Introduction: Victorian Investments

Schmitt, Cannon; Henry, Nancy; Arondekar, Anjali

doi:10.2979/vic.2002.45.1.7

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“…A recent editorial in Victorian Studies noted the remarkable similarities between the collapse of the 1990s dot.com bubble and the 1840s railway mania, as well as the Enron corruption scandal and the notorious collapse of the firm of Overend and Gurney in 1866. 86 Significantly, Victorian Studies is an American publication. It may well be that the world's leading superpower still has a lot to learn from the first superpower of the modern age.…”

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What is Interdisciplinary about Victorian History today?

McWilliam¹

2005

19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

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In the 1990s, scholars rediscovered melodrama. 1 Melodramatic language and styles of performance were held to have shaped forms of self presentation. Popular radicalism and even the culture of elections allegedly followed a melodramatic script. This 'melodramatic turn' was experienced in History, Literature and Art History. What concerns us here is that melodrama's impact on nineteenth-century culture excited a lively conversation between academic disciplines which was symptomatic of a wider shift in the way that the Victorians were being discussed in the academy. New understandings of the Victorians (and much else) required that formal disciplinary boundaries could no longer be policed in a dogmatic way. New kinds of academic conversation were apparently becoming possible.We hear a lot about interdisciplinarity these days. 5 In a variety of locations and sitesin the British Association of Victorian Studies, the North American Victorian Studies

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confidence: 99%