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

Contributor(s): Boehm-Schnitker, Nadine, 1975- | Gruss, Susanne, 1976-Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in nineteenth century literature ; 12.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2014Edition: 1st edDescription: vi, 235 pISBN: 9781315886107 (e-book : PDF)Subject(s): 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, 1837-1901Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Click here to view Also available in print edition.
Contents:
Commodifying the past : canonisation, consumption, pleasure -- Resurrecting cultural icons : spectral returns -- Traces, traumas and retrospective anxieties -- Refashioning (Neo-)Victorian discourses.
Summary: 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.
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Commodifying the past : canonisation, consumption, pleasure -- Resurrecting cultural icons : spectral returns -- Traces, traumas and retrospective anxieties -- Refashioning (Neo-)Victorian discourses.

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.

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