Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s
Author: Penny Fielding
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-08-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316856933

What does it mean to focus on the decade as a unit of literary history? Emerging from the shadows of iconic Victorian authors such as Eliot and Tennyson, the 1880s is a decade that has been too readily overlooked in the rush to embrace end-of-century decadence and aestheticism. The 1880s witnessed new developments in transatlantic networks, experiments in lyric poetry, the decline of the three-volume novel, and the revaluation of authors, journalists and the reading public. The contributors to this collection explore the case for the 1880s as both a discrete point of literary production, with its own pressures and provocations, and as part of literature's sense of its expanded temporal and geographical reach. The essays address a wide variety of authors, topics and genres, offering incisive readings of the diverse forces at work in the shaping of the literary 1880s.

The Literary 1880s

The Literary 1880s
Author: Penny Fielding
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2019-10-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107181909

Explores the diverse forces that shaped developments in literature in the 1880s, an often overlooked literary decade.

Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914

Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914
Author: Mary Hammond
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780754656685

Between 1880 and 1914, England saw the emergence of an unprecedented range of new literary forms, which meant new relationships between books, authors, readers and classifications of taste. Hammond uses previously unexamined archive material and focuses in detail on the working practices of selected publishers and distributors to make an original and important contribution to our understanding of the cultural dynamics and rhetorics of the fin-de-siècle literary field in England.

Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880–1920

Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880–1920
Author: Pamela Thurschwell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2001-07-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139428853

In this 2001 book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siècle. Thurschwell argues that technologies began suffusing the public imagination from the mid-nineteenth century on: they seemed to support the claims of spiritualist mediums. Talking to the dead and talking on the phone both held out the promise of previously unimaginable contact between people: both seemed to involve 'magical thinking'. Thurschwell looks at the ways in which psychical research, the scientific study of the occult, is reflected in the writings of such authors as Henry James, George du Maurier and Oscar Wilde, and in the foundations of psychoanalysis. This study offers provocative interpretations of fin-de-siècle literary and scientific culture in relation to psychoanalysis, queer theory and cultural history.

American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995

American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995
Author: Phillip Barrish
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2001-02-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139431951

Focusing on key works of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gaining intellectual prestige - that is, new ways of gaining cultural recognition as unusually intelligent, sensitive or even wise. Through extended readings of works by Henry James, William Dean Howells, Abraham Cahan and Edith Wharton, Barrish emphasises the differences between literary realist modes of intellectual and cultural authority and those associated with the rise of the social sciences. In doing so, he greatly refines our understanding of the complex relationship between realist writing and masculinity. Barrish further argues that understanding the dynamics of intellectual status in realist literature provides new analytic purchase on intellectual prestige in recent critical theory. Here he focuses on such figures as Lionel Trilling, Paul de Man, John Guillory and Judith Butler.

Modern German Literature

Modern German Literature
Author: Jethro Bithell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2020-01-31
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1000765407

Originally published in 1939 and revised in 1959, this book traces back to their origins the literary movements and phases of German literature of 1880 to 1950 as they occur and shows how and why they pass over into succeeding phases. It closely analyses Naturalism, Impressionism, Neo-romanticism and Expressionism as well as dealing exhaustively with Surrealism, Magic Realism and Existentialism. The book includes discussion of post-war Anglo-American and French literature.

Sound and Modernity in the Literature of London, 1880-1918

Sound and Modernity in the Literature of London, 1880-1918
Author: Patricia Pye
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2017-10-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137540176

This book explores the literary representation of late Victorian and early Edwardian London from an auditory perspective, arguing that readers should ‘listen’ to impressions of the city, as described by writers such as Conrad, Doyle, Ford and Gissing. It was in this period that London began to ‘sound modern’ and, through a closer hearing of its literature, writers’ wider responses to modernity are revealed. The book is structured into familiar modernist themes, revisiting time and space, social progress and popular culture through an exploration of the sound impressions of some key works. Each chapter is contextualized by these themes, revealing how the sound of the news, social protest, music hall and suburbanization impacted on writers’ literary imaginations. Suitable for students of modernist literature and specialists in sound studies, this book will also appeal to readers with a wider interest in London’s history and popular culture between 1880-1918.

Authors Inc.

Authors Inc.
Author: Loren Glass
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2004-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0814731597

An investigation of how popular modernist writers handled their fame.