Late Victorian into Modern

Book at Lunchtime, Late Victorian into Modern Late Victorian into
Modern opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of
dimensions, some familiar and some more obscure, of late Victorian
and modern literature and culture, primarily in British
contexts. Late Victorian into Modern emphasises the
in-between: the gradual changeover from one period to the next. The
volume examines shared developments, points out continuities rather
than ruptures, and explores and exploits an understanding of the
late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries as a cultural
moment in which new knowledges were forming with particular speed
and intensity. The organising principle of this book is to retain a
key focus on literary texts, broadly understood to include familiar
categories of genre as well as extra-textual elements such as press
and publishing history, performance events and visual culture,
while remaining keenly attentive to the inter-relations between
text and context in the period. Individual chapters explore such
topics as Celticism, the New Woman, popular fictions, literatures
of empire, aestheticism, periodical culture, political formations,
avant-garde poetics, and theatricality. Late Victorian into
Modern was shortlisted for the Modernist Studies
Association Book Prize for an edition, anthology or essay
collection. Co-editors Laura Marcus (English, University
of Oxford) and Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (English, University
of Oxford) were joined by an expert panel: Michael
Bentley (History, University of St Andrews) Charlotte
Jones (English, University of Oxford) Chairing: Philip
Bullock (Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford)