Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1860s

Pamela K. Gilbert is Albert Brick Professor in the Department of English at the University of Florida. Her books include Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History (2019); Disease, Desire and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels, (1997); Mapping the Victorian Social Body (2004); The Citizen's Body (2007); and Cholera and Nation (2008).

• Introduction; 1. Realism and psychology: psychophysics, mind, and the science of human nature Rae Greiner; 2. Sensational bodies: representations of race and disability in sensation fiction Anne-Marie Beller; 3. Irish rebellion on the sensational stage Sarah Meer; 4. Palgrave's golden treasury: 'modern' poetry and a new lyric canon Marion Thain; 5. Impossible monsters, rabbit holes, and new worlds: the unstable ground of science and education in 1860s children's fairy-tale and fantasy literature Megan A. Norcia; 6. Periodicals, popular fiction and the affordances of digital collections Graham Law; 7. Publishing in the 1860s: technology, regulation, distribution Andrew King; 8. Italy in transition: Italian unification and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's last poems (1862) Patricia Cove; 9. Silent center, vocal margins: British literary response to the US Civil War Linda K. Hughes; 10. Empire and evidence in Armadale & the Morant Bay Rebellion Leah R. Rosenberg; 11. Reading the nonevental: the Victorian literary sketch, colonial urbanity, and the transimperial Sukanya Banerjee; 12. An age of mythmaking: nation and race in poetry Clare A. Simmons; 13. Reimagining society: Mill, Trollope, and the expanding electorate Kevin A. Morrison; 14. Historical Ecologies in Heterodox Economic Thought and Literary Realism of the 1860s Ayșe Çelikkol; 15. Extraction, exhaustion, and the sensation novel of the 1860s Elizabeth Carolyn Miller; 16. Evolution and the human Johnathan Smith.

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