The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature (Routledge Literature Companions)

__The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature__ offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and influential political, cultural, and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today. Scholars and students will find this collection both useful and inspiring. Rigorously engaged with current scholarship that is both historically sensitive and theoretically informed, the __Routledge Companion__ places the genres of the novel, poetry, and drama and issues of gender, social class, and race in conversation with subjects like ecology, colonialism, the Gothic, digital humanities, sexualities, disability, material culture, and animal studies. This guide is aimed at scholars who want to know the most significant critical approaches in Victorian studies, often written by the very scholars who helped found those fields. It addresses major theoretical movements such as narrative theory, formalism, historicism, and economic theory, as well as Victorian models of subjects such as anthropology, cognitive science, and religion. With its lists of key works, rich cross-referencing, extensive bibliographies, and explications of scholarly trajectories, the book is a crucial resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, while offering invaluable support to more seasoned scholars. The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and influential political, cultural, and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today. Scholars and students will find this collection both useful and inspiring. Rigorously engaged with current scholarship that is both historically sensitive and theoretically informed, the Routledge Companion places the genres of the novel, poetry, and drama and issues of gender, social class, and race in conversation with subjects like ecology, colonialism, the Gothic, digital humanities, sexualities, disability, material culture, and animal studies. This guide is aimed at scholars who want to know the most significant critical approaches in Victorian studies, often written by the very scholars who helped found those fields. It addresses major theoretical movements such as narrative theory, formalism, historicism, and economic theory, as well as Victorian models of subjects such as anthropology, cognitive science, and religion. With its lists of key works, rich cross-referencing, extensive bibliographies, and explications of scholarly trajectories, the book is a crucial resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, while offering invaluable support to more seasoned scholars. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 CONTENTS 6 List of Illustrations 10 Acknowledgments 11 Introduction: Our Victorian Companions 14 PART I Genres and Movements 22 1 Poetry 24 2 The Novel 35 3 Short Forms: Serialization and Short Fiction 46 4 Drama and Performance 58 5 Children’s Literature 71 6 Life-Writing 82 7 Gothic, Horror, and the Weird: Shifting Paradigms 96 8 Sensation Scholarship 108 9 Decadence and Aestheticism 119 PART II Media Histories 130 10 Book History 132 11 Victorian Digital Humanities 142 12 Periodical Studies 153 13 Material Culture 164 14 Popular Fiction and Culture 173 15 Radical Print Culture: From Chartism to Socialism 184 16 Visual Culture 195 PART III Victorian Discourses 208 17 Victorianists and Their Reading 210 18 Aesthetic Formalism 219 19 Narrative Theory 230 20 The Ethical Turn 239 21 The Future of Economic Criticisms Past 250 22 History/Historicism 261 23 Liberalism and Citizenship 273 PART IV Formulations of Identity 284 24 Feminism and the Canon 286 25 Gender and Sexuality 297 26 New Woman Writing 309 27 Disability Studies 320 28 The Concept of Class in Victorian Studies 332 29 Race: Tracing the Contours of a Long Nineteenth Century 343 30 The Emergence of Animal Studies 355 PART V Science and Spirit 368 31 Technology and Literature 370 32 Brain Science 381 33 British Psychology in the Nineteenth Century 390 34 Anthropology and Classical Evolutionism 402 35 Geology and Paleontology 414 36 New Religions and Esotericism 427 37 Studies of Christianity and Judaism 439 PART VI Spatiality and Environment 450 38 Domesticity 452 39 Regionalism and Provincialism: Where Is the Local? 462 40 Postcolonial 475 41 Travel Writing 486 42 Settler Colonialism 498 43 Victorians in the Anthropocene 509 44 Why Victorian Ecocriticism Matters 519 45 Industry 530 Notes on Contributors 540 Index 549 "The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and influential political, cultural, and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today. Scholars and students will find this collection both useful and inspiring. Rigorously engaged with current scholarship that is both historically sensitive and theoretically informed, the Routledge Companion places the genres of the novel, poetry, and drama and issues of gender, social class, and race in conversation with subjects like ecology, colonialism, the Gothic, digital humanities, sexualities, disability, material culture, and animal studies. This guide is aimed at scholars who want to know the most significant critical approaches in Victorian studies, often written by the very scholars who helped found those fields. It addresses major theoretical movements such as narrative theory, formalism, historicism, and economic theory, as well as Victorian models of subjects such as anthropology, cognitive science, and religion. With its lists of key works, rich cross-referencing, extensive bibliographies, and explications of scholarly trajectories, the book is a crucial resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, while offering invaluable support to more seasoned scholars."-- Back cover