Cambridge History of Victorian Literature

Name: Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
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ISBN: 9780521846257

ISBN-10: 0521846250

ISBN-13: 9780521846257

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kate Flint

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"This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1901, are followed by essays on topics including sexuality, sensation, cityscapes, melodrama, epic and economics. Victorian writing is placed in its complex relation to the Empire, Europe and America, as well as to Britain's component nations. The…

Book details

List price: $275.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 787
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 3.014
Language: English



Notes on contributors


Introduction




Authors, Readers, and Publishers



Publishing and the materiality of the book




Victorian reading




Periodicals and reviewing




Writing Victoria's England



The expansion of Britain




High Victorianism




The fin de siï¿½cle




Modes of Writing



Lyric and the lyrical




Epic




Melodrama




Sensation




Autobiography




Comic and satirical




Innovation and experiment




Writing for children




Matters of Debate



Education




Spirituality




Material




Economics and finance




History




Sexuality




Aesthetics




Science and literature




Subjectivity, psychology, and the imagination




Cityscapes




The rural scene: Victorian literature and the natural world




'The annihilation of space and time': literature and technology




Spaces of Writing



Spaces of the nineteenth-century novel




National and regional literatures




Britain and Europe




Victorian empire




Writing about America




Victorian Afterlives



1900 and the dï¿½but de siï¿½cle: poetry, drama, fiction




The future of Victorian literature



Select bibliography


Index