Neo-Victorianism on Screen
Title | Neo-Victorianism on Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Antonija Primorac |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 201 |
Release | 2017-11-17 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 3319645595 |
This book broadens the scope of inquiry of neo-Victorian studies by focusing primarily on screen adaptations and appropriations of Victorian literature and culture. More specifically, this monograph spotlights the overlapping yet often conflicting drives at work in representations of Victorian heroines in contemporary film and TV. Primorac’s close analyses of screen representations of Victorian women pay special attention to the use of costume and clothes, revealing the tensions between diverse theoretical interventions and generic (often market-oriented) demands. The author elucidates the push and pull between postcolonial critique and nostalgic, often Orientalist spectacle; between feminist textual interventions and postfeminist media images. Furthermore, this book examines neo-Victorianism’s relationship with postfeminist media culture and offers an analysis of the politics behind onscreen treatment of Victorian gender roles, family structures, sexuality, and colonial space.
Filming the Past, Screening the Present
Title | Filming the Past, Screening the Present PDF eBook |
Author | Shannon Wells-Lassagne |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783868219074 |
Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction
Title | Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Cox |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 255 |
Release | 2019-11-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030292908 |
This book represents the first full-length study of the relationship between neo-Victorianism and nineteenth-century sensation fiction. It examines the diverse and multiple legacies of Victorian popular fiction by authors such as Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, tracing their influence on a range of genres and works, including detective fiction, YA writing, Gothic literature, and stage and screen adaptations. In doing so, it forces a reappraisal of critical understandings of neo-Victorianism in terms of its origins and meanings, as well as offering an important critical intervention in popular fiction studies. The work traces the afterlife of Victorian sensation fiction, taking in the neo-Gothic writing of Daphne du Maurier and Victoria Holt, contemporary popular historical detective and YA fiction by authors including Elizabeth Peters and Philip Pullman, and the literary fiction of writers such as Joanne Harris and Charles Palliser. The work will appeal to scholars and students of Victorian fiction, neo-Victorianism, and popular culture alike.
Black Neo-Victoriana
Title | Black Neo-Victoriana PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2021-11-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 900446915X |
Black Neo-Victoriana is the first book-length study on contemporary re-imaginations of Blackness in the long nineteenth century. Contributions engage with novels, drama, film, television and material culture, while also covering cultural formations such as Black fandom, Black dandyism, or steamfunk.
The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism
Title | The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism PDF eBook |
Author | Brenda Ayres |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 525 |
Release | 2024-01-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 303132160X |
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.
Neo-Victorian Villains
Title | Neo-Victorian Villains PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 2017-06-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004322256 |
Neo-Victorian Villains offers a varied and stimulating range of essays on the afterlives of Victorian villains in popular culture, exploring their representation and adaptation in neo-Victorian drama and fiction.
Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire
Title | Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Ho |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 2012-04-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1441187707 |
Examining the global dimensions of Neo-Victorianism, this book explores how the appropriation of Victorian images in contemporary literature and culture has emerged as a critical response to the crises of decolonization and Imperial collapse. Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire explores the phenomenon by reading a range of popular and literary Anglophone neo-Victorian texts, including Alan Moore's Graphic Novel From Hell, works by Peter Carey and Margaret Atwood, the films of Jackie Chan and contemporary 'Steampunk' science fiction. Through these readings Elizabeth Ho explores how constructions of popular memory and fictionalisations of the past reflect political and psychological engagements with our contemporary post-Imperial circumstances.