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Author:   Terence Rodgers ,  William Greenslade
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138378216

ISBN 10:   1138378216
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   23 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Resituating Grant Allen: writing, radicalism and modernity, William Greenslade and Terence Rodgers; Grant Allen: a biographical essay, Peter Morton; Grant Allen: 'writing to the moment', John Lucas; Grant Allen, Spencer and Darwin, Heather Atchison; 'The romance of race': Grant Allen's science as cultural capital, Lyssa Randolph; The Woman Who Did and 'The girl who didn't': the romance of sexual selection in Grant Allen and Ménie Muriel Dowie, Sabine Ernst; Grant Allen and the new politics, Chris Nottingham; 'Intentional rudeness'?: The British Barbarians and the cultural politics of 1895, Nick Freeman; Grant Allen's impersonal secretaries: rereading The Type-Writer Girl, Leah Price; The detective's Doppelgänger: conflicting states of female consciousness in Grant Allen's detective fiction, Chris Willis; Grant Allen and the business of travel, Jill Steward; The old man and his ghost: Grant Allen, H.G. Wells, and popular anthropology, Patrick Parrinder; Grant Allen's publications: a checklist, Peter Morton; Bibliography; Index.

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'Collectively, the essays provide a good intellectual portrait of Allen... a fine job opening up Allen's work for critical discussion.' Victorian Studies

’Collectively, the essays provide a good intellectual portrait of Allen... a fine job opening up Allen's work for critical discussion.’ Victorian Studies

Author Information

William Greenslade is the Principal Lecturer in English at the University of the West of England, UK. Terence Rodgers is the Head of the Department of Media Communications and Cultural Studies at Bath Spa University College, UK.

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