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Heine-Jahrbuch 2023
2023 erscheint der 62. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Er versammelt die Beiträge des internationalen Symposiums „Heinrich Heine und die...
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Politics and Policies in Literary Historiography During the Periods of “Disobedience” (1963–1969) and “Normalization” (1969–1989)
The latter half of the 1960s was characterized by a slow but steady liberalization of the Czechoslovak society, culture and scholarship, culminating...
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Literary History Since 1989: Directions, Attempts at Synthesis, Challenges
The year 1989 marked a change in the political system of Czechoslovakia, as in all countries behind the Iron Curtain. Many prominent individuals who...
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Celebrating Finland: Laitinen’s Literary History
In 1967, when Finland was celebrating fifty years of independence, a new, concise literary history by Kai Laitinen was published. The work covers the...
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Literary Histories from Mid-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century: The Viewpoint of Nationalism
Literature created in Finland is of relatively late origin. Only from the nineteenth century onward can we speak of a thriving Finnish literature,...
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Academy of Sciences: Definitive Literary History
Among the three major types of literary histories in Russia, the Academy history traditionally occupies a special place as a “definitive” voice and a...
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Latvian Literary Histories from 1812 to 1940: Popular Enlightenment, Romantic Nationalism, and Political Independence
After the publication of the first Latvian-language texts in the sixteenth century, the literary process long continued to develop without the...
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Swedish-Language Literature in Finland: From a National to a Minority Literature
Along with literature written in Finnish, that written in Swedish has always played a major role in the literature of the country; indeed, down till...
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In Defense of Poesy: Hallila’s Survey of Contemporary Finnish Literature
Somewhat surprisingly, the Varpio literary history did not evoke any public discussion concerning the principles of literary historiography. This may...
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Textbooks in Literary History
Literary history textbooks for secondary and upper secondary schools have always been intertwined not only with the development of literary history...
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Introduction: An Outline of the Political and Cultural Development of Latvia
In Part 2, we trace the main trends occurring in Latvian literary histories. The first books in the Latvian language were printed in the sixteenth...
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The First Czechoslovak Republic: Literary Historiography 1918–1939
World War I not only changed the political map of Europe, but also unsettled or totally shattered many of the structures of prewar societies. As...
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Dust and Sewers, Filth and Waste: “Disgusting” Retro-Speculation in Neo-Victorian Narratives
This chapter investigates neo-Victorian material culture and more specifically the way in which neo-Victorian writing engages with Victorian...
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Neo-Victorian Victoria(s) on Screen
In this chapter, Friars and DeMerchant explore neo-Victorian representations of Queen Victoria on film from 1913–2019, with a focused analysis of two...
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Introduction
The introduction provides an overview of neo-Victorianism, giving a brief history; defining it as a term, genre, and discipline; and identifying its...
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Victorian Women’s Hysteria and Neo-Victorian Women’s Madness
From a modern perspective, most Victorians seemed to have been obsessed about controlling women, subjugating the animal within men, and adjudicating...
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Epilogue
Beginning with A. S. Byatt’s Possession of 1990, Ayres suggests that, despite the plethora of critical attention already paid to Byatt, there is more...
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Misfits and Queers: Alienism, Detective Agency, and Neo-Victorian Investigation in The Alienist(s)
One of the subgenres in neo-Victorian writing that has had a great deal of interest and success is a revisioning of the detective novel. These texts...
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Postcolonial and Global Neo-Victorianisms
The theoretical and practical twin interventions of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s “Three Women’s Texts and a...
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Neo-Victorian Violence
Although violence has been critically examined in relation to neo-Victorian subgenres—such as trauma, crime and Gothicism—the nature, form, and...