Victorian hybridities : cultural anxiety and formal innovation
by
 
Knoepflmacher, U. C.

Title
Victorian hybridities : cultural anxiety and formal innovation

Author
Knoepflmacher, U. C.

ISBN
9780801897863

Publication Information
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Physical Description
viii, 205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

General Note
"The articles in this book originally appeared in SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (Volume 48.4, Autumn 2001)."--T.p. verso.
 
"This first volume reproduces the essays and introduction of a recent special issue of SEL collected around the theme of Victorian Hybridities."--P. vii.

Contents
Formal hybrids. Arnold's arrhythmia / Browning's grafts / Elizabeth Barrett's and Alfred Tennyson's authorial and formal links / The "prophet-poet's book" / Sketches by Boz, "So frail a machine" / Discursive hybrids. Grafting a Christmas Carol / Dialectics of social class in the Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration / Anonyma's authors / The "spasmodic" hoaxes of W. E. Aytoun and A. C. Swinburne / Domestic hybrids : Ruskin, Victorian fiction, and Darwin's botany / Cultural hybrids. Robert Louis Stevenson's South Seas Crossings / Florence Marryat's female vampire and the scientizing of hybridity / Assyrian monsters and domestic chimeras / A South Kensington Gateway from Gwalior to nowhere / Kipling's "mixy" creatures

Subject Term
English prose literature -- 19th century.
 
Cultural fusion in literature.

Added Author
Knoepflmacher, U. C.
 
Browning, Logan Delano.


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