ヴィクトリア朝とモダニズムの断絶を超えて：19/20世紀転換期の文学・文化・視覚芸術 Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide : Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature, Culture and the Visual Arts (Among the Victorians and Modernists)

Gillard-Estrada, Anne-Florence (EDT)/ Besnault-Levita, Anne (EDT)

Routledge（2018/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 236 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138572041
• DDC分類 820.9008

Full Description

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.

Contents

Table of contents

Anne Besnault-Levita and Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada: Introduction

Part I Questioning Labels and Periodization: Toward New Literary Genealogies

1 Melba Cuddy-Keane: Crossing the Victorian/Modernist Divide: From Multiple Histories to Flexible Futures

2 Anne Besnault-Levita: Victorian Gothic and Gothic Modernism: Remapping Literary History across the Centuries

3 Georges Letissier: Between the "English nuvvle" and the "Novel of Aloofness": Charles Dickens's Proto-(High) Modernism

4 Charlotte Jones: Impressions of Modernity: May Sinclair, Ford Madox Ford and the First World War

5 Lee Anne M. Richardson: Currents of Art and Streams of Consciousness: Charting the Edwardian Novel

6 Marie Laniel: "Reading the Two Things at the Same Time": Victorian Modernism in To the Lighthouse

Part II Art History and the Visual Arts across the Victorian/Modernist Divide

7 Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada: The Greek Body and the Formalist Quest across the Divide: From Aestheticism to Bloomsbury Painting

8 Liz Renes: The Velazquez Aesthetic: John Singer Sargent, Impressionism, and Victorian Modernism

9 Anna Antonowicz: Pioneers of Modern Design: From the Cole Circle to Walter Gropius

Part III Interdisciplinary Approaches

10 Kathryn Holland: Dorothy Bussy, the Strachey Family, and Sapphic Literature

11 Catherine Lanone: An Entomology of Literature: Male Taxonomies and Female Antennae from Mrs Gaskell to Virginia Woolf

12 Frances Dickey: Victorian Song across the Modernist Divide: From Edmund Gosse to T.S. Eliot

13 Laura Marcus: Rhythm and the Measures of the Modern