Late Victorian into Modern (Hardcover)

The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. This volume opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions, some familiar and some more obscure, of late Victorian and modern literature and culture, primarily in British contexts. Late Victorian into Modern emphasises the in-between: the gradual changeover from one period to the next. The volume examines shared developments, points out continuities rather than ruptures, and explores and exploits an understanding of the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries as a cultural moment in which new knowledges were forming with particular speed and intensity. The organising principle of this book is to retain a key focus on literary texts, broadly understood to include familiar categories of genre as well as extra-textual elements such as press and publishing history, performance events and visual culture, while remaining keenly attentive to the inter-relations between text and context in the period. Individual chapters explore such topics as Celticism, the New Woman, popular fictions, literatures of empire, aestheticism, periodical culture, political formations, avant-garde poetics, and theatricality.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature
Release date:	October 2016
Editors:	Laura Marcus (Goldsmiths' Professor of English) • Michele Mendelssohn (Associate Professor of English and American Literature) • Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr (Professor of English and Theatre Studies)
Dimensions:	252 x 176 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	674
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-870439-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-19-870439-9
Barcode:	9780198704393

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