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v. t. e. Literature of the 19th century refers to world literature produced during the 19th century. The range of years is, for the purpose of this article, literature written from (roughly) 1799 to 1900. Many of the developments in literature in this period parallel changes in the visual arts and other aspects of 19th-century culture.
In the 19th century, historians believed that the evolution of the culture of a society could be traced through its literature. ‘Periods and movements’ looks at the ebbs and flows of the development of English literature. The English have traditionally been regarded as having far greater distinction in literature and theatre than in art and ...
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÷÷ÿø÷÷ ÷ÿ DUSTIN FRIEDMAN American University KRISTIN MAHONEY Michigan State University Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge ÷÷÷ ÿ÷÷, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, ÷÷th Floor, New York, ÿÿ ö÷÷÷ÿ, USA ÷þþ Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, ÷ÿ÷ ö÷÷þ, Australia öö÷–ö÷ö, örd Floor, Plot ö, Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi – öö÷÷÷þ, India ö÷...
ix xiii Introduction. The öÿ ÷s: Decade of a Thousand Movements Dustin Friedman and Kristin Mahoney ö Race and Empire in the öÿ ÷s Zarena Aslami ÷ Island Dandies, Transpaciûc Decadence, and the Politics of Style Lindsay Wilhelm ö The öÿ ÷s and East Asia: Toward a Critical Cosmopolitanism Stefano Evangelista ÷ Indulekha, or The Many Lives of Realism...
Queer Theories of the öÿ ÷s Simon Joyce Eugenics and Degeneration in Socialist-Feminist Novels of the Mid-öÿ ÷s Diana Maltz The Conservative and Patriotic öÿ ÷s Alex Murray Decadence and the Antitheatrical Prejudice Adam Alston Religion and Science in the öÿ ÷s Anne Stiles Little Magazines and/in Media History Lorraine Janzen Kooistra Fin-de-Siècle...
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÷÷÷ÿ ÷ÿ÷øÿÿ is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Beyond Immersive Theatre: Aesthetics, Politics and Productive Participation (Palgrave Macmillan, ÷÷öÿ), coeditor of Theatre in the Dark: Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre (Bloomsbury, ÷÷öþ), and coeditor of a s...
÷÷ÿÿÿ÷ ÷÷ÿÿ÷ÿ÷÷ is the McFarlin Chair of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Tulsa. In ÷÷÷÷, he was a Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at Queen Mary – University of London. Recent publications include Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, öÿÿ÷–öþö÷: Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival (Cambridge University Press, ...
÷÷÷÷÷øÿ÷ÿ ÿ÷÷ÿ÷÷ø is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston. His research focuses on Victorian literature and questions of secularization, colonialism, and comparativism. He is the author of Cultivating Belief: Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, and the Secular Imagination (Oxford University Press,...
÷ÿ÷ÿ ÿ÷÷÷÷ÿ is Reader in Modern Literature at Queen’s University Belfast. His fourth monograph, Decadent Conservatism: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Past, will be published by Oxford University Press in ÷÷÷ö. He is currently coediting The Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde and is a founding editor of the journal Cusp: Late öþth-/Early ÷÷th-Century Cult...
The editors would like to thank all the contributors for their thoughtful and innovative work. Thank you to Marion Thain and Diana Maltz for their suggestions regarding our introduction. Marion Thain, Gail Marshall, and Andrew Stauûer have been wonderful to work with as series editors, providing helpful guidance concerning the vision for the series...
English literature - Victorian, Poetry, Novels: “The modern spirit,” Matthew Arnold observed in 1865, “is now awake.” In 1859 Charles Darwin had published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Historians, philosophers, and scientists were all beginning to apply the idea of evolution to new areas of study of the human experience. Traditional conceptions of man’s ...
nineteenth-century literature in transition. l Marshall, Andrew Stauffer, Marion Thain, ’This series aims to move beyond existing preconceptions of the British literature of each decade of the nineteenth century (‘the reforming thirties’, the ‘hungry forties’, and the ‘naughty nineties’) in favour of a mode of characterization ...
John Tyndall, 1874 Although we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate disciplines, in the nineteenth century that division was not recognized. As the scientist John Tyndall pointed out, not only were science and literature both striving to better 'man's estate', they shared a common language and cultural heritage. The ...
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The Victorian Era. An introduction to a period of seismic social change and poetic expansion. “The sea is calm tonight,” observes the somber speaker of Matthew Arnold’s “ Dover Beach ” (1867), listening to “the grating roar / Of pebbles” at the shore, “The eternal note of sadness” over the waters. In Arnold’s mid-19th ...
