Re-Reading the Age of Innovation

Introduction
Louise Kane

Part I: Inventing and Innovating: Science, Technology, Formal Experiment

Chapter 1
The Sky as Heterotopia in Dickens, Gissing, and Woolf

Claes E. Lindskog

Chapter 2
The Rise and Fall of the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1881-1930)

Jayme Yahr

Chapter 3
Balloonomania: Flying Machines, Periodicals, and the Trajectory of World Literature

Louise Kane

Chapter 4

A Metaphysical Theatre: Abstract Painting, Color Music, and Futurist Experiments in
Avant-Garde Film
Christopher Townsend

Part II: Changing Landscapes: Empire, Trade, Ecology

Chapter 5

Histories Yet to Come: Adventure Fiction and the Ideologies of Free Trade

Keith Clavin

Chapter 6

Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and the Failure of Empire

Camelia Raghinaru

Chapter 7
Uncertainty, Doubt, and Belief in the Poetic Landscapes of T.S. Eliot and Thomas Hardy
Anna Bedsole

Part III: Navigating Feeling: the Self, Empathy, Human Character

Chapter 8

F. Mabel Robinson, Vernon Lee, and George Moore: the Aesthetics of Sympathy
and Texts of Transition

Kathryn Laing

Chapter 9

Racial Expose and the Empathic Mind in Walter Francis White's The Fire in the Flint

Masami Sugimori

Chapter 10

A Writerly Communion: Browning, Balzac, and Catholicism in Edith Wharton's
"The Duchess at Prayer"
Nancy Von Rosk

Part IV: Blurring Boundaries: Gender, Sexuality, Desire

Chapter 11
"Disposed to Daring Innovation": New Modernism, New Woman Fiction, and New Motherhood
Elizabeth Podnieks

Chapter 12

"Sometimes I Pose, but Sometimes I Pose as Posing": Stella Benson's Early Fiction

Nicola Darwood

Chapter 13

Parsing Between-ness: Love, Looking Backward and Forward, in Charlotte Mew's Short Fiction

Kristen Renzi

Chapter 14

The Spirit of Contemporary Life: Icelandic Queer Modernism

Asta Kristin Benediktsdottir

Afterword

Regenia Gagnier