Victorianomania. Reimagining, Refashioning, and Rewriting Victorian Literature and Culture
Author: S. Falchi
Publisher:
Published: 2016-03
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9788891725905
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Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature
Author: Madalina Armie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-01-30
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1000832147
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume studies the manifestations of female trauma through the exploration of multiple wounds, inflicted on both body and mind (Caruth 1996, 3) and the soul of Irish women from Northern Ireland and the Republic within a contemporary context, and in literary works written at the turn of the twenty-first century and beyond. These artistic manifestations connect tradition and modernity, debunk myths, break the silence with the exposure of uncomfortable realities, dismantle stereotypes and reflect reality with precision. Women’s issues and female experiences depicted in contemporary fiction may provide an explanation for past and present gender dynamics, revealing a pathway for further renegotiation of gender roles and the achievement of equilibrium and equality between sexes. These works might help to seal and heal wounds both old and new and offer solutions to the quandaries of tomorrow.
Rewriting the Victorians
Author: Andrea Kirchknopf
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0786471344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 Bronte'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.
Victorian Literature and Culture
Author: John Maynard
Publisher:
Published: 1997-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780404642235
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Author: Maureen Moran
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781474211574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This guide to Victorian Literature and Culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and its context from 1837-1900, including: - the historical, cultural and intellectual background including politics and economics, popular culture, philosophy - major writers and genres including the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Trollope, Thackeray, Conan Doyle, Ibsen, Shaw, Hopkins, Rossetti and Tennyson - concise explanations of key terms needed to understand the literature and criticism - key critical approaches - a chronology mapping historical events and literary works and furthe.
Nostalgic Postmodernism
Author: Christian Gutleben
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-18
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9004488359
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why do so many contemporary British novels revert to the Victorian tradition in order to find a new source of inspiration? What does it mean from an ideological point of view to build a modern form of art by resurrecting and recycling an art of the past? From a formal point of view what are the aesthetic priorities established by these postmodernist novels? Those are the main questions tackled by this study intended for anybody interested in the aesthetic and ideological evolution of very recent fiction. What this analysis ultimately proposes is a reevaluation and a redefinition of postmodernism such as it is illustrated by the British novels which paradoxically both praise and mock, honour and debunk, imitate and subvert their Victorian models. Unashamedly opportunistic and deliberately exploiting the spirit of the time, this late form of postmodernism cannibalizes and reshapes not only Victorianism but all the other previous aesthetic movements - including early postmodernism.
Neo-Victorianism
Author: Ann Heilmann
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-07-28
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0230281699
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This field-defining book offers an interpretation of the recent figurations of neo-Victorianism published over the last ten years. Using a range of critical and cultural viewpoints, it highlights the problematic nature of this 'new' genre and its relationship to re-interpretative critical perspectives on the nineteenth century.
Victoriana - Histories, Fictions, Criticism
Author: Cora Kaplan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2007-02-14
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 0748628185
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A series of astute critical reflections on our enduring fascination with all things Victorian. In this book Cora Kaplan looks at the politics of Victorians from the 1970s to the present, a politics that emerges from the alternation between nostalgia and critique in fiction, film, biography and literary studies. She asks how Jane Eyre can still evoke tears and rage, as well as inspiring imitation and high art, and why Henry James has become fiction's favourite late Victorian character in the new millennium? Victorians, the book argues, has developed a modern history of its own in which we can trace the shifting social and cultural concerns of the last few decades. Through the constant interrogation of history in such innovative works as John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman, A.S. Byatt's Possession, David Lodge's Nice Work, Peter Ackroyd's Dickens, Jane Campion's The Piano, Colm Toibin's The Master, Sarah Waters's Fingersmith, Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty and Julian Barnes's Arthur and George, 'Victoriana' maps out a very particular postmodern temporality.
Victorian Afterlife
Author: John Kucich
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781452904269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Author: R. Arias
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-11-27
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0230246745
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Exploring the pervasive presence of the Victorian past in contemporary culture, these essays use the trope of haunting and spectrality as a critical tool with which to consider neo-Victorian works, as well as our ongoing fascination with the Victorians, combining original readings of well-known novels with engaging analyses of lesser-known works.
