The Journal Of Dora Damage
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The Journal Of Dora Damage
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Author : Belinda Starling
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2009-08-03
The Journal Of Dora Damage written by Belinda Starling and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-03 with Fiction categories.
A brilliant historical novel set in Victorian London combining a heady mixture of sex, deceit, money and law. ___________________ 'A triumph ... Starling has created a witty and sympathetic heroine whose modern pluck enhances her charm' - Observer 'A sinister tale that Sarah Waters' fans will love' - In Style ____________________ London, 1859. By the time Dora Damage discovers that her husband Peter has arthritis in his hands, it is too late - their book-binding business is in huge debt and the family is on the brink of entering the poorhouse. But Dora proves that she is more than just a housewife and mother. She resolves to rescue her family at any price and finds herself irrevocably entangled in a web of sex, money, deceit and the law. ____________________ 'A scrupulously researched, racy tale ... a worthy addition to the ranks of historical fiction' - Guardian 'A writer of real accomplishment ... Starling had that most important gift for a historical novelist: the ability to wear her research lightly and to integrate every fact into a well-stitched tapestry of plot, symbol and character' - Independent
Victorian Dress In Contemporary Historical Fiction
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Author : Danielle Mariann Dove
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-10-19
Victorian Dress In Contemporary Historical Fiction written by Danielle Mariann Dove and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction is the first full-length study to investigate and attend to the deeply suggestive and highly symbolic iterations of Victorian women's dress in the contemporary cultural imagination. Drawing upon a range of popular and less well-studied neo-Victorian novels published between 1990 and 2014, as well as their Victorian counterparts, 19th-century illustrative material, and extant Victorian garments, Danielle Dove explores the creative possibilities afforded by dress and fashion as gendered sites of agency and affect. Focusing on the relationship between texts and textiles, she demonstrates how dress is central to the narrativization, re-formulation, and re-fashioning of the material past in the present. In its examination of the narrative trajectories, lively vitalities, and material entanglements that accrue to, and originate from, dress in the neo-Victorian novel, this study brings a fresh approach to reading Victorian sartorial culture. For researchers and students of Victorian and neo-Victorian studies, dress history, material culture, and gender studies, this volume offers a rich resource with which to illuminate the power of fashion in fiction.
Neo Victorian Families
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Author : Christian Gutleben
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2011
Neo Victorian Families written by Christian Gutleben and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Law categories.
Tracing representations of re-imagined Victorian families in literature, film and television, and social discourse, this collection, the second volume in Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, analyses the historical trajectory of persistent but increasingly contested cultural myths that coalesce around the heterosexual couple and nuclear family as the supposed ‘normative’ foundation of communities and nations, past and present. It sheds new light on the significance of families as a source of fluctuating cultural capital, deployed in diverse arenas from political debates, social policy and identity politics to equal rights activism, and analyses how residual as well as emergent ideologies of family are mediated and critiqued by contemporary arts and popular culture. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students of neo-Victorian studies, as well as scholars in contemporary literature and film studies, cultural studies and the history of the family. Situating the nineteenth-century family both as a site of debilitating trauma and the means of ethical resistance against multivalent forms of oppression, neo-Victorian texts display a fascinating proliferation of alternative family models, albeit overshadowed by the apparent recalcitrance of familial ideologies to the same historical changes neo-Victorianism reflects and seeks to promote within the cultural imaginary.
Neo Victorianism
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Author : Ann Heilmann
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-07-28
Neo Victorianism written by Ann Heilmann and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-28 with Fiction categories.
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.
Twenty First Century Feminism
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Author : C. Nally
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-02-27
Twenty First Century Feminism written by C. Nally and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-27 with Social Science categories.
This collection of essays considers the ways in which feminism is still an important issue in twenty-first century society. Looking at various forms of literature, media, and popular culture, the book establishes that contemporary images of femininity are highly contested, complex, and frequently problematic.
Growing Up A Woman
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Author : Milena Kaličanin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-10-13
Growing Up A Woman written by Milena Kaličanin and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-13 with Social Science categories.
This book explores contemporary transformations of the female Bildungsroman, showing that the intersection of the genre and gender brought to critical attention in the context of second wave feminism remains of equal importance in the era of postfeminism. The female Bildung narrative has acquired an important position in twentieth – and twenty-first century literature through its continuing depiction of female self-discovery and emancipation as a process of negotiating the traditional divisions of female and male roles in relation to the private and public spaces. Recognizing the seminal contribution of feminist criticism to the definition of the genre and the role of feminist cultural processes in its thematic developments, this volume investigates more recent influences on the female Bildung narrative and the influence of the classic female Bildungsroman on contemporary cultural texts. As a collection of fifteen essays written by international scholars, the book offers a representative sample of the narratives of female development, presenting a variety of genres, including the novel, the short story, autobiography, TV series, and Internet video blogs, and theoretical frameworks, adopting hermeneutic, postcolonial, feminist, and postfeminist perspectives. In its diversity, this volume reveals that, despite the ongoing process of women’s emancipation, the heroine’s struggle with the private/public divide has remained, throughout the twentieth century and in the first decades of the new millennium, a central issue in stories about the female quest for self-definition. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of literary, women and gender studies, particularly those interested in the narratives of female development that represent American and British cultural contexts.
Women S Literary Portraits In The Victorian And Neo Victorian Novel
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Author : Aleksandra Tryniecka
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-01-10
Women S Literary Portraits In The Victorian And Neo Victorian Novel written by Aleksandra Tryniecka and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
The book offers a study of Victorian and neo-Victorian women as portrayed on the pages of the selected nineteenth-century novels and modern, revisionary works. Immersed in the wide socio-cultural context of the Victorian era, the study binds Bakhtin's dialogical approach with Genette's intertextuality.
The Palgrave Handbook Of Neo Victorianism
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Author : Brenda Ayres
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-01-20
The Palgrave Handbook Of Neo Victorianism written by Brenda Ayres and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors’ life stories, graphic novels, and contemporary fiction set in the nineteenth century. Contextualized by Sarah E Maier and Brenda Ayres in a comprehensive introduction, the collection describes current trends in neo-Victorian scholarship of novels, film, theatre, crime, empire/postcolonialism, Gothic, materiality, religion and science, amongst others. A variety of scholars from around the world contribute to this volume by applying an assortment of theoretical approaches and interdisciplinary focus in their critique of a wide range of narratives—from early neo-Victorian texts such as A. S. Byatt’s Possession (1963) and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) to recent steampunk, from musical theatre to slumming, and from The Alienist to queerness—in their investigation of how this fiction reconstructs the past, informed by and reinforming the present.
Writing Back Through Our Mothers
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Author : Tegan Zimmerman
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2014
Writing Back Through Our Mothers written by Tegan Zimmerman and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Social Science categories.
For the first time in the literary tradition, the contemporary woman's historical novel (post-1970) is surveyed from a transnational feminist perspective. Analyzing the maternal (the genre's central theme) reveals that historical fiction is a transnational feminist means for challenging historical erasures, silences, normative sexuality, political exclusion, and divisions of labor. (Series: Contributions to Transnational Feminism - Vol. 5)
Teaching Transatlanticism
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Author : Linda K Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2015-02-05
Teaching Transatlanticism written by Linda K Hughes and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
The 18 chapters in this book outline conceptual approaches to the field and provide practical resources for teaching, ranging from ideas for individual class sessions to full syllabi and curricular frameworks.