect one’s rights and the rights of other people.The analysis of content concepts of literature for pupils in Great Britain shows that the priorities of civic education are national patriotism and the education of a law-abiding citizen. The textual material of the works and civic education lessons help pupils to better understand different forms of governance and their impact on citizens; to understand the responsibility and functions of management and the duties of citizens; to acquire socio-cultural experience that gives the opportunity to feel morally, socially, politically, legally competent and protected in society and to take direct part in the activities of civil society institutions. In Finland, the basic democratic values of the national core curriculum are open democracy, equality, responsibility for one’s own choice. An important focus of education in Finnish high school is gaining experience in shaping the future based on joint decisions and interaction.Taking into account the global trends of digitization, the authors considered digital technologies to be educational innovations in students’ civic education (electronic textbooks (not just digitized, but interactive, with virtual 3D materials that teachers can compose at their discretion), textbook scans for download, various materials: interactive laboratories, virtual museums, forums for teachers to communicate, etc.).
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