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Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s

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Editors:
Dustin Friedman, American University, Washington DC
Kristin Mahoney, Michigan State University

Zarena Aslami, Lindsay Wilhelm, Stefano Evangelista, Sukanya Banerjee, Sebastian Lecourt, Emily Harrington, Ana Parejo Vadillo, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Dennis Denisoff, Simon Joyce, Diana Maltz, Alex Murray, Adam, Alston, Anne Stiles, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Rebecca N. Mitchell

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Date Published: September 2023
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781316513255

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The 1890s were once seen as marginal within the larger field of Victorian studies, which tended to privilege the realist novel and the authors of the mid-century. In recent decades, the fin de siècle has come to be viewed as one of the most dynamic decades of the Victorian era. Viewed by writers and artists of the period as a moment of opportunity, transition, and urgency, the 1890s are pivotal for understanding the parameters of the field of Victorian studies itself. This volume makes a case for why the decade continues to be an area of perennial fascination, focusing on transnational connections, gender and sexuality, ecological concerns, technological innovations, and other current critical trends. This collection both calls attention to the diverse range of literature and art being produced during this period and foregrounds the relevance of the Victorian era's final years to issues and crises that face us today.
- Enhances our understanding of the 1890s as a distinct historical period, attending to the diverse range of literature and art being produced in order to enrich our sense of the decade
- Highlights critical trends and newer methodologies within the field, and exemplifies new approaches in nineteenth-century studies that can serve as models for future work in this area
- Foregrounds the relevance of work on the 1890s to political issues and crises facing us today, including transnational connections, gender and sexuality, ecology, and technological innovation
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- Date Published: September 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316513255
- length: 371 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.73kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Introduction: The 1890s: Decade of a Thousand Movements Dustin Friedman and Kristin Mahoney
1. Race and Empire in the 1890s Zarena Aslami
2. Island Dandies, Transpacific Decadence, and the Politics of Style Lindsay Wilhelm
3. The 1890s and East Asia: Towards a Critical Cosmopolitanism Stefano Evangelista
4. Indulekha
or The Many Lives of Realism at the Fin De Siècle Sukanya Banerjee
5. Reading World Religions in the 1890s Sebastian Lecourt
6. Night Lights: The 1890s Nocturne Emily Harrington
7. The Green 1890s: World Ecology in Women's Poetry Ana Parejo Vadillo
8. 'Only Nature is a Thing Unreal': The Anthropocene 1890s Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
9. Weird Ecologies and the Limits of Environmentalism Dennis Denisoff
10. Queer Theories of the 1890s Simon Joyce
11. Eugenics and Degeneration in Socialist-Feminist Novels of the Mid-1890s Diana Maltz
12. The Conservative and Patriotic 1890s Alex Murray
13. Decadence and the Antitheatrical Prejudice Adam Alston
14. Religion and Science in the 1890s Anne Stiles
15. Little Magazines and/in Media History Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
16. Fin-de-Siècle Visuality (and Textuality) and the Digital Sphere Rebecca N. Mitchell.
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Dustin Friedman, American University, Washington DC
Dustin Friedman is Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at American University. He is the author of Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self (2019). His other writings have appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture, Modernism/modernity, Victorian Studies, Feminist Modernist Studies, the Journal of Modern Literature, ELH, and elsewhere.
Kristin Mahoney, Michigan State University
Kristin Mahoney is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University. She is the author of Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian Decadence (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Queer Kinship after Wilde: Transnational Decadence and the Family (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Along with Kate Hext and Alex Murray, she edits the journal Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures.
Contributors
Zarena Aslami, Lindsay Wilhelm, Stefano Evangelista, Sukanya Banerjee, Sebastian Lecourt, Emily Harrington, Ana Parejo Vadillo, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Dennis Denisoff, Simon Joyce, Diana Maltz, Alex Murray, Adam, Alston, Anne Stiles, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Rebecca N. Mitchell