The changing faces and spaces of <scp>V</scp>ictorian studies

Pykett, Lyn

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“…In her account of the 'global turn' in Victorian Studies, Lyn Pykett describes how 'the resolutely British and monarchist import of the term 'Victorian' has [ … ] limited our capacity to recognise and explore the importance of the relations between nations, and the operations of empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries'. 15 In a similar vein, the editors of a 2015 special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies call on scholars in the field to examine neo-Victorianism as a commodity produced and consumed globally, beyond the boundaries of Britain, the former British Empire, and the English language. 16 This article intervenes in this ongoing project to 'world' Victorian Studies and Neo-Victorian Studies by providing an account of the relations between the British heritage industry and Japan, a country which had come under British influence in the nineteenth century but had never been part of Britain's formal empire.…”

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Japanese tourists in Victorian Britain: Japanese women and the British heritage industry

Loh

2018

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Japanese tourists in Victorian Britain: Japanese women and the British heritage industry

Loh

2018

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Troubling Conjugal Loyalties: The First Indian Novel in English and the Transimperial Framework of Sensation

Banerjee

2014

Victorian Literature and Culture

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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee(1838–94) is widely recognized as one of the preeminent novelists of nineteenth-century India. A literary forerunner of the much-celebrated Rabindranath Tagore, he authored fourteen Bengali novels which set the benchmark for Bengal's foray into novelistic territory. Bankim acquired national and international repute over the course of his lifetime, and not only were his novels translated into other Indian languages over the course of the nineteenth century, but translations of his work also appeared in Russia from as early as the 1870s (Novikova ii). While Bankim's fame rests on the strength of his Bengali writings multiply translated as they were, his first novel,Rajmohan's Wife(1864), was written in English. Interestingly,Rajmohan's Wife, usually considered the first Indian novel in English, is now seldom read, a neglect replicating the scant attention that the novel garnered when it was first serialized in the 1860s.

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Toward a Multilingual Victorian Transatlanticism

Reeder¹

2021

Victorian Literature and Culture

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This essay argues that scholarship being done under the sign of transatlantic studies, and Victorian transatlantic studies in particular, is problematically focused on the anglophone northern Atlantic region. Challenging both the essentialness and the disciplinary primacy of the “special relationship” between Britain and the United States, I argue instead that the entire nineteenth-century Atlantic world was a geographically and linguistically permeable space. Paying attention to crossings from north to south and vice versa is both methodologically and ethically necessary. From a methodological perspective, it can help us produce much more thorough answers to the questions transatlantic studies purports to ask about identity and community. But reading beyond anglophone British and U.S. American texts can also help us decolonize our reading and thinking. Of course, work like this requires scholars to read in second and third languages; as such, this essay discusses and denaturalizes the institutional barriers to multilingual English studies. It also offers a case study—a brief reading of a novel by Argentine writer Vicente Fidel López—demonstrating the insights that can be gained by expanding both our geographic perspective and our methodological toolbox.

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The changing faces and spaces of Victorian studies

Cited by 3 publications

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Japanese tourists in Victorian Britain: Japanese women and the British heritage industry

Japanese tourists in Victorian Britain: Japanese women and the British heritage industry

Troubling Conjugal Loyalties: The First Indian Novel in English and the Transimperial Framework of Sensation

Toward a Multilingual Victorian Transatlanticism

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