The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture
 
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ISBN13:9780198848776
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No. of pages:768 pages
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Language:English
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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture

 
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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture brings together a team of international scholars to offer the most comprehensive interdisciplinary guide to Victorian studies available in print.

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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 (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 nine 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.

Review from previous edition For the excellence of its essays and the timeliness of its topics, this is an exceptionally strong collection.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Literary Culture and the Victorians
Part I - Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology
The Victorian Subject: Thackeray's Wartime Subjects
Life Writing and the Victorians
Politics and the Literary
The Literature of Chartism
Liberalism and Literature
Globalization and Economics
Political Economy
The Victorians, Sex, and Gender
The New Woman and Her Ageing Other
Unspeakable Desires: We Other Victorians
Victorian Masculinities, or Military Men of Feeling: Domesticity, Militarism, and Manly Sensibility
Empire, Place, and the Victorians
Organic Imperialism: Fictions of Progressive Social Order at the Colonial Periphery
The Strange Career of Fair Play, or, Warfare and Gamesmanship in the Time of Victoria
British Women Wanted: Gender, Genre, and South African Settlement
'The London Sunday Faded Slow': Time to Spend in the Victorian City
Part II - Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief
Religion, The Bible, and Literature in the Victorian Age
Religion and Sexuality
Religion and the Canon
Religion and Education
Beyond Two Cultures: Science, Literature, and Disciplinary Boundaries
Science and Periodicals: Animal Instinct and Whispering Machines
Victorian Natural Science and the Seashore
'You've Got Mail': Technologies of Communication in Victorian Literature
Part III - Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures
The New Cultural Marketplace: Victorian Publishing and Reading Practices
Literature and the Expansion of the Press
Materiality in Theory: What to Make of Victorian Things
Celebrity Culture
Victorian Aesthetics
Emotions
Aestheticism and the Politics of Pleasure
Illustrations and the Victorian Novel
Art and the Literary
Victorian Theatre: Research Problems and Progress
Victorian Theatre: Power and the Politics of Gender
Melodrama On and Off the Stage
Henry James's Houses: Domesticity and Performativity