genre, nationalism and desire in nineteenth-century literature
Published:
2011
Publisher:
Ashgate, Farnham [u.a.]
Proposing the concept of transformation as a key to understanding Victorian literature, this collection focuses on issues related to genre, nationalism, and desire, to explore the ways in which the nineteenth-century conceived of, responded to, and...
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Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Medien- und Informationszentrum, Universitätsbibliothek
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Proposing the concept of transformation as a key to understanding Victorian literature, this collection focuses on issues related to genre, nationalism, and desire, to explore the ways in which the nineteenth-century conceived of, responded to, and created change. The contributors treat, among other authors, Victor Hugo, Anthony Trollope, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Thomas Carlyle, and writers of neo-Victorian novels such as Peter Carey and A. S. Byatt
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Cover; Contents; General Editors' Preface; List of Figures; Notes on the Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 We Were Never Human: Monstrous Forms of Nineteenth-Century Fiction; 2 Violence, Terror, and the Transformation of Genre in Mary Barton; 3 'Nothing Will Make Me Distrust You': The Pastoral Transformed in Anthony Trollope's The Small House at Allington (1864); 4 On or about July 1877; 5 Victorian Theater in the 1850s and the Transformation of Literary Consciousness; 6 Reading Cant, Transforming the Nation: Carlyle's Past and Present
7 Resurrecting Redgauntlet: The Transformation of Walter Scott's Nationalist Revenants in Bram Stoker's Dracula8 Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Remarketing Desire; 9 Transforming the Fallen Woman in Adelaide Anne Procter's "A Legend of Provence"; 10 The Owl Flies Again; 11 Feminine Endings: Neo-Victorian Transformations of the Victorian; Index
