Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s

Penny Fielding (Curatore)

Andrew Taylor (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2019

What does it mean to focus on the decade as a unit of literary history? Emerging from the shadows of iconic Victorian authors such as Eliot and Tennyson, the 1880s is a decade that has been too readily overlooked in the rush to embrace end-of-century decadence and aestheticism. The 1880s witnessed new developments in transatlantic networks, experiments in lyric poetry, the decline of the three-volume novel, and the revaluation of authors, journalists and the reading public. The contributors to this collection explore the case for the 1880s as both a discrete point of literary production, with its own pressures and provocations, and as part of literature's sense of its expanded temporal and geographical reach. The essays address a wide variety of authors, topics and genres, offering incisive readings of the diverse forces at work in the shaping of the literary 1880s.

• Curatore: Penny Fielding, Andrew Taylor
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 260 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 158 mm
• Peso: 570 gr.
• EAN: 9781107181908

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