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):

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

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 230 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This text aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of 19th-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 and the neo-Victorian in literature, film and performance. By bringing together a broad range of intellectually challenging perspectives, the book offers an engaging critical overview of the field of 19th-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:

Front matter

Dedication

Contents

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I Critical reflections

On measuring the nineteenth century

Literature and science

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

Reading the Gothic and Gothic readers

Part II Rethinking national contexts and exchanges

The global circulation of Victorian actants and ideas: liberalism and liberalisation in the niche of nature, culture, and tec

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

'Across the waters of this disputed ocean': the material production of American literature...

Gruesome models: European displays of natural history and anatomy and nineteenth-century literature

Part III Afterlives

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

Populism and ideology: nineteenth-century fiction and the cinema

True histories of the Elephant Man: storytelling and theatricality in adaptations of the life of Joseph Merrick

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 7, 2026).

OCLC:

1164783297