Margaret Oliphant and George Meredith
Edited by Rebecca N. Mitchell
Click cover to enlarge Booksellers & libraries: | Yearbook of English Studies 49 Modern Humanities Research Association 26 September 2019 • 208pp ISBN: 978-1-781882-95-5 (paperback) Access online: At JSTOR The Yearbook of English Studies for 2019, edited by Rebecca N. Mitchell, brings together two quintessentially Victorian writers, Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) and George Meredith (1828–1909). The two authors share a birth year and an extraordinary writerly range — as well as being successful novelists, both worked as publishers’ readers, art and book reviewers, and essayists — though their personal lives rarely intersected. Both also share the distinction of falling out of scholarly favour through much of the twentieth century, despite their significant popular and critical success in their own lifetimes. This volume leverages recently renewed interest and increased access to Oliphant’s and Meredith’s oeuvres evidenced by, for example, the publication of Routledge’s twenty-five volume Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant (2011–16) and the first academic conference devoted entirely to Meredith, held in 2015. The ten essays gathered here expand our understanding of both by situating them within a fuller range of contemporary contexts and detailing their often prescient engagement with nascent forms and themes. With an especial interest in understudied texts, including Oliphant’s journalism, literary criticism and fin-de-siècle novels, and Meredith’s early poems, along with the novels One of Our Conquerors, Rhoda Fleming, and The Shaving of Shagpat, contributors show that both authors’ publications manifest the governing social concerns of their time, even as they served as an active force in shaping developing conceptions of art, medicine, gender and authorship itself. What emerges is a revisionary account of Oliphant’s and Meredith’s work, arising from and contributing to a more nuanced understanding of the Victorian era. Rebecca N. Mitchell is Reader in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham. Contents:
Bibliography entry: Mitchell, Rebecca N. (ed.), Margaret Oliphant and George Meredith (= Yearbook of English Studies, 49.1 (2019)) First footnote reference: 35 Margaret Oliphant and George Meredith, ed. by Rebecca N. Mitchell (= Yearbook of English Studies, 49.1 (2019)), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Mitchell, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Mitchell, Rebecca N. (ed.). 2019. Margaret Oliphant and George Meredith (= Yearbook of English Studies, 49.1) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Mitchell 2019: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Mitchell 2019: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Margaret-Oliphant-George-Meredith www.mhra.org.uk/publications/yes-49 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
