Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Part of the series The new Cambridge history of English literature;New Cambridge history of English literature.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 730-758) and index.
• This collaborative history aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1901, are followed by essays on topics including sexuality, sensation, cityscapes, melodrama, epic and economics. Victorian writing is placed in its complex relation to the Empire, Europe and America, as well as to Britain’s component nations. The final chapters consider how Victorian literature, and the period as a whole, influenced twentieth-century writers. Original, lucid and stimulating, each chapter is an important contribution to Victorian literary studies. Together, the contributors create an engaging discussion of the ways in which the Victorians saw themselves and of how their influence has persisted — Provided by publisher.
• Introduction / Kate Flint — Part I. Authors, Readers, and Publishers: 1. Publishing and the materiality of the book / David Finkelstein 2. Victorian reading / Leah Price 3. Periodicals and reviewing / Hilary Fraser — Part II. Writing Victoria’s England: 4. The expansion of Britain / David Amigoni 5. High Victorianism / Janice Carlisle 6. The Fin-de-Siècle / Stephen Arata — Part III. Modes of Writing: 7. Lyric and the lyrical / Angela Leighton 8. Epic / Herbert Tucker 9. Melodrama / Carolyn Williams 10. Sensation / Kate Flint 11. Autobiography / Linda H. Peterson 12. Comic and satirical / John Bowen 13. Innovation and experiment / Jerome McGann 14. Writing for children / Claudia Nelson — Part IV. Matters of Debate: 15. Education / Dinah Birch 16. Spirituality / Elisabeth Jay 17. Material / Elaine Freedgood 18. Economics and finance / Mary Poovey 19. History / Andrew Sanders 20. Sexuality / Sharon Marcus 21. Aesthetics / Elizabeth Helsinger 22. Science and literature / Gillian Beer 23. Subjectivity, psychology, and the imagination / Helen Small 24. Cityscapes / Deborah Epstein Nord 25. The rural scene: Victorian literature and the natural world / Francis O’Gorman 26. ‘The annihilation of space and time’: literature and technology / Clare Pettitt — Part V. Spaces of Writing: 27. Spaces of the nineteenth-century novel / Isobel Armstrong 28. National and regional literatures / Sara L. Maurer 29. Britain and Europe / Nicholas Dames 30. Victorian empire / Pablo Mukherjee 31. Writing about America / Deirdre David — Part VI. Victorian Afterlives: 32. 1900 and the début de siècle: poetry, drama, fiction / Joseph Bristow 33. The future of Victorian literature / Jay Clayton.

Subjects:

• English literature — 19th century — History and criticism.
• Literature and society — Great Britain — History — 19th century.

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