The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism
Verlag | Springer |
Auflage | 2025 |
Seiten | 527 |
Format | 15,5 x 2,9 x 23,5 cm |
Gewicht | 821 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 3031321626 |
EAN | 9783031321627 |
Bestell-Nr | 03132162A |
This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors' life stories, graphic novels, and contemporary fiction set in the nineteenth century. Contextualized by Sarah E Maier and Brenda Ayres in a comprehensive introduction, the collection describes current trends in neo-Victorian scholarship of novels, film, theatre, crime, empire/postcolonialism, Gothic, materiality, religion and science, amongst others. A variety of scholars from around the world contribute to this volume by applying an assortment of theoretical approaches and interdisciplinary focus in their critique of a wide range of narratives-from early neo-Victorian texts such as A. S. Byatt's Possession (1963) and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) to recent steampunk, from musical theatre to slumming, and from The Alienist to queerness-in their investigation of how this fiction reconstructs the past, informed by and reinforming the present.
Rezension:
The introduction provides a distinctive history of the term neo-Victorian and explores the uses, app . The themes and texts explored are many and diverse. This is a substantial book . All of these and many more offer a great deal of thought-provoking explorations of how we rewrite the nineteenth century, but there are, of course, too many for me to explore them all in detail. (Serena Trowbridge, PRS, Pre-Raphaelite Society Review, 2024)