Awards

• Winner of Shortlisted for the 2017 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize.

Overview

The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate.This volume opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions, some familiar and some more obscure, of late Victorian and modern literature and culture, primarily in British contexts. Late Victorian into Modern emphasises the in-between: the gradual changeover from one period to the next. The volume examines shared developments, points out continuities rather than ruptures, and explores and exploits an understanding of the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries as a cultural moment in which new knowledges were forming with particular speed and intensity. The organising principle of this book is to retain a key focus on literary texts, broadly understood to include familiar categories of genre as well as extra-textual elements such as press and publishing history, performance events and visual culture, while remaining keenly attentive to the inter-relations between text and context in the period. Individual chapters explore such topics as Celticism, the New Woman, popular fictions, literatures of empire, aestheticism, periodical culture, political formations, avant-garde poetics, and theatricality.

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Author:   Laura Marcus (Goldsmiths' Professor of English, Goldsmiths' Professor of English, New College, Oxford) ,  Michèle Mendelssohn (Associate Professor of English and American Literature, Associate Professor of English and American Literature, Mansfield College, Oxford) ,  Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr (Professor of English and Theatre Studies, Professor of English and Theatre Studies, St. Catherine's College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.60cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   1.264kg
ISBN:  

9780198704393

ISBN 10:   0198704399
Pages:   674
Publication Date:   13 October 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Twilights 1: Marcus Waithe: Medievalism and Modernity 2: Jarad Zimbler: Mythology, Empire, and Narrative 3: Stefano Evangelista: Death Drives: Biology, Decadence, and Psychoanalysis 4: Daniel Williams: Celticism Making it New 5: Christos Hadjiyiannis: Cultures of the Avant-Garde 6: Hannah Sullivan: Hannah Sullivan 7: Michael H. Whitworth: When was Modernism? 8: Sos Eltis and Kirsten Shepherd-Barr: What was the 'New Drama'? 9: Angelique Richardson: Who was the New Woman? 10: Anne Fernihough: Utopian Thought and the Way to Live Now Modes and Genres 11: Adam Parkes: Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism 12: Adrian Hunter: Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism 13: Matthew Taunton: Moon Voyaging, Selenography and the Scientific Romance 14: David Glover: Super-niches?: Detection, Adventure, Exploration and Spy Stories Sites and Spaces of Knowledge 15: Rachel Crossland: Scientific Formations 16: Tatiana Kontou: Spirit Worlds 17: Laurence Scott: Cityscapes 18: Penny Fielding: Regionalisms 19: Elleke Boehmer: The View from Empire: the Turn-of-the-Century Globalizing World Minds and Bodies 20: William Greenslade: Race and Biology 21: Vincent J. Cheng: The Will to Forget: Amnesia, the Nation, and Ulysses 22: Dennis Denisoff: The Posthuman Spirit of the Neo-Pagan Movement 23: Tiffany Watt-Smith: Theatre and the Sciences of Mind 24: Santanu Das: The Theatre of Hands: Writing the First World War 25: Marah Gubar: Children's Literature and Literatures of Childhood 26: Jana Funke: Intersexions: Dandyism, Cross-Dressing, Transgender Political and Social Selves 27: Ruth Livesey: Political Formations: Anarchism, Feminism, Socialism 28: Benjamin Kohlmann: 'The End of Laissez-Faire': Literature, Economics, and the Idea of the Welfare State 29: Sos Eltis: Representing Work Authorship, Aesthetics, and Print Cultures 30: Michèle Mendelssohn: Reading Aestheticism, Decadence, and Cosmopolitanism 31: James Williams: Parodies, Spoofs, and Satires 32: Max Saunders: Life-Writing: Biography, Portraits and Self-portraits, Masked Authorship and Autobiografictions 33: Faith Binckes: Journalism and Periodical Culture 34: Kamilla Elliott: The Illustrated Book Technologies 35: Laura Marcus: The Coming of Cinema 36: Kate Flint: Literature and Photography 37: Sam Halliday: Electricity, Telephony, and Communications 38: Alexander Bubb: The Residue of Modernity: Technology, Anachronism, and Bric-à-Brac in India 39: Olga Taxidou: Stagecraft: Puppets, Masks, and Machines

Reviews

Late Victorian into Modern offers an extremely useful overview of the foundational work that fostered connections between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and points to ways forwardthe collection as a whole is remarkable in its clarity, coherence, and organization * Kristin Mahoney, Victorian Studies * This collection does excellent work in tracing thematic threads through texts beyond the centrally canonicalthorough and enterprising, the collection's essays commit to diving into the archive in search of gems that deserve revisiting * Irena Yamboliev, Journal of Victorian Culture *

Author Information

Laura Marcus is Goldsmiths' Professor of English at the University of Oxford, where she is a Professorial Fellow of New College. Her book publications include Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (1994), Virginia Woolf: Writers and their Work (1997/2004), The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007; awarded the 2008 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association), Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (2015), and, as co-editor, The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (2004). Her current research project includes a study of the concept of 'rhythm' in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in a range of disciplinary contexts. Michèle Mendelssohn is Associate Professor at University of Oxford and Deputy Director of the Rothermere American Institute. She is the author of Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Aesthetic Culture (2007) and co-editor of Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence (2016). Kirsten Shepherd-Barr is Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Catherine's College. Her books include Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen (2006), Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett (2015), and Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction (2016).

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