Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide: Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature, Culture and the Visual Arts

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: Questioning Labels and Periodization: Toward New Literary Genealogies 1 Crossing the Victorian/Modernist Divide: From Multiple Histories to Flexible Futures 2 Victorian Gothic and Gothic Modernism: Remapping Literary History across the Centuries 3 Between the “English nuvvle” and the “Novel of Aloofness”: Charles Dickens’s Proto-(High) Modernism 4 Impressions of Modernity: May Sinclair, Ford Madox Ford and the First World War 5 Currents of Art and Streams of Consciousness: Charting the Edwardian Novel 6 “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 The Greek Body and the Formalist Quest across the Divide: From Aestheticism to Bloomsbury Painting 8 The Velazquez Aesthetic: John Singer Sargent, Impressionism, and Victorian Modernism 9 Pioneers of Modern Design: From the Cole Circle to Walter Gropius PART III: Interdisciplinary Approaches 10 Dorothy Bussy, the Strachey Family, and Sapphic Literature 11 An Entomology of Literature: Male Taxonomies and Female Antennae from Mrs Gaskell to Virginia Woolf 12 Victorian Song across the Modernist Divide: From Edmund Gosse to T.S. Eliot 13 Rhythm and the Measures of the Modern Index