Victorian hybridities : cultural anxiety and formal innovation
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Victorian hybridities : cultural anxiety and formal innovation
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010
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Available at 4 libraries
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Originally appeared in Studies in English literature 1500-1900, v. 48.4, 2008
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, European society struggled to adapt to numerous challenges to traditional knowledge systems. In response to an increasing confusion of standard forms, Victorian thinkers and writers developed and amplified the concept of "hybridity." Victorian Hybridities shows that writers of the period not only addressed hybridity as a subject but also embodied it through a great variety of blended genres and discursive mixes. With remarkable cohesiveness, the contributors to this volume cover a wide range of Victorian texts-both canonical and lesser known-to consider how the artistic and scientific communities understood and enacted the period's rapidly changing socioeconomic and cultural landscapes. Discussions of everything from climate change and sustainability to race, culture, and politics increasingly rely upon the terms hybrid and hybridity. Examining an early historical manifestation of such discourse refines and directs not only scholarly work in Victorian studies but also these contemporary discussions. Introduced by U. C.
Knoepflmacher, the collection includes his personal recommended reading list for those who wish to delve further into this topic. Students and scholars of postcolonial and Victorian literature and culture will welcome the availability of this fine collection.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Hybrid Forms and Cultural Anxiety
Part I: Formal Hybrids
Chapter 1. Arnold's Arrhythmia
Chapter 2. Browning's Grafts
Chapter 3. Elizabeth Barrett's and Alfred Tennyson's Authorial and Formal Links
Chapter 4. The "Prophet-Poet's Book"
Chapter 5. Sketches by Boz, "So Frail a Machine"
Part II: Discursive Hybrids
Chapter 6. Grafting A Christmas Carol
Chapter 7. Dialectics of Social Class in the Gilbert and Sullivan Collaboration
Chapter 8. Anonyma's Authors
Chapter 9. The "Spasmodic" Hoaxes of W. E. Aytoun and A . C. Swinburne
Chapter 10. Domestic Hybrids: Ruskin, Victorian Fiction, and Darwin's Botany
Part III: Cultural Hybrids
Chapter 11. Robert Louis Stevenson's South Seas Crossings
Chapter 12. Florence Marryat's Female Vampire and the Scientizing of Hybridity
Chapter 13. Assyrian Monsters and Domestic Chimeras
Chapter 14. A South Kensington Gateway from Gwalior to Nowhere
Chapter 15. Kipling's "Mixy" Creatures
Recommended Reading
List of Contributors
Index
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