Functions Of Victorian Culture At The Present Time

Author : Christine L. Krueger
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780821414606

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Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time by Christine L. Krueger Pdf

Annotation The echoes of Victorian literature and culture impact contemporary practices and values, according to Krueger (English, Marquette U.). She presents 11 essays that address such issues as the problematics of temporality in the historiography of Victorian times, the reproduction of Victorian material culture for contemporary consumers, the use of Victorian cultural identities in fashioning today's identities, and the persistence of Victorian methods of legal and social discipline. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Andrea Kirchknopf
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476601922

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Rewriting the Victorians by Andrea Kirchknopf Pdf

The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--as one can see from, for example, large-scale adaptations of written works, as well as the explosion of commodities and even interactive theme parks. This book is an introduction to the novelistic refashionings that have come after the Victorian age with a special focus on revisions of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. As post-Victorian research is still in the making, the first part is devoted to clarifying terminology and interpretive contexts. Two major frameworks for reading post-Victorian fiction are developed: the literary scene (authors, readers, critics) and the national-identity, political and social aspects. Among the works examined are Caryl Phillips's Cambridge, Matthew Kneale's English Passengers, Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs, Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, D.M. Thomas's Charlotte, and Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair.

Author : Iris Kleinecke-Bates
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137316721

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Victorians on Screen by Iris Kleinecke-Bates Pdf

Victorians on Screen investigates the representation of the Victorian age on British television from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. Structured around key areas of enquiry specific to British television, it avoids a narrow focus on genre by instead taking a thematic approach and exploring notions of authenticity, realism and identity.

Author : Sara K. Day,Sonya Sawyer Fritz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351376273

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The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture by Sara K. Day,Sonya Sawyer Fritz Pdf

Victorian literature for audiences of all ages provides a broad foundation upon which to explore complex and evolving ideas about young people. In turn, this collection argues, contemporary works for young people that draw on Victorian literature and culture ultimately reflect our own disruptions and upheavals, particularly as they relate to child and adolescent readers and our experiences of them. The essays therein suggest that we struggle now, as the Victorians did then, to assert a cohesive understanding of young readers, and that this lack of cohesion is a result of or a parallel to the disruptions taking place on a larger (even global) scale.

Author : Vanessa D. Dickerson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252090981

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Dark Victorians by Vanessa D. Dickerson Pdf

Dark Victorians illuminates the cross-cultural influences between white Britons and black Americans during the Victorian age. In carefully analyzing literature and travel narratives by Ida B. Wells, Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Carlyle, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others, Vanessa D. Dickerson reveals the profound political, racial, and rhetorical exchanges between the groups. From the nineteenth-century black nationalist David Walker, who urged emigrating African Americans to turn to England, to the twentieth-century writer Maya Angelou, who recalls how those she knew in her childhood aspired to Victorian ideas of conduct, black Americans have consistently embraced Victorian England. At a time when scholars of black studies are exploring the relations between diasporic blacks, and postcolonialists are taking imperialism to task, Dickerson considers how Britons negotiated their support of African Americans with the controlling policies they used to govern a growing empire of often dark-skinned peoples, and how philanthropic and abolitionist Victorian discourses influenced black identity, prejudice, and racism in America.

Author : Sabine Lucia Müller,Anja Schwarz
Publisher : Wallstein Verlag
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 383530237X

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Iterationen by Sabine Lucia Müller,Anja Schwarz Pdf

Author : Kate Mitchell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230283121

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History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction by Kate Mitchell Pdf

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. Arguing that neo-Victorian fiction enacts and celebrates cultural memory, this book uses memory discourse to position these novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary.

Author : Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031321603

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The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism by Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier Pdf

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 : David Gange
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780748290

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The Victorians by David Gange Pdf

The Victorian era was a time of unprecedented transformation, yet it is often understood only through the stereotypes of crowded factories, child labour and emotional repression. In this entertaining and scholarly introduction, Dr David Gange explores the political, social and economic realities that defined life for Victorian people. Weaving together the perspectives of historians and literary scholars with movements in art, science and ethics, Gange paints a colourful, interdisciplinary portrait of everyday life in nineteenth century Britain. The Victorians: A Beginner's Guide features such famous figures as Dickens and Disraeli, while offering a thought-provoking examination of how our perceptions of this pivotal period of history have changed.

Author : L. Hadley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230317499

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Neo-Victorian Fiction and Historical Narrative by L. Hadley Pdf

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.

Author : Kirstie Blair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192581969

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Working Verse in Victorian Scotland by Kirstie Blair Pdf

This volume reassesses working-class poetry and poetics in Victorian Britain, using Scotland as a focus and with particular attention to the role of the popular press in fostering and disseminating working-class verse cultures. It studies a very wide variety of writers who are unknown to scholarship, and assesses the political, social, and cultural work which their poetry performed. During the Victorian period, Scotland underwent unprecedented changes in terms of industrialization, the rise of the city, migration, and emigration. This study shows how poets who defined themselves as part of a specifically Scottish tradition responded to these changes. It substantially revises our understanding of Scottish literature in this period, while contributing to wider investigations of the role of popular verse in national and international cultures.

Author : T. Moore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230623330

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Victorian Christmas in Print by T. Moore Pdf

Although people may not realize it, the modern Christmas book market carries on a Victorian legacy. An explosion of Christmas print matter reinvigorated and regularized the holiday during the mid-Victorian period, infusing Christmas with emotionally-charged expectations of reading. Tara Moore elucidates the evolution of Christmas publishing trends that dictated authors writing schedules and reflected gift-giving rituals. As Victorian shopping customs evolved, publishers satisfied consumers with a range of holiday print matter, including novels, ghost stories, periodicals, children s books, and poetry. Ultimately, Victorian Christmas in Print analyzes how the revitalized holiday and the flurry of texts supporting it contributed to English national identity.

Author : Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
Publisher : Springer
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030025595

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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Pdf

This Pivot examines a body of contemporary neo-Victorian novels whose uneasy relationship with the past can be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, including cannibalism. Not only is the imagery of eating repeatedly used by critics to comprehend neo-Victorian literature, the theme of cannibalism itself also appears overtly or implicitly in a number of the novels and their Victorian prototypes, thereby mirroring the cannibalistic relationship between the contemporary and the Victorian. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho argues that aggressive eating or cannibalism can be seen as a pathological and defining characteristic of neo-Victorian fiction, demonstrating how cannibalism provides a framework for understanding the genre’s origin, its conflicted, ambivalent and violent relationship with its Victorian predecessors and the grotesque and gothic effects that it generates in its fiction.

Author : Ann Heilmann,Mark Llewellyn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230281691

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Neo-Victorianism by Ann Heilmann,Mark Llewellyn Pdf

This field-defining book offers an interpretation of the recent figurations of neo-Victorianism published over the last ten years. Using a range of critical and cultural viewpoints, it highlights the problematic nature of this 'new' genre and its relationship to re-interpretative critical perspectives on the nineteenth century.

Author : Pascal Nicklas,Oliver Lindner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110272239

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Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation by Pascal Nicklas,Oliver Lindner Pdf

“Hamlet” by Olivier, Kaurismäki or Shepard and “Pride and Prejudice” in its many adaptations show the virulence of these texts and the importance of aesthetic recycling for the formation of cultural identity and diversity. Adaptation has always been a standard literary and cultural strategy, and can be regarded as the dominant means of production in the cultural industries today. Focusing on a variety of aspects such as artistic strategies and genre, but also marketing and cultural politics, this volume takes a critical look at ways of adapting and appropriating cultural texts across epochs and cultures in literature, film and the arts.