Victorian hybridities
Subtitle: cultural anxiety and formal innovation
By: edited by U.C. Knoepflmacher and Logan D. Browning
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780801897863
Subjects: Cultural fusion in literature; English prose literature
Notes: "The articles in this book originally appeared in SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (Volume 48.4, Autumn 2001)."--T.p. verso.

"This first volume reproduces the essays and introduction of a recent special issue of SEL collected around the theme of Victorian Hybridities."--P. vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Formal hybrids. Arnold's arrhythmia / C. D. Blanton; title: Browning's grafts / Linda M. Shires; title: Elizabeth Barrett's and Alfred Tennyson's authorial and formal links / Amy Billone; title: The "prophet-poet's book" / Christine Chaney; title: Sketches by Boz, "So frail a machine" / Danielle Coriale; title: II. Discursive hybrids. Grafting a Christmas Carol / Michael Hancher; title: Dialectics of social class in the Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration / Alan Fischler; title: Anonyma's authors / Rachel Sagner Buurma; title: The "spasmodic" hoaxes of W. E. Aytoun and A. C. Swinburne / Heather Morton; title: Domestic hybrids: Ruskin, Victorian fiction, and Darwin's botany / Jonathan Smith; title: III. Cultural hybrids. Robert Louis Stevenson's South Seas Crossings / Ann C. Colley; title: Florence Marryat's female vampire and the scientizing of hybridity / Brenda Mann Hammack; title: Assyrian monsters and domestic chimeras / Deborah A. Thomas; title: A South Kensington Gateway from Gwalior to nowhere / Jeffrey L. Spear; title: Kipling's "mixy" creatures / U. C. Knoepflmacher.