A strikingly interdisciplinary figure in Victorian literary history, Grant Allen (1848 - 99) has thus far managed to elude the focused scrutiny of contemporary scholarship. This collection offers a valuable analytical and bibliographical resource for the exploration of the man and his work. Grant Allen was a prolific novelist, essayist, and man of letters, who is best remembered today for his Woman Who Did (1895), which gained fame and notoriety almost overnight through its exploration of female independence and sexuality outside marriage, precipitating rabid denunciations of the 'new woman'. Allen engaged with a span of literary and cultural concerns in the late-Victorian period that extended beyond gender politics, however; equally important was his sustained intervention in debates about Darwinism, Spencerism, and evolution, on which subjects he was recognized as an authority and as the foremost popularizer alongside T. H. Huxley and Benjamin Kidd. Not only did Allen's work link the literary and the scientific, it traversed the boundaries between elite and popular culture, demonstrating their interconnectedness. This was notable in his travel and environmental writings and in his experiments in orientalist and detective fiction, fantasy, and science fiction. The contributors to this collection approach the figure of Allen from diverse fields within Victorian studies, showing him to be a late-Victorian innovator but also an example of fin-de-siecle modernity. Grant Allen: Literature and Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siecle revisits the richly variegated profile of one of the most intriguing and significant polymaths of the turn of the century, recognizing his contribution to and influence on the key modernizing debates of the period.
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William Greenslade is the Principal Lecturer in English at the University of the West of England, UK. Terence Rodgers is the Head of the Department of Media Communications and Cultural Studies at Bath Spa University College, UK.
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'On the whole I was pleasantly surprised with Grant Allen; he is a simple, genial fellow, absorbed in scientific studies-caring not a rap for the kind of work by which he lives', wrote George Gissing to his brother in June 1895 after a weekend as the guest of Edward Clodd. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
selective gaze, new hedonism, courtship conventions, romantic closure, illustrated magazine, romance plot Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Grant Allen, Cornhill Magazine, Pall Mall Gazette, The British Barbarians, Westminster Gazette, Fortnightly Review, New Woman, Post-Prandial Philosophy, Grant Richards, English Illustrated Magazine, Arbuthnot Wilson, Herbert Spencer, New York, Colin Clout's Calendar, Naturalist's Year, Edward Clodd, Oscar Wilde, Charles Darwin, John Lane, Andrew Lang, Longmans Magazine, Oxford University Press, Saturday Review, What's Bred, Contemporary Review New!
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'On the whole I was pleasantly surprised with Grant Allen; he is a simple, genial fellow, absorbed in scientific studies-caring not a rap for the kind of work by which he lives', wrote George Gissing to his brother in June 1895 after a weekend as the guest of Edward Clodd. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
selective gaze, new hedonism, courtship conventions, romantic closure, illustrated magazine, romance plot Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Grant Allen, Cornhill Magazine, Pall Mall Gazette, The British Barbarians, Westminster Gazette, Fortnightly Review, New Woman, Post-Prandial Philosophy, Grant Richards, English Illustrated Magazine, Arbuthnot Wilson, Herbert Spencer, New York, Colin Clout's Calendar, Naturalist's Year, Edward Clodd, Oscar Wilde, Charles Darwin, John Lane, Andrew Lang, Longmans Magazine, Oxford University Press, Saturday Review, What's Bred, Contemporary Review New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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