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Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, British Columbia)

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition

The 1870s

Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, British Columbia)

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English
Cambridge University Press
06 February 2025
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Literary reference works; Feminism & feminist theory
Series: Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition
The 1870s were defined by cultural confidence, moral superiority, and metropolitan elitism. This volume examines and unsettles a decade closely associated with 'High Victorianism' and the popular emergence of 'Victorian' as a term for the epoch and its literature. Writers active in the 1870s were self-conscious about contemporary claims to modernity, reform, and progress, themes which they explored through conversation, conflict, and innovation, often betraying uncertainty about their era. The chapters in this volume cover a broad range of canonical and lesser known British and colonial writers, including George Eliot, Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Rossettis, Emily Pfeiffer, John Ruskin, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Ellen Wood, Toru Dutt, Antony Trollope, Dinah Craik, Susan K. Phillips, Thomas Hardy, and Rolf Boldrewood. Together they offer a variety of methodologies for a pluralist literary history, including approaches based on feminism, visual cultures, digital humanities, and the history of narrative and poetic genres.
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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
ISBN:   9781108845182
ISBN 10:   1108845185
Series:   Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition
Pages:   346
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Alison Chapman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Professor in the English Department, University of Victoria, Canada. Her publications include Networking the Nation: British and American Women Poets and Italy, 1840-1870 (2015) and she is the general editor of Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry.

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