Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-225) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Fashioning the Neo-Victorian: Neo-Victorian Fashions / Nadine Boehm-Schnitker and Susanne Gruss -- Commodifying the Past: Canonisation, Consumption, Pleasure. 1. Mining the Neo-Victorian Vein: Prospecting for Gold, Buried Treasure and Uncertain Metal / Marie-Luise Kohlke -- 2. Participatory Desires: On Metalepsis, Immersion and the Re-Plotting of the Victorian / Rosa Karl -- 3. Nostalgia and Material Culture: Present-ing the Past in Cranford / Anne Enderwitz and Doris Feldmann -- Resurrecting Cultural Icons: Spectral Returns. 4. "Eminent Victorians" and Neo-Victorian Fictional Biography / Lena Steveker -- 5. Bio-Fiction: Neo-Victorian Revisions of Evolution and Genetics / Eckart Voigts -- 6. Neo-Victorian Gay Fictions: A Critique of Stereotyping and Self-Reflexivity / Nadine Boehm-Schnitker. Traces, Traumas and Retrospective Anxieties. 7. Traces and Vestiges of the Victorian Past in Contemporary Fiction / Rosario Arias -- 8. Spectres of the Past: Reading the Phantom of Family Trauma in Neo-Victorian Fiction / Susanne Gruss -- 9. Narratives of Sexual Trauma in Contemporary Adaptations of The Woman in White / Jessica Cox -- Refashioning (Neo-)Victorian Discourses. 10. The Legacy of Medical Sensationalism in The Crimson Petal and the White and The Dress Lodger / Christy Rieger -- 11. The Neo-Victorian-at-Sea: Towards a Global Memory of the Victorian / Elizabeth Ho -- 12. From Retro- to Neo-Victorian Fiction and Beyond: Fearful Symmetries / Sally Shuttleworth / Coda: The Firm of Charles and Charles: A46uthorship, Science and Neo-Victorian Masculinities / Cora Kaplan.
Summary:
"The Neo-Victorian in Contemporary Culture provides a comprehensive reflection of the processes of canonization, (un)pleasurable consumption and the emerging predominance of topics and theoretical concerns in neo-Victorianism. The repetitions and reiterations of the Victorian in contemporary culture document an unbroken fascination with the histories, technologies and achievements, as well as the injustices and atrocities, of the nineteenth century. They also reveal that, in many ways, contemporary identities are constructed through a Victorian mirror image fabricated by the desires, imaginings and critical interests of the present. Providing analyses of current negotiations of nineteenth-century texts, discourses and traumas, this volume explores the contemporary commodification and nostalgic recreation of the past. It brings together critical perspectives of experts in the fields of Victorian literature and culture, contemporary literature, and neo-Victorianism, with contributions by leading scholars in the field including Rosario Arias, Cora Kaplan, Elizabeth Ho, Marie-Luise Kohlke and Sally Shuttleworth. The Neo-Victorian in Contemporary Culture interrogates current fashions in neo-Victorianism and their ideological leanings, the resurrection of cultural icons, and the reasons behind our relationship with and immersion in Victorian culture"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 12
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