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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (on 'Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology', 'Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief', and 'Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures', the volume is sub-divided into 9 sub-sections each with its own 'lead' essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today's Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume's essays: that is, the nature and status of 'literary' culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students and established scholars.
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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (on 'Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology', 'Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief', and 'Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures', the volume is sub-divided into 9 sub-sections each with its own 'lead' essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today's Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume's essays: that is, the nature and status of 'literary' culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students and established scholars.
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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (on 'Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology', 'Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief', and 'Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures', the volume is sub-divided into 9 sub-sections each with its own 'lead' essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today's Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume's essays: that is, the nature and status of 'literary' culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students and established scholars.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780191082108
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 07/14/2016
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 600
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Juliet John is Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely on Victorian literature and culture. Her books include Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture (Oxford University Press, 2001; paperback 2003), Dickens and Mass Culture (Oxford University Press, 2010; paperback 2013) and most recently, Reading and the Victorians (Ashgate, 2015), which she co-edited with Matthew Bradley. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Victorian Literature.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Juliet John
Part I: Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology
1. The Victorian Subject: Thackeray s Wartime Subjects, Rae Greiner
2. Life-Writing and the Victorians, Trev Broughton
3. Politics and the Literary, Josephine Guy
4. The Literature of Chartism, Ian Haywood
5. Liberalism and Literature, Lauren Goodlad
6. Globalization and Economics, Ayse Celikkol
7. Political Economy, Kathleen Blake
8. The Victorians, Sex and Gender, Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn
9. The New Woman and Her Ageing Other, Teresa Mangum
10. Unspeakable Desires: We Other Victorians, Kate Flint
11. Victorian Masculinities, or Military Men of Feeling: Domesticity, Militarism, and Manly Sensibility, Holly Furneaux
12. Empire, Place and the Victorians, Patrick Brantlinger
13. Organic Imperialism: Fictions of Progressive Social Order at the Colonial Periphery, John Kucich
14. The Strange Career of Fair Play, or, Warfare and Gamesmanship in the Time of Victoria, Lara Kriegel
15. British Women Wanted: Gender, Genre, and South African Settlement, Melissa Free
16. The London Sunday Faded Slow : Time to Spend in the Victorian City, Alex Murray
Part II - Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief
17. Religion, The Bible and Literature in the Victorian Age, Emma Mason
18. Religion and Sexuality, James Eli Adams
19.Religion and the Canon, Matthew Bradley
20. Religion and Education, Mark Knight
21. Beyond Two Cultures: Science, Literature and Disciplinary Boundaries, Alice Jenkins
22. Science and Periodicals, Sally Shuttleworth
23. Victorian Natural Science and the Seashore, Amy King
24. You ve Got Mail : Technologies of Communication in Victorian Literature, Elizabeth Meadows and Jay Clayton
Part III Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures
25. The New Cultural Marketplace: Victorian Publishing and Reading Practices, Robert L. Patten
26. Literature and the Expansion of the Press, Joanne Shattock
27. Materiality in Theory: What to Make of Victorian Things, John Plotz
28. Celebrity Culture, John Plunkett
29. Victorian Aesthetics, Jonah Siegel
30. Emotions, Carolyn Burdett
31. Aestheticism and the Politics of Pleasure, Ruth Livesey
32. Illustrations and the Victorian Novel, Julia Thomas
33. Art and the Literary, Hilary Fraser
34. Victorian Theatre: Research Problems and Progress, Kate Newey
35. Victorian Theatre: Power and the Politics of Gender, Kerry Powell
36. Melodrama on and Off the Stage, Jim Davis
37. Henry James s Houses: Domesticity and Performativity, Gail Marshall

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