Late Victorian into modern /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature.
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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.