Publication

2019 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

65,000 words, Guess

Page Count

260 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781107181908
  • ISBN-101107181909
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018059148
  • OCLC Control Number1083673805
  • Better World Books9781107181908
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPR461.L58 2019
  • LCCPR461 .N56 2019

Description

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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