Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s
Kristin Mahoney editor Dustin Friedman editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:7th Sep '23
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Focusing on a highly dynamic decade, this collection demonstrates how newer frameworks and methodologies enrich our sense of the 1890s.
As useful and informative to scholars and advanced students in the field as to relative newcomers, this collection demonstrates how the 1890s continue to be an area of perennial interest and relevance even while our understanding of the period changes with our own era's shifting cultural and political concerns.The 1890s were once seen as marginal within the larger field of Victorian studies, which tended to privilege the realist novel and the authors of the mid-century. In recent decades, the fin de siècle has come to be viewed as one of the most dynamic decades of the Victorian era. Viewed by writers and artists of the period as a moment of opportunity, transition, and urgency, the 1890s are pivotal for understanding the parameters of the field of Victorian studies itself. This volume makes a case for why the decade continues to be an area of perennial fascination, focusing on transnational connections, gender and sexuality, ecological concerns, technological innovations, and other current critical trends. This collection both calls attention to the diverse range of literature and art being produced during this period and foregrounds the relevance of the Victorian era's final years to issues and crises that face us today.
ISBN: 9781316513255
Dimensions: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
Weight: 730g
371 pages