Neo-Victorian literature and culture : immersions and revisitations / edited by Nadine Boehm-Schnitker and Susanne Gruss.

Neo-Victorian literature and culture :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781315886107 (e-book : PDF)
9781134614769 (e-book: ePub)
9781134614837 (e-book: Mobi)
9780415708302 (hardback)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Basım Bildirimi
First edition.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Routledge, 2014.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (vi, 235 pages)
Dizi
Routledge studies in nineteenth century literature ; 12
İçindekiler Notu
Commodifying the past : canonisation, consumption, pleasure -- Resurrecting cultural icons : spectral returns -- Traces, traumas and retrospective anxieties -- Refashioning (Neo-)Victorian discourses.
Özet, vb.
"The Neo-Victorian in Contemporary Culture provides a comprehensive reflection of the processes of canonization, (un)pleasurable consumption and the emerging predominance of topics and theoretical concerns in neo-Victorianism. The repetitions and reiterations of the Victorian in contemporary culture document an unbroken fascination with the histories, technologies and achievements, as well as the injustices and atrocities, of the nineteenth century. They also reveal that, in many ways, contemporary identities are constructed through a Victorian mirror image fabricated by the desires, imaginings and critical interests of the present. Providing analyses of current negotiations of nineteenth-century texts, discourses and traumas, this volume explores the contemporary commodification and nostalgic recreation of the past. It brings together critical perspectives of experts in the fields of Victorian literature and culture, contemporary literature, and neo-Victorianism, with contributions by leading scholars in the field including Rosario Arias, Cora Kaplan, Elizabeth Ho, Marie-Luise Kohlke and Sally Shuttleworth. The Neo-Victorian in Contemporary Culture interrogates current fashions in neo-Victorianism and their ideological leanings, the resurrection of cultural icons, and the reasons behind our relationship with and immersion in Victorian culture"-- Provided by publisher.
Konu
English literature __ 21st century __ History and criticism.
English literature __ 20th century __ History and criticism.
English literature __ 19th century __ Influence.
Values in literature.
Culture in literature.
History in literature.
Literature and society __ Great Britain.
Great Britain __ History __ Victoria, 1837-1901.
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