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The Cambridge companion to Victorian culture

Main Author/Authors Clayton, Jay
Charles Dickens in cyberspace: the afterlife of the nineteenth century in postmodern culture

Main Author/Authors Clayton, Jay
Charles Dickens in cyberspace: the afterlife of the nineteenth century in postmodern culture

Charles Dickens in Cyberspace' surveys novelists, scientists, filmmakers, and theorists over two centuries, tracing circuits that connect Austen, Babbage, Darwin, Dickens, and Mary Shelley with their contemporary counterparts: Andrea Barrett, Peter Carey, Richard Powers, Salman Rushdie, Ridley Scott, Neal Stephenson, Tom Stoppard, and others
The Past in the Future of Cultural Studies Crystal Palace to Millennium Dome -- The Voice in the Machine Hazlitt, Austen, Hardy, and James -- Undisciplined Cultures Peacock, Mary Somerville, and Mr. Pickwick -- Hacking the Nineteenth Century Babbage and Lovelace in The Difference Engine and Arcadia -- Concealed Circuits Frankenstein's Monster, Replicants, and Cyborgs -- Is Pip Postmodern? Or, Dickens at the Turn of the Millennium -- Genome Time New Age Evolution, The Gold Bug Variations, and Gattaca -- Convergence of the Two Cultures A Geek's Guide

Main Author/Authors Tomaiuolo, Saverio
Deviance in neo-Victorian culture: canon, transgression, innovation

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Dickens in Dismaland -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 Dirt Out of Place in Sweet Thames, The Great Stink and The Crimson Petal and the White -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 Julia Pastrana's Traces, or the Afterlives of the Victorian Ape Woman -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 Reanimating the Zombies of (Nineteenth-Century) London in Victorian Undead -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 Penny Dreadful from Neo-Victorian to Neo-Baroque -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 Picturing Deviance in Neo-Victorian Visual Art -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 Conclusion: Bansky at the Great Exhibition -- Works Cited -- Index.

Main Author/Authors Nesselhauf, Jonas; Schleich, Markus
Fernsehserien: Geschichte, Theorie, Narration

Die erste systematische Einführung in das Format der Fernsehserie. Dieses Studienbuch bearbeitet drei Bereiche des seriellen Erzählens im Fernsehen: Geschichte, Theorie und Narration der Fernsehserie. Es stellt Analysekategorien und Definitionen vor und führt zahlreiche Fallbeispiele zu den verschiedenen erzählerischen Typen sowie typischen Elementen auf. Das Buch bietet sowohl Studierenden als auch Forschenden der Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften eine umfassende Einführung ins Thema.

Main Author/Authors Schleich, Markus; Nesselhauf, Jonas
Fernsehserien: Geschichte, Theorie, Narration

Die erste systematische Einführung in das Format der Fernsehserie. Dieses Studienbuch bearbeitet drei Bereiche des seriellen Erzählens im Fernsehen: Geschichte, Theorie und Narration der Fernsehserie. Es stellt Analysekategorien und Definitionen vor und führt zahlreiche Fallbeispiele zu den verschiedenen erzählerischen Typen sowie typischen Elementen auf. Das Buch bietet sowohl Studierenden als auch Forschenden der Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften eine umfassende Einführung ins Thema. (Verlag)

Filming the past, screening the present: Neo-Victorian adaptations

Functions of Victorian culture at the present time

Haunting and spectrality in neo-Victorian fiction: possessing the past

"Examining works by writers including Michle Roberts, Michael Faber and A.S. Byatt, this collection highlights the pervasive presence of the Victorian past in neo-Victorian novels through the tropes of haunting and spectrality, parallelling a renewed interest in the impact of the supernatural and the occult on Victorian individuals"--Provided by publisher
"Examining works by writers including Michle Roberts, Michael Faber and A.S. Byatt, this collection highlights the pervasive presence of the Victorian past in neo-Victorian novels through the tropes of haunting and spectrality, parallelling a renewed interest in the impact of the supernatural and the occult on Victorian individuals"--Provided by publisher

Main Author/Authors Mitchell, Kate
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction

History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the production and communication of historical knowledge. Positioning neo-Victorian novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary, it explores their use of the Victorians' own vocabularies of history, memory and loss to re-member the nineteenth century today. While her focus is neo-Victorian fiction, Mitchell positions these novels in relation to debates about historical fiction's contribution to historical knowledge since the eighteenth century. Her use of memory discourse as a framework for understanding the ways in which they do lay claim to historical recollection, one which opens up a range of questions beyond historical fidelity on the one hand, and the problematics of representation on the other, suggests new ways of thinking about contemporary historical fiction and its prevalence, popular appeal, and nmnenonic function today

Main Author/Authors Mitchell, Kate
History and cultural memory in neo-Victorian fiction: Victorian afterimages

Main Author/Authors Sweet, Matthew
Inventing the Victorians

Neo-Victorian families: Gender, sexual and cultural politics

Neo-Victorian families: gender, sexual and cultural politics

Preliminary Material -- Introducing Neo-Victorian Family Matters: Cultural Capital and Reproduction /Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben -- From London’s East End to West Baltimore: How the Victorian Slum Narrative Shapes The Wire /Matthew Kaiser -- Failing Families: Echoes of Nineteenth-Century Child Rescue Discourse in Contemporary Debates around Child Protection /Shurlee Swain -- The Figure of the Child in Neo-Victorian Queer Families /Louisa Yates -- Neo-Victorian Childhoods: Re-Imagining the Worst of Times /Marie-Luise Kohlke -- Deconstructing the Victorian Family? Trying to Reach Cloud Nine /María Isabel Seguro -- The Cratchits on Film: Neo-Victorian Visions of Domesticity /Regina Hansen -- The Rise and Fall of the Forsytes: From Neo-Victorian to Neo-Edwardian Marriage /Sarah Edwards -- The Lost Mother and the Enclosed Lady: Gender and Domesticity in MTV’s Adaptation of Wuthering Heights /Hila Shachar -- Monarchs and Patriarchs: Angela Carter’s Recreation of the Victorian Family in The Magic Toyshop /Sarah Gamble -- Family Traumas and Serial Killing in Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem /Susana Onega -- Family Trauma and Reconfigured Families: Philip Pullman’s Neo-Victorian Detective Series /Anca Vlasopolos -- “That heartbroken island of incestuous hatreds”: Famine and Family in Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea /Melissa Fegan -- (In)Visible Disability in Neo-Victorian Families /Rosario Arias -- More Than Kith and Less Than Kin: Queering the Family in Sarah Waters’s Neo-Victorian Fictions /Georges Letissier -- Contributors -- Index.
Tracing representations of re-imagined Victorian families in literature, film and television, and social discourse, this collection, the second volume in Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, analyses the historical trajectory of persistent but increasingly contested cultural myths that coalesce around the heterosexual couple and nuclear family as the supposed ‘normative’ foundation of communities and nations, past and present. It sheds new light on the significance of families as a source of fluctuating cultural capital, deployed in diverse arenas from political debates, social policy and identity politics to equal rights activism, and analyses how residual as well as emergent ideologies of family are mediated and critiqued by contemporary arts and popular culture. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students of neo-Victorian studies, as well as scholars in contemporary literature and film studies, cultural studies and the history of the family. Situating the nineteenth-century family both as a site of debilitating trauma and the means of ethical resistance against multivalent forms of oppression, neo-Victorian texts display a fascinating proliferation of alternative family models, albeit overshadowed by the apparent recalcitrance of familial ideologies to the same historical changes neo-Victorianism reflects and seeks to promote within the cultural imaginary

Main Author/Authors Hadley, Louisa
Neo-Victorian fiction and historical narrative: the Victorians and us

Placing the popular genre of neo-Victorian fiction within the context of the contemporary cultural fascination with the Victorians, this book argues that these novels are distinguished by a commitment to historical specificity and understands them within their contemporary context and the context of Victorian historical and literary narratives.

Main Author/Authors Primorac, Antonija
Neo-Victorianism on screen: postfeminism and contemporary adaptations of Victorian women

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Neo-Victorianism on Screen and Postfeminist Media Culture -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 Postfeminism and Screen Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes Stories: The Case of Irene Adler -- Postfeminism and Contemporary Anglophone Media -- Irene Adler, the Victorian Heroine -- A Shape-Shifting Sleuth: Irene Adler in Neo-Victorian Fiction -- Guy Ritchie's 'Dangerously Alluring' Adler -- It's Raining Women: Adler, Watson and Moriarty as Women in Elementary -- Naked Female Body as a Battledress: Postfeminist Irene Adler in Sherlock -- From Nudity to Hijab: Neo-Victorian Orientalist Postfeminism -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 Re-presenting the Past: Gender, Colonial Space and Cultural Nostalgia in Neo-Victorianism on Screen -- Theorizing the Nostalgic Longing for the Past -- From Heritage Cinema Proper to Post-Heritage -- Orientalism and Post-Heritage Film -- The Challenges of Adapting Neo-Victorian Fiction to Screen -- Two Square Pegs and the Language of Clothes -- The Hidden History of Bloomers -- Bloomers and the Language of Clothes in Armstrong's Oscar and Lucinda -- Post-Heritage to Anti-heritage? -- Neo-Victorianism as Alternative Heritage -- Crime in the Victorian China Town: 'Our Chickens Come Home to Roost' -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 In the Grip of the Corset: Women as Caged Birds in Contemporary Victoriana on Screen -- Stuck in the Tight-Laced Middle -- Corseted Women, Caged Birds -- The Caged Bird Sings: Victorians in Moulin Rouge! and Sweeney Todd -- Subversive Crinolines? Jane Campion's The Piano -- Conclusion: Staging the Caged Bird's Flight in the Crimson Petal and the White -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 Re-fashioning Victorian Heroines and Family Relations: Tailoring and Shape-Shifting as Queer Adaptation and Appropriation
Curiouser and Curiouser: Queer Adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books -- Pennies from Hell? -- Sisters, Mothers, 'Pals' and the Possibility of Queer Happy Endings -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 Conclusion: No Country for Old Women -- Works cited -- Index

Main Author/Authors Primorac, Antonija
Neo-Victorianism on screen: postfeminism and contemporary adaptations of Victorian women

Neo-Victorian literature and culture: immersions and revisitations

"The Neo-Victorian in Contemporary Culture provides a comprehensive reflection of the processes of canonization, (un)pleasurable consumption and the emerging predominance of topics and theoretical concerns in neo-Victorianism. The repetitions and reiterations of the Victorian in contemporary culture document an unbroken fascination with the histories, technologies and achievements, as well as the injustices and atrocities, of the nineteenth century. They also reveal that, in many ways, contemporary identities are constructed through a Victorian mirror image fabricated by the desires, imaginings and critical interests of the present. Providing analyses of current negotiations of nineteenth-century texts, discourses and traumas, this volume explores the contemporary commodification and nostalgic recreation of the past. It brings together critical perspectives of experts in the fields of Victorian literature and culture, contemporary literature, and neo-Victorianism, with contributions by leading scholars in the field including Rosario Arias, Cora Kaplan, Elizabeth Ho, Marie-Luise Kohlke and Sally Shuttleworth. The Neo-Victorian in Contemporary Culture interrogates current fashions in neo-Victorianism and their ideological leanings, the resurrection of cultural icons, and the reasons behind our relationship with and immersion in Victorian culture"--

Neo-Victorian villains: adaptations and transformations in popular culture

Neo-Victorian Villains' is the first edited collection to examine the afterlives of such Victorian villains as Dracula, Svengali, Dorian Gray and Jekyll and Hyde, exploring their representation in neo-Victorian drama and fiction. In addition, 'Neo-Victorian Villains' examines a number of villainous types, from the spirit medium and the femme fatale to the imperial 'native' and the ventriloquist, and traces their development from Victorian times through the twentieth century. Chapters analyse recent theatre, films and television - from 'Ripper Street' to Marvel superhero movies - as well as classic Hollywood depictions of the Victorian villains. In a wide-ranging opening chapter, Benjamin Poore assesses the legacy of nineteenth-century ideas of villains and villainy on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Contributors are: Sarah Artt, Guy Barefoot, Jonathan Buckmaster, David Bullen, Helen Davies, Robert Dean, Marion Gibson, Richard Hand, Emma James, Mark Jones, Emma V. Miller, Claire O'Callaghan, Christina Parker-Flynn, Frances Pheasant-Kelly, Natalie Russell, Gillian Piggott, Benjamin Poore and Rob Welch

Main Author/Authors Heilmann, Ann; Llewellyn, Mark
Neo-Victorianism: the Victorians in the twenty-first century, 1999-2009