Victorian cultures of liminality : borders and margins
2018
Book
Total copies: 1
This volume is unique in its focus on cross-fertilisation in the arts, on very specific exploration of liminal spaces, and on the representation of marginal figures in writing. The essays here grew out of the Borders and Margins colloquium, held at Leeds Trinity University, UK, in April 2010, which was the fourth in a series of colloquia. This collection, moreover, contributes to a growing area of scholarship which explores Anglo-French interactions and exchanges. In choosing the term "liminality", the editors are aware of its nuanced implications, allowing suggestions both of the initial and the transitional. The contributors here are academics from the fields of literature, history and art history, and their essays cover art history, literature, cultural history, the arts, and faith. Altogether, this collection evokes a sense of temporal shift, in that changes in values and focus are uncovered as the nineteenth century progresses. Some have an ekphrastic quality, showing how pictures can have a narrative, and how pictures, as well as texts, can be encoded with moral and social interpretations. Close scrutiny is applied to different kinds of texts, fiction and non-fiction, and the purposes for which they were produced. This book will appeal to scholars and academics interested in a wide range of cross-categorisational transactions in nineteenth-century Britain. It will be of interest to scholars of Victorian culture, and English nineteenth-century literature and art, particularly in terms of genre, as well as to academics interested in the development of social, personal, and national identities.
Main title:
Victorian cultures of liminality : borders and margins / edited by Amina Alyal, Susan Anderson, Rosemary Mitchell.
Author:
Imprint:
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
Collation:
245 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Includes chapter about Benjamin Rushton of Halifax; 'Hear O our God! For we are despised': The faith and Politics of a Marginalised Methodist Preacher and Radical Activator, Benjamin Rushton of Halifax (1785 - 1853) by John A Hargreaves
ISBN:
9781527508637 (hbk)
Dewey class:
809.93552809.9355 ALY
LC class:
PN51
Language:
English
Subject:
LiminalityLiminality in literatureLiminality in artSpace and time in literatureSpace and time in artEnglish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticismEkphrasisLiterature: history & criticismHistory of artFiction & related itemsHistoryGreat Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th centuryLiterature
BRN:
329350