The Routledge companion to Victorian literature / / edited by Dennis Denisoff and Talia Schaffer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910953962503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2020
• ISBN: 9780429018176; 0429018177; 9780429018183; 0429018185; 9780429507724; 0429507720
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (553 pages)
• Collana: Routledge companions to literature series
• Disciplina: 820.9008
• Soggetti: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Literatura anglesa; Història de la literatura; Llibres electrònics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Our Victorian Companions -- PART I Genres and Movements -- 1 Poetry -- 2 The Novel -- 3 Short Forms: Serialization and Short Fiction -- 4 Drama and Performance -- 5 Children's Literature -- 6 Life-Writing -- 7 Gothic, Horror, and the Weird: Shifting Paradigms -- 8 Sensation Scholarship -- 9 Decadence and Aestheticism -- PART II Media Histories -- 10 Book History -- 11 Victorian Digital Humanities -- 12 Periodical Studies -- 13 Material Culture -- 14 Popular Fiction and Culture -- 15 Radical Print Culture: From Chartism to Socialism -- 16 Visual Culture -- PART III Victorian Discourses -- 17 Victorianists and Their Reading -- 18 Aesthetic Formalism -- 19 Narrative Theory -- 20 The Ethical Turn -- 21 The Future of Economic Criticisms Past -- 22 History/Historicism -- 23 Liberalism and Citizenship -- PART IV Formulations of Identity -- 24 Feminism and the Canon -- 25 Gender ; and Sexuality -- 26 New Woman Writing -- 27 Disability Studies -- 28 The Concept of Class in Victorian Studies -- 29 Race: Tracing the Contours of a Long Nineteenth Century -- 30 The Emergence of Animal Studies -- PART V Science and Spirit -- 31 Technology and Literature -- 32 Brain Science -- 33 British Psychology in the Nineteenth Century -- 34 Anthropology and Classical Evolutionism -- 35 Geology and Paleontology -- 36 New Religions and Esotericism -- 37 Studies of Christianity and Judaism -- PART VI Spatiality and Environment -- 38 Domesticity -- 39 Regionalism and Provincialism: Where Is the Local? -- 40 Postcolonial -- 41 Travel Writing -- 42 Settler Colonialism -- 43 Victorians in the Anthropocene -- 44 Why Victorian Ecocriticism Matters -- 45 Industry -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and influential political, cultural, and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today. Scholars and students will find this collection both useful and inspiring. Rigorously engaged with current scholarship that is both historically sensitive and theoretically informed, the Routledge Companion places the genres of the novel, poetry, and drama and issues of gender, social class, and race in conversation with subjects like ecology, colonialism, the Gothic, digital humanities, sexualities, disability, material culture, and animal studies. This guide is aimed at scholars who want to know the most significant critical approaches in Victorian studies, often written by the very scholars who helped found those fields. It addresses major theoretical movements such as narrative theory, formalism, historicism, and economic theory, as well as Victorian models of subjects such as anthropology, cognitive science, and religion. With its lists of key works, rich cross-referencing, extensive bibliographies, and explications of scholarly trajectories, the book is a crucial resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, while offering invaluable support to more seasoned scholars.