Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s
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USDWhat does it mean to focus on the decade as a unit of literary history? Emerging from the shadows of iconic Victorian authors such as Eliot and Tennyson, the 1880s is a decade that has been too readily overlooked in the rush to embrace end-of-century decadence and aestheticism. The 1880s witnessed new developments in transatlantic networks, experiments in lyric poetry, the decline of the three-volume novel, and the revaluation of authors, journalists and the reading public. The contributors to this collection explore the case for the 1880s as both a discrete point of literary production, with its own pressures and provocations, and as part of literature's sense of its expanded temporal and geographical reach. The essays address a wide variety of authors, topics and genres, offering incisive readings of the diverse forces at work in the shaping of the literary 1880s.
- Provides the first publication in a new series from Cambridge that will focus on the literary developments of particular decades in the nineteenth century
- Explores the diverse forces that shaped the literature of 1880s
- Leading scholars address a variety of authors, topics and genres in their investigations into the cultural and literary developments of the 1880s
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‘… a very welcome addition to the scholarly work on the 1880s. Ambitious in scope, it also manages to cover a satisfyingly broad range of issues related to literature and culture within its 249 pages. Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s is organized elegantly along thematic lines so that each essay leads naturally into its successor, which picks up threads introduced in the previous discussion and develops them in new directions.’ Linda Dryden, Victorian Studies
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January 2020Hardback
9781107181908
260 pages
235 × 158 × 17 mm
0.57kg
4 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction. 'Knowledge made for cutting' Penny Fielding and Andrew Taylor
- 1. Mermaids amongst the cables: the abstracted body and the telegraphic touch in the nineteenth century Clare Pettitt
- 2. Enclosing forms, opening spaces: the 1880s fixed-verse revival Linda K. Hughes
- 3. 'The Newest Culte': Victorian poetry and the literary societies of the 1880s Angela Dunstan
- 4. The time of W. E. Henley: 'minor poetry' and the 1880s Penny Fielding
- 5. The evolution of point of view Cannon Schmitt
- 6. Network, history, method: Andrew Lang in and after the 1880s Nathan K. Hensley
- 7. Animated conversations: form, transformation, and the category of the novel in the 1880s Barbara Leckie
- 8. Henry James, vulgarity, and the contexts of transatlantic moderation Andrew Taylor
- 9. He and She: the 1880s, camp aesthetics and the literary magazine Sara Lodge
- 10. Men, women and horses: public spectacle in 1887 John Stokes
- 11. The secular turn in British literature of the 1880s William Greenslade
- Index.
