New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture

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A NEW COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE The Victorian period was a time of rapid cultural change, which resulted in a huge and varied literary output. A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture offers experienced guidance to the literature of nineteenth-century Britain and its social and historical context. This revised and expanded edition comprises contributions from over 30 leading scholars who, approaching the Victorian epoch from different positions and traditions, delve into the unruly complexities of the Victorian imagination. Divided into five parts, this new Companion surveys seven decades of history before examining the key phases in a Victorian life, the leading professions and walks of life, the major literary genres, the way Victorians defined their persons, homes, and national identity, and how recent “neo-Victorian” developments in contemporary culture reconfigure the sense we make of the past today. Important topics such as sexuality, denominational faith, social class, and global empire inform each chapter’s approach. Each chapter provides a comprehensive bibliography of established and emerging scholarship.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-04-11
Mått:178 x 252 x 33 mm
Vikt:1 052 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:584
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781118624494

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Herbert F. Tucker is John C. Coleman Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Virginia, USA. His books include Epic: Britain’s Heroic Muse 1790–1910 (2008, 2012) and Victorian Literature 1830–1900 (edited with Dorothy Mermin, 2001). A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is Associate Editor for New Literary History, and editor for the Victorian Literature and Culture series of the University of Virginia Press.

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Review copy sent on 02.09.14 to Nineteenth-Century Prose Ebook copy sent on 16.05.14 to Reference Reviews US & Canada processed02.12.14 requested by the editor Victorian Studies (Indiana) Victorian Poetry (West Virginia) Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (Eleanor Courtemanche University of Illinois) Review 19 (Dartmouth) Victorian Literature and Culture (Anne Humpherys TheGraduate Center, CUNY) Nineteenth-Century Literature (California) Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (Rice University,Texas) Victorians Institute Journal (Kentucky) Nineteenth-Century Contexts (Barbara Black SkidmoreCollege) UK & ROW processed02.12.14 requested by the editor Journal of Victorian Culture (Rohan McWilliam Anglia RuskinUniversity) BAVS Newsletter (Dr Alexandra Lewis University ofAberdeen) Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies (Kirby-Jane Hallum University of Otago)Essays in Criticism TLS THE Dr Kirstie Blair, 18th and 19th Centuries Literature Editor, TheYear s Work in English Studies English Studies

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Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction xviPart One History in Focus 11 1832 3Lawrence Poston2 1851 19Antony H. Harrison3 1870 35Linda K. Hughes4 1897 52Stephen ArataPart Two Passages of Life 675 Growing Up: Childhood 69Claudia Nelson6 Moving Out: Adolescence 82Chris R. Vanden Bossche7 Growing Old: Age 97Teresa Mangum8 Passing On: Death 110Gerhard Joseph and Herbert F. Tucker9 Victorian Sexualities 124James Eli AdamsPart Three Walks of Life 13910 Clerical 141Christine L. Krueger11 Legal 156Simon Petch and Jan-Melissa Schramm12 Medical 172Lawrence Rothfi eld13 Military 186John R. Reed14 Educational 197Thomas William Heyck15 Administrative 216Michael Hunt16 Financial 230Christina Crosby17 Industrial 249Herbert Sussman18 Commercial 264Jennifer Wicke19 Artistic 284Julie Codell20 Spectacle 299Joss Marsh21 Publishing 312Richard D. Altick and James MussellPart Four Kinds of Writing 33122 Poetry 333E. Warwick Slinn23 Fiction 349Hilary M. Schor24 Drama 364Alan Fischler25 Life Writing 381Timothy Peltason26 Sage Writing 399Linda H. Peterson27 Historiography 414Edward Adams28 Literary Criticism 430David E. Latané, JrPart Five Borders 44729 Permeable Protections: The Working Life of Victorian Skin 449Helena Michie30 On the Parapets of Privacy 462Karen Chase and Michael Levenson31 “Then on the Shore of this Wide World”: The Victorian Nation and its Others 475James Buzard32 On the Neo-Victorian, Now and Then 493Ann Heilmann and Mark LlewellynIndex of Works Cited 507General Subject Index 519