Author

Contributions

  • Llewellyn, Mark, 1979- - Contributor

Publication

2010 - Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England], England

Language

English

Word Count

80,750 words, Guess

Page Count

323 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC820.9358234
  • LCCPR481 .H45 2010

Description

This field-defining book offers an extensive interpretation of the most recent, millennial and especially postmillennial figurations of neo-Victorianism published over the last ten years (1999-2009) through a range of critical and cultural viewpoints, while at the same time highlighting the problematic nature of this 'new' genre and its relationship to re-interpretative critical perspectives on the nineteenth century. In its focus on a series of literary-interpretive encounters with the Victorians (and, to a lesser extent, the earlier nineteenth-century period) coupled with a concluding chapter on neo-Victorianism in the wider nostalgic/heritage marketplace, this book provides new insights into the powerful aesthetic, cultural, and metafictional potential of neo-Victorianism while exploring how those possibilities have been employed since the millennium. The six chapters explore questions of aesthetics and ethics; memory, trauma, and inheritance; postcolonialism; sex and science; spectrality and secularity; (neo- )Victorian magic and metatextuality; and adaptation.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Neo-Victorianism: the Victorians in the twenty-first century, 1999-2009Palgrave Macmillan2010-01-01

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