Table of Contents:
  • Twilights
  • 1. Medievalism and modernity / Marcus Waithe
  • 2. Mythology, empire, and narrative / Jarad Zimbler
  • 3. Death drives : biology, decadence, and psychoanalysis / Stefano Evangelista
  • 4. Celticism / Daniel G. Williams
  • Making it New
  • 5. Cultures of the avant-garde / Christos Hadjiyiannis
  • 6. Emerging poetic forms / Hannah Sullivan
  • 7. When was modernism? / Michael H. Whitworth
  • 8. What was the 'new drama'? / Sos Eltis and Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
  • 9. Who was the new woman? / Angelique Richardson
  • 10. Utopian thought and the way to live now / Anne Fernihough
  • Modes and Genres
  • 11. Naturalism, realism, and impressionism / Adam Parkes
  • 12. The rise of short fiction / Adrian Hunter
  • 13. Moon voyaging, selenography and the scientific romance / Matthew Taunton
  • 14. Super-niches? : detection, adventure, exploration and spy stories / David Glover
  • Sites and Spaces of Knowledge
  • 15. Scientific formations and transformations / Rachel Crossland
  • 16. Spirit worlds / Tatiana Kontou
  • 17. Cityscapes : urban hyperspaces and the failure of matter in the late-Victorian and Edwardian metropolitan fictions / Laurence Scott
  • 18. Regionalisms / Penny Fielding
  • 19. The view from empire : the turn-of-the-century globalizing world / Elleke Boehmer
  • Minds and Bodies
  • 20. Race and biology / William Greenslade
  • 21. The will to forget : amnesia, the nation, and Ulysses / Vincent J. Cheng
  • 22. The posthuman spirit of the neo-pagan movement / Dennis Denisoff
  • 23. Theatre and the sciences of mind / Tiffany Watt-Smith
  • 24. The theatre of hands : writing the First World War / Santanu Das
  • 25. The cult of the child revisited : making fun of Fauntleroy / Marah Gubar
  • 26. Intersexions : dandyism, cross-dressing, transgender / Jana Funke
  • Political and Social Selves
  • 27. Political formations : socialism, feminism, anarchism / Ruth Livesey
  • 28. 'The end of laissez-faire' : literature, economics, and the idea of the welfare state / Benjamin Kohlmann
  • 29. Representing work / Sos Eltis
  • Authorship, aesthetics, and print cultures
  • 30. Reading aestheticism, decadence, and cosmopolitanism / Michèle Mendelssohn
  • 31. Parodies, spoofs, and satires / James Williams
  • 32. Life-writing : biography, portraits and self-portraits, masked authorship and autobiografictions / Max Saunders
  • 33. Journalism and periodical culture / Faith Binckes
  • 34. The illustrated book / Kamilla Elliott
  • Technologies
  • 35. The coming of cinema / Laura Marcus
  • 36. Literature and photography / Kate Flint
  • 37. Electricity, telephony, and communications / Sam Halliday
  • 38. The residue of modernity : technology, anachronism, and bric-a-brac in India / Alexander Bubb
  • 39. Actors and puppets : from Henry Irving's Lyceum to Edward Gordon Craig's Arena Goldoni / Olga Taxidou.