Introduction
Louise Kane
Part I: Inventing and Innovating: Science, Technology, Formal Experiment
Chapter 1
The Sky as Heterotopia in Dickens, Gissing, and Woolf
Claes E. Lindskog
Chapter 2
The Rise and Fall of the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (18811930)
Jayme Yahr
Chapter 3
Balloonomania: Flying Machines, Periodicals, and the Trajectory of World Literature
Louise Kane
Chapter 4
A Metaphysical Theatre: Abstract Painting, Color Music, and Futurist Experiments in
Avant-Garde Film
Christopher Townsend
Part II: Changing Landscapes: Empire, Trade, Ecology
Chapter 5
Histories Yet to Come: Adventure Fiction and the Ideologies of Free Trade
Keith Clavin
Chapter 6
Joseph Conrads Lord Jim and the Failure of Empire
Camelia Raghinaru
Chapter 7
Uncertainty, Doubt, and Belief in the Poetic Landscapes of T.S. Eliot and Thomas Hardy
Anna Bedsole
Part III: Navigating Feeling: the Self, Empathy, Human Character
Chapter 8
F. Mabel Robinson, Vernon Lee, and George Moore: the Aesthetics of Sympathy
and Texts of Transition
Kathryn Laing
Chapter 9
Racial Expos? anlSM