Gail Marshall
Biographic Data
| ID | 5646409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gail Marshall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gail |
| FAMILY NAME | Marshall |
| SIGNATURE | MARSHALL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition
Establishing a fresh critical paradigm, this volume shows how the 1850s was significantly defined by forms of increasing intellectual, class, and geographical mobility. It saw the flourishing of major Victorian writers, including George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, W. M. Thackeray, Matthew Arnold, Charles Kingsley, Anthony Trollope, Tennyson, and Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Outputs by these writers were read alongside a v…
Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 1
Temporality and Statuesque Women in George Eliot
This article examines George Eliot’s use of references to sculpture and of the sculptural metaphor and argues that this art form is central to her articulation and development of realism in fiction. In assessing sculpture’s links to women, Eliot highlights its temporal as well as its spatial dimensions, and, in so doing, disputes Gotthold Lessing’s analysis of this art form
Queen Victoria and George Eliot in 1859
Curating the Victorians
This short essay questions the ubiquity of curating in modern times, and opens up some of the pedagogic, theoretical, practical, and aesthetic issues raised by the curation of the work and personalities of the Victorian period in contemporary exhibitions. It also examines the roots of the modern museum in the Victorian period, and takes the National Portrait Gallery as a case study, arguing that the curatorial, and viewing, experiences are ineluc…
Henry James’s Houses
This essay argues that modern theoretical approaches to performativity, and its usefulness as a tool for interpreting the representation of language acts and interpersonal relations, were in large part anticipated by Henry James, in his theatrical criticism, his autobiographical writing, and his fiction. In offering readings of The Portrait of a Lady(1881), The Tragic Muse(1890), and A Small Boy and Others (1913) the essay demonstrates that James…
The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle
Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siècle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can be seen in action. In this, more than any previous decade, literature was an active and controversial participant within debates over morality, aesthetics, politics and science, as Victorian certainties began to break down. Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beard…
The Cambridge companion to the fin de siècle
Cultural formations
The theatre has always been an itinerant art which recognises the need to take its product to its audiences, as well as a responsive art which identifies its financial survival in its ability to meet audience demands. For some English companies in the mid- and late nineteenth century, survival was ineluctably bound up with the need to support the opulent central London locations which were both a huge financial burden, and a necessary part of the…
Mrs Beeton
Music and Rivers
Victorian Shakespeare
This essay examines some of the main characteristics of the proliferation and reception of Shakespeare during the Victorian period: his adaptation by other writers, the practices of Victorian actor‐managers, and the variety of the ‘Shakespeares’ produced and enjoyed during the nineteenth century
Ellen Terry
This article examines the role and reputation of Ellen Terry, the most eminent British Shakespearean actress of the late-Victorian period, and the extent to which she interrogated her function on the eminently spectacular stage of London’s Lyceum theatre. The article contends that in her writing – her autobiography, annotations of playscripts and lectures – Terry self-consciously and deliberately repositions herself as a Shakespeare commentator, …
Victorian Shakespeare
What did the Victorians think of Shakespeare? The twelve essays gathered here offer some answers, through close examination of works by leading nineteenth-century novelists, poets and critics includin
Victorian Shakespeare
Actresses on the Victorian Stage
Curating the Victorians
This short essay questions the ubiquity of curating in modern times, and opens up some of the pedagogic, theoretical, practical, and aesthetic issues raised by the curation of the work and personalities of the Victorian period in contemporary exhibitions. It also examines the roots of the modern museum in the Victorian period, and takes the National Portrait Gallery as a case study, arguing that the curatorial, and viewing, experiences are ineluc…
Actresses on the Victorian Stage
Victorian Shakespeare
What did the Victorians think of Shakespeare? The twelve essays gathered here offer some answers, through close examination of works by leading nineteenth-century novelists, poets and critics includin
Victorian Shakespeare
Ellen Terry
This article examines the role and reputation of Ellen Terry, the most eminent British Shakespearean actress of the late-Victorian period, and the extent to which she interrogated her function on the eminently spectacular stage of London’s Lyceum theatre. The article contends that in her writing – her autobiography, annotations of playscripts and lectures – Terry self-consciously and deliberately repositions herself as a Shakespeare commentator, …
Victorian Shakespeare
This essay examines some of the main characteristics of the proliferation and reception of Shakespeare during the Victorian period: his adaptation by other writers, the practices of Victorian actor‐managers, and the variety of the ‘Shakespeares’ produced and enjoyed during the nineteenth century
Music and Rivers
The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle
Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siècle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can be seen in action. In this, more than any previous decade, literature was an active and controversial participant within debates over morality, aesthetics, politics and science, as Victorian certainties began to break down. Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beard…
The Cambridge companion to the fin de siècle
Cultural formations
The theatre has always been an itinerant art which recognises the need to take its product to its audiences, as well as a responsive art which identifies its financial survival in its ability to meet audience demands. For some English companies in the mid- and late nineteenth century, survival was ineluctably bound up with the need to support the opulent central London locations which were both a huge financial burden, and a necessary part of the…
Mrs Beeton
Henry James’s Houses
This essay argues that modern theoretical approaches to performativity, and its usefulness as a tool for interpreting the representation of language acts and interpersonal relations, were in large part anticipated by Henry James, in his theatrical criticism, his autobiographical writing, and his fiction. In offering readings of The Portrait of a Lady(1881), The Tragic Muse(1890), and A Small Boy and Others (1913) the essay demonstrates that James…
Curating the Victorians
This short essay questions the ubiquity of curating in modern times, and opens up some of the pedagogic, theoretical, practical, and aesthetic issues raised by the curation of the work and personalities of the Victorian period in contemporary exhibitions. It also examines the roots of the modern museum in the Victorian period, and takes the National Portrait Gallery as a case study, arguing that the curatorial, and viewing, experiences are ineluc…
Queen Victoria and George Eliot in 1859
Temporality and Statuesque Women in George Eliot
This article examines George Eliot’s use of references to sculpture and of the sculptural metaphor and argues that this art form is central to her articulation and development of realism in fiction. In assessing sculpture’s links to women, Eliot highlights its temporal as well as its spatial dimensions, and, in so doing, disputes Gotthold Lessing’s analysis of this art form
Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 1
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition
Establishing a fresh critical paradigm, this volume shows how the 1850s was significantly defined by forms of increasing intellectual, class, and geographical mobility. It saw the flourishing of major Victorian writers, including George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, W. M. Thackeray, Matthew Arnold, Charles Kingsley, Anthony Trollope, Tennyson, and Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Outputs by these writers were read alongside a v…
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