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Victorian Transformations - Genre, Nationalism and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Hardcover, New edition)
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Victorian Transformations - Genre, Nationalism and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Hardcover, New edition)
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Proposing the concept of transformation as a key to understanding
the Victorian period, this collection explores the protean ways in
which the nineteenth century conceived of, responded to, and
created change. The volume focuses on literature, particularly
issues related to genre, nationalism, and desire. For example, the
essays suggest that changes in the novel's form correspond with
shifting notions of human nature in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de
Paris; technical forms such as the villanelle and chant royal are
crucial bridges between Victorian and Modernist poetics; Victorian
theater moves from privileging the text to valuing the spectacles
that characterized much of Victorian staging; Carlyle's Past and
Present is a rallying cry for replacing the static and fractured
language of the past with a national language deep in shared
meaning; Dante Gabriel Rossetti posits unachieved desire as the
means of rescuing the subject from the institutional forces that
threaten to close down and subsume him; and the return of Adelaide
Anne Procter's fallen nun to the convent in "A Legend of Provence"
can be read as signaling a more modern definition of gender and
sexuality that allows for the possibility of transgressive desire
within society. The collection concludes with an essay that shows
neo-Victorian authors like John Fowles and A. S. Byatt contending
with the Victorian preoccupations with gender and sexuality.
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