The Victorians In The Rearview Mirror
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The Victorians In The Rearview Mirror
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Author : Simon Joyce
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2007
The Victorians In The Rearview Mirror written by Simon Joyce and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Authors, English categories.
Simon Joyce examines heritage culture, contemporary politics, and the "neo-Dickensian" novel to offer a more affirmative assessment of the Victorian legacy, one that lets us imagine a model of social interconnection and interdependence that has come under threat in today's politics and culture.
Rewriting The Victorians
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Author : Andrea Kirchknopf
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-05-21
Rewriting The Victorians written by Andrea Kirchknopf and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present—as one can see from, for example, large-scale adaptations of written works, as well as the explosion of commodities and even interactive theme parks. This book is an introduction to the novelistic refashionings that have come after the Victorian age with a special focus on revisions of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. As post–Victorian research is still in the making, the first part is devoted to clarifying terminology and interpretive contexts. Two major frameworks for reading post–Victorian fiction are developed: the literary scene (authors, readers, critics) and the national-identity, political and social aspects. Among the works examined are Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge, Matthew Kneale’s English Passengers, Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs, Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, D.M. Thomas’s Charlotte, and Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair.
Functions Of Victorian Culture At The Present Time
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Author : Christine L. Krueger
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2002
Functions Of Victorian Culture At The Present Time written by Christine L. Krueger and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with English literature categories.
Annotation The echoes of Victorian literature and culture impact contemporary practices and values, according to Krueger (English, Marquette U.). She presents 11 essays that address such issues as the problematics of temporality in the historiography of Victorian times, the reproduction of Victorian material culture for contemporary consumers, the use of Victorian cultural identities in fashioning today's identities, and the persistence of Victorian methods of legal and social discipline. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Neo Victorian Madness
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Author : Sarah E. Maier
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-06-01
Neo Victorian Madness written by Sarah E. Maier and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media investigates contemporary fiction, cinema and television shows set in the Victorian period that depict mad murderers, lunatic doctors, social dis/ease and madhouses as if many Victorians were “mad.” Such portraits demand a “rediagnosing” of mental illness that was often reduced to only female hysteria or a general malaise in nineteenth-century renditions. This collection of essays explores questions of neo-Victorian representations of moral insanity, mental illness, disturbed psyches or non-normative imaginings as well as considers the important issues of legal righteousness, social responsibility or methods of restraint and corrupt incarcerations. The chapters investigate the self-conscious re-visions, legacies and lessons of nineteenth-century discourses of madness and/or those persons presumed mad rediagnosed by present-day (neo-Victorian) representations informed by post-nineteenth-century psychological insights.
The Victorian Mirror Of History
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Author : Arthur Dwight Culler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Victorian Mirror Of History written by Arthur Dwight Culler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Great Britain categories.
Neo Victorian Cannibalism
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Author : Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-02-04
Neo Victorian Cannibalism written by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Pivot examines a body of contemporary neo-Victorian novels whose uneasy relationship with the past can be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, including cannibalism. Not only is the imagery of eating repeatedly used by critics to comprehend neo-Victorian literature, the theme of cannibalism itself also appears overtly or implicitly in a number of the novels and their Victorian prototypes, thereby mirroring the cannibalistic relationship between the contemporary and the Victorian. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho argues that aggressive eating or cannibalism can be seen as a pathological and defining characteristic of neo-Victorian fiction, demonstrating how cannibalism provides a framework for understanding the genre’s origin, its conflicted, ambivalent and violent relationship with its Victorian predecessors and the grotesque and gothic effects that it generates in its fiction.
Neo Victorian Biographilia And James Miranda Barry
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Author : Ann Heilmann
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-06-27
Neo Victorian Biographilia And James Miranda Barry 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 2018-06-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Senior colonial officer from 1813 to 1859, Inspector General James Barry was a pioneering medical reformer who after his death in 1865 became the object of intense speculation when rumours arose about his sex. This cultural history of Barry’s afterlives in Victorian to contemporary (neo-Victorian) life-writing (‘biographilia’) examines the textual and performative strategies of biography, biofiction and biodrama of the last one and a half centuries. In exploring the varied reconstructions and re-imaginations of the historical personality across time, the book illustrates (not least with its cover image) that the ‘real’ James Barry does not exist, any more than does the ‘faithful’ biographical, biofictional or biodramatic rendering of a life in a generically ‘stable’ and discrete form. What Barry represents and how he is represented invariably pinpoints the imaginative, the speculative and the performative: reflections and refractions in the looking glass of genre. Just as ‘James Miranda Barry’, as a subject of cultural inquiry, comes into being and remains in view in the act of crossing gender, so neo-Victorian life-writing constitutes itself through similar acts of boundary transgression. Transgender thus finds its most typical expression in transgenre.
Neo Victorian Freakery
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Author : Helen Davies
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-29
Neo Victorian Freakery written by Helen Davies and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Neo-Victorian Freakery explores the way in which contemporary fiction, film, and television has revisited the lives of nineteenth-century freak show performers. It locates the neo-Victorian freak show as a crucial forum for debating the politics of disability, gender, sexuality and race within the genre more broadly.
Drawing On The Victorians
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Author : Anna Maria Jones
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2016-12-15
Drawing On The Victorians written by Anna Maria Jones and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how images are produced and shared, both driving and reflecting the visual culture of its time. From this starting point, Drawing on the Victorians sets out to explore the relationship between Victorian graphic texts and today’s steampunk, manga, and other neo-Victorian genres that emulate and reinterpret their predecessors. Neo-Victorianism is a flourishing worldwide phenomenon, but one whose relationship with the texts from which it takes its inspiration remains underexplored. In this collection, scholars from literary studies, cultural studies, and art history consider contemporary works—Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Moto Naoko’s Lady Victorian, and Edward Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies, among others—alongside their antecedents, from Punch’s 1897 Jubilee issue to Alice in Wonderland and more. They build on previous work on neo-Victorianism to affirm that the past not only influences but converses with the present. Contributors: Christine Ferguson, Kate Flint, Anna Maria Jones, Linda K. Hughes, Heidi Kaufman, Brian Maidment, Rebecca N. Mitchell, Jennifer Phegley, Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Peter W. Sinnema, Jessica Straley
Reimag In Ing The Victorians In Contemporary Art
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Author : Isobel Elstob
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-11-20
Reimag In Ing The Victorians In Contemporary Art written by Isobel Elstob and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-20 with Art categories.
From contemporary deployments of taxidermy, magic lanterns and microscopy to the visualization of forgotten lives, marginalized narratives and colonial histories, this book explores how the work of artists including Mat Collishaw, Yinka Shonibare, Tessa Farmer, Mark Dion, Dorothy Cross and Ingrid Pollard reimag(in)es the Victorians in the ‘present’. Examining how recent paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and films revisit and re-present nineteenth-century technologies, practices and events, the book’s rich interdisciplinary approach applies literary, media and linguistic theories to its analysis of visual art, alongside in-depth discussions of the Victorian inventions, concepts and narratives that they invoke. The book’s emphasis on how – and why – we represent the historical past makes its contribution particularly timely. And by drawing attention to the importance of historiography to the work of these artists, it also unravels the complicated history of History itself. This book will speak to diverse audiences including those interested in art history, visual culture, Victorian and neo-Victorian studies, as well as literature, histories of science and media, postcolonialism, museology, gender studies, postmodernism and the history of ideas.