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Personal Papers of Harold Orel
Harold Orel was a Professor of English specializing in Victorian and Edwardian literature at the University of Kansas. His papers include professional correspondence, teaching and research materials, conference materials and speaking notes, materials related to publications by Orel and other scholars, and personal ephemera
Novel Environments
Novel Environments: Science, Description, and Victorian Fiction examines how description in the Victorian novel helped to shape our modern understanding of the environment.
Mark of the Beast
The First World War is a watershed in the intellectual and spiritual history of the modern world. On the one hand, it brought an end to a sense of optimism and decency bred by the prosperity of nineteenth-century Europe. On the other, it brought forth a sense of futility and alienation that has since pervaded European thought. That cataclysmic experience is richly reflected in the work of writers and artists from both sides of the conflict, and this study provides a detailed analysis of two basic themes -- death and degradation -- that mark the literature about the war. From their accounts most men entered the war lightheartedly, filled with ideals of patriotism and glory, but these generous...
The Arnoldian
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Victorian Concepts in Kipling's 'A Matter of Fact'
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,8, University of Hannover, language: English, abstract: The Victorian period (1835-1903) describes an important time span in English history in social, political and cultural matters. Terms like "splendid isolation" (in the field of foreign-policy) or "laissez-faire" (in the field of economy) and the philosophical theories of Utilitarianism and Intuitivism were fundamental concepts to influence life in the "Empire" in the second half of the 19th Century. During that time, the Industrial Revolution took place and the parliament was reformed three times (1830s -1880s). The Victorian p...
Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction
This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West Country, where most of the stories are set. No previous criticism has shown how the powerful challenges to the reader mounted in Hardy's later stories reveal the complexity of his motivations during a period when he was moving progressively in the direction ...
