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Edited by John Juliet

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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture brings together a team of international scholars to offer the most comprehensive interdisciplinary guide to Victorian studies available in print.

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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology, Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief, and Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures), the volume is sub-divided into nine sub-sections each with its own ”lead” essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today”s Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume”s essays: that is, the nature and status of ”literary” culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and established scholars.

Table of contents:
Juliet John: Introduction: Literary Culture and the VictoriansPart I – Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology1: Rae Greiner: The Victorian Subject: Thackeray”s Wartime Subjects2: Trev Broughton: Life Writing and the Victorians3:Josephine Guy: Politics and the Literary4: Ian Haywood: The Literature of Chartism5:Lauren M.E. Goodlad: Liberalism and Literature6: Ayşe Çelikkol: Globalization and Economics7: Kathleen Blake: Political Economy8: Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn: The Victorians, Sex, and Gender9: Teresa Mangum: The New Woman and Her Ageing Other10: Kate Flint: Unspeakable Desires: We Other Victorians11: Holly Furneaux: Victorian Masculinities, or Military Men of Feeling: Domesticity, Militarism, and Manly Sensibility12: Patrick Brantlinger: Empire, Place, and the Victorians13: John Kucich: Organic Imperialism: Fictions of Progressive Social Order at the Colonial Periphery14: Lara Kriegel: The Strange Career of Fair Play, or, Warfare and Gamesmanship in the Time of Victoria15: Melissa Free: British Women Wanted: Gender, Genre, and South African Settlement16: Alex Murray: ”The London Sunday Faded Slow”: Time to Spend in the Victorian CityPart II – Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief17: Emma Mason: Religion, The Bible, and Literature in the Victorian Age18: James Eli Adams: Religion and Sexuality19: Matthew Bradley: Religion and the Canon20: Mark Knight: Religion and Education21:Alice Jenkins: Beyond Two Cultures: Science, Literature, and Disciplinary Boundaries22: Sally Shuttleworth: Science and Periodicals: Animal Instinct and Whispering Machines23: Amy M. King: Victorian Natural Science and the Seashore24: Elizabeth Meadows and Jay Clayton: ”You”ve Got Mail”: Technologies of Communication in Victorian LiteraturePart III – Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures25: Robert L. Patten: The New Cultural Marketplace: Victorian Publishing and Reading Practices26: Joanne Shattock: Literature and the Expansion of the Press27: John Plotz: Materiality in Theory: What to Make of Victorian Things28: John Plunkett: Celebrity Culture29: Jonah Siegel: Victorian Aesthetics30: Carolyn Burdett: Emotions31: Ruth Livesey: Aestheticism and the Politics of Pleasure32: Julia Thomas: Illustrations and the Victorian Novel33: Hilary Fraser: Art and the Literary34: Katherine Newey: Vict