The Palgrave handbook of Neo-Victorianism / Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ayres, Brenda, editor.

Maier, Sarah E., editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--In popular culture.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century--In popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (854 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Contents:

Introduction: Neo-Victorianism - Sarah E. Maier and Brenda Ayres

Section 1: Neo-Victorian Genesis

Chapter 1: Reinventing the Victorians by Jean Rhys and John Fowles - Catherine Layton

Chapter 2: Tradition and Innovation in A.S. Byatts Possession - Pritika Pradhan, Rutgers University

Chapter 3: Neo-Victorian Poetry - Jo Morton, University of Greenwich

Section 2: Neo-Victorian Performances

Chapter 4: Adapting Wilkie Collins Adapting Himself: Revisiting The Moonstone (1868, 1877, 2016) - Robert Laurella, University of Oxford

Chapter 5: Miss Potter and Victorian Womens Artistic Aspirations - Maria Juko, University of Hamburg

Chapter 6: And thou art like the poisonous tree / That stole my life away: The Afterlives of Pre-Raphaelite Women in Desperate Romantics - Anne-Marie Beller and Claire OCallaghan, Loughborough University, UK

Chapter 7: Interpretations are Illimitable: Adapting George Eliot - Saswati Halder, Jadavpur University

Chapter 8: Neo-Victorian Musical Theatre - Marija Reiff, American University of Sharjah

Chapter 9: The Tortured Genius of the Neo-Victorian West End - Louise Creechan, Durham University

Chapter 10: Music Hall and The Handprint of History on the Present Moment - Catherine Quirk, Edge Hill University

Section 3: Neo-Victorian Crime, Empire, and Postcolonialism

Chapter 11: The Thug in the Margin and the Murderer in the Centre: Re-reading the Victorian Discourse of Criminology in Tabish Khairs The Thing About Thugs - Sajalkumar Bhattacharya, Kazi Nazrul University

Chapter 12: Neo-Victorian Violence - Sophie Franklin, University of Tbingen

Chapter 13: Rewriting the Convict Life in Australia: A Reading of Peter Careys Jack Maggs - Anjan Saikia, Kamargaon College

Chapter 14: Under Transimperial Eyes: Traversing Anarchy, Crime, and Patriotism in Neo-Japanese- Victorian Anime, Moriarty, the Patriot - Preeshita Biswas, Texas Christian University

Chapter 15: The Bront Myth, Biofiction and Neo-Victorian Crime Novels - Barbara Braid, University of Szczecin

Chapter 16: The Sinister Community of Objects: An Archaeological Reading of The Silent Companions - Arka Chakraborty, Jadavpur University

Section 4: Neo-Victorian Gothic and Materiality

Chapter 17: Temporality of the Neo-Victorian: Abjection in Matthew Kneales Sweet Thames - Suvendu Ghatak, University of Florida

Chapter 18: The Hauntology of the Neo-Victorian Ghost Story - Brenda Ayres

Chapter 19: Crimson Peak: The Ghosting of the Past - Brenda Ayres

Chapter 20: The Limehouse Golem: Female Agency and Neo-Victorian Slumming - Brooke Cameron, Queens University, Ontario

Chapter 21: Dust and Sewers, Filth and Waste: Disgusting Neo-Victorian Narratives - Eckart Voigts, TU Braunschweig

Chapter 22: Victorian Ghostwriters, House Whisperers, and the Haunted House in Home Before Dark - Brenda Ayres

Section 5: Neo-Victorian Other(s). -Chapter 23: Cult of the Neo-Victorian Child - Patricia Pulham, University of Surrey

Chapter 24: Neo-Victorian Bodies of Inquiry: Narratives for Tweens to Teens - Sarah E. Maier

Chapter 25: Neo-Victorian Queerness: New Directions - Rachel M. Friars, Queens University, Ontario

Chapter 26: On Neo-Victorian Addiction, Alienism, Sex, and Insanity - Sarah E. Maier

Chapter 27: Men in Womens Clothes: Re-Imagining Stella and Fanny in Neo-Victorian Celebrity Biofiction - Danielle Mariann Dove, University of Surrey and Dan van Dam, Leiden University

Section 6: Neo-Victorian Religion and Science

Chapter 28: Dracula Never Dies: Spirituality and Science in the Neo-Victorian Vampire - Carole Senf, Georgia Tech

Chapter 29: Neo-Victorian Religion - Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, SUNY Brockport

Chapter 29: Exotic Prehistory or Relevant Science: Sukumar Rays Posthuman Subversion of Victorian Travel Literature - Sutirtho Roy, University of Calcutta

Chapter 30: Im going to break you and remake you: Reimagining David Lynchs The Elephant Man in Museum, Documentary, and Comedy - Helen Davies, University of Wolverhampton and Louise Logan-Smith, Teesside University

Section 7: Neo-Victorian Outcomes

Chapter 31: Neo-Victorian Graphic Novel - Catherine Golden, Skidmore College

Chapter 32: Gaslight: The Play, the Film, the Verb - Benjamin Poore, University of York

Chapter 33: Is Steampunk Neo-Victorian? - Martin Danahay, Brock University

Chapter 34: Drag, Dreadfuls, and Draculas: (Neo-)Victorians for TV - Sarah E. Maier .

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF NEO-VICTORIANISM.

ISBN:

9783031321603

303132160X

Publisher Number:

99995919704

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