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"An in-depth exploration and reappraisal of the 1860s in British literature, featuring chapters by a wide range of scholars on characteristic literary genres and themes. Thematic chapters range from empire and slavery to evolution, economics, and the environment. The Introduction limns historical as well as current scholarly context"--
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Introduction; 1. Realism and psychology: psychophysics, mind, and the science of human nature Rae Greiner; 2. Sensational bodies: representations of race and disability in sensation fiction Anne-Marie Beller; 3. Irish rebellion on the sensational stage Sarah Meer; 4. Palgrave's golden treasury: 'modern' poetry and a new lyric canon Marion Thain; 5. Impossible monsters, rabbit holes, and new worlds: the unstable ground of science and education in 1860s children's fairy-tale and fantasy literature Megan A. Norcia; 6. Periodicals, popular fiction and the affordances of digital collections Graham Law; 7. Publishing in the 1860s: technology, regulation, distribution Andrew King; 8. Italy in transition: Italian unification and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's last poems (1862) Patricia Cove; 9. Silent center, vocal margins: British literary response to the US Civil War Linda K. Hughes; 10. Empire and evidence in Armadale & the Morant Bay Rebellion Leah R. Rosenberg; 11. Reading the nonevental: the Victorian literary sketch, colonial urbanity, and the transimperial Sukanya Banerjee; 12. An age of mythmaking: nation and race in poetry Clare A. Simmons; 13. Reimagining society: Mill, Trollope, and the expanding electorate Kevin A. Morrison; 14. Historical Ecologies in Heterodox Economic Thought and Literary Realism of the 1860s Ay¿e Çelikkol; 15. Extraction, exhaustion, and the sensation novel of the 1860s Elizabeth Carolyn Miller; 16. Evolution and the human Johnathan Smith.
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Pamela K. Gilbert is Albert Brick Professor in the Department of English at the University of Florida. Her books include Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History (2019); Disease, Desire and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels, (1997); Mapping the Victorian Social Body (2004); The Citizen's Body (2007); and Cholera and Nation (2008).
Riassunto
An in-depth exploration and reappraisal of the 1860s in British literature, featuring chapters by a wide range of scholars on characteristic literary genres and themes. Thematic chapters range from empire and slavery to evolution, economics, and the environment. The Introduction limns historical as well as current scholarly context.
Prefazione
A reappraisal of the 1860s and British literature, featuring chapters on key genres and themes by top international scholars.
