Victorian hybridities : cultural anxiety and formal innovation / edited by U.C. Knoepflmacher and Logan D. Browning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knoepflmacher, U. C.

Browning, Logan Delano.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English prose literature--19th century.

English prose literature.

Cultural fusion in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Contents:

I. Formal hybrids

Arnold's arrhythmia / C. D. Blanton

Browning's grafts / Linda M. Shires

Elizabeth Barrett's and Alfred Tennyson's authorial and formal links / Amy Billone

The "prophet-poet's book" / Christine Chaney

Sketches by Boz, "So frail a machine" / Danielle Cortale

II. Discursive hybrids

Grafting a Christmas Carol / Michael Hancher

Dialectics of social class in the Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration / Alan Fischler

Anonyma's authors / Rachel Sagner Buurma

The "spasmodic" hoaxes of W. E. Aytoun and A. C. Swinburne / Heather Morton

Domestic hybrids: Ruskin, Victorian fiction, and Darwin's botany / Jonathan Smith

III. Cultural hybrids

Robert Louis Stevenson's South Seas Crossings / Ann C. Colley

Florence Marryat's female vampire and the scientizing of hybridity / Brenda Mann Hammack

Assyrian monsters and domestic chimeras / Deborah A. Thomas

A South Kensington Gateway from Gwalior to nowhere / Jeffrey L. Spear

Kipling's "mixy" creatures / U. C. Knoepflmacher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0801897866

9780801897863

OCLC:

613425967

Publisher Number:

99945253172