Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition : The 1830s / edited by John Gardner and David Stewart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gardner, John, editor.

Stewart, David, editor.

Series:

Nineteenth-century literature in transition

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 357 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This instalment in the Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition series concerns a decade that was as technologically transitional as it was eventful on a global scale. It collects work from a group of internationally renowned scholars across disciplinary boundaries in order to engage with the wide array of cultural developments that defined the 1830s. Often overlooked as a boundary between the Romantic and Victorian periods, this decade was, the book proposes, the central pivot of the nineteenth century. Far from a time of peaceful reform, it was marked by violent colonial expansion, political resistance, and revolutionary technologies such as the photograph, the expansion of steam power, and the railway that changed the world irreversibly. Contributors explore a flurry of cultural forms to take the pulse of the decade, from Silver Fork fiction to lithography, from working-class periodicals to photographs, and from urban sketches to magazine fiction

Contents:

Introduction / John Gardner and David Stewart

On the eve: William Benbow, Francis Macerone and the transmission of revolution/ John Gardner

'An infectious madness': disability and the epidemiology of social unrest in Dickens's Barnaby Rudge / Essaka Joshua

Augustus Hardin Beaumont, slavery apologias, and popular radical literature in the 1830s / Tom Scriven

Patterns of industry: Harriet Martineau's illustrated masculinities / Valerie Sanders

Mother Earth: gender and geology in the 1830s / Adelene Buckland

The polite fictions of slavery: British antislavery in the 1830s / Juliet Shields

Suffering, sentiment, and the rise of humanitarian literature in the 1830s / Porscha Fermanis

Steam and iron in the 1830s: liberal imperialism, Thomas Love Peacock, and the Nemesi / Peter J. Kitson

Lithography and the comic image 1825-1840 / Brian Maidment

Jorrocks's canon: Dickens, Surtees and 1830s print culture / John Strachan

Tennyson, Dickens, Poe, Browning, and the Brontës: Blackwood's Magazine and 'The foreheads of a new generation' / Robert Morrison

Boz in London: The 1830s and the urban turn in the English novel / Sambudha Sen

Letitia Elizabeth Landon, chronicler of the 1830s / David Stewart

Railway imaginary in the 1830s Nicola Kirkby: finding form

The emerging language of photography / Jennifer Green-Lewis

Afterword / Richard Cronin

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781009268493

100926849X

9781009268509

1009268503

9781009268486

1009268481