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Late Victorian into modern / edited by Laura Marcus, Michèle Mendelssohn, and Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature
- Oxford handbooks online
- Oxford handbooks in literature.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Civilization.
- Great Britain--Civilization--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This volume opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions of late Victorian and modern literature and culture. It examines shared developments, points out continuities rather than ruptures, and explores the understanding of this period as a moment in which new knowledges were forming with particular speed and intensity.
- Contents:
- Medievalism and Modernity / Marcus Waithe
- Mythology, Empire, and Narrative / Jarad Zimbler
- Death Drives: Biology, Decadence, and Psychoanalysis / Stefano Evangelista
- Celticism / Daniel G. Williams
- Cultures of the Avant-Garde / Christos Hadjiyiannis
- Emerging Poetic Forms / Hannah Sullivan
- When Was Modernism? / Michael H. Whitworth
- What Was the 'New Drama'? / Sos Eltis, Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
- Who Was the 'New Woman'? / Angelique Richardson
- Utopian Thought and the Way to Live Now / Anne Fernihough
- Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism / Adam Parkes
- The Rise of Short Fiction / Adrian Hunter
- Moon Voyaging, Selenography, and the Scientific Romance / Matthew Taunton
- Super-Niches? Detection, Adventure, Exploration, and Spy Stories / David Glover
- Scientific Formations and Transformations / Rachel Crossland
- Spirit Worlds / Tatiana Kontou
- Cityscapes: Urban Hyperspaces and the Failure of Matter in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Metropolitan Fictions / Laurence Scott
- Regionalisms / Penny Fielding
- The View from Empire: The Turn-of-the-Century Globalizing World / Elleke Boehmer
- Race and Biology / William Greenslade
- The Will to Forget: Amnesia, the Nation, and Ulysses / Vincent J. Cheng
- The Post-Human Spirit of the Neopagan Movement / Dennis Denisoff
- Theatre and the Sciences of Mind / Tiffany Watt-Smith
- The Theatre of Hands: Writing the First World War / Santanu Das
- The Cult of the Child Revisited: Making Fun of Fauntleroy / Marah Gubar
- Intersexions: Dandyism, Cross-Dressing, Transgender / Jana Funke
- Political Formations: Socialism, Feminism, Anarchism / Ruth Livesey
- 'The End of Laissez-Faire': Literature, Economics, and the Idea of the Welfare State / Benjamin Kohlmann
- Representing Work / Sos Eltis
- Reading Aestheticism, Decadence, and Cosmopolitanism / Michèle Mendelssohn
- Parodies, Spoofs, and Satires / Max Saunders
- Life Writing: Biography, Portraits and Self-Portraits, Masked Authorship, and Autobiografictions / Max Saunders
- Journalism and Periodical Culture / Faith Binckes
- The Illustrated Book / Kamilla Elliott
- The Coming of Cinema / Laura Marcus
- Literature and Photography / Kate Flint
- Electricity, Telephony, and Communications / Sam Halliday
- The Residue of Modernity: Technology, Anachronism, and Bric-à-Brac in India / Alexander Bubb
- Actors and Puppets: From Henry Irving's Lyceum to Edward Gordon Craig's Arena Goldoni / Olga Taxidou.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 30, 2016).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780191837005
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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