Among the Victorians and Modernists: Among the Victorians and Modernists
About the Book Series
This series publishes monographs and essay collections on literature, art, and culture in the context of the diverse aesthetic, political, social, technological, and scientific innovations that arose among the Victorians and Modernists. Viable topics include, but are not limited to, artistic and cultural debates and movements; influential figures and communities; and agitations and developments regarding subjects such as animals, commodification, decadence, degeneracy, democracy, desire, ecology, gender, nationalism, the paranormal, performance, public art, sex, socialism, spiritualities, transnationalism, and the urban. Studies that address continuities between the Victorians and Modernists are welcome. Work on recent responses to the periods such as NeoVictorian novels, graphic novels, and film will also be considered.
Threatened Masculinity from British Fiction to Cold War German Cinema
1st Edition
By Joseph Willis
June 30, 2021
The impact of the Cold War on German male identities can be seen in the nation’s cinematic search for a masculine paradigm that rejected the fate-centered value system of its National- Socialist past while also recognizing that German males once again had become victims of fate and fatalism, but ...
Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel
1st Edition
By Jessica Durgan
September 30, 2020
As a study of color in the Victorian novel, this volume notices and analyzes a peculiar literary phenomenon in which Victorian authors who were also trained as artists dream up fantastically colored characters for their fiction. These strange and eccentric characters include the purple madwoman ...
Lucas Malet, Dissident Pilgrim: Critical Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane Ford, Alexandra Gray
September 30, 2020
Popular novelist, female aesthete, Victorian radical and proto-modernist, Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Harrison, 1852-1931) was one of the most successful writers of her day, yet few of her remarkable novels remain in print. Malet was a daughter of the ‘broad church’ priest and well-known Victorian...
Philanthropy and Early Twentieth-Century British Literature
1st Edition
By Milena Radeva-Costello
September 30, 2020
Philanthropy and Early Twentieth-Century British Literature explores the relationship between British literature and philanthropy at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, examining the works of E. M. Forster, Rebecca West, W. B. Yeats, Roger Fry, Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, ...
The Female Fantastic: Gendering the Supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s
1st Edition
Edited
By Lizzie McCormick, Jennifer Mitchell, Rebecca Soares
September 30, 2020
For women-identified writers of both eras, the fantastic offered double vision. Not only did the genre offer strategic cover for challenging the status quo, but also a heuristic mechanism for teasing out the gendered psyche’s links to creative, personal, and erotic agency. These dynamic ...
Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide: Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature, Culture and the Visual Arts
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada, Anne Besnault-Levita
August 14, 2020
Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide contributes to a new phase in the Victorian-modern debate of traditional periodization through the perspective lens of literature and the visual arts. Breaking away from conventionally fixed discourses and dichotomies, this book utilizes an interdisciplinary ...
Victorian Sustainability in Literature and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Wendy Parkins
December 18, 2019
From a growing awareness of the depletion of energy resources and the perils of environmental degradation to the founding of self-sufficient communities and the establishment of the National Trust, the concept of sustainability began to take on a new importance in the Victorian period. An emerging ...
The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947
1st Edition
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By Christine Ferguson, Andrew Radford
December 12, 2019
Between 1875 and 1947, a period bookended, respectively, by the founding of the Theosophical Society and the death of notorious occultist celebrity Aleister Crowley, Britain experienced an unparalleled efflorescence of engagement with unusual occult schema and supernatural phenomena such as astral ...
Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party
1st Edition
By Samuel Shaw, Sarah Shaw, Naomi Carle
December 10, 2019
Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party is the first truly interdisciplinary collection of essays dealing with culture in Britain c.1895-1914. Bringing together essays on literature, art, politics, religion, architecture, marketing, and imperial history, the study highlights the extent to which ...
Gender and the Intersubjective Sublime in Faulkner, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf
1st Edition
By Erin Speese
May 21, 2019
Exploring how the modern novel's complex depictions of parenthood restructure traditional conceptions of the Romantic sublime, Erin K. Johns Speese shows how William Faulkner, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf use related strategies to rewrite the traditional sublime as an ...
Secrecy and Disclosure in Victorian Fiction
1st Edition
By Leila Silvana May
May 21, 2019
Why were the Victorians more fascinated with secrecy than people of other periods? What is the function of secrets in Victorian fiction and in the society depicted, how does it differ from that of other periods, and how did readers of Victorian fiction respond to the secrecy they encountered? These...
Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions: New Perspectives on Walter Pater
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada, Martine Lambert-Charbonnier, Charlotte Ribeyrol
May 21, 2019
Reflecting Walter Pater’s diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history, and philosophy, this collection of essays explores new interdisciplinary perspectives engaging readers and scholars alike to revisit methodologies, intertextualities, metaphysical positions, and stylistic ...