Book contents
- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1870s
- Nineteenth-Century Literature In Transition
- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1870s
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The 1870s and the Invention of Victorian Literature
- Chapter 2 Media Technologies, the Organisation of Knowledge, and 1870s Literary Culture
- Chapter 3 Assembling the 1870s
- Chapter 4 Feminism, Reform, and the Professional Woman Writer in the 1870s
- Chapter 5 The ‘High Victorian’
- Chapter 6 Middlemarch, High Realism, and the Victorian Everyday
- Chapter 7 The Post-sensational Seventies
- Chapter 8 The Shock of Aestheticism
- Chapter 9 ‘Verses, Good and Bad’
- Chapter 10 The Comings and Goings of High Victorian Nonsense
- Chapter 11 Transforming Pages
- Chapter 12 Literature, Science, and the Voice of the 1870s
- Chapter 13 A ‘sweet especial rural scene’? Nature, Culture, and Agriculture in the 1870s
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Assembling the 1870s
Digital Studies and Literary History
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Book contents
- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1870s
- Nineteenth-Century Literature In Transition
- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1870s
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The 1870s and the Invention of Victorian Literature
- Chapter 2 Media Technologies, the Organisation of Knowledge, and 1870s Literary Culture
- Chapter 3 Assembling the 1870s
- Chapter 4 Feminism, Reform, and the Professional Woman Writer in the 1870s
- Chapter 5 The ‘High Victorian’
- Chapter 6 Middlemarch, High Realism, and the Victorian Everyday
- Chapter 7 The Post-sensational Seventies
- Chapter 8 The Shock of Aestheticism
- Chapter 9 ‘Verses, Good and Bad’
- Chapter 10 The Comings and Goings of High Victorian Nonsense
- Chapter 11 Transforming Pages
- Chapter 12 Literature, Science, and the Voice of the 1870s
- Chapter 13 A ‘sweet especial rural scene’? Nature, Culture, and Agriculture in the 1870s
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter argues that the 1870s witnessed the final hegemony of a cause-and-effect form of thick temporality that arguably still dominates our lives. It asks if digital tools open up alternative ways of thinking about chronology, our experience of time, and the possibility of action. The chapter examines two digital projects that change how we approach the 1870s: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History or BRANCH at branchcollective.org, and Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education or COVE at covecollective.org.
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- Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1870s , pp. 64 - 84Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025