The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830-1914

The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of texts that entertained and informed the Victorians, but also the boundaries of Victorian literature: the links and overlap with Romanticism in the 1830s, and the roots of modernism in the years leading up to the First World War. The Companion demonstrates how science, medicine and theology influenced creative writing and emphasizes the importance of the visual in painting, book illustration and in technological innovations from the kaleidoscope to the cinema. Essays also chart the complex and fruitful interchanges with writers in America, Europe and the Empire, highlighting the geographical expansion of literature in English. This Companion brings together the most important aspects of this prolific and popular period of English literature.

ISBN 0521709326   Pages 346 ISBN13 9780521709323 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 560 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Series title Cambridge Companions to Literature Format Paperback   Height (mm) 228 Publication date 28 Jan 2010   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 820.9008   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

		List of illustrations
		List of contributors
		Chronology
		Introduction by Joanne Shattock		1
Pt. I		Modes of Writing and Their Contexts		7
1		Authors and authorship by Josephine Guy		9
2		Readers and readerships by Mary Hammond		30
3		Life writing by Alison Booth		50
4		The culture of criticism by Joanne Shattock		71
5		Women's voices and public debate by Susan Hamilton		91
6		Writing the past by Hilary Fraser		108
7		Radical writing by Sally Ledger		127
8		Popular culture by Katherine Newey		147
Pt. II		Intersections and Incursions		163
9		Science and its popularization by Gowan Dawson		165
10		Body and mind by Jenny Bourne Taylor		184
11		Writing and religion by Andrew Sanders		205
12		Visual culture by John Plunkett		222
Pt. III		The Centre and the Periphery		249
13		Empire and nationalism by Patrick Brantlinger		251
14		Transatlantic relations by Bridget Bennett		270
15		European exchanges by Alison Chapman		285
		Guide to further reading		304
		Index		314

'In addition to overviews of subjects ranging from authorship to life-writing, scholars will find invitations to wander down new paths. The collection is particularly strong on periodical literature and, above all, demonstrates the current vitality of book history.' Times Literary Supplement '... provides the student of Victorian literature and culture, or the curious and interested, with a well-wrought introduction ... extremely useful for an introductory class or a student or scholar looking for a quick history of the period.' Annotated Bibliography of English Studies

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