Writing and Victorianism asks the fundamental question 'what is Victorianism?' and offers a number of answers taken from methods and approaches which have been developed over the last ten years. This collection of essays, written by both new and...
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Writing and Victorianism asks the fundamental question 'what is Victorianism?' and offers a number of answers taken from methods and approaches which have been developed over the last ten years. This collection of essays, written by both new and established scholars from Britain and the U.S.A, develops many of the themes of nineteenth-century studies which have lately come to the fore, touching upon issues such as drugs, class, power and gender. Some essays reflect the interaction of word and image in the nineteenth-century, and the notion of the city as spectacle; others look at Victorian sci
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; General Editors' Preface; Introduction; 1 Transition and tradition: the preoccupation with ancestry in Victorian writing; 2 The major silence: autobiographies of working women in the nineteenth century; 3 Writing, cultural production, and the periodical press in the nineteenth century; 4 Engendering vision in the Victorian male poet; 5 Victorian Lucretius: Tennyson and the problem of scientific romanticism; 6 The opium-eater as criminal in Victorian writing; 7 Obscure recesses: locating the Victorian unconscious
8 After the play: dreams of drama and death in the James family9 Visuality codes the text: Charles Dickens's Pictures from Italy; 10 John Ruskin and the Victorian landscape; 11 A life in writing: Ruskin and the uses of suburbia; 12 Figuring the body in the Victorian novel; 13 The Victorian novel as a self-conscious allusion; 14 Plotting the Victorians: narrative, post-modernism, and contemporary fiction; 15 Oscar Wilde at centuries' end; Notes on contributors; Select bibliography; Index
