1st Edition
Grant Allen Literature and Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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A strikingly interdisciplinary figure in Victorian literary history, Grant Allen (1848-1899) has thus far managed to elude the focused scrutiny of contemporary scholarship. This collection offers a valuable analytical and bibliographical resource for the exploration of the man and his work. Grant Allen was a prolific novelist, essayist, and man of letters, who is best remembered today for his The... Read more
Contents: Resituating Grant Allen: writing, radicalism and modernity, William Greenslade and Terence Rodgers; Grant Allen: a biographical essay, Peter Morton; Grant Allen: 'writing to the moment', John Lucas; Grant Allen, Spencer and Darwin, Heather Atchison; 'The romance of race': Grant Allen's science as cultural capital, Lyssa Randolph; The Woman Who Did and 'The girl who didn't': the romance of sexual selection in Grant Allen and Ménie Muriel Dowie, Sabine Ernst; Grant Allen and the new politics, Chris Nottingham; 'Intentional rudeness'?: The British Barbarians and the cultural politics of 1895, Nick Freeman; Grant Allen's impersonal secretaries: rereading The Type-Writer Girl, Leah Price; The detective's Doppelgänger: conflicting states of female consciousness in Grant Allen's detective fiction, Chris Willis; Grant Allen and the business of travel, Jill Steward; The old man and his ghost: Grant Allen, H.G. Wells, and popular anthropology, Patrick Parrinder; Grant Allen's publications: a checklist, Peter Morton; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
William Greenslade is the Principal Lecturer in English at the University of the West of England, UK. Terence Rodgers is the Head of the Department of Media Communications and Cultural Studies at Bath Spa University College, UK.
’Collectively, the essays provide a good intellectual portrait of Allen... a fine job opening up Allen's work for critical discussion.’ Victorian Studies
