Rethinking Victorian Culture

1999. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-333-71446-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

At the cusp of literary and cultural studies, this wide-ranging critical anthology re-evaluates Victorian culture in the light of the literature of the period and vice versa. As importantly, essays by eminent and emerging Victorianists offer a reassessment, explicit and implicit, of Victorian studies and its methodologies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

John, J.

Ruston, S.

Jenkins, Alice

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Foreword; J.Sutherland Introduction; J.John & A.Jenkins From 'Non-Fiction Prose' to 'Cultural Criticism': Genre and Disciplinarity in Victorian Studies; S.Collin Republican versus Victorian: Radical Writing in the Later Years of the Nineteenth Century; J.Lucas 'The Mote Within the Eye': Dust and Victorian Vision; K.Flint Purging Christianity of its Semitic Origins: Kingsley, Arnold and the Bible; S.Prickett Dickens and the Millennium; A.Sanders Re-Arranging the Year: The Almanac, The Day Book and The Year Book as Popular Literary Forms, 1789-1860; B.Maidment Tennyson and the Apostles; J.Coyle & R.Cronin Twisting the Newgate Tale: Dickens, Popular Culture and the Politics of Genre; J.John 'More Interesting Than All the Books, Save One': Charles Kingsley's Construction of Natural History; F.O'Gorman Writing the Self and Writing Science: Mary Somerville as Autobiographer; A.Jenkins A Taste For Change in Our Mutual Friend; Cultivation or Education?; P.Morris 'The Mother of our Mothers': Ghostly Strategies in Women's Writing; A.Trodd Actresses, Autobiography and the 1980s; G.Marshall Modernity and Progress in Economics and Aesthetics; R.Gagnier Index

Über Autor(innen)

JULIET JOHN is Lecturer in English at the University of Salford. She is the editor of Cult Criminals: The Newgate Novels and the co-editor (with Alice Jenkins) of Rereading Victorian Fiction (forthcoming). She has published articles mainly on Dickens and is currently completing a book on Dickens' villains and popular melodrama.ALICE JENKINS is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. She held the William Noble Research Fellowship at the University of Liverpool from 1994-96. She is the co-editor (with Juliet John) of Rereading Victorian Fiction (forthcoming). She has published articles on literature and the history of science and is completing a study of spatial discourse in early nineteenth-century literary and scientific writing.