Late Victorian into Modern
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.
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Late Victorian into Modern
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.
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Late Victorian into Modern

Late Victorian into Modern

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198847748
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 03/09/2020
Series: Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 672
Product dimensions: 9.70(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Laura Marcus, Goldsmiths' Professor of English, New College, Oxford,Michele Mendelssohn, Associate Professor of English and American Literature, Mansfield College, Oxford,Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr, Professor of English and Theatre Studies, St. Catherine's College, Oxford

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).

Table of Contents

IntroductionTwilights1. Medievalism and Modernity, Marcus Waithe2. Mythology, Empire, and Narrative, Jarad Zimbler3. Death Drives: Biology, Decadence, and Psychoanalysis, Stefano Evangelista4. Celticism, Daniel WilliamsMaking it New5. Cultures of the Avant-Garde, Christos Hadjiyiannis6. Hannah Sullivan, Hannah Sullivan7. When was Modernism?, Michael H. Whitworth8. What was the 'New Drama'?, Sos Eltis and Kirsten Shepherd-Barr9. Who was the New Woman?, Angelique Richardson10. Utopian Thought and the Way to Live Now, Anne FernihoughModes and Genres11. Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism, Adam Parkes12. Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism, Adrian Hunter13. Moon Voyaging, Selenography and the Scientific Romance, Matthew Taunton14. Super-niches?: Detection, Adventure, Exploration and Spy Stories, David GloverSites and Spaces of Knowledge15. Scientific Formations, Rachel Crossland16. Spirit Worlds, Tatiana Kontou17. Cityscapes, Laurence Scott18. Regionalisms, Penny Fielding19. The View from Empire: the Turn-of-the-Century Globalizing World, Elleke BoehmerMinds and Bodies20. Race and Biology, William Greenslade21. The Will to Forget: Amnesia, the Nation, and Ulysses, Vincent J. Cheng22. The Posthuman Spirit of the Neo-Pagan Movement, Dennis Denisoff23. Theatre and the Sciences of Mind, Tiffany Watt-Smith24. The Theatre of Hands: Writing the First World War, Santanu Das25. Children's Literature and Literatures of Childhood, Marah Gubar26. Intersexions: Dandyism, Cross-Dressing, Transgender, Jana FunkePolitical and Social Selves27. Political Formations: Anarchism, Feminism, Socialism, Ruth Livesey28. 'The End of Laissez-Faire': Literature, Economics, and the Idea of the Welfare State, Benjamin Kohlmann29. Representing Work, Sos EltisAuthorship, Aesthetics, and Print Cultures30. Reading Aestheticism, Decadence, and Cosmopolitanism, Michele Mendelssohn31. Parodies, Spoofs, and Satires, James Williams32. Life-Writing: Biography, Portraits and Self-portraits, Masked Authorship and Autobiografictions, Max Saunders33. Journalism and Periodical Culture, Faith Binckes34. The Illustrated Book, Kamilla ElliottTechnologies35. The Coming of Cinema, Laura Marcus36. Literature and Photography, Kate Flint37. Electricity, Telephony, and Communications, Sam Halliday38. The Residue of Modernity: Technology, Anachronism, and Bric-a-Brac in India, Alexander Bubb39. Stagecraft: Puppets, Masks, and Machines, Olga Taxidou
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