Nineteenth-century literature in transition : the 1870s /

"The 1870s were defined by cultural confidence, moral superiority, and metropolitan elitism. This volume examines and unsettles a decade closely associated with 'High Victorianism' and the popular emergence of 'Victorian' as a term for the epoch and its literature. Writers a...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Chapman, Alison, 1970- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Series:	Nineteenth-century literature in transition.
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Eighteen seventies. Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique. Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Rethinking the 1870s
The 1870s and the invention of Victorian literature / Kelly J. Mays
Media technologies, the organisation of knowledge, and 1870s literary culture / James Mussell
Assembling the 1870s : digital studies and literary history / Emily Allen and Dino Franco Felluga
Feminism, reform, and the professional woman writer in the 1870s / Karen Bourrier
The "High Victorian" / Francis O'Gorman
Middlemarch, high realism, and the Victorian everyday / Ruth Livesey
The post-sensational seventies / Albert D. Pionke
The shock of aestheticism : embodiment, abstraction, and the Avant-Garde as commodity / Veronica Alfano
'Verses, good and bad' : ephemerality, modernity, and 1870s poetry cultures / Alison Chapman
The comings and goings of High Victorian nonsense / Anna Barton
Transforming pages : illustration, materiality, and the child reader in the 1870s / Hannah Field
Literature, science, and the voice of the 1870s / Gregory Tate
A 'sweet especial rural scene'? : nature, culture, and agriculture in the 1870s / Philip Steer.