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  • Re-Reading the Age of Innovation: Victorians, Moderns, and Literary Newness, 1830-1950

    Re-Reading the Age of Innovation by Kane, Louise;

    Victorians, Moderns, and Literary Newness, 1830-1950

    Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 29 January 2024

    • ISBN 9781032043623
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages256 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 453 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black & white; 1 Line drawings, black & white
    • 533

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    Through its examinations of a wide range of texts and writers, Re-reading the Age of Innovation re-reads these texts as part of an age of innovation characterized not by division and divide, but by collaboration and community.

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    The period of 1830–1950 was an age of unprecedented innovation. From new inventions and scientific discoveries to reconsiderations of religion, gender, and the human mind, the innovations of this era are recorded in a wide range of literary texts. Rather than separating these texts into Victorian or modernist camps, this collection argues for a new framework that reveals how the concept of innovation generated forms of literary newness that drew novelists, poets, and other creative figures working across this period into dialogic networks of experiment. The 14 chapters in this volume explore how inventions like the rotary print press or hot air balloon and emergent debates about science, trade, and colonialism evolved new forms and genres. Through their examinations of a wide range of texts and writers—from well-known novelists like Conrad, Dickens, Hardy, and Woolf, to less canonical figures like Charlotte Mew, Elías Mar, and Walter Frances White—the chapters in this collection re-read these texts as part of an age of innovation characterized not by division and divide, but by collaboration and community.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Louise Kane


    Part I: Inventing and Innovating: Science, Technology, Formal Experiment



    Chapter 1
    The Sky as Heterotopia in Dickens, Gissing, and Woolf


    Claes E. Lindskog



    Chapter 2
    The Rise and Fall of the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1881–1930)


    Jayme Yahr



    Chapter 3
    Balloonomania: Flying Machines, Periodicals, and the Trajectory of World Literature


    Louise Kane



    Chapter 4


    A Metaphysical Theatre: Abstract Painting, Color Music, and Futurist Experiments in
    Avant-Garde Film
    Christopher Townsend



    Part II: Changing Landscapes: Empire, Trade, Ecology


    Chapter 5


    Histories Yet to Come: Adventure Fiction and the Ideologies of Free Trade


    Keith Clavin



    Chapter 6


    Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim and the Failure of Empire


    Camelia Raghinaru



    Chapter 7
    Uncertainty, Doubt, and Belief in the Poetic Landscapes of T.S. Eliot and Thomas Hardy
    Anna Bedsole


    Part III: Navigating Feeling: the Self, Empathy, Human Character


    Chapter 8


    F. Mabel Robinson, Vernon Lee, and George Moore: the Aesthetics of Sympathy
    and Texts of Transition


    Kathryn Laing



    Chapter 9


    Racial Exposé and the Empathic Mind in Walter Francis White's The Fire in the Flint


    Masami Sugimori



    Chapter 10


    A Writerly Communion: Browning, Balzac, and Catholicism in Edith Wharton’s
    "The Duchess at Prayer"
    Nancy Von Rosk



    Part IV: Blurring Boundaries: Gender, Sexuality, Desire


    Chapter 11
    "Disposed to Daring Innovation": New Modernism, New Woman Fiction, and New Motherhood
    Elizabeth Podnieks


    Chapter 12


    "Sometimes I Pose, but Sometimes I Pose as Posing": Stella Benson’s Early Fiction


    Nicola Darwood

    Chapter 13


    Parsing Between-ness: Love, Looking Backward and Forward, in Charlotte Mew’s Short Fiction


    Kristen Renzi



    Chapter 14


    The Spirit of Contemporary Life: Icelandic Queer Modernism


    Ásta Kristín Benediktsdóttir



    Afterword


    Regenia Gagnier


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