Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide (eBook, PDF)

Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature, Culture and the Visual Arts
Redaktion: Gillard-Estrada, Anne-Florence; Besnault-Levita, Anne

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Produktbeschreibung

Breaking away from conventionally fixed discourses and dichotomies, this book utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the existence of overlaps and unexplored continuities between the Victorians, the post-Victorians and the modernists, including the fields of music, architecture, design, science, and social life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351333245
• Artikelnr.: 54115706

Autorenporträt

Anne Besnault-Levita is Senior Lecturer at the University of Rouen where she teaches English literature; she is also the Vice-president of the French Virginia Woolf. In 1997, she defended her Phd Dissertation on The Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen, at the University of Paris III- Sorbonne Nouvelle and obtained first class honours. She is the author of Katherine Mansfield: La voix du Moment (Paris: Messène, 1997), and co-editor of Construire le sujet. Textes réunis et édités par Anne Besnault-Levita, Natalie Depraz et Rolf Wintermeyer (Limoges: Lambert Lucas, 2014) and of The Journal of the Short Story in English 64 (Spring 2015), Part One: The Modernist Short Story. She is currently working on a book on Virginia Woolf's conception of literary history. Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada is Associate Professor at the University of Rouen. She defended a PhD on Hellenism and Greece in Walter Pater's works at Paris -7-Denis Diderot (received with highest honours) and has published articles on Pater, Wilde and Victorian "classical / Aesthetic" painting. She has co-edited Écrire l'art / Writing Art: Formes et enjeux du discours sur les arts visuels en Grande-Bretagne et aux Etats-Unis (Paris: Mare et Martin, 2015) She is currently writing a monograph on the figurations of Greece and the body in British paintings of Antiquity (1860-1900) and their reception in art criticism and periodicals.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of contents
Anne Besnault-Levita and Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada: Introduction
Part I Questioning Labels and Periodization: Toward New Literary
Genealogies
1 Melba Cuddy-Keane: Crossing the Victorian/Modernist Divide: From Multiple
Histories to Flexible Futures
2 Anne Besnault-Levita: Victorian Gothic and Gothic Modernism: Remapping
Literary History across the Centuries
3 Georges Letissier: Between the "English nuvvle" and the "Novel of
Aloofness": Charles Dickens's Proto-(High) Modernism
4 Charlotte Jones: Impressions of Modernity: May Sinclair, Ford Madox Ford
and the First World War
5 Lee Anne M. Richardson: Currents of Art and Streams of Consciousness:
Charting the Edwardian Novel
6 Marie Laniel: "Reading the Two Things at the Same Time": Victorian
Modernism in To the Lighthouse
Part II Art History and the Visual Arts across the Victorian/Modernist
Divide
7 Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada: The Greek Body and the Formalist Quest
across the Divide: From Aestheticism to Bloomsbury Painting
8 Liz Renes: The Velazquez Aesthetic: John Singer Sargent, Impressionism,
and Victorian Modernism
9 Anna Antonowicz: Pioneers of Modern Design: From the Cole Circle to
Walter Gropius
Part III Interdisciplinary Approaches
10 Kathryn Holland: Dorothy Bussy, the Strachey Family, and Sapphic
Literature
11 Catherine Lanone: An Entomology of Literature: Male Taxonomies and
Female Antennae from Mrs Gaskell to Virginia Woolf
12 Frances Dickey: Victorian Song across the Modernist Divide: From Edmund
Gosse to T.S. Eliot
13 Laura Marcus: Rhythm and the Measures of the Modern