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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and infl uential political, cultural, and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today. Scholars and students will fi nd this collection both useful and inspiring. Rigorously engaged with current scholarship that is both historically sensitive and theoretically informed, the Routledge Companion places the genres of the novel, poetry, and drama and issues of gender, social class, and race in conversation with subjects like ecology, colonialism, the Gothic, digital humanities, sexualities, disability, material culture, and animal studies. This guide is aimed at scholars who want to know the most signifi cant critical approaches in Victorian studies, often written by the very scholars who helped found those fi elds. It addresses major theoretical movements such as narrative theory, formalism, historicism, and economic theory, as well as Victorian models of subjects such as anthropology, cognitive science, and religion. With its lists of key works, rich cross- referencing, extensive bibliographies, and explications of scholarly trajectories, the book is a crucial resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, while offering invaluable support to more seasoned scholars. Dennis Denisoff is McFarlin Endowed Chair of English at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of, among other works, A estheticism and Sexual Parody and Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film . He is the editor of Arthur Machen: Decadent and Occult Works and a special issue of Victorian Review on “Natural Environments,” founding coeditor of The Yellow Nineties Online, and coeditor of Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence . He has recently published on sexuality, the occult, eco- spirituality, decadence, and the environmental humanities. He is currently editing a special issue of V ictorian Literature and Culture on decadence and completing a monograph on decadent ecology and the new paganism (1860–1920). Talia Schaffer is Professor of English at Queens College and The Graduate Center at City University of New York. She is the author of R omance’s Rival , Novel Craft , and The Forgotten Female Aesthetes . She has edited Literature and Culture at the Fin de Siècle, a scholarly edition of Lucas Malet’s 1901 novel, The History of Sir Richard Calmady, and coedited Women and British Aestheticism as well as a special issue of Victorian Review , “Extending Families.” Schaffer has published widely on Victorian familial and marital norms, feminist scholarship, disability studies, ethical readings, women writers, material culture, and popular fiction. She is completing a monograph on the feminist theory of “ethics of care” as a new way of thinking about social collectivity in Victorian fiction. ROUTLEDGE COMPANIONS TO LITERATURE SERIES Also Available in This Series THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS Also available in paperback Edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Alexandra Schultheis Moore THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE Edited by Deborah L. Madsen THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO TRAVEL WRITING Also available in paperback Edited by Carl Thompson THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE AND RELIGION Also available in paperback Edited by Mark Knight THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO INTER- AMERICAN STUDIES Edited by Wilfried Raussert THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES Edited by Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen and Michelle Niemann THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Edited by John Stephens, with Celia Abicalil Belmiro, Alice Curry, Li Lifang and Yasmine S. Motawy THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PICTUREBOOKS Edited by Bettina Kümmerling- Meibauer THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO WORLD LITERATURE AND WORLD HISTORY Edited by May Hawas THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PAKISTANI ANGLOPHONE WRITING Edited by Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE AND ECONOMICS Edited by Matt Seybold and Michelle Chihara THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO TWENTY- FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE Edited by Daniel O’Gorman and Robert Eaglestone THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO TRANSNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIES Edited by Nina Morgan, Alfred Hornung and Takayuki Tatsumi THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE Edited by Dennis Denisoff and Talia Schaffer For more information on this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/literature/series/RC4444 ii THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE Edited by Dennis Denisoff and Talia Schaffer First published 2020 by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 Taylor & Francis The right of Dennis Denisoff and Talia Schaffer to be identifi ed as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice : Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identifi cation and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data A catalog record for this title has been requested ISBN: 978-1-138-57986-6 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-50772-4 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments x Introduction: Our Victorian Companions 1 Dennis Denisoff PART I Genres and Movements 9 1 Poetry 11 Alison Chapman 2 The Novel 22 Elsie B. Michie 3 Short Forms: Serialization and Short Fiction 33 Susan David Bernstein 4 Drama and Performance 45 Sharon Aronofsky Weltman 5 Children’s Literature 58 Jessica Straley 6 Life- Writing 69 Trev Lynn Broughton 7 Gothic, Horror, and the Weird: Shifting Paradigms 83 Roger Luckhurst v Contents 8 Sensation Scholarship 95 Pamela K. Gilbert 9 Decadence and Aestheticism 106 Stefano Evangelista PART II Media Histories 117 10 Book History 119 Andrew M. Stauffer 11 Victorian Digital Humanities 129 Karen Bourrier 12 Periodical Studies 140 Linda K. Hughes 13 Material Culture 151 Deborah Lutz 14 Popular Fiction and Culture 160 Nicholas Daly 15 Radical Print Culture: From Chartism to Socialism 171 Ian Haywood 16 Visual Culture 182 Kate Flint PART III Victorian Discourses 195 17 Victorianists and Their Reading 197 Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan 18 Aesthetic Formalism 206 Rae Greiner 19 Narrative Theory 217 Elaine Auyoung 20 The Ethical Turn 226 Rebecca N. Mitchell vi Contents 21 The Future of Economic Criticisms Past 237 Supritha Rajan 22 History/Historicism 248 Catherine Gallagher 23 Liberalism and Citizenship 260 Helen Small PART IV Formulations of Identity 271 24 Feminism and the Canon 273 Talia Schaffer 25 Gender and Sexuality 284 Duc Dau 26 New Woman Writing 296 Molly Youngkin 27 Disability Studies 307 Martha Stoddard Holmes 28 The Concept of Class in Victorian Studies 319 Carolyn Betensky 29 Race: Tracing the Contours of a Long Nineteenth Century 330 Irene Tucker 30 The Emergence of Animal Studies 342 Martin Danahay and Deborah Denenholz Morse PART V Science and Spirit 355 31 Technology and Literature 357 Richard Menke 32 Brain Science 368 Anne Stiles 33 British Psychology in the Nineteenth Century 377 Suzanne Keen vii Contents 34 Anthropology and Classical Evolutionism 389 Kathy Alexis Psomiades 35 Geology and Paleontology 401 Ralph O’Connor 36 New Religions and Esotericism 414 Christine Ferguson 37 Studies of Christianity and Judaism 426 Mark Knight PART VI Spatiality and Environment 437 38 Domesticity 439 Melissa Valiska Gregory 39 Regionalism and Provincialism: Where Is the Local? 449 Mary Ellis Gibson 40 Postcolonial 462 Sukanya Banerjee 41 Travel Writing 473 Andrea Kaston Tange 42 Settler Colonialism 485 Tamara S. Wagner 43 Victorians in the Anthropocene 496 Jesse Oak Taylor 44 Why Victorian Ecocriticism Matters 506 Lynn Voskuil 45 Industry 517 Siobhan Carroll Notes on Contributors 527 Index 536 viii ILLUSTRATIONS Ch. 3, Tab. 1 Short Fiction and Serial Fiction by Elizabeth Gaskell 38 Ch. 4, Tab. 1 Number of Publications Listed in the MLA Bibliography in Each Genre from 1920 to 2018 49 Ch. 4, Fig. 1 Visualization of Number of Publications Listed by MLA in Each Genre from 1920 to 2018 50 Ch. 4, Fig. 2 P ercentages of Total Publications for Each Genre Listed by MLA from 1920 to 2018 51 Ch. 16, Fig. 1 Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, “Death of Elaine” (sitters Charles Hay Cameron, William Warder, Mrs. Hardinge, unknown man, unknown woman), albumen print, 1875 189 Ch. 30, Fig. 1 Citations of Animal Studies from 1930 to 2019 343 Ch. 43, Fig. 1 H enry De la Beche, “Awful Changes.” Buckland, Francis T., Curiosities of Natural History . 2nd ed. Richard Bentley, 1858, frontispiece 499 ix
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