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Informationen zum Autor Louise Kane is Assistant Professor of Global Modernisms at the University of Central Florida. She is a General Editor of the forthcoming Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Global Modernist Magazines series and Editor of the James Joyce Literary Supplement . Klappentext Through its examinations of a wide range of texts and writers, Re-reading the Age of Innovation re-reads these texts as part of an age of innovation characterized not by division and divide, but by collaboration and community. Zusammenfassung Through its examinations of a wide range of texts and writers, Re-reading the Age of Innovation re-reads these texts as part of an age of innovation characterized not by division and divide, but by collaboration and community. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Louise Kane Part I: Inventing and Innovating: Science, Technology, Formal Experiment Chapter 1 The Sky as Heterotopia in Dickens, Gissing, and Woolf Claes E. Lindskog Chapter 2 The Rise and Fall of the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1881–1930) Jayme Yahr Chapter 3 Balloonomania: Flying Machines, Periodicals, and the Trajectory of World Literature Louise Kane Chapter 4 A Metaphysical Theatre: Abstract Painting, Color Music, and Futurist Experiments in Avant-Garde Film Christopher Townsend Part II: Changing Landscapes: Empire, Trade, Ecology Chapter 5 Histories Yet to Come: Adventure Fiction and the Ideologies of Free Trade Keith Clavin Chapter 6 Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim and the Failure of Empire Camelia Raghinaru Chapter 7 Uncertainty, Doubt, and Belief in the Poetic Landscapes of T.S. Eliot and Thomas Hardy Anna Bedsole Part III: Navigating Feeling: the Self, Empathy, Human Character Chapter 8 F. Mabel Robinson, Vernon Lee, and George Moore: the Aesthetics of Sympathy and Texts of Transition Kathryn Laing Chapter 9 Racial Exposé and the Empathic Mind in Walter Francis White's The Fire in the Flint Masami Sugimori Chapter 10 A Writerly Communion: Browning, Balzac, and Catholicism in Edith Wharton’s "The Duchess at Prayer" Nancy Von Rosk Part IV: Blurring Boundaries: Gender, Sexuality, Desire Chapter 11 "Disposed to Daring Innovation": New Modernism, New Woman Fiction, and New Motherhood Elizabeth Podnieks Chapter 12 "Sometimes I Pose, but Sometimes I Pose as Posing": Stella Benson’s Early Fiction Nicola Darwood Chapter 13 Parsing Between-ness: Love, Looking Backward and Forward, in Charlotte Mew’s Short Fiction Kristen Renzi Chapter 14 The Spirit of Contemporary Life: Icelandic Queer Modernism Ásta Kristín Benediktsdóttir Afterword Regenia Gagnier ...
