Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s, Hardback Book

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s Hardback

Edited by Penny (University of Edinburgh) Fielding, Andrew (University of Edinburgh) Taylor

Part of the Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition series

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What does it mean to focus on the decade as a unit of literary history?

Emerging from the shadows of iconic Victorian authors such as Eliot and Tennyson, the 1880s is a decade that has been too readily overlooked in the rush to embrace end-of-century decadence and aestheticism.

The 1880s witnessed new developments in transatlantic networks, experiments in lyric poetry, the decline of the three-volume novel, and the revaluation of authors, journalists and the reading public.

The contributors to this collection explore the case for the 1880s as both a discrete point of literary production, with its own pressures and provocations, and as part of literature's sense of its expanded temporal and geographical reach.

The essays address a wide variety of authors, topics and genres, offering incisive readings of the diverse forces at work in the shaping of the literary 1880s.

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