Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada & Anne Besnault-Levita, Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide: Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature, Culture and the Visual Arts

Abstract

The question of the Victorian/Modernist divide is a stimulating area of research for both modernist and Victorian scholars. In 2006, Mao & Walkowitz reconsidered the ‘definitions, locations, and producers of “modernism”’, ‘enlarging the period and practices to which the term might refer, embracing a more temporally, geographically, and aesthetically broad cast of characters’. More recently, the 2013 review by Kristin Mahoney entitled ‘The Transition to Modernism: Recent Research on the Victor...