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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology, Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief, and Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures), the volume is sub-divided into nine sub-sections each with its own 'lead' essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today's Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume's essays: that is, the nature and status of 'literary' culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and established scholars.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198848776 |
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| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Publication date: | 02/11/2020 |
| Series: | Oxford Handbooks |
| Pages: | 768 |
| Sales rank: | 559,741 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.60(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.70(d) |
About the Author
Juliet John, Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London
Juliet John is Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely on Victorian literature and culture. Her books include Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture (Oxford University Press, 2001; paperback 2003), Dickens and Mass Culture (Oxford University Press, 2010; paperback 2013) and Reading and the Victorians (Ashgate, 2015), which she co-edited with Matthew Bradley. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Victorian Literature.
Juliet John is Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely on Victorian literature and culture. Her books include Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture (Oxford University Press, 2001; paperback 2003), Dickens and Mass Culture (Oxford University Press, 2010; paperback 2013) and Reading and the Victorians (Ashgate, 2015), which she co-edited with Matthew Bradley. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Victorian Literature.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Literary Culture and the Victorians, Juliet JohnPart I - Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology1. The Victorian Subject: Thackeray's Wartime Subjects, Rae Greiner2. Life Writing and the Victorians, Trev Broughton3. Politics and the Literary, Josephine Guy4. The Literature of Chartism, Ian Haywood5. Liberalism and Literature, Lauren M.E. Goodlad6. Globalization and Economics, Ayşe Celikkol7. Political Economy, Kathleen Blake8. The Victorians, Sex, and Gender, Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn9. The New Woman and Her Ageing Other, Teresa Mangum10. Unspeakable Desires: We Other Victorians, Kate Flint11. Victorian Masculinities, or Military Men of Feeling: Domesticity, Militarism, and Manly Sensibility, Holly Furneaux12. Empire, Place, and the Victorians, Patrick Brantlinger13. Organic Imperialism: Fictions of Progressive Social Order at the Colonial Periphery, John Kucich14. The Strange Career of Fair Play, or, Warfare and Gamesmanship in the Time of Victoria, Lara Kriegel15. British Women Wanted: Gender, Genre, and South African Settlement, Melissa Free16. 'The London Sunday Faded Slow': Time to Spend in the Victorian City, Alex MurrayPart II - Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief17. Religion, The Bible, and Literature in the Victorian Age, Emma Mason18. Religion and Sexuality, James Eli Adams19. Religion and the Canon, Matthew Bradley20. Religion and Education, Mark Knight21. Beyond Two Cultures: Science, Literature, and Disciplinary Boundaries, Alice Jenkins22. Science and Periodicals: Animal Instinct and Whispering Machines, Sally Shuttleworth23. Victorian Natural Science and the Seashore, Amy M. King24. 'You've Got Mail': Technologies of Communication in Victorian Literature, Elizabeth Meadows and Jay ClaytonPart III - Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures25. The New Cultural Marketplace: Victorian Publishing and Reading Practices, Robert L. Patten26. Literature and the Expansion of the Press, Joanne Shattock27. Materiality in Theory: What to Make of Victorian Things, John Plotz28. Celebrity Culture, John Plunkett29. Victorian Aesthetics, Jonah Siegel30. Emotions, Carolyn Burdett31. Aestheticism and the Politics of Pleasure, Ruth Livesey32. Illustrations and the Victorian Novel, Julia Thomas33. Art and the Literary, Hilary Fraser34. Victorian Theatre: Research Problems and Progress, Katherine Newey35. Victorian Theatre: Power and the Politics of Gender, Kerry Powell36. Melodrama On and Off the Stage, Jim Davis37. Henry James's Houses: Domesticity and Performativity, Gail MarshallFrom the B&N Reads Blog
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