Interventions
Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
Published on 18. July 2017
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-78499-510-2 (ISBN)
Description
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. -- .
Reviews / Votes
'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) -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
448 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78499-510-2 (9781784995102)
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Persons
Andrew Smith is Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield
Anna Barton is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield -- .
Anna Barton is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield -- .
Content
Introduction - Andrew Smith and Anna Barton
Part I: Critical reflections
1 On measuring the nineteenth century - John Schad
2 Literature and science - David Amigoni
3 Locke in pentameters: Victorian poetry after (or before) posthumousness - Anna Barton
4 Reading the Gothic and Gothic readers - Andrew Smith
Part II: Rethinking national contexts and exchanges
5 The global circulation of Victorian actants and ideas: liberalism and liberalisation in the niche of nature, culture, and technology - Regenia Gagnier
6 Literary folk: writing popular culture in colonial Punjab, 1885-1905 - Churnjeet Mahn
7 'Across the waters of this disputed ocean': the material production of American literature in nineteenth-century Britain - Katie McGettigan
8 Gruesome models: European displays of natural history and anatomy and nineteenth-century literature - Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Part III: Afterlives
9 Adaptive/appropriate reuse in neo-Victorian fiction: having one's cake and eating it too - Marie-Luise Kohlke
10 Populism and ideology: nineteenth-century fiction and the cinema - Richard J. Hand
11 True histories of the Elephant Man: storytelling and theatricality in adaptations of the life of Joseph Merrick - Benjamin Poore
Index -- .
Part I: Critical reflections
1 On measuring the nineteenth century - John Schad
2 Literature and science - David Amigoni
3 Locke in pentameters: Victorian poetry after (or before) posthumousness - Anna Barton
4 Reading the Gothic and Gothic readers - Andrew Smith
Part II: Rethinking national contexts and exchanges
5 The global circulation of Victorian actants and ideas: liberalism and liberalisation in the niche of nature, culture, and technology - Regenia Gagnier
6 Literary folk: writing popular culture in colonial Punjab, 1885-1905 - Churnjeet Mahn
7 'Across the waters of this disputed ocean': the material production of American literature in nineteenth-century Britain - Katie McGettigan
8 Gruesome models: European displays of natural history and anatomy and nineteenth-century literature - Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Part III: Afterlives
9 Adaptive/appropriate reuse in neo-Victorian fiction: having one's cake and eating it too - Marie-Luise Kohlke
10 Populism and ideology: nineteenth-century fiction and the cinema - Richard J. Hand
11 True histories of the Elephant Man: storytelling and theatricality in adaptations of the life of Joseph Merrick - Benjamin Poore
Index -- .