{"product_id":"interventions-rethinking-the-nineteenth-century-9781526108708","title":"Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eaims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and philosophy, the Gothic, anatomical exhibitions, the global spread of liberalism, Anglo-American publishing, Punjabi popular culture and the neo-Victorian in literature, film and performance. By bringing together a broad range of intellectually challenging perspectives, the book offers an engaging critical overview of the field of nineteenth-century literary studies that will appeal both to scholars working within the field and students and teachers encountering this fascinating area of study for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The chapters in this collection demonstrate that the popular is definitely worth further critical scrutiny, with a careful eye on what might be added to the map, what might be deliberately or inadvertently left out, and to what purposes. Although neo-Victorian criticism never quite makes it out of its separate territory in \u003ci\u003eInterventions\u003c\/i\u003e, the book offers further evidence that Victorianists and neo-Victorianists pursue shared routes of critical investigation.’\u003cbr\u003eHelen Davies, Newman University, \u003ci\u003eNeo-Victorian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e 10:2 (2018)\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction – Andrew Smith and Anna Barton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e   Part I: Critical reflections\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   1 On measuring the nineteenth century – John Schad\u003cbr\u003e   2 Literature and science – David Amigoni\u003cbr\u003e   3 Locke in pentameters: Victorian poetry after (or before) posthumousness – Anna Barton\u003cbr\u003e   4 Reading the Gothic and Gothic readers – Andrew Smith\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart II: Rethinking national contexts and exchanges\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   5 The global circulation of Victorian actants and ideas: liberalism and liberalisation   in the niche of nature, culture, and technology – Regenia Gagnier\u003cbr\u003e   6 Literary folk: writing popular culture in colonial Punjab, 1885-1905 – Churnjeet Mahn\u003cbr\u003e   7 ‘Across the waters of this disputed ocean’: the material production of American    literature in nineteenth-century Britain – Katie McGettigan\u003cbr\u003e   8 Gruesome models: European displays of natural history and anatomy and   nineteenth-century literature – Laurence Talairach-Vielmas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e   Part III: Afterlives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   9 Adaptive\/appropriate reuse in neo-Victorian fiction: having one’s cake and eating  it too – Marie-Luise Kohlke\u003cbr\u003e   10 Populism and ideology: nineteenth-century fiction and the cinema – Richard J. Hand\u003cbr\u003e   11 True histories of the Elephant Man: storytelling and theatricality in adaptations of  the life of Joseph Merrick – Benjamin Poore\u003cbr\u003e              Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040980533591,"sku":"9781526108708","price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526108708.jpg?v=1750948478","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/interventions-rethinking-the-nineteenth-century-9781526108708","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}