Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture

Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture
Title Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture PDF eBook
Author Nadine Boehm-Schnitker
Publisher Routledge
Pages 244
Release 2014-06-05
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1134614691

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This book 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. Neo-Victorian Literature and 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.

History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction

History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Title History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction PDF eBook
Author Kate Mitchell
Publisher Springer
Pages 373
Release 2010-07-16
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0230283128

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A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. Arguing that neo-Victorian fiction enacts and celebrates cultural memory, this book uses memory discourse to position these novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary.

Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction

Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Title Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction PDF eBook
Author R. Arias
Publisher Springer
Pages 220
Release 2009-11-27
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0230246745

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Exploring the pervasive presence of the Victorian past in contemporary culture, these essays use the trope of haunting and spectrality as a critical tool with which to consider neo-Victorian works, as well as our ongoing fascination with the Victorians, combining original readings of well-known novels with engaging analyses of lesser-known works.

Neo-Victorian Fiction and Historical Narrative

Neo-Victorian Fiction and Historical Narrative
Title Neo-Victorian Fiction and Historical Narrative PDF eBook
Author L. Hadley
Publisher Springer
Pages 199
Release 2010-10-13
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0230317499

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Placing the popular genre of neo-Victorian fiction within the context of the contemporary cultural fascination with the Victorians, this book argues that these novels are distinguished by a commitment to historical specificity and understands them within their contemporary context and the context of Victorian historical and literary narratives.

Neo-Victorianism

Neo-Victorianism
Title Neo-Victorianism PDF eBook
Author Ann Heilmann
Publisher Springer
Pages 336
Release 2010-07-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0230281699

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This field-defining book offers an interpretation of the recent figurations of neo-Victorianism published over the last ten years. Using a range of critical and cultural viewpoints, it highlights the problematic nature of this 'new' genre and its relationship to re-interpretative critical perspectives on the nineteenth century.

Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel

Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel
Title Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel PDF eBook
Author Kathleen Renk
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 203
Release 2020-07-27
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3030482871

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Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel: Erotic “Victorians” focuses on the work of British, Irish, and Commonwealth women writers such as A.S. Byatt, Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, Helen Humphreys, Margaret Atwood, and Ahdaf Soueif, among others, and their attempts to re-envision the erotic. Kathleen Renk argues that women writers of the neo-Victorian novel are far more philosophical in their approach to representing the erotic than male writers and draw more heavily on Victorian conventions that would proscribe the graphic depiction of sexual acts, thus leaving more to the reader’s imagination. This book addresses the following questions: Why are women writers drawn to the neo-Victorian genre and what does this reveal about the state of contemporary feminism? How do classical and contemporary forms of the erotic play into the ways in which women writers address the Victorian “woman question”? How exactly is the erotic used to underscore women’s creative potential?

Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction

Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction
Title Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction PDF eBook
Author Jessica Cox
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 255
Release 2019-11-11
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3030292908

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This book represents the first full-length study of the relationship between neo-Victorianism and nineteenth-century sensation fiction. It examines the diverse and multiple legacies of Victorian popular fiction by authors such as Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, tracing their influence on a range of genres and works, including detective fiction, YA writing, Gothic literature, and stage and screen adaptations. In doing so, it forces a reappraisal of critical understandings of neo-Victorianism in terms of its origins and meanings, as well as offering an important critical intervention in popular fiction studies. The work traces the afterlife of Victorian sensation fiction, taking in the neo-Gothic writing of Daphne du Maurier and Victoria Holt, contemporary popular historical detective and YA fiction by authors including Elizabeth Peters and Philip Pullman, and the literary fiction of writers such as Joanne Harris and Charles Palliser. The work will appeal to scholars and students of Victorian fiction, neo-Victorianism, and popular culture alike.