Description |
1 online resource (xi, 249 pages) |
Series |
Nineteenth-Century literature in transition |
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Nineteenth-century literature in transition.
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Contents |
Introduction. 'Knowledge made for cutting' / Penny Fielding and Andrew Taylor -- Mermaids amongst the cables : the abstracted body and the telegraphic touch in the nineteenth century / Clare Pettitt -- Enclosing forms, opening spaces : the 1880s fixed-verse revival / Linda K. Hughes -- 'The newest culte' : Victorian poetry and the literary societies of the 1880s / Angela Dunstan -- The time of W.E. Henley : 'minor poetry' and the 1880s / Penny Fielding -- The evolution of point of view / Cannon Schmitt -- Network, history, method : Andrew Lang in and after the 1880s / Nathan K. Hensley -- Animated conversations : form, transformation, and the category of the novel in the 1880s / Barbara Leckie -- Henry James, vulgarity, and the contexts of transatlantic moderation / Andrew Taylor -- He and she : the 1880s, camp aesthetics and the literary magazine / Sara Lodge -- Men, women and horses : public spectacle in 1887 / John Stokes -- The secular turn in British literature of the 1880s / William Greenslade |
Summary |
What does it mean to focus on the decade as a unit of literary history? Emerging from the shadows of iconic Victorian authors such as Eliot and Tennyson, the 1880s is a decade that has been too readily overlooked in the rush to embrace end-of-century decadence and aestheticism. The 1880s witnessed new developments in transatlantic networks, experiments in lyric poetry, the decline of the three-volume novel, and the revaluation of authors, journalists and the reading public. The contributors to this collection explore the case for the 1880s as both a discrete point of literary production, with its own pressures and provocations, and as part of literature's sense of its expanded temporal and geographical reach. The essays address a wide variety of authors, topics and genres, offering incisive readings of the diverse forces at work in the shaping of the literary 1880s |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Literature.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Literature
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English literature
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Literature
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Englisch
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Literatur
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Fielding, Penny, editor
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Taylor, Andrew, 1968- editor.
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ISBN |
9781316855546 |
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1316855546 |
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9781316859599 |
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1316859592 |
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