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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    30 January 2025
    06 February 2025
    ISBN:
    9781108954792
    9781108845182
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108954792
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.65kg, 346 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature 1830-1900, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition
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    Literature, English Literature 1830-1900, English Literature 1700-1830
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    The 1870s were defined by cultural confidence, moral superiority, and metropolitan elitism. This volume examines and unsettles a decade closely associated with 'High Victorianism' and the popular emergence of 'Victorian' as a term for the epoch and its literature. Writers active in the 1870s were self-conscious about contemporary claims to modernity, reform, and progress, themes which they explored through conversation, conflict, and innovation, often betraying uncertainty about their era. The chapters in this volume cover a broad range of canonical and lesser known British and colonial writers, including George Eliot, Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Rossettis, Emily Pfeiffer, John Ruskin, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Ellen Wood, Toru Dutt, Antony Trollope, Dinah Craik, Susan K. Phillips, Thomas Hardy, and Rolf Boldrewood. Together they offer a variety of methodologies for a pluralist literary history, including approaches based on feminism, visual cultures, digital humanities, and the history of narrative and poetic genres.

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