Title Beyond the Victorian/modernist divide : remapping the turn-of-the-century break in literature, culture and the visual arts / edited by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada, Anne Besnault-Levita

Published New York, NY ; Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 235 pages) : illustrations Series Among the Victorians and modernists Among the Victorians and modernists. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; PART I: Questioning Labels and Periodization: Toward New Literary Genealogies; 1 Crossing the Victorian/Modernist Divide: From Multiple Histories to Flexible Futures; 2 Victorian Gothic and Gothic Modernism: Remapping Literary History across the Centuries; 3 Between the â#x80;#x9C;English nuvvleâ#x80;#x9D; and the â#x80;#x9C;Novel of Aloofnessâ#x80;#x9D;: Charles Dickensâ#x80;#x99;s Proto-(High) Modernism; 4 Impressions of Modernity: May Sinclair, Ford Madox Ford and the First World War 5 Currents of Art and Streams of Consciousness: Charting the Edwardian Novel6 â#x80;#x9C;Reading the Two Things at the Same Timeâ#x80;#x9D;: Victorian Modernism in To the Lighthouse; PART II: Art History and the Visual Arts across the Victorian/Modernist Divide; 7 The Greek Body and the Formalist Quest across the Divide: From Aestheticism to Bloomsbury Painting; 8 The Velazquez Aesthetic: John Singer Sargent, Impressionism, and Victorian Modernism; 9 Pioneers of Modern Design: From the Cole Circle to Walter Gropius; PART III: Interdisciplinary Approaches 10 Dorothy Bussy, the Strachey Family, and Sapphic Literature11 An Entomology of Literature: Male Taxonomies and Female Antennae from Mrs Gaskell to Virginia Woolf; 12 Victorian Song across the Modernist Divide: From Edmund Gosse to T.S. Eliot; 13 Rhythm and the Measures of the Modern; Index; Blank Page Summary Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide contributes to a new phase in the Victorian-modern debate of traditional periodization through the perspective lens of literature and the visual arts. Breaking away from conventionally fixed discourses and dichotomies, this book utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the existence of overlaps and unexplored continuities between the Victorians, the post-Victorians and the modernists, including the fields of music, architecture, design, science, and social life. Furthermore, the book remaps the cultural history of two critical meta-narratives and their interdependence - the myth of "high modernism" and the myth of "Victorianism"--By building on recent scholarly work and addressing the question of the "turn of the century break theory" with a new set of arguments and contributions. The essays presented within acknowledge the existence of a break-theory in modernism, but question this theory by re-contextualising it while uncovering long-masked continuities between artists, genres and forms across the divide. The collection offers a new approach to modernism, Edwardianism, and Victorianism; utilizing the cross-fertilisation of interdisciplinary approaches, and by combining contributions that look forward from the Victorians with other contributions that look backward from the modernists. While literary modernism and its vexed relationships with the nineteenth century is a central subject of the book, further analysis includes artistic discourses and theories stemming from history, the visual arts, science, music and design. Each chapter offers a fresh interpretation of individual artists, navigating away from characteristic classifications of works, authors and cultural phenomena. Ultimately, the volume argues that though periodization and genre categories play substantial roles in this divide, it is also essential to be critically aware of the way cultural history has been, and continues to be, constructed Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 19, 2018) Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Art and literature English literature Modernism (Literature) Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Gillard-Estrada, Anne-Florence, editor Besnault-Levita, Anne, editor ISBN 9781351333238 1351333232

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