Victorian Transformations - Genre, Nationalism and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Literature

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 Gab

List of contents

Contents: Introduction, Bianca Tredennick; We were never human: monstrous forms of 19th-century fiction, Ian Duncan; Violence, terror and the transformation of genre in Mary Barton, Brian Cooney; 'Nothing will make me distrust you': the pastoral transformed in Anthony Trollope's The Small House at Allington (1864), Deborah Denenholz Morse; On or about July 1877, Michael D. Hurley; Victorian theater in the 1850s and the transformation of literary consciousness, Julianne Smith; Reading cant, transforming the nation: Carlyle's Past and Present, Erin M. Goss; Resurrecting Redgauntlet: the transformation of Walter Scott's nationalist revenants in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Siobhan Carroll; Dante Gabriel Rossetti: remarketing desire, Julie Carr; Transforming the fallen woman in Adelaide Anne Procter's 'A Legend of Provence', Scott Rogers; The owl flies again: reviving and transforming Victorian rhetorics of literary crisis in the internet age, Mark Meritt; Feminine endings: neo-Victorian transformations of the Victorian, Louisa Hadley; Index.

About the author

Bianca Tredennick is Assistant Professor of English at SUNY College Oneonta, USA.

Summary

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 Gab

Product details

• Assisted by: Bianca Tredennick (Editor), Tredennick Bianca (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032927275
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92727-5
• No. of pages: 214
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, History and Archaeology, Literature: history and criticism, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards