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OverviewThis book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and philosophy, the Gothic, anatomical exhibitions, the global spread of liberalism, Anglo-American publishing, Punjabi popular culture and the neo-Victorian in literature, film and performance. By bringing together a broad range of intellectually challenging perspectives, the book offers an engaging critical overview of the field of nineteenth-century literary studies that will appeal both to scholars working within the field and students and teachers encountering this fascinating area of study for the first time. -- . Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew Smith , Anna BartonPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.295kg ISBN: 9781526108708ISBN 10: 1526108704 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 07 May 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction – Andrew Smith and Anna Barton Part I: Critical reflections 1 On measuring the nineteenth century – John Schad 2 Literature and science – David Amigoni 3 Locke in pentameters: Victorian poetry after (or before) posthumousness – Anna Barton 4 Reading the Gothic and Gothic readers – Andrew Smith Part II: Rethinking national contexts and exchanges 5 The global circulation of Victorian actants and ideas: liberalism and liberalisation in the niche of nature, culture, and technology – Regenia Gagnier 6 Literary folk: writing popular culture in colonial Punjab, 1885-1905 – Churnjeet Mahn 7 ‘Across the waters of this disputed ocean’: the material production of American literature in nineteenth-century Britain – Katie McGettigan 8 Gruesome models: European displays of natural history and anatomy and nineteenth-century literature – Laurence Talairach-Vielmas Part III: Afterlives 9 Adaptive/appropriate reuse in neo-Victorian fiction: having one’s cake and eating it too – Marie-Luise Kohlke 10 Populism and ideology: nineteenth-century fiction and the cinema – Richard J. Hand 11 True histories of the Elephant Man: storytelling and theatricality in adaptations of the life of Joseph Merrick – Benjamin Poore Index -- .Reviews'The chapters in this collection demonstrate that the popular is definitely worth further critical scrutiny, with a careful eye on what might be added to the map, what might be deliberately or inadvertently left out, and to what purposes. Although neo-Victorian criticism never quite makes it out of its separate territory in Interventions, the book offers further evidence that Victorianists and neo-Victorianists pursue shared routes of critical investigation.' Helen Davies, Newman University, Neo-Victorian Studies 10:2 (2018) -- . Author InformationAndrew Smith is Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield Anna Barton is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield -- . Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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