First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830-1870 (review)

Schroeder, Janice

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“…As Kennedy (2017) explains, the Victorian Era witnessed a tremendous change in literature perspectives presented through various forms and styles. Easley (2004) draws our attention to the contribution of women writers to British literature. In this era, women chose a new path as writers in a male-dominant world.…”

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Hedges and Boosters in 19th century British Fiction

Yuvayapan,

Peksoy

2023

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Hedges and boosters are two important sources of linguistic devices to express tentative evaluations and to mitigate solidarity with readers. Men and women have different tendencies of using these linguistic devices. Women are usually considered to follow a personal and polite style whereas men are more competitive and assertive. Hence, gender-preferential features of women and men are one of the prerequisites of understanding the functions of hedges and boosters. One relatively neglected aspect of gender-based studies of these linguistic devices is fiction. In this paper, we explored male and female English writers’ use of hedges and boosters in HUM19UK Corpus, a corpus of 19th century British fiction. We calculated a statistically significant overuse in the deployment of hedges and boosters by female writers in the 19th century, which is an indication of a new writing style adapted by the female writers in that era. However, the most common items of hedges and boosters were identical in both corpora.

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Hedges and Boosters in 19th century British Fiction

Yuvayapan,

Peksoy

2023

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“…Murray contributors like Martineau, for example, argued for a sympathetic as well as distanced approach to sociological issues, as Alexis Easley 54 and Lauren Goodlad 55 show (though arguably her travel writing, which claims that travel opens up the possibility of identifying and defining universality, complicates reading Martineau as a champion of subjectivity). 56 John Ruskin contributed to but also critiqued the Handbooks 57 ; likewise Henry James simultaneously depended on and satirized Murray.…”

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Crafting a “Species of Literature”: John Murray’s Multidisciplinary, Polyvocal Handbooks for Travellers

Walton¹

2023

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For most of the nineteenth century, British travelers would recognize at a glance the red binding and gold lettering of John Murray's Handbooks for Travellers. His travel guidebooks, which set the standard for later serialized guides like those equally vivid Baedekers that E. M. Forster and others would gently mock at the turn of the century, were uniform in appearance, authoritative in scope, and deliberately linked to their creator's name. These qualities served to set "Murrays" apart as a print form that provided clarity, consistency, and stability in the face of a globalizing and more accessible world. Murray popularized and demarcated a genre that was at the very least amorphous at the time of his publication. Whereas previous travelogues, even those that included route or lodging suggestions, were often one-off endeavors written in narrative form, Murray's Handbooks were the predecessors of modern-day travel guides series like Lonely Planet, Fodor's, or Frommer's.British travel was changing in the early decades of the nineteenth century, in part because of the rapidly expanding middle class, and Murray's Handbooks, designed for the-in his words-"intelligent English traveller," responded to these changes and sold well as a result. The first Handbook for Travellers was published the year Victoria inherited the throne. For the duration of her reign, John Murray's guidebook series went through many editions and expanded to cover territory spanning the individual counties of England and distant places like Japan, Syria, and Russia. By mid-century, which also coincided with the English-language publication of the German Baedeker guides and the expansion of Thomas Cook tours, the Handbooks were especially popular. Murray's claim that the information in their covers detailed "what ought to be seen" truly translated to what was seen in this period: Goodwin and Johnston's exploration of reviews of the Handbooks proves that "they were critically validated as forming and imposing a par- [44.224.250.200] Project MUSE (2024-06-04 02:06 GMT)

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First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830-1870 (review)

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Hedges and Boosters in 19th century British Fiction

Hedges and Boosters in 19th century British Fiction

Crafting a “Species of Literature”: John Murray’s Multidisciplinary, Polyvocal Handbooks for Travellers

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