Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1870s

Alison Chapman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Professor in the English Department, University of Victoria, Canada. Her publications include Networking the Nation: British and American Women Poets and Italy, 1840-1870 (2015) and she is the general editor of Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry.

Introduction: rethinking the 1870s Alison Chapman; 1. The 1870s and the invention of Victorian literature Kelly J. Mays; 2. Media technologies, the organization of knowledge, and 1870s literary culture James Mussell; 3. Assembling the 1870s: digital studies and literary history Emily Allen and Dino Franco Felluga; 4. Feminism, reform, and the professional woman writer in the 1870s Karen Bourrier; 5. The 'High Victorian' Francis O'Gorman; 6. Middlemarch, high realism, and the Victorian everyday Ruth Livesey; 7. The post-sensational seventies Albert D. Pionke; 8. The shock of aestheticism: embodiment, abstraction, and the avant-garde as commodity Veronica Alfano; 9. 'Verses, Good and Bad': ephemerality, modernity, and 1870s poetry cultures Alison Chapman; 10. The comings and goings of high Victorian nonsense Anna Barton; 11. Transforming pages: illustration, materiality, and the child reader in the 1870s Hannah Field; 12. Literature, science, and the voice of the 1870s Gregory Tate; 13. A 'sweet especial rural scene'? Nature, culture, and agriculture in the 1870s Philip Steer.