
Product details:
ISBN13: | 9780198704393 |
ISBN10: | 0198704399 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 674 pages |
Size: | 252x176x39 mm |
Weight: | 1264 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 14 black and white illustrations |
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Category:
Late Victorian into Modern
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 13 October 2016
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Short description:
This volume opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions of late Victorian and modern literature and culture. It examines shared developments, points out continuities rather than ruptures, and explores the understanding of this period as a moment in which new knowledges were forming with particular speed and intensity.
Long description:
The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate.
This volume opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions, some familiar and some more obscure, of late Victorian and modern literature and culture, primarily in British contexts. Late Victorian into Modern emphasises the in-between: the gradual changeover from one period to the next. The volume examines shared developments, points out continuities rather than ruptures, and explores and exploits an understanding of the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries as a cultural moment in which new knowledges were forming with particular speed and intensity. The organising principle of this book is to retain a key focus on literary texts, broadly understood to include familiar categories of genre as well as extra-textual elements such as press and publishing history, performance events and visual culture, while remaining keenly attentive to the inter-relations between text and context in the period. Individual chapters explore such topics as Celticism, the New Woman, popular fictions, literatures of empire, aestheticism, periodical culture, political formations, avant-garde poetics, and theatricality.
This collection does excellent work in tracing thematic threads through texts beyond the centrally canonicalthorough and enterprising, the collection's essays commit to diving into the archive in search of gems that deserve revisiting
This volume opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions, some familiar and some more obscure, of late Victorian and modern literature and culture, primarily in British contexts. Late Victorian into Modern emphasises the in-between: the gradual changeover from one period to the next. The volume examines shared developments, points out continuities rather than ruptures, and explores and exploits an understanding of the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries as a cultural moment in which new knowledges were forming with particular speed and intensity. The organising principle of this book is to retain a key focus on literary texts, broadly understood to include familiar categories of genre as well as extra-textual elements such as press and publishing history, performance events and visual culture, while remaining keenly attentive to the inter-relations between text and context in the period. Individual chapters explore such topics as Celticism, the New Woman, popular fictions, literatures of empire, aestheticism, periodical culture, political formations, avant-garde poetics, and theatricality.
This collection does excellent work in tracing thematic threads through texts beyond the centrally canonicalthorough and enterprising, the collection's essays commit to diving into the archive in search of gems that deserve revisiting
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Twilights
Medievalism and Modernity
Mythology, Empire, and Narrative
Death Drives: Biology, Decadence, and Psychoanalysis
Celticism
Making it New
Cultures of the Avant-Garde
Hannah Sullivan
When was Modernism?
What was the 'New Drama'?
Who was the New Woman?
Utopian Thought and the Way to Live Now
Modes and Genres
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism
Moon Voyaging, Selenography and the Scientific Romance
Super-niches?: Detection, Adventure, Exploration and Spy Stories
Sites and Spaces of Knowledge
Scientific Formations
Spirit Worlds
Cityscapes
Regionalisms
The View from Empire: the Turn-of-the-Century Globalizing World
Minds and Bodies
Race and Biology
The Will to Forget: Amnesia, the Nation, and Ulysses
The Posthuman Spirit of the Neo-Pagan Movement
Theatre and the Sciences of Mind
The Theatre of Hands: Writing the First World War
Children's Literature and Literatures of Childhood
Intersexions: Dandyism, Cross-Dressing, Transgender
Political and Social Selves
Political Formations: Anarchism, Feminism, Socialism
'The End of Laissez-Faire': Literature, Economics, and the Idea of the Welfare State
Representing Work
Authorship, Aesthetics, and Print Cultures
Reading Aestheticism, Decadence, and Cosmopolitanism
Parodies, Spoofs, and Satires
Life-Writing: Biography, Portraits and Self-portraits, Masked Authorship and Autobiografictions
Journalism and Periodical Culture
The Illustrated Book
Technologies
The Coming of Cinema
Literature and Photography
Electricity, Telephony, and Communications
The Residue of Modernity: Technology, Anachronism, and Bric-?-Brac in India
Stagecraft: Puppets, Masks, and Machines
Twilights
Medievalism and Modernity
Mythology, Empire, and Narrative
Death Drives: Biology, Decadence, and Psychoanalysis
Celticism
Making it New
Cultures of the Avant-Garde
Hannah Sullivan
When was Modernism?
What was the 'New Drama'?
Who was the New Woman?
Utopian Thought and the Way to Live Now
Modes and Genres
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism
Moon Voyaging, Selenography and the Scientific Romance
Super-niches?: Detection, Adventure, Exploration and Spy Stories
Sites and Spaces of Knowledge
Scientific Formations
Spirit Worlds
Cityscapes
Regionalisms
The View from Empire: the Turn-of-the-Century Globalizing World
Minds and Bodies
Race and Biology
The Will to Forget: Amnesia, the Nation, and Ulysses
The Posthuman Spirit of the Neo-Pagan Movement
Theatre and the Sciences of Mind
The Theatre of Hands: Writing the First World War
Children's Literature and Literatures of Childhood
Intersexions: Dandyism, Cross-Dressing, Transgender
Political and Social Selves
Political Formations: Anarchism, Feminism, Socialism
'The End of Laissez-Faire': Literature, Economics, and the Idea of the Welfare State
Representing Work
Authorship, Aesthetics, and Print Cultures
Reading Aestheticism, Decadence, and Cosmopolitanism
Parodies, Spoofs, and Satires
Life-Writing: Biography, Portraits and Self-portraits, Masked Authorship and Autobiografictions
Journalism and Periodical Culture
The Illustrated Book
Technologies
The Coming of Cinema
Literature and Photography
Electricity, Telephony, and Communications
The Residue of Modernity: Technology, Anachronism, and Bric-?-Brac in India
Stagecraft: Puppets, Masks, and Machines