Through its examinations of a wide range of texts and writers, Re-reading the Age of Innovation re-reads these texts as part of an age of innovation characterized not by division and divide, but by collaboration and community.

Introduction Louise Kane Part I: Inventing and Innovating: Science, Technology, Formal ExperimentChapter 1 The Sky as Heterotopia in Dickens, Gissing, and Woolf Claes E. LindskogChapter 2 The Rise and Fall of the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1881–1930)Jayme YahrChapter 3 Balloonomania: Flying Machines, Periodicals, and the Trajectory of World Literature Louise Kane Chapter 4A Metaphysical Theatre: Abstract Painting, Color Music, and Futurist Experiments in Avant-Garde Film Christopher TownsendPart II: Changing Landscapes: Empire, Trade, EcologyChapter 5 Histories Yet to Come: Adventure Fiction and the Ideologies of Free TradeKeith ClavinChapter 6 Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim and the Failure of Empire Camelia Raghinaru Chapter 7 Uncertainty, Doubt, and Belief in the Poetic Landscapes of T.S. Eliot and Thomas Hardy Anna BedsolePart III: Navigating Feeling: the Self, Empathy, Human Character Chapter 8 F. Mabel Robinson, Vernon Lee, and George Moore: the Aesthetics of Sympathy and Texts of TransitionKathryn LaingChapter 9 Racial Exposé and the Empathic Mind in Walter Francis White's The Fire in the Flint Masami SugimoriChapter 10 A Writerly Communion: Browning, Balzac, and Catholicism in Edith Wharton’s "The Duchess at Prayer"Nancy Von RoskPart IV: Blurring Boundaries: Gender, Sexuality, DesireChapter 11 "Disposed to Daring Innovation": New Modernism, New Woman Fiction, and New MotherhoodElizabeth PodnieksChapter 12 "Sometimes I Pose, but Sometimes I Pose as Posing": Stella Benson’s Early Fiction Nicola DarwoodChapter 13 Parsing Between-ness: Love, Looking Backward and Forward, in Charlotte Mew’s Short Fiction Kristen RenziChapter 14 The Spirit of Contemporary Life: Icelandic Queer ModernismÁsta Kristín BenediktsdóttirAfterwordRegenia Gagnier