Interventions : rethinking the nineteenth century /

Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century" aims to intervene into some of the current critical contexts that inform and are informed by the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and philosophy, the Go...

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Other Authors: Smith, Andrew, 1964- (Editor), Barton, Anna, 1979- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Series:Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series)
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Table of Contents:
  • On measuring the nineteenth century / John Schad
  • Literature and science / David Amigoni
  • Locke in pentameters : Victorian poetry after (or before) posthumousness / Anna Barton
  • Reading the Gothic and Gothic readers / Andrew Smith
  • The global circulation of Victorian actants and ideas : liberalism and liberalisation in the niche of nature, culture, and technology / Regenia Gagnier
  • Literary folk : writing popular culture in colonial Punjab, 1885-1905 / Churnjeet Mahn
  • "Across the waters of this disputed ocean" : the material productionof American literature in nineteenth-century Britain / Katie McGettigan
  • Gruesome models : European displays of natural history and anatomy and nineteenth-century literature / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
  • Adaptive/appropriative reuse in neo-Victorian fiction : having one's cake and eating it too / Marie-Luise Kohlke
  • Populism and ideology : nineteenth-century fiction and the cinema / Richard J. Hand
  • True histories of the Elephant Man : storytelling and theatricality in adaptations of the life of Joseph Merrick / Benjamin Poore.