Book contents
- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s
- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition
- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 On the Eve
- Chapter 2 ‘An Infectious Madness’
- Chapter 3 Augustus Hardin Beaumont, Slavery Apologias, and Popular Radical Literature in the 1830s
- Chapter 4 Patterns of Industry
- Chapter 5 Mother Earth
- Chapter 6 The Polite Fictions of Slavery
- Chapter 7 Suffering, Sentiment, and the Rise of Humanitarian Literature in the 1830s
- Chapter 8 Steam and Iron in the 1830s
- Chapter 9 Lithography and the Comic Image 1825–1840
- Chapter 10 Jorrocks’s Canon
- Chapter 11 Tennyson, Dickens, Poe, Browning, and the Brontës:Blackwood’s Magazine and ‘The Foreheads of a New Generation’
- Chapter 12 Boz in London: The 1830s and the Urban Turn in the English Novel
- Chapter 13 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Chronicler of the 1830s
- Chapter 14 Railway Imaginary in the 1830s
- Chapter 15 The Emerging Language of Photography
- Afterword
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 May 2024
Book contents
- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s
- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition
- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 On the Eve
- Chapter 2 ‘An Infectious Madness’
- Chapter 3 Augustus Hardin Beaumont, Slavery Apologias, and Popular Radical Literature in the 1830s
- Chapter 4 Patterns of Industry
- Chapter 5 Mother Earth
- Chapter 6 The Polite Fictions of Slavery
- Chapter 7 Suffering, Sentiment, and the Rise of Humanitarian Literature in the 1830s
- Chapter 8 Steam and Iron in the 1830s
- Chapter 9 Lithography and the Comic Image 1825–1840
- Chapter 10 Jorrocks’s Canon
- Chapter 11 Tennyson, Dickens, Poe, Browning, and the Brontës:Blackwood’s Magazine and ‘The Foreheads of a New Generation’
- Chapter 12 Boz in London: The 1830s and the Urban Turn in the English Novel
- Chapter 13 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Chronicler of the 1830s
- Chapter 14 Railway Imaginary in the 1830s
- Chapter 15 The Emerging Language of Photography
- Afterword
- Index
Summary
The Introduction to this book offers an overview of the literary culture of the 1830s. It explores existing literary-critical approaches to the decade’s culture, and considers why the decade has proved so resistant to absorption in literary genealogies. This is a consequence of the decade’s own uncertainty about and self-conscious analysis of its literary temporality. The Introduction proposes that the 1830s are uniquely placed to direct the future interests of contemporary literary studies.
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