Interventions : rethinking the nineteenth century / edited by Andrew Smith and Anna Barton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Andrew, 1964- editor.

Barton, Anna, 1979- editor.

Series:

Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series)

Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 230 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century" aims to intervene into some of the current critical contexts that inform and are informed by the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and philosophy, the Gothic, anatomical exhibitions, the global spread of liberalism, Anglo-American publishing, Punjabi popular culture as well as the neo-Victorian in literature, film and performance. By bringing together a broad range of intellectually challenging perspectives, this book offers an engaging critical overview of the field of nineteenth-century literary studies that will appeal both to scholars working within the field and students and teachers encountering this fascinating area of study for the first time.

Contents:

On measuring the nineteenth century / John Schad

Literature and science / David Amigoni

Locke in pentameters : Victorian poetry after (or before) posthumousness / Anna Barton

Reading the Gothic and Gothic readers / Andrew Smith

The global circulation of Victorian actants and ideas : liberalism and liberalisation in the niche of nature, culture, and technology / Regenia Gagnier

Literary folk : writing popular culture in colonial Punjab, 1885-1905 / Churnjeet Mahn

"Across the waters of this disputed ocean" : the material productionof American literature in nineteenth-century Britain / Katie McGettigan

Gruesome models : European displays of natural history and anatomy and nineteenth-century literature / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

Adaptive/appropriative reuse in neo-Victorian fiction : having one's cake and eating it too / Marie-Luise Kohlke

Populism and ideology : nineteenth-century fiction and the cinema / Richard J. Hand

True histories of the Elephant Man : storytelling and theatricality in adaptations of the life of Joseph Merrick / Benjamin Poore.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781784995102

178499510X

OCLC:

1001741871