A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

The Victorian period was a time of rapid cultural change, which resulted in a huge and varied literary output. __A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture__ offers experienced guidance to the literature of nineteenth-century Britain and its social and historical context. This revised and expanded edition comprises contributions from over 30 leading scholars who, approaching the Victorian epoch from different positions and traditions, delve into the unruly complexities of the Victorian imagination. Divided into five parts, this new companion surveys seven decades of history before examining the keys phases in a Victorian life, the leading professions and walks of life, the major Victorian literary genres, and the way Victorians defined their persons, their homes, and their national identities. Important topics such as sexuality, denominational faith, social class, and global empire inform each chapter’s approach. Each chapter provides a comprehensive bibliography of established and emerging scholarship. Content: Cover Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Title page Copyright page Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction Part One: History in Focus 1: 1832 Finding the Beginning Georgian or Victorian? The Political Scene The Missing Generation How It Struck Some Contemporaries 2: 1851 Revolution and Reform Religion The Woman Question Revolutionary Art 3: 1870 Legislation of Social Change: 1867 and 1870 Women, Reform, and Sexuality Reform and Religion Reforming and Constructing Orders of Knowledge: Victorian Science Education, Imperialism, and Culture. 10: Clerical11: Legal Practice Theory 12: Medical 13: Military Commissioned Officers Uncommissioned Officers The Men 14: Educational The University Teachers The Public School Teachers The Elementary School Teachers 15: Administrative Central Government Centralized Reform Acknowledgment 16: Financial Banking: The Mobilization of Money Power Crisis and Credit Money Making Money Quantity versus Quality Melodrama and the Money-Form of Value Realistic Representation and Credit Appendix: Financial Instruments 17: Industrial Early Industrial England. Time/Space/Consciousness/CultureThe New Industrial Age 18: Commercial 19: Artistic 20: Spectacle 21: Publishing Part Four: Kinds of Writing 22: Poetry I II III IV V VI 23: Fiction 24: Drama Contexts Drama and Melodrama Comedy 25: Life Writing 26: Sage Writing On the Origins of Sage Writing in Early Victorian England The Rhetoric of Sage Writing: Some Characteristic Strategies Women Writers as Cultural Sages Other Sage Writing: A Complementary Tradition 27: Historiography In the Shadow of the Germans The Shadow of Epic. Coda: The Threat and Promise of Scientific History28: Literary Criticism Criticism of the Literature of the Past Theories of Poetry and Fiction Gender, and the Woman Critic Aesthetic Conclusion Part Five: Borders 29: Permeable Protections: The Working Life of Victorian Skin Permeable Membranes Second Skins Sunshine 30: On the Parapets of Privacy I II III IV V 31: "Then on the Shore of this Wide World": The Victorian Nation and its Others 32: On the Neo-Victorian, Now and Then Index of Works Cited General Subject Index. A NEW COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE The Victorian period was a time of rapid cultural change, which resulted in a huge and varied literary output. A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture offers experienced guidance to the literature of nineteenth-century Britain and its social and historical context. This revised and expanded edition comprises contributions from over 30 leading scholars who, approaching the Victorian epoch from different positions and traditions, delve into the unruly complexities of the Victorian imagination. Divided into five parts, this new Companion surveys seven decades of history before examining the key phases in a Victorian life, the leading professions and walks of life, the major literary genres, the way Victorians defined their persons, homes, and national identity, and how recent "neo-Victorian" developments in contemporary culture reconfigure the sense we make of the past today. Important topics such as sexuality, denominational faith, social class, and global empire inform each chapter's approach. Each chapter provides a comprehensive bibliography of established and emerging scholarship. Offers guidance to the literature of nineteenth-century Britain and its social and historical context. This book includes topics such as sexuality, denominational faith, social class, and global empire inform each chapters approach. It features a comprehensive bibliography of established and emerging scholarship. Edited By Herbert F. Tucker. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.