Come along to here our series editors in discussion about Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition
Join us at the bookshop to hear from the editors of our series, Nineteenth Century Literature in Transition.
This series aims to move beyond existing preconceptions of the British literature of each decade of the nineteenth century (‘the reforming thirties’, the ‘hungry forties’, and the ‘naughty nineties’) in favour of a mode of characterization that considers each ten-year period as a dynamic field of synchronic and diachronic forces, and as sites of energetic tension between what came before and what followed. Viewing the decade as a vivid and relational concept will reinvigorate critical understanding of British literary production and consumption in a century in which unprecedented historical self-reflexivity ensured concepts of a ‘century’ and a ‘decade’ became important structures for lived experience. As literacy increased to near-ubiquity and modern print media emerged, British literature evolved as a set of social practices and expressive modalities. The volumes in this series produce fresh characterizations enabled by attention to recent (particularly digital) methodologies, as well as by examination of nineteenth-century concerns that continue to shape our contemporary world, such as globalization, the refugee crisis, and the changing nature of war. Each volume places British literary history within transnational and global contexts, and, although rooted in the study of literary texts, works within an explicitly interdisciplinary frame of reference. This series represents a unique and innovative approach to the nineteenth century. It acknowledges the enormity of the changes witnessed by that period, and investigates the ways in which literature colludes with and contests the century’s shifting contours.
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