Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition

The 1880s
Herausgeber: Fielding, Penny; Taylor, Andrew

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the diverse forces that shaped developments in literature in the 1880s, an often overlooked literary decade.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9781107181908
• ISBN-10: 1107181909
• Artikelnr.: 57016784

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 'Knowledge made for cutting' Penny Fielding and Andrew
Taylor; 1. Mermaids amongst the cables: the abstracted body and the
telegraphic touch in the nineteenth century Clare Pettitt; 2. Enclosing
forms, opening spaces: the 1880s fixed-verse revival Linda K. Hughes; 3.
'The Newest Culte': Victorian poetry and the literary societies of the
1880s Angela Dunstan; 4. The time of W. E. Henley: 'minor poetry' and the
1880s Penny Fielding; 5. The evolution of point of view Cannon Schmitt; 6.
Network, history, method: Andrew Lang in and after the 1880s Nathan K.
Hensley; 7. Animated conversations: form, transformation, and the category
of the novel in the 1880s Barbara Leckie; 8. Henry James, vulgarity, and
the contexts of transatlantic moderation Andrew Taylor; 9. He and She: the
1880s, camp aesthetics and the literary magazine Sara Lodge; 10. Men, women
and horses: public spectacle in 1887 John Stokes; 11. The secular turn in
British literature of the 1880s William Greenslade; Index.