Neo-Victorian Things

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film
Herausgegeben:Maier, Sarah E.; Ayres, Brenda; Dove, Danielle Mariann

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-06203-2
• 1st ed. 2022
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9783031062032
• ISBN-10: 3031062035
• Artikelnr.: 68297782

Autorenporträt

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 Teaching Fellow 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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Stuff and Things: Introducing Neo-Victorian Materialities2. Objects and Memorabilia in Deborah Lutz's The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects3. "Around the Mizzenpole": Charles Johnson's Middle Passage and African Americanizing the Neo-Victorian-at-sea4. Touching, Writing, Collecting: Opium Paraphernalia and Neo-Victorian Material Culture5. An Instrumental Thing: Pianos Extending and Becoming Postcolonial Bodies in Jane Campion's The Piano and Daniel Mason's The Piano Tuner6. "Wilful Phantoms": Haunted Dress, Memory, and Agentic Materiality in Colm Tóibín's The Master7. The Thing About Haunted Houses: In The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents and The Haunting of Hill House8. There's Something in the Tea: Murder and Materiality in Dark Angel9. Criminal Things: Sherlock Holmes' Details of Detection and Their Neo-Victorian Revisions10. The Sleight of Hand: Appearance and Disappearance of Things in Neo-Victorian Magic