Interventions Rethinking the Nineteenth Century [Hardcover]

This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and philosophy, the Gothic, anatomical exhibitions, the global spread of liberalism, Anglo-American publishing, Punjabi popular culture and the neo-Victorian in literature, film and performance. By bringing together a broad range of intellectually challenging perspectives, the book offers an engaging critical overview of the field of nineteenth-century literary studies that will appeal both to scholars working within the field and students and teachers encountering this fascinating area of study for the first time.
Introduction - Andrew Smith and Anna Barton

Part I: Critical reflections

1 On measuring the nineteenth century - John Schad

2 Literature and science - David Amigoni

3 Locke in pentameters: Victorian poetry after (or before) posthumousness - Anna Barton

4 Reading the Gothic and Gothic readers - Andrew Smith

Part II: Rethinking national contexts and exchanges

5 The global circulation of Victorian actants and ideas: liberalism and liberalisation in the niche of nature, culture, and technology - Regenia Gagnier

6 Literary folk: writing popular culture in colonial Punjab, 1885-1905 - Churnjeet Mahn

7 'Across the waters of this disputed ocean': the material production of American literature in nineteenth-century Britain - Katie McGettigan

8 Gruesome models: European displays of natural history and anatomy and nineteenth-century literature - Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

Part III: Afterlives

9 Adaptive/appropriate reuse in neo-Victorian fiction: having one's cake and eating it too - Marie-Luise Kohlke

10 Populism and ideology: nineteenth-century fiction and the cinema - Richard J. Hand

11 True histories of the Elephant Man: storytelling and theatricality in adaptations of the lil“m