Late Victorian into modern /
This volume opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions of late Victorian and modern literature and culture. It examines shared developments, points out continuities rather than ruptures, and explores the understanding of this period as a moment in which new knowledges were forming w...
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Introduction /
Who Was the 'New Woman'? /
Utopian Thought and the Way to Live Now /
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism /
The Rise of Short Fiction /
Moon Voyaging, Selenography, and the Scientific Romance /
Super-Niches? Detection, Adventure, Exploration, and Spy Stories /
Scientific Formations and Transformations /
Spirit Worlds /
Cityscapes: Urban Hyperspaces and the Failure of Matter in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Metropolitan Fictions /
Regionalisms /
Medievalism and Modernity /
The View from Empire: The Turn-of-the-Century Globalizing World /
Race and Biology /
The Will to Forget: Amnesia, the Nation, and Ulysses /
The Post-Human Spirit of the Neopagan Movement /
Theatre and the Sciences of Mind /
The Theatre of Hands: Writing the First World War /
The Cult of the Child Revisited: Making Fun of Fauntleroy /
Intersexions: Dandyism, Cross-Dressing, Transgender /
Political Formations: Socialism, Feminism, Anarchism /
'The End of Laissez-Faire': Literature, Economics, and the Idea of the Welfare State /
Mythology, Empire, and Narrative /
Representing Work /
Reading Aestheticism, Decadence, and Cosmopolitanism /
Parodies, Spoofs, and Satires /
Life Writing: Biography, Portraits and Self-Portraits, Masked Authorship, and Autobiografictions /
Journalism and Periodical Culture /
The Illustrated Book /
The Coming of Cinema /
Literature and Photography /
Electricity, Telephony, and Communications /
The Residue of Modernity: Technology, Anachronism, and Bric-à-Brac in India /
Death Drives: Biology, Decadence, and Psychoanalysis /
Actors and Puppets: From Henry Irving's Lyceum to Edward Gordon Craig's Arena Goldoni /
Celticism /
Cultures of the Avant-Garde /
Emerging Poetic Forms /
When Was Modernism? /
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This volume opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions of late Victorian and modern literature and culture. It examines shared developments, points out continuities rather than ruptures, and explores the understanding of this period as a moment in which new knowledges were forming with particular speed and intensity.
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 656 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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