Valerie Sanders
Biographic Data
| ID | 1053064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Sanders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanders |
| SIGNATURE | SANDERS V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Patterns of Industry
This chapter examines Harriet Martineau’s approach to gender politics through her understanding of ‘manliness’ as explored in a selection of her Illustrations of Political Economy (1832−4). It was a concept essential to her configuration of male leadership fit for the testing times of the early 1830s, and highly topical. Published when the pressures experienced by men of all classes were being highlighted in periodicals and novels, the tales addr…
Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century
‘Shelley's “Wandering Jew”’
Percy Bysshe Shelley was sceptical, and with more sincerity, with a conviction, perhaps, that disbelief of Christianity was a duty; he also was eccentric, but he was gentle-hearted, self-denying, a lover of his species, a yearner after its improvement. He too wrote poetry, some of it embodying his anti-Christian views,—a paradise, in which the Tree of Life had been cut down, but certainly containing less to pollute the imagination, poison the spr…
By the Fireside
Charles Kingsley’s Anthropology of the Generations
was born three weeks after Queen Victoria, and five after
‘Things Pressing to be said’
Unlike many of the other authors discussed in this collection, Martineau has rarely been read for pleasure in the artistry of her wordplay. When she mentions her writing it is with a sense, declared in her Autobiography , that ‘Things were pressing to be said.’ Her purpose was to educate, popularize, and simplify, her words essentially a vehicle for the transmission of information. Focusing on examples of her journalism, this chapter challenges t…
‘House of Disquiet’
The Bensons were a Victorian family dedicated to telling and retelling the story of their lives. The Bensons have attracted considerable interest from critics and historians working in the field of Victorianfamily relations and masculinity, especially the role of the father. What is notable about the Benson biographies, however, is the silence of the women, who avoided both biography and autobiography, though Maggie, described as &s;priestly&s; b…
Life Writing and Victorian Culture
The Bensons were a Victorian family dedicated to telling and retelling the story of their lives. The Bensons have attracted considerable interest from critics and historians working in the field of Victorianfamily relations and masculinity, especially the role of the father. What is notable about the Benson biographies, however, is the silence of the women, who avoided both biography and autobiography, though Maggie, described as 'priestly' by he…
Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines
A collection of essays by various contributors each addressing Martineau's contribution to an intellectual discipline. Introduction and Afterword by Valerie Sanders and Gaby Weiner. I have also contributed one chapter on Martineau's Journalism
Learning how to feel
"Learning how to feel: children's literature and emotional socialization, 1870–1970." Journal of Gender Studies, 24(2), pp. 241–242
Where Next in Victorian Literary Studies? – Historicism, Collaboration and Digital Editing
This paper forms part of a Literature Compass cluster of articles which examines the current state of Victorian Literary Studies and future directions. This group of four essays was originally commissioned by Francis O’Gorman (University of Leeds), who also provides an introduction to the cluster. The full cluster is made up of the following articles: ‘Where Next in Victorian Literary Studies? – Introduction’, Francis O’Gorman, Literature Compass…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author's Introduction The Victorian period was one of the great ages for life‐writing. Though traditionally renowned for its monumental ‘lives and letters’, mainly of great men, this was also a time of self‐conscious anxiety about the genre. Critics and practitioners alike were unsure who should be writing autobiography, and whether its inherent assertiveness ruled out all but public men as appropriate subjects. It was also a period of experiment…
Faith, Duty and the Power of Mind
Reviewed by: Faith, Duty and the Power of Mind: The Cloughs and their Circle 1820–1960 Valerie Sanders (bio) Faith, Duty and the Power of Mind: The Cloughs and their Circle 1820–1960, by Gillian Sutherland; pp. vii + 262. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, £40.00, $70.00. In 1886 Blanche Athena Clough, daughter of poet Arthur Hugh Clough and niece of the founding mother of Newnham College, Cambridge, recorded hating her fel…
The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf
The rebel, the lady and the ‘anti’
Victorian Life Writing
This essay focuses on the changes that have taken place over the last twenty years in the study of Victorian life writing, especially autobiography and biography. Its basic contention is that whereas the canon used to be decided by the predominance given to well-shaped narratives by male authors in public life, scholarship in this area has now widely accepted the entry of many other types of life writing, and embraced notions of hybridity and ins…
A Bibliography of African Language Texts in the Collections of the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London, to 1963
Harriet Martineau: Selected Letters
This is the first wide-ranging selection of letters by Harriet Martineau to a variety of correspondents, most of them major figures in Victorian literary and political history. Controversial because of Harriet Martineau's lifelong resistance to the future publication of her private correspondence, the letters reveal her outspoken views on contemporary writers, the working classes, women, political change, illness, mesmerism, and her own writing. …
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"1820s" published on by null.
Life Writing and Victorian Culture
The Bensons were a Victorian family dedicated to telling and retelling the story of their lives. The Bensons have attracted considerable interest from critics and historians working in the field of Victorianfamily relations and masculinity, especially the role of the father. What is notable about the Benson biographies, however, is the silence of the women, who avoided both biography and autobiography, though Maggie, described as 'priestly' by he…
Victorian Life Writing
This essay focuses on the changes that have taken place over the last twenty years in the study of Victorian life writing, especially autobiography and biography. Its basic contention is that whereas the canon used to be decided by the predominance given to well-shaped narratives by male authors in public life, scholarship in this area has now widely accepted the entry of many other types of life writing, and embraced notions of hybridity and ins…
Charles Kingsley’s Anthropology of the Generations
was born three weeks after Queen Victoria, and five after
The rebel, the lady and the ‘anti’
Harriet Martineau: Selected Letters
This is the first wide-ranging selection of letters by Harriet Martineau to a variety of correspondents, most of them major figures in Victorian literary and political history. Controversial because of Harriet Martineau's lifelong resistance to the future publication of her private correspondence, the letters reveal her outspoken views on contemporary writers, the working classes, women, political change, illness, mesmerism, and her own writing. …
S
"1820s" published on by null.
A Bibliography of African Language Texts in the Collections of the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London, to 1963
Victorian Life Writing
This essay focuses on the changes that have taken place over the last twenty years in the study of Victorian life writing, especially autobiography and biography. Its basic contention is that whereas the canon used to be decided by the predominance given to well-shaped narratives by male authors in public life, scholarship in this area has now widely accepted the entry of many other types of life writing, and embraced notions of hybridity and ins…
The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf
The rebel, the lady and the ‘anti’
Where Next in Victorian Literary Studies? – Historicism, Collaboration and Digital Editing
This paper forms part of a Literature Compass cluster of articles which examines the current state of Victorian Literary Studies and future directions. This group of four essays was originally commissioned by Francis O’Gorman (University of Leeds), who also provides an introduction to the cluster. The full cluster is made up of the following articles: ‘Where Next in Victorian Literary Studies? – Introduction’, Francis O’Gorman, Literature Compass…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author's Introduction The Victorian period was one of the great ages for life‐writing. Though traditionally renowned for its monumental ‘lives and letters’, mainly of great men, this was also a time of self‐conscious anxiety about the genre. Critics and practitioners alike were unsure who should be writing autobiography, and whether its inherent assertiveness ruled out all but public men as appropriate subjects. It was also a period of experiment…
Faith, Duty and the Power of Mind
Reviewed by: Faith, Duty and the Power of Mind: The Cloughs and their Circle 1820–1960 Valerie Sanders (bio) Faith, Duty and the Power of Mind: The Cloughs and their Circle 1820–1960, by Gillian Sutherland; pp. vii + 262. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, £40.00, $70.00. In 1886 Blanche Athena Clough, daughter of poet Arthur Hugh Clough and niece of the founding mother of Newnham College, Cambridge, recorded hating her fel…
Learning how to feel
"Learning how to feel: children's literature and emotional socialization, 1870–1970." Journal of Gender Studies, 24(2), pp. 241–242
Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines
A collection of essays by various contributors each addressing Martineau's contribution to an intellectual discipline. Introduction and Afterword by Valerie Sanders and Gaby Weiner. I have also contributed one chapter on Martineau's Journalism
‘House of Disquiet’
The Bensons were a Victorian family dedicated to telling and retelling the story of their lives. The Bensons have attracted considerable interest from critics and historians working in the field of Victorianfamily relations and masculinity, especially the role of the father. What is notable about the Benson biographies, however, is the silence of the women, who avoided both biography and autobiography, though Maggie, described as &s;priestly&s; b…
Life Writing and Victorian Culture
The Bensons were a Victorian family dedicated to telling and retelling the story of their lives. The Bensons have attracted considerable interest from critics and historians working in the field of Victorianfamily relations and masculinity, especially the role of the father. What is notable about the Benson biographies, however, is the silence of the women, who avoided both biography and autobiography, though Maggie, described as 'priestly' by he…
‘Things Pressing to be said’
Unlike many of the other authors discussed in this collection, Martineau has rarely been read for pleasure in the artistry of her wordplay. When she mentions her writing it is with a sense, declared in her Autobiography , that ‘Things were pressing to be said.’ Her purpose was to educate, popularize, and simplify, her words essentially a vehicle for the transmission of information. Focusing on examples of her journalism, this chapter challenges t…
By the Fireside
Charles Kingsley’s Anthropology of the Generations
was born three weeks after Queen Victoria, and five after
Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century
‘Shelley's “Wandering Jew”’
Percy Bysshe Shelley was sceptical, and with more sincerity, with a conviction, perhaps, that disbelief of Christianity was a duty; he also was eccentric, but he was gentle-hearted, self-denying, a lover of his species, a yearner after its improvement. He too wrote poetry, some of it embodying his anti-Christian views,—a paradise, in which the Tree of Life had been cut down, but certainly containing less to pollute the imagination, poison the spr…
Patterns of Industry
This chapter examines Harriet Martineau’s approach to gender politics through her understanding of ‘manliness’ as explored in a selection of her Illustrations of Political Economy (1832−4). It was a concept essential to her configuration of male leadership fit for the testing times of the early 1830s, and highly topical. Published when the pressures experienced by men of all classes were being highlighted in periodicals and novels, the tales addr…
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