Interventions (eBook, PDF)

Rethinking the nineteenth century
Redaktion: Smith, Andrew; Barton, Anna

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Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and philosophy, the Gothic, anatomical exhibitions, the global spread of liberalism, Anglo-American publishing, Punjabi popular culture and the neo-Victorian in literature, film and performance. By bringing together a broad range of intellectually challenging perspectives, the book offers an engaging critical overview of the field of nineteenth-century literary studies that will appeal both to scholars working within the field and students and teachers encountering this fascinating area of study for the first time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526107596
• Artikelnr.: 60361931

Autorenporträt

Andrew Smith is Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield Anna Barton is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Andrew Smith and Anna Barton Part I: Critical reflections 1 On measuring the nineteenth century
John Schad 2 Literature and science
David Amigoni 3 Locke in pentameters: Victorian poetry after (or before) posthumousness
Anna Barton 4 Reading the Gothic and Gothic readers
Andrew Smith Part II: Rethinking national contexts and exchanges 5 The global circulation of Victorian actants and ideas: liberalism and liberalisation in the niche of nature, culture, and technology
Regenia Gagnier 6 Literary folk: writing popular culture in colonial Punjab, 1885
1905
Churnjeet Mahn 7 'Across the waters of this disputed ocean': the material production of American literature in nineteenth
century Britain
Katie McGettigan 8 Gruesome models: European displays of natural history and anatomy and nineteenth
century literature
Laurence Talairach
Vielmas Part III: Afterlives 9 Adaptive/appropriate reuse in neo
Victorian fiction: having one's cake and eating it too
Marie
Luise Kohlke 10 Populism and ideology: nineteenth
century fiction and the cinema
Richard J. Hand 11 True histories of the Elephant Man: storytelling and theatricality in adaptations of the life of Joseph Merrick
Benjamin Poore Index