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Victorian afterlife : postmodern culture rewrites the nineteenth century / John Kucich and Dianne F. Sadoff, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- English literature.
- Literature and history--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Literature and history.
- Literature and history--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- English fiction--Television adaptations.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--Film adaptations.
- Postmodernism.
- Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Historiography.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
- Great Britain--Civilization--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (375 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Major critical thinkers have found in the nineteenth century the origins of contemporary consumerism, sexual science, gay culture, and feminism. And postmodern theory, which once drove a wedge between contemporary interpretation and its historical objects
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction Histories of the Present; mystifications; Modernity and Culture, the Victorians and Cultural Studies; At Home in the Nineteenth Century: Photography, Nostalgia, and the Will to Authenticity; The Uses and Misuses of Oscar Wilde; Being True to Jane Austen; A Twentieth-Century Portrait: Jane Campion's American Girl; Display Cases; engagements; Found Drowned: The Irish Atlantic; The Embarrassment of Victorianism: Colonial Subjects and the Lure of Englishness; Hacking the Nineteenth Century; Queen Victoria and Me
- Sorting, Morphing, and Mourning: A. S. Byatt Ghostwrites Victorian FictionAsking Alice: Victorian and Other Alices in Contemporary Culture; Specters of the Novel: Dracula and the Cinematic Afterlife of the Victorian Novel; Postscript Contemporary Culturalism: How Victorian Is It?; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5286-4
- OCLC:
- 229431579
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