{"id":23,"date":"2024-07-17T10:09:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T10:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2024-08-23T14:06:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:06:24","slug":"essays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/essays\/","title":{"rendered":"Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"columns-4 wp-block-post-template is-layout-grid wp-container-core-post-template-is-layout-cf35a0d6 wp-block-post-template-is-layout-grid\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-40 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/essays\/authorship\/\" target=\"_self\" >Authorship<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This essay analyses the conflicted notion of authorship and traces the changes in literary life throughout the nineteenth century. It argues that with the cessation of aristocratic patronage and the&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-08-23T10:51:23+00:00\">August 23, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-49 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/essays\/british-theatre-in-the-nineteenth-century\/\" target=\"_self\" >British Theatre in the Nineteenth Century<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">The nineteenth century was a theatrical century. It may not have been a century of great dramatic writing by conventional literary standards, but it was a century of energetic and&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-08-23T13:50:16+00:00\">August 23, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-57 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/essays\/british-travel-writing-1770-1914\/\" target=\"_self\" >British Travel Writing, 1770\u20131914<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This essay outlines some of the features and shifts in British travel writing from 1770\u20131914. It considers the impact of social and technological change on travel and on writing about&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-08-23T13:59:57+00:00\">August 23, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-43 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/essays\/illustration\/\" target=\"_self\" >Illustration<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This essay provides an overview of the development of illustration \u2013 the pictures that accompanied words on the printed page \u2013 into a dominant mode of representation in the nineteenth&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-08-23T10:55:07+00:00\">August 23, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-45 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/essays\/life-writing\/\" target=\"_self\" >Life Writing<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Life writing flourished in the nineteenth century. Defined here as a personal narrative that meaningfully recounts the events and experiences of an individual life or lives, it was mainly non-fictional,&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-08-23T10:57:03+00:00\">August 23, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-47 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/essays\/nineteenth-century-mediamorphosis-transformations-in-print-culture\/\" target=\"_self\" >Nineteenth-Century Mediamorphosis: Transformations in Print Culture<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Mediamorphosis \u2013 transformation in the organisation of the media \u2013 defines who we are, what we can communicate and to whom, what we can hear and from whom, and what&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-08-23T10:59:51+00:00\">August 23, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-32 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/essays\/popular-culture-in-nineteenth-century-britain\/\" target=\"_self\" >Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">The vast stream of cheap mass circulation print that flowed through nineteenth-century Britain \u2013 penny issue fiction, religious tracts, magazines, sheet music, and almanacs and the like \u2013 is frequently&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-08-23T10:42:23+00:00\">August 23, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-53 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/essays\/race-and-theatre-in-nineteenth-century-britain\/\" target=\"_self\" >Race and Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Britain<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">The early nineteenth century was a formative time for the construction and establishment of racial thinking. Theatre and performance played a crucial part in this, but also at points ironised&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-08-23T13:55:18+00:00\">August 23, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-55 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/essays\/readers-and-the-reading-public\/\" target=\"_self\" >Readers and the Reading Public<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This essay contextualises the broad increase in literacy and readership across the nineteenth century by considering the changes in educational standards, improvements to printing and communications technology, and legal reforms&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-08-23T13:57:32+00:00\">August 23, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-59 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/essays\/theoretical-approaches-to-the-reception-of-popular-forms-of-entertainment-and-visual-culture\/\" target=\"_self\" >Theoretical Approaches to the Reception of Popular Forms of Entertainment and Visual Culture<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This essay explores theoretical approaches to popular reception, drawing on discussions in the fields of theatre history, art history, and the history of visual technologies. Across a range of popular&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-08-23T14:01:58+00:00\">August 23, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-63 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/essays\/women-and-art\/\" target=\"_self\" >Women and Art<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This essay traces the social and institutional barriers women artists encountered in the Victorian art world, detailing the challenges stemming from their unequal access to education, particularly their exclusion from&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-08-23T14:05:47+00:00\">August 23, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-61 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/essays\/women-and-genre\/\" target=\"_self\" >Women and Genre<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This essay canvasses women\u2019s practice over the nineteenth century of the three most prominent creative literary genres: fiction, poetry, and drama. It also discusses more briefly some of the many&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-08-23T14:04:20+00:00\">August 23, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-51 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/essays\/women-and-performance-in-the-nineteenth-century\/\" target=\"_self\" >Women and Performance in the Nineteenth Century<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">What would a history of nineteenth-century theatre look like if it were focused on the work of women? We know that women have always been active in the theatre, but&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-08-23T13:53:12+00:00\">August 23, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/rhr-cultureliteratureandthearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}