Manchester University Press
Series editors:
Anna Barton, University of Sheffield
Andrew Smith, University of Sheffield
Editorial board:
David Amigoni, Keele University
Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck, University of
London
Philip Holden, National University of
Singapore
Jerome McGann, University of Virginia
Joanne Wilkes, University of Auckland
Julia M. Wright, Dalhousie University
‘Rethinking the Nineteenth Century’ is a new
series that seeks to make a significant
intervention into the critical narratives that dominate conventional and
established understandings of nineteenth-century literature. Informed by the
latest developments in criticism and theory the series will provide a focus for
how texts from the long nineteenth century, and more recent adaptations of
them, revitalise our knowledge of and engagement with the period. It will
explore the radical possibilities offered by new methods, unexplored contexts
and neglected authors and texts to re-map the literary-cultural landscape of
the period and rigorously re-imagine its geographical and historical
parameters. To that end the series welcomes provocative approaches to the
literature of the long nineteenth century that will contribute to or ignite
debate on any aspect of nineteenth-century literature. Relevant topics include
but are not limited to: the development of the period from ‘Romantic’ to
‘Victorian’ to ‘Modern’ and the complex inheritances that make up and/or
challenge the genealogy of the long nineteenth century (1780-1914); the global
contexts within which literary and cultural exchanges take place throughout the
period; the opportunities provided by cross-disciplinary approaches to rethink
the literary in relation to different kinds of textual production and knowledge
exchange; and the presence of the nineteenth-century in contemporary literature
and culture and the development of the neo-Victorian, which uses text and
non-text based media to deconstruct, reconstruct and market the
nineteenth-century in ways that might illuminate our own.
Please send expressions of interest to:
Andrew Smith: andrew.smith1@sheffield.ac.uk
