Victorian hybridities : cultural anxiety and formal innovation

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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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Summary

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, European society struggled to adapt to numerous challenges to traditional knowledge systems. In response to an increasing confusion of standard forms, Victorian thinkers and writers developed and amplified the concept of "hybridity." Victorian Hybridities shows that writers of the period not only addressed hybridity as a subject but also embodied it through a great variety of blended genres and discursive mixes.

With remarkable cohesiveness, the contributors to this volume cover a wide range of Victorian texts--both canonical and lesser known--to consider how the artistic and scientific communities understood and enacted the period's rapidly changing socioeconomic and cultural landscapes.

Discussions of everything from climate change and sustainability to race, culture, and politics increasingly rely upon the terms hybrid and hybridity . Examining an early historical manifestation of such discourse refines and directs not only scholarly work in Victorian studies but also these contemporary discussions.

Introduced by U. C. Knoepflmacher, the collection includes his personal recommended reading list for those who wish to delve further into this topic. Students and scholars of postcolonial and Victorian literature and culture will welcome the availability of this fine collection.