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Neo-Victorian Things

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film

Herausgegeben: Maier, Sarah E.; Ayres, Brenda; Dove, Danielle Mariann

Beschreibung

Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film is the first volume to focus solely on the replication, reconstruction, and re-presentation of Victorian things. It investigates the role of materiality in contemporary returns to the past as a means of assessing the function of things in remembering, revisioning, and/or reimagining the nineteenth century. Examining iterations of material culture in literature, film and popular television series, this volume offers a reconsideration of nineteenth-century things and the neo-Victorian cultural forms that they have inspired, animated, and even haunted. By turning to new and relatively underexplored strands of neo-Victorian materiality-including opium paraphernalia, slave ships, clothing, and biographical objects-and interrogating the critical role such objects play in reconstructing the past, this volume offers ways of thinking about how mis/apprehensions of material culture in the nineteenth century continue to shape our present understanding of things.

Autor

Sarah E. Maier and Brenda Ayres have coedited and contributed chapters to the following: Neo-Disneyism: Inclusivity in the Twenty-First Century of Disney's Magic Kingdom (Oxford, 2022), The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture (2022), The Theological Dickens  (Routledge, 2022), Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media(Palgrave, 2020); Neo-Gothic Narratives: Illusory Allusions from the Past (Anthem, 2020); Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture (Routledge, 2019); and Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-first Century (Anthem 2019). The two cowrote  A Vindication of the Redhead: The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts (Palgrave, 2021). Danielle Mariann Dove is a TeachingFellow in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Surrey. Her research and publications centre on Victorian and neo-Victorian literature, with a specific focus on dress and fashion history, material culture, and literary celebrity. Her monograph on dress in neo-Victorian fiction is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-06200-1
• 1st edition 2022
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9783031062001
• ISBN-10: 3031062000
• Artikelnr.: 63906806

Rezensionen

"Neo-Victorian Things successfully situates itself at the intersection of neo-Victorian studies and material culture studies, meticulously examining previously unexplored or overlooked objects. ... Each chapter revolves around aclearly identified focus ... . It is highly recommended for scholars in the field, or anyone simply with an interest in the Victorian past and its relevance today." (Hatunnur Ciftci, KULT_online - Review Journal for the Study of Culture, Issue 69, May, 2024)