Interventions

Andrew Smith is Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of SheffieldAnna Barton is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield

‘The chapters in this collection demonstrate that the popular is definitely worth further critical scrutiny, with a careful eye on what might be added to the map, what might be deliberately or inadvertently left out, and to what purposes. Although neo-Victorian criticism never quite makes it out of its separate territory in Interventions, the book offers further evidence that Victorianists and neo-Victorianists pursue shared routes of critical investigation.’Helen Davies, Newman University, Neo-Victorian Studies 10:2 (2018)

• Introduction – Andrew Smith and Anna BartonPart I: Critical reflections1 On measuring the nineteenth century – John Schad2 Literature and science – David Amigoni3 Locke in pentameters: Victorian poetry after (or before) posthumousness – Anna Barton4 Reading the Gothic and Gothic readers – Andrew SmithPart II: Rethinking national contexts and exchanges5 The global circulation of Victorian actants and ideas: liberalism and liberalisation in the niche of nature, culture, and technology – Regenia Gagnier6 Literary folk: writing popular culture in colonial Punjab, 1885-1905 – Churnjeet Mahn7 ‘Across the waters of this disputed ocean’: the material production of American literature in nineteenth-century Britain – Katie McGettigan8 Gruesome models: European displays of natural history and anatomy and nineteenth-century literature – Laurence Talairach-VielmasPart III: Afterlives9 Adaptive/appropriate reuse in neo-Victorian fiction: having one’s cake and eating it too – Marie-Luise Kohlke10 Populism and ideology: nineteenth-century fiction and the cinema – Richard J. Hand11 True histories of the Elephant Man: storytelling and theatricality in adaptations of the life of Joseph Merrick – Benjamin PooreIndex