Interventions

Rethinking the Nineteenth Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for 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 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 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-07-18
Mått138 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt435 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieInterventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
Antal sidor248
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781784995102

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Introduction – Andrew Smith and Anna BartonPart I: Critical reflections1 On measuring the nineteenth century – John Schad2 Literature and science – David Amigoni3 Locke in pentameters: Victorian poetry after (or before) posthumousness – Anna Barton4 Reading the Gothic and Gothic readers – Andrew SmithPart II: Rethinking national contexts and exchanges5 The global circulation of Victorian actants and ideas: liberalism and liberalisation in the niche of nature, culture, and technology – Regenia Gagnier6 Literary folk: writing popular culture in colonial Punjab, 1885-1905 – Churnjeet Mahn7 ‘Across the waters of this disputed ocean’: the material production of American literature in nineteenth-century Britain – Katie McGettigan8 Gruesome models: European displays of natural history and anatomy and nineteenth-century literature – Laurence Talairach-VielmasPart III: Afterlives9 Adaptive/appropriate reuse in neo-Victorian fiction: having one’s cake and eating it too – Marie-Luise Kohlke10 Populism and ideology: nineteenth-century fiction and the cinema – Richard J. Hand11 True histories of the Elephant Man: storytelling and theatricality in adaptations of the life of Joseph Merrick – Benjamin PooreIndex

‘The chapters in this collection demonstrate that the popular is definitely worth further critical scrutiny, with a careful eye on what might be added to the map, what might be deliberately or inadvertently left out, and to what purposes. Although neo-Victorian criticism never quite makes it out of its separate territory in Interventions, the book offers further evidence that Victorianists and neo-Victorianists pursue shared routes of critical investigation.’Helen Davies, Newman University, Neo-Victorian Studies 10:2 (2018)