Smith / Barton Interventions

Rethinking the nineteenth century
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0759-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century

This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and philosophy, the Gothic, anatomical exhibitions, Punjabi popular culture and the neo-Victorian in literature, film and performance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Andrew

Barton, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Andrew Smith and Anna Barton
Part I: Critical reflections
1 On measuring the nineteenth century – John Schad
2 Literature and science – David Amigoni
3 Locke in pentameters: Victorian poetry after (or before) posthumousness – Anna Barton
4 Reading the Gothic and Gothic readers – Andrew Smith
Part II: Rethinking national contexts and exchanges
5 The global circulation of Victorian actants and ideas: liberalism and liberalisation in the niche of nature, culture, and technology – Regenia Gagnier
6 Literary folk: writing popular culture in colonial Punjab, 1885-1905 – Churnjeet Mahn
7 ‘Across the waters of this disputed ocean’: the material production of American literature in nineteenth-century Britain – Katie McGettigan
8 Gruesome models: European displays of natural history and anatomy and nineteenth-century literature – Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Part III: Afterlives
9 Adaptive/appropriate reuse in neo-Victorian fiction: having one’s cake and eating it too – Marie-Luise Kohlke
10 Populism and ideology: nineteenth-century fiction and the cinema – Richard J. Hand
11 True histories of the Elephant Man: storytelling and theatricality in adaptations of the life of Joseph Merrick – Benjamin Poore
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Smith Andrew:
Andrew Smith is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan where he is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS)Andrew Smith is Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield

Anna Barton is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield