1st Edition
Re-Reading the Age of Innovation Victorians, Moderns, and Literary Newness, 1830-1950
Introduction
Louise Kane
Part I: Inventing and Innovating: Science, Technology, Formal Experiment
Chapter 1
The Sky as Heterotopia in Dickens, Gissing, and Woolf
Claes E. Lindskog
Chapter 2
The Rise and Fall of the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1881–1930)
Jayme Yahr
Chapter 3
Balloonomania: Flying Machines, Periodicals, and the Trajectory of World Literature
Louise Kane
Chapter 4
A Metaphysical Theatre: Abstract Painting, Color Music, and Futurist Experiments in
Avant-Garde Film
Christopher Townsend
Part II: Changing Landscapes: Empire, Trade, Ecology
Chapter 5
Histories Yet to Come: Adventure Fiction and the Ideologies of Free Trade
Keith Clavin
Chapter 6
Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim and the Failure of Empire
Camelia Raghinaru
Chapter 7
Uncertainty, Doubt, and Belief in the Poetic Landscapes of T.S. Eliot and Thomas Hardy
Anna Bedsole
Part III: Navigating Feeling: the Self, Empathy, Human Character
Chapter 8
F. Mabel Robinson, Vernon Lee, and George Moore: the Aesthetics of Sympathy
and Texts of Transition
Kathryn Laing
Chapter 9
Racial Exposé and the Empathic Mind in Walter Francis White's The Fire in the Flint
Masami Sugimori
Chapter 10
A Writerly Communion: Browning, Balzac, and Catholicism in Edith Wharton’s
"The Duchess at Prayer"
Nancy Von Rosk
Part IV: Blurring Boundaries: Gender, Sexuality, Desire
Chapter 11
"Disposed to Daring Innovation": New Modernism, New Woman Fiction, and New Motherhood
Elizabeth Podnieks
Chapter 12
"Sometimes I Pose, but Sometimes I Pose as Posing": Stella Benson’s Early Fiction
Nicola Darwood
Chapter 13
Parsing Between-ness: Love, Looking Backward and Forward, in Charlotte Mew’s Short Fiction
Kristen Renzi
Chapter 14
The Spirit of Contemporary Life: Icelandic Queer Modernism
Ásta Kristín Benediktsdóttir
Afterword
Regenia Gagnier
Biography
Louise Kane is Assistant Professor of Global Modernisms at the University of Central Florida. She is a General Editor of the forthcoming Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Global Modernist Magazines series and Editor of the James Joyce Literary Supplement.
