Late Victorian into Modern Paperback / softback
Edited by Laura (Goldsmiths' Professor of English, Goldsmiths' Professor of English, New College, Oxfo Marcus, Michele (Associate Professor of English and American Literature, Associate Professor of Mendelssohn, Kirsten E. (Professor of English and Theatre Studies, Professor of English and Theatr Shepherd-Barr
Part of the Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:672 pages, 14 black and white illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:13/01/2020
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- ISBN:9780198847748
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:672 pages, 14 black and white illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:13/01/2020
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- ISBN:9780198847748
