June Book of the Month: "The Linnet Bird" (Book Summary) - 0 views
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Shannon C. on 05 Jun 09A summary of Linda Holeman's bestselling novel "The Linnet Bird"
Victorian Era
June Book of the Month: "The Linnet Bird": Society in Victorian England - 0 views
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While the book does take place starting in the Georgian Era, this information regarding families and poverty in the Victorian Era is still very applicable as background information for the book.
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Provides a brief glimpse of what life was like for the poor in Victorian England.
June Book of the Month: "The Linnet Bird": Romantic Orientalism - 0 views
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Before the publication of Edward Said's extremely influential and controversial Orientalism (1978), scholars tended to view the Eastern places, characters, and events pervading late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century British literature as little more than stimuli for easy thrills. But this attitude has changed dramatically. Along with its well-studied interests in the inner workings of the mind, connections with nature, and exercise of a transcendental imagination, the Romantic Period in Britain is now recognized as a time of global travel and exploration, accession of colonies all over the world, and development of imperialist ideologies that rationalized the British takeover of distant territories.
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The European Romantic imagination was saturated with Orientalism, but it reflected persistent ambivalence concerning the East, complicated in Britain by colonial anxiety and imperial guilt. We shall consider how Western notions of cultural hegemony were bolstered by imperial rhetoric and challenged by intercultural translation."
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For practical purposes, "Romantic" here refers to the writers (and the ideas and culture they reflect) of the Romantic Period section of the Norton Anthology of English Literature, where the dates are given as 1785–1830. "Orientalism" refers to the geography and culture of large parts of Asia and North Africa, plus some of what we now think of as Eastern Europe. Above all, from a British point of view, "Orientalism" connotes foreignness or otherness — things decidedly not British — and it sometimes seems as if the "East" signified by "Orient" is not only what is east of Europe and the Mediterranean but everything east of the English Channel.
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Even though the book wasn't written in the Romantic period, the information provided here shows the mindset of the Europeans regarding the expansion and resulting societal changes due to the colonization by the British Empire.
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Definition of Romantic Orientalism
June Book of the Month: "The Linnet Bird": British Empire: Nineteeth Century Timeline - 0 views
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Queen Victoria starts reign June 20th
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Timeline that shows the power and influence of the British Empire in the nineteenth century.
June Book of the Month: "The Linnet Bird": points to ponder about historical fiction - 0 views
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Historical fiction with strong romance element and using the conventions of the romance novel. May not include as much historical detail
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Is "historical fiction" an oxymoron?
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Good question...
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Cautions and definitions that could be useful to keep in mind when reading "The Linnet Bird".
June Book of the Month: "The Linnet Bird": British women in colonized countries - 0 views
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Provides insight into what life was like for British women who travelled to colonized countries.
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