Late Victorian into Modern
Published on 13. January 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
672 pages
978-0-19-884774-8 (ISBN)
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 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.
Reviews / Votes
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 * Irena Yamboliev, Journal of Victorian Culture * Late Victorian into Modern offers an extremely useful overview of the foundational work that fostered connections between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and points to ways forwardthe collection as a whole is remarkable in its clarity, coherence, and organization * Kristin Mahoney, Victorian Studies *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
14 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1143 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-884774-8 (9780198847748)
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Laura Marcus | Michele Mendelssohn | Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
Late Victorian into Modern
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10/2016
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Persons
Laura Marcus is Goldsmiths' Professor of English at the University of Oxford, where she is a Professorial Fellow of New College. Her book publications include Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (1994), Virginia Woolf: Writers and their Work (1997/2004), The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007; awarded the 2008 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association), Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (2015), and, as co-editor, The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (2004). Her current research project includes a study of the concept of 'rhythm' in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in a range of disciplinary contexts.
Michele Mendelssohn is Associate Professor at University of Oxford and Deputy Director of the Rothermere American Institute. She is the author of Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Aesthetic Culture (2007), Making Oscar Wilde (2018) and co-editor of Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence (2016).
Kirsten Shepherd-Barr is Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Catherine's College. Her books include Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen (2006), Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett (2015), and Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction (2016).
Michele Mendelssohn is Associate Professor at University of Oxford and Deputy Director of the Rothermere American Institute. She is the author of Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Aesthetic Culture (2007), Making Oscar Wilde (2018) and co-editor of Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence (2016).
Kirsten Shepherd-Barr is Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Catherine's College. Her books include Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen (2006), Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett (2015), and Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction (2016).
Editor
Goldsmiths' Professor of EnglishGoldsmiths' Professor of English, New College, Oxford
Associate Professor of English and American LiteratureAssociate Professor of English and American Literature, Mansfield College, Oxford
Professor of English and Theatre StudiesProfessor of English and Theatre Studies, St. Catherine's College, Oxford
Content
Introduction Twilights 1: Marcus Waithe: Medievalism and Modernity 2: Jarad Zimbler: Mythology, Empire, and Narrative 3: Stefano Evangelista: Death Drives: Biology, Decadence, and Psychoanalysis 4: Daniel Williams: Celticism Making it New 5: Christos Hadjiyiannis: Cultures of the Avant-Garde 6: Hannah Sullivan: Hannah Sullivan 7: Michael H. Whitworth: When was Modernism? 8: Sos Eltis and Kirsten Shepherd-Barr: What was the 'New Drama'? 9: Angelique Richardson: Who was the New Woman? 10: Anne Fernihough: Utopian Thought and the Way to Live Now Modes and Genres 11: Adam Parkes: Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism 12: Adrian Hunter: Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism 13: Matthew Taunton: Moon Voyaging, Selenography and the Scientific Romance 14: David Glover: Super-niches?: Detection, Adventure, Exploration and Spy Stories Sites and Spaces of Knowledge 15: Rachel Crossland: Scientific Formations 16: Tatiana Kontou: Spirit Worlds 17: Laurence Scott: Cityscapes 18: Penny Fielding: Regionalisms 19: Elleke Boehmer: The View from Empire: the Turn-of-the-Century Globalizing World Minds and Bodies 20: William Greenslade: Race and Biology 21: Vincent J. Cheng: The Will to Forget: Amnesia, the Nation, and Ulysses 22: Dennis Denisoff: The Posthuman Spirit of the Neo-Pagan Movement 23: Tiffany Watt-Smith: Theatre and the Sciences of Mind 24: Santanu Das: The Theatre of Hands: Writing the First World War 25: Marah Gubar: Children's Literature and Literatures of Childhood 26: Jana Funke: Intersexions: Dandyism, Cross-Dressing, Transgender Political and Social Selves 27: Ruth Livesey: Political Formations: Anarchism, Feminism, Socialism 28: Benjamin Kohlmann: 'The End of Laissez-Faire': Literature, Economics, and the Idea of the Welfare State 29: Sos Eltis: Representing Work Authorship, Aesthetics, and Print Cultures 30: Michele Mendelssohn: Reading Aestheticism, Decadence, and Cosmopolitanism 31: James Williams: Parodies, Spoofs, and Satires 32: Max Saunders: Life-Writing: Biography, Portraits and Self-portraits, Masked Authorship and Autobiografictions 33: Faith Binckes: Journalism and Periodical Culture 34: Kamilla Elliott: The Illustrated Book Technologies 35: Laura Marcus: The Coming of Cinema 36: Kate Flint: Literature and Photography 37: Sam Halliday: Electricity, Telephony, and Communications 38: Alexander Bubb: The Residue of Modernity: Technology, Anachronism, and Bric-a-Brac in India 39: Olga Taxidou: Stagecraft: Puppets, Masks, and Machines