Title: Late Victorian into modern /
Authors: Marcus, Laura; Mendelssohn, Michèle,; Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten, 1966-
Year: 2016
Subjects: English literature History and criticism; English literature History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) Great Britain; Modernism (Aesthetics) Great Britain.; Great Britain Civilization; Great Britain Civilization
Abstract: This volume opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions of late Victorian and modern literature and culture. It examines shared developments, points out continuities rather than ruptures, and explores the understanding of this period as a moment in which new knowledges were forming with particular speed and intensity.
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 --^