Re-Reading the Age of Innovation

Victorians, Moderns, and Literary Newness, 1830-1950
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-04362-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 379 g

Reihe: Among the Victorians and Modernists

The period of 1830–1950 was an age of unprecedented innovation. From new inventions and scientific discoveries to reconsiderations of religion, gender, and the human mind, the innovations of this era are recorded in a wide range of literary texts. Rather than separating these texts into Victorian or modernist camps, this collection argues for a new framework that reveals how the concept of innovation generated forms of literary newness that drew novelists, poets, and other creative figures working across this period into dialogic networks of experiment. The 14 chapters in this volume explore how inventions like the rotary print press or hot air balloon and emergent debates about science, trade, and colonialism evolved new forms and genres. Through their examinations of a wide range of texts and writers—from well-known novelists like Conrad, Dickens, Hardy, and Woolf, to less canonical figures like Charlotte Mew, Elías Mar, and Walter Frances White—the chapters in this collection re-read these texts as part of an age of innovation characterized not by division and divide, but by collaboration and community.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kane, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Louise Kane

Part I: Inventing and Innovating: Science, Technology, Formal Experiment

Chapter 1
The Sky as Heterotopia in Dickens, Gissing, and Woolf

Claes E. Lindskog

Chapter 2
The Rise and Fall of the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1881–1930)

Jayme Yahr

Chapter 3
Balloonomania: Flying Machines, Periodicals, and the Trajectory of World Literature

Louise Kane

Chapter 4

A Metaphysical Theatre: Abstract Painting, Color Music, and Futurist Experiments in
Avant-Garde Film
Christopher Townsend

Part II: Changing Landscapes: Empire, Trade, Ecology

Chapter 5

Histories Yet to Come: Adventure Fiction and the Ideologies of Free Trade

Keith Clavin

Chapter 6

Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim and the Failure of Empire

Camelia Raghinaru

Chapter 7
Uncertainty, Doubt, and Belief in the Poetic Landscapes of T.S. Eliot and Thomas Hardy
Anna Bedsole

Part III: Navigating Feeling: the Self, Empathy, Human Character

Chapter 8

F. Mabel Robinson, Vernon Lee, and George Moore: the Aesthetics of Sympathy
and Texts of Transition

Kathryn Laing

Chapter 9

Racial Exposé and the Empathic Mind in Walter Francis White's The Fire in the Flint

Masami Sugimori

Chapter 10

A Writerly Communion: Browning, Balzac, and Catholicism in Edith Wharton’s
"The Duchess at Prayer"
Nancy Von Rosk

Part IV: Blurring Boundaries: Gender, Sexuality, Desire

Chapter 11
"Disposed to Daring Innovation": New Modernism, New Woman Fiction, and New Motherhood
Elizabeth Podnieks

Chapter 12

"Sometimes I Pose, but Sometimes I Pose as Posing": Stella Benson’s Early Fiction

Nicola Darwood

Chapter 13

Parsing Between-ness: Love, Looking Backward and Forward, in Charlotte Mew’s Short Fiction

Kristen Renzi

Chapter 14

The Spirit of Contemporary Life: Icelandic Queer Modernism

Ásta Kristín Benediktsdóttir

Afterword

Regenia Gagnier

Über Autor(innen)

Louise Kane is Assistant Professor of Global Modernisms at the University of Central Florida. She is a General Editor of the forthcoming Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Global Modernist Magazines series and Editor of the James Joyce Literary Supplement.