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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: A Moment, Recalled
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En-Gendering Debates: Masculinity, Femininity and National Identity
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Cultural Formations and Modes of Production
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About this book
The Victorian period was one of enormous cultural diversity with places for figures as different as Alfred Tennyson and Oscar Wilde. Victorian Identities simultaneously celebrates that diversity whilst drawing out the connections between disparate voices. With essays on the 'Greats' of the period - Dickens, Tennyson, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins and Wilde - as well as on the less well-known sensation writer, Rhoda Broughton, and on the formation of children's voices in Victorian literature - the collection rejects narrow definitions of the period and its values, and exposes its texts to readings informed by contemporary literary theory.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Author Julian Wolfreys: Julian Wolfreys is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA. His teaching and research is concerned with 19th- and 20th-century British literary and cultural studies, literary theory, the poetics and politics of identity, and the idea of the city. He is the series editor of Transitions and has written many course texts for Literature students, notably The English Literature Companion.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Victorian Identities
Book Subtitle: Social and Cultural Formations in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Editors: Ruth Robbins, Julian Wolfreys
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24349-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1996
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-12850-0Due: 06 December 1995
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-24349-5Published: 06 December 1995
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 256