Regenia Gagnier

Biographic Data

ID292749
NAMERegenia Gagnier
GIVEN NAMESRegenia
FAMILY NAMEGagnier
SIGNATUREGAGNIER R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Exeter
ORCID0000-0001-6351-5798
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS50
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT50
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • The Geopolitics of Beauty

    Open AccessRegenia GagnierARTICLE19 Interdisciplinary Studies in…2023

    Building on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and instrumentality and their corrosive effects on social life. Readers of 19 will be familiar with the Victorian …

  • The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK

    Open AccessRegenia GagnierARTICLELiterature Compass2023References: 3

    Will students raised on social media still read English literature? What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India, Australasia, the USA? What is the role of English language in relation to other global and local languages? What is the role of decolonising efforts? How do our respective state apparatuses affect language and literature teaching? Part I ‘International Perspectives on English Language and Literature’ summarises th…

  • From barbarism to decadence without the intervening civilization: Or, living in the aftermath of anticipated futures

    Open AccessRegenia GagnierARTICLEFeminist Modernist Studies2021

    The styles, moods, performances, and practices of decadence have been simultaneous with modernization, not least in the process of nation-building. This article considers the dialectics of decadence and modernization with particular attention to the roles and responses of women in the twentieth to twenty-first centuries. World-historically, this was the emergence of self-governing dominions of Anglophone cultures, increasing US influence, and dec…

  • The Geopolitics of Decadence

    Open AccessRegenia GagnierARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2021References: 1

    The conditions of rapid change and modernization that swept the world from the second half of the nineteenth century enforced the new nationalisms, imperialisms, racisms, anti-Semitisms, and, more positively, sexualities that are again sweeping the world today. The longue durée of modern globalization that began with British industrialization continues with our contemporary forms of technological expansion, international competition, populist dis…

  • Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century

    Open AccessRegenia GagnierBOOKLiteratures of Liberalization2018

  • Global Circulation

    Open AccessRegenia GagnierARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2018

    performing more than one genre at once and signifying a text's ability to move in multiple directions simultaneously. Attending more closely to any one of the above generic categories would surely yield a rich series of claims about the poem's interpretation and use, both for Rossetti's readers and today's, but my main point is to sketch the ways in which genre becomes more dynamic as it functions within history, not less. Developing an increasin…

  • Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century

    Regenia GagnierBOOKLiteratures of Liberalization2018

  • A Symbiological Approach to Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Anthropocene

    Regenia GagnierARTICLEAngelaki2017References: 19

    This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record

  • China in the 21st Century: On Borrowing, Translation, and Mixed Economies

    Open AccessLu Jiande, Regenia GagnierARTICLELiterature Compass2015References: 6

    Chinoiserie – the European appropriation of “China” – has counterparts in Zhongxi hebi and nalai zhuyi . Part I, “Translating Literatures,” shows that creative translation and borrowing are indigenous to modern China. From the Sino‐Japanese War in 1894, when foreign novels were regarded as a primary requirement for social and cultural rebirth, modern Chinese literature was inseparable from the introduction of world literature into China. The pion…

  • Introduction: Victorian studies, world literatures, and globalisation

    Open AccessRegenia GagnierARTICLECritical Quarterly2013

  • The Global Circulation of the Literatures of Decadence

    Open AccessRegenia GagnierARTICLELiterature Compass2013Cited by: 1References: 8

    This article for the Global Circulation Project http://literature‐compass.com/global‐circulation‐project/ begins to test whether the author’s previous characterization of British and European Decadence – as textual and social strategies used to critique the relation of part to whole, especially the individual in relation to the State, or subordinate States in relation to dominant – might also be relevant outside Britain, Europe and North America.…

  • The Global Circulation of Charles Dickens’s Novels

    Open AccessRegenia GagnierARTICLELiterature Compass2013References: 8

    Following previous contributions on Dickens within the Global Circulation Project, this essay synthesizes research on the global circulation of Dickens in this year of his Bicentenary 2012. It has two sections, beginning with the state of Dickens in the local environment of the UK and moving to the place of Dickens in current debates about World Literatures and Translation Studies. Its second and main section focuses on Dickens outside Britain, E…

  • The Global Circulation Project’s Forum on Global Modernisms

    Open AccessL Doyle, Regenia GagnierARTICLELiterature Compass2012

  • Whither Victorian Studies? The View from Banavsa

    Open AccessRegenia GagnierARTICLEVictoriographies2011

    This address by the President of the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) and the 2010 keynote speaker at the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) takes an overview of the professional state of Victorian Studies in Britain and North America in their institutional contexts. It focuses on new work in literature and science/technology studies, new formalisms, and new collaborative projects in digital humanities that are b…

  • Introduction: Individuals-in-Relation

    Open AccessRegenia GagnierCHAPTERIndividualism, Decadence and…2010

    This book began with points to which I kept returning since I began to write on the nineteenth century and social theory. These included, first, Holbrook Jackson's description of the 1890s as "a decade singularly rich in ideas, personal genius and social will" whose "central characteristic was a widespread concern for the correct — the most effective, most powerful, most righteous — mode of living."1 Second, the compatibility in that period of in…

  • Individualism, Decadence and Globalization: On the Relationship of Part to Whole, 1859-1920

    Open AccessRegenia GagnierBOOKIndividualism, Decadence and…2010

    Beginning with a widespread definition of Decadence as when individual parts flourish at the expense of the whole, Regenia Gagnier - a leading cultural historian of late nineteenth-century Britain - s

  • Special Issue: ‘Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century’– Preface

    Open AccessRegenia GagnierARTICLELiterature Compass2010

    This article is the preface to the Literature Compass special issue on ‘Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century’. The special issue is made up of the following pieces: ‘Special Issue: “Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century”– Preface’, Regenia Gagnier, Literature Compass 7.2 (2010): 33–34, doi: 10.1111/j.1741‐4113.2009.00672.x . ‘Special Issue: “Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century”– Introduction’, Arthur F. Marotti, Literat…

  • Good Europeans and Neo-Liberal Cosmopolitans: Ethics and Politics in Late Victorian and Contemporary Cosmopolitanism

    Open AccessRegenia GagnierARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2010Cited by: 1References: 5

    In a recent discussion of “Victorian Internationalisms,” the term cosmopolitanism is often used to designate the domain of individual feeling or ethics of toleration in contrast to the more geopolitical terminology of “inter-” or “trans-nationalism” (Goodlad and Wright 5–16). For Goodlad and Wright, the tendency of cosmopolitanism to evoke individual ethos rather than cultural, social, or political process suggests the merits of exploring complem…

  • A Literary Anthropology of Freedom and Choice

    Regenia GagnierARTICLENineteenth Century Contexts2009References: 3

  • Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain , by Mary Poovey

    Regenia GagnierARTICLEVictorian Studies2008

    Reviewed by: Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain Regenia Gagnier (bio) Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Mary Poovey; pp. x + 496. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2008, $59.00, $24.00 paper, £30.50, £12.50 paper. Mary Poovey is one of our most influential scholars of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture,…

  • Life Choices

    Regenia GagnierARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2007References: 1

  • Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class , by John Kucich

    Regenia GagnierARTICLEVictorian Studies2007

    Reviewed by: Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class Regenia Gagnier (bio) Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class, by John Kucich; pp. x + 258. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007, $35.00, £22.95. John Kucich has written in the past of transgression, repression, excess, and restraint in Victorian literature. With Imperial Masochism he demonstrates his command of yet another psychos…

  • Writers, Readers and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918 ‐ By Philip Waller

    Open AccessRegenia GagnierARTICLEHistory2007

  • Towards a Global Ecology of the Fin de Siècle

    Open AccessRegenia Gagnier, Martin DelveauxARTICLELiterature Compass2006Cited by: 2References: 5

    This article situates the Fin de siècle and literary Decadence – usually treated as a forerunner of European or Transatlantic literary modernism – in a global context, drawing on research in other fields, such as economics, demography and climatology. Beginning with an historical definition of Decadence as when the individuation of parts led to the disintegration of the whole, it locates the socialist‐aesthetes, feminists and ecologists in a glob…

  • Introduction: Boundaries in Theory and History

    Open AccessRegenia GagnierARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2004References: 1

    W HEN ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON AND I began collecting the essays included here, we were interested to see how recent theorists of boundaries like Audre Lorde (hyphenated identities), Gloria Anzaldua (borderlands), Donna Haraway (cyborg), J-F Lyotard (the in-between), or Jacques Derrida (deconstruction) fared in relation to classic theorists of boundaries like Aristotle, Hegel, Marx, and Darwin. We found that while the field of Victorian Studies has a…