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Victorian Transformations

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Victorian Transformations book

Genre, Nationalism and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Victorian Transformations

DOI link for Victorian Transformations

Victorian Transformations book

Genre, Nationalism and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Edited ByBianca Tredennick
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 24 February 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315548258
Pages 214 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315548258
SubjectsArea Studies, Humanities, Language & Literature
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Tredennick, B. (Ed.). (2011). Victorian Transformations. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315548258

Proposing the concept of transformation as a key to understanding the Victorian period, this collection explores the protean ways in which the nineteenth century conceived of, responded to, and created change. The volume focuses on literature, particularly issues related to genre, nationalism, and desire. For example, the essays suggest that changes in the novel's form correspond with shifting notions of human nature in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris; technical forms such as the villanelle and chant royal are crucial bridges between Victorian and Modernist poetics; Victorian theater moves from privileging the text to valuing the spectacles that characterized much of Victorian staging; Carlyle's Past and Present is a rallying cry for replacing the static and fractured language of the past with a national language deep in shared meaning; Dante Gabriel Rossetti posits unachieved desire as the means of rescuing the subject from the institutional forces that threaten to close down and subsume him; and the return of Adelaide Anne Procter's fallen nun to the convent in "A Legend of Provence" can be read as signaling a more modern definition of gender and sexuality that allows for the possibility of transgressive desire within society. The collection concludes with an essay that shows neo-Victorian authors like John Fowles and A. S. Byatt contending with the Victorian preoccupations with gender and sexuality.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|22 pages

We Were Never Human: Monstrous Forms of Nineteenth-Century Fiction

chapter 2|16 pages

Violence, Terror, and the Transformation of Genre in Mary Barton

chapter 3|16 pages

‘Nothing Will Make Me Distrust You’: The Pastoral Transformed in Anthony Trollope’s The Small House at Allington (1864)

chapter 4|18 pages

On or about July 1877

ByMichael D. Hurley

chapter 5|16 pages

Victorian Theater in the 1850s and the Transformation of Literary Consciousness

chapter 6|20 pages

Reading Cant, Transforming the Nation: Carlyle’s Past and Present

chapter 7|18 pages

Resurrecting Redgauntlet: The Transformation of Walter Scott’s Nationalist Revenants in Bram Stoker’s Dracula

chapter 8|18 pages

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Remarketing Desire

ByJulie Carr

chapter 9|14 pages

Transforming the Fallen Woman in Adelaide Anne Procter’s “A Legend of Provence”

chapter 10|16 pages

The Owl Flies Again: Reviving and Transforming Victorian Rhetorics of Literacy Crisis in the Internet Age

chapter 11|14 pages

Feminine Endings: Neo-Victorian Transformations of the Victorian

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