Ruth Robbins
Biographic Data
| ID | 5145881 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Robbins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Robbins |
| SIGNATURE | ROBBINS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Man-made Fibres? The Split Personalities of Victorian Manliness
This essay investigates the textual traces of a split that was central to the Victorian conception of manliness: the contradiction of gentlemanliness which demanded both the capacity to commit violence and the requirement to be ‘civilised’. It suggests that there is a fault line running through the fabric of masculinity which can be seen in the texts which train boys to become men, which remember and reconstruct that training, and which consider …
Long Shadow
Anxious as it was to distance itself from the Victorian period, the Edwardian novel in fact makes extensive use of the themes and forms of the nineteenth-century novel. It draws on realist conventions of the previous period, even as it also adapts them. And novelists remained concerned with the legendary limitations on sexual mores and their expression in their writing. In two very different novelists, Arnold Bennett and D.H. Lawrence, the same c…
Death sentences
Hidden lives and ladies’ maids
One of the most remarkable poems of Christina Rossetti's first collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), is ‘Winter: My Secret’. The poem is a prolonged tease, flaunting the existence of a
Victorian Identities
Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle
Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle scrutinises ways in which current conflicts of 'race', class, and gender have their origins in the cultural politics of the last fin de siècle, whose influence stretched from the 1890s, when economic depression signalled the end of Britain's role as 'the workshop of the world', to 1914 when world war accelerated imperial decline. This collaborative venture by new and established scholars includes discussion …
Anniversary Address
Conformably with the order of events adopted at the Society's previous Anniversary Meeting, I invite the Fellows and guests present first of all to salute the recipients of the medals awarded this year for high merit in their services to archaeology
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Anniversary Address
Conformably with the order of events adopted at the Society's previous Anniversary Meeting, I invite the Fellows and guests present first of all to salute the recipients of the medals awarded this year for high merit in their services to archaeology
Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle
Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle scrutinises ways in which current conflicts of 'race', class, and gender have their origins in the cultural politics of the last fin de siècle, whose influence stretched from the 1890s, when economic depression signalled the end of Britain's role as 'the workshop of the world', to 1914 when world war accelerated imperial decline. This collaborative venture by new and established scholars includes discussion …
Victorian Identities
Hidden lives and ladies’ maids
One of the most remarkable poems of Christina Rossetti's first collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), is ‘Winter: My Secret’. The poem is a prolonged tease, flaunting the existence of a
Death sentences
Long Shadow
Anxious as it was to distance itself from the Victorian period, the Edwardian novel in fact makes extensive use of the themes and forms of the nineteenth-century novel. It draws on realist conventions of the previous period, even as it also adapts them. And novelists remained concerned with the legendary limitations on sexual mores and their expression in their writing. In two very different novelists, Arnold Bennett and D.H. Lawrence, the same c…
Man-made Fibres? The Split Personalities of Victorian Manliness
This essay investigates the textual traces of a split that was central to the Victorian conception of manliness: the contradiction of gentlemanliness which demanded both the capacity to commit violence and the requirement to be ‘civilised’. It suggests that there is a fault line running through the fabric of masculinity which can be seen in the texts which train boys to become men, which remember and reconstruct that training, and which consider …
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