Late Victorian into Modern
Abstract
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. Our volume’s title, Late Victorian into Modern, emphasises the in-between: the gradual changeover from one period to the next. This approach enables us to examine shared developments and to point out continuities rather than ruptures. The volume explores and exploits an understanding of the late 19th to the early 20th centuries as a cultural moment in which new knowledges were forming with particular speed and intensity. Our contributors include both established and emerging scholars of the literature and culture of the period. 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.
Keywords:
Victorian,
modern,
modernism,
fin de siècle,
science,
technology,
performance,
poetics,
Empire,
aesthetics
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Oct 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198704393
- Published online:
- Dec 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198704393.001.0001
Editors
Laura Marcus,
editor
Laura Marcus, Professorial Fellow, Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature, New College, University of Oxford
Michèle Mendelssohn,
editor
Michèle Mendelssohn, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, UK
Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr,
editor
Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr, Professor of English and Theatre Studies; Tutorial Fellow, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, UK
