Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide by Anne-Florence Gilla... - 9781138572041

Taylor & Francis

Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist DivideRemapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature, Culture and the Visual Arts\nAuthor(s): Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada, Anne Besnault-Levita\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138572041, 978-1138572041\nSynopsis\nBeyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide contributes to a new phase in the Victorian-modern debate of traditional periodization through the perspective lens of literature and the visual arts. Breaking away from conventionally fixed discourses and dichotomies, this book utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the existence of overlaps and unexplored continuities between the Victorians, the post-Victorians and the modernists, including the fields of music, architecture, design, science, and social life. Furthermore, the book remaps the cultural history of two critical meta-narratives and their interdependence the myth of \""high modernism\"" and the myth of .