| Description |
xv, 774 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
New Cambridge history of English literature.
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| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 730-758) and index. |
| Summary |
"This collaborative history aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1901, are followed by essays on topics including sexuality, sensation, cityscapes, melodrama, epic and economics. Victorian writing is placed in its complex relation to the Empire, Europe and America, as well as to Britain's component nations. The final chapters consider how Victorian literature, and the period as a whole, influenced twentieth-century writers. Original, lucid and stimulating, each chapter is an important contribution to Victorian literary studies. Together, the contributors create an engaging discussion of the ways in which the Victorians saw themselves and of how their influence has persisted"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Kate Flint -- Part I. Authors, Readers, and Publishers: 1. Publishing and the materiality of the book / David Finkelstein; 2. Victorian reading / Leah Price; 3. Periodicals and reviewing / Hilary Fraser -- Part II. Writing Victoria's England: 4. The expansion of Britain / David Amigoni; 5. High Victorianism / Janice Carlisle; 6. The Fin-de-Siècle / Stephen Arata -- Part III. Modes of Writing: 7. Lyric and the lyrical / Angela Leighton; 8. Epic / Herbert F. Tucker; 9. Melodrama / Carolyn Williams; 10. Sensation / Kate Flint; 11. Autobiography / Linda H. Peterson; 12. Comic and satirical / John Bowen; 13. Innovation and experiment / Jerome McGann; 14. Writing for children / Claudia Nelson -- Part IV. Matters of Debate: 15. Education / Dinah Birch; 16. Spirituality / Elisabeth Jay; 17. Material / Elaine Freedgood; 18. Economics and finance / Mary Poovey; 19. History / Andrew Sanders; 20. Sexuality / Sharon Marcus; 21. Aesthetics / Elizabeth Helsinger; 22. Science and literature / Gillian Beer; 23. Subjectivity, psychology, and the imagination / Helen Small; 24. Cityscapes / Deborah Epstein Nord; 25. The rural scene : Victorian literature and the natural world / Francis O'Gorman; 26. "The annihilation of space and time" : literature and technology / Clare Pettitt --Part V. Spaces of Writing: 27. Spaces of the nineteenth-century novel / Isobel Armstrong; 28. National and regional literatures / Sara L. Maurer; 29. Britain and Europe / Nicholas Dames; 30. Victorian empire / Pablo Mukherjee; 31. Writing about America / Deirdre David -- Part VI. Victorian Afterlives: 32. 1900 and the début de siècle : poetry, drama, fiction / Joseph Bristow; 33. The future of Victorian literature / Jay Clayton. |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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| Alternate Author |
Flint, Kate.
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| ISBN |
9780521846257 (hardback) |
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0521846250 (hardback) |
| Call Number |
PR461 .C364 2012 |
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