Palgrave Macmillan
The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism
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9783031321597
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9783031321597
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$290.89
The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism
$290.89
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.
| Author: Brenda Ayres, Sarah E Maier |
| Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publication Date: Jan 21, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 3031321596 |
| ISBN-13: 9783031321597 |
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