Late victorian into modern / edited by Laura Marcus, Michèle Mendelssohn and Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marcus, Laura, editor.

Mendelssohn, Michèle, editor.

Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten, 1966- editor.

Series:

Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Great Britain.

Modernism (Aesthetics)--Great Britain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Summary:

The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge, scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus, they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. Late Victorian into Modern, This volume opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions, some familiar and some more obscure, of late Victorian and modern literature and culture, primarily in British contexts. Late Victorian into Modern emphasizes the in-between: the gradual changeover from one period to the next. The volume examines shared developments, points cut continuities rather than ruptures, and explores and exploits an understanding of the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries as a cultural moment in which new knowledges were forming with particular speed and intensity. The organizing principle of this book is to retain a key focus on literary texts, broadly understood to include familiar categories of genre as well as extra-textual elements such as press and publishing history, performance events, and visual culture, while remaining keenly attentive to the inter-relations between text and context in the period. Individual chapters explore such topics as Celticism, the New Woman, popular fictions, literatures of empire, aestheticism, periodical culture, political formations, avant-garde poetics, and theatricality. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Twilights

1 Medievalism and Modernity / Marcus Waithe Waithe, Marcus 21

2 Mythology, Empire, and Narrative / Jarad Zimbler Zimbler, Jarad 38

3 Death Drives: Biology, Decadence, and Psychoanalysis / Stefano Evangelista Evangelista, Stefano 55

4 Celticism / Daniel G. Williams Williams, Daniel G. 69

II Making it New

5 Cultures of the Avant-Garde / Christos Hadjiyiannis Hadjiyiannis, Christos 85

6 Emerging Poetic Forms / Hannah Sullivan Sullivan, Hannah 103

7 When Was Modernism? / Michael H. Whitworth Whitworth, Michael H. 119

8 What Was the 'New Drama'? / Sos Eltis Eltis, Sos, Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten E. 133

9 Who Was the 'New Woman'? / Angelique Richardson Richardson, Angelique 150

10 Utopian Thought and the Way to Live Now / Anne Fernihough Fernihough, Anne 168

III Modes and Genres

11 Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism / Adam Parkes Parkes, Adam 187

12 The Rise of Short Fiction / Adrian Hunter Hunter, Adrian 204

13 Moon Voyaging, Selenography, and the Scientific Romance / Matthew Taunton Taunton, Matthew 218

14 Super-Niches? Detection, Adventure, Exploration, and Spy Stories / David Glover Glover, David 232

IV Sites and Spaces of Knowledge

15 Scientific Formations and Transformations / Rachel Crossland Crossland, Rachel 249

16 Spirit Worlds / Tatiana Kontou Kontou, Tatiana 263

17 Cityscapes: Urban Hyperspaces and the Failure of Matter in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Metropolitan Fictions / Laurence Scott Scott, Laurence 278

18 Regionalisms / Penny Fielding Fielding, Penny 292

19 The View from Empire: The Turn-of-the-Century Globalizing World / Elleke Boehmer Boehmer, Elleke 305

V Minds and Bodies

20 Race and Biology / William Greenslade Greenslade, William 321

21 The Will to Forget: Amnesia, the Nation, and Ulysses / Vincent J. Cheng Cheng, Vincent J. 335

22 The Post-Human Spirit of the Neopagan Movement / Dennis Denisoff Denisoff, Dennis 350

23 Theatre and the Sciences of Mind / Tiffany Watt Smith Smith, Tiffany Watt 364

24 The Theatre of Hands: Writing the First World War / Santanu Das Das, Santanu 379

25 The Cult of the Child Revisited: Making Fun of Fauntleroy / Marah Gubar Gubar, Marah 398

26 Intersexions: Dandyism, Cross-Dressing, Transgender / Jana Funke Funke, Jana 414

VI Political and Social Selves

27 Political Formations: Socialism, Feminism, Anarchism / Ruth Livesey Livesey, Ruth 431

28 The End of Laissez-Faire': Literature, Economics, and the Idea of the Welfare State / Benjamin Kohlmann Kohlmann, Benjamin 448

29 Representing Work / Sos Eltis Eltis, Sos 463

VII Authorship, Aesthetics, and Print Cultures

30 Reading Aestheticism, Decadence, and Cosmopolitanism / Michele Mendelssohn Mendelssohn, Michele 481

31 Parodies, Spoofs, and Satires / James Williams Williams, James 497

32 Life Writing: Biography, Portraits and Self-Portraits, Masked Authorship, and Autobiografictions / Max Saunders Saunders, Max 511

33 Journalism and Periodical Culture / Faith Binckes Binckes, Faith 525

34 The Illustrated Book / Kamilla Elliott Elliott, Kamilla 539

VIII Technologies

35 The Coming of Cinema / Laura Marcus Marcus, Laura 567

36 Literature and Photography / Kate Flint Flint, Kate 582

37 Electricity, Telephony, and Communications / Sam Halliday Halliday, Sam 597

38 The Residue of Modernity: Technology, Anachronism, and Bric-à-Brac in India / Alexander Bubb Bubb, Alexander 610

39 Actors and Puppets: From Henry Irving's Lyceum to Edward Gordon Craig's Arena Goldoni / Olga Taxidou Taxidou, Olga 626.

ISBN:

0198704399

9780198704393

OCLC:

944463006