Neo Victorianism On Screen

Author : Antonija Primorac
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319645599

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Neo-Victorianism on Screen by Antonija Primorac Pdf

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.

Author : Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Shannon Wells-Lassagne,Eckart Voigts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3868219072

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Filming the Past, Screening the Present by Shannon Wells-Lassagne,Eckart Voigts Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004322257

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Neo-Victorian Villains by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Ann Heilmann,Mark Llewellyn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004469150

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Black Neo-Victoriana by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Christian Gutleben
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789401207249

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Neo-Victorian Families by Christian Gutleben Pdf

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.

Author : Sarah E. Maier,Brenda Ayres,Danielle Mariann Dove
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031062018

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Neo-Victorian Things by Sarah E. Maier,Brenda Ayres,Danielle Mariann Dove Pdf

Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film is the first volume to focus solely on the replication, reconstruction, and re-presentation of Victorian things. It investigates the role of materiality in contemporary returns to the past as a means of assessing the function of things in remembering, revisioning, and/or reimagining the nineteenth century. Examining iterations of material culture in literature, film and popular television series, this volume offers a reconsideration of nineteenth-century things and the neo-Victorian cultural forms that they have inspired, animated, and even haunted. By turning to new and relatively underexplored strands of neo-Victorian materiality—including opium paraphernalia, slave ships, clothing, and biographical objects—and interrogating the critical role such objects play in reconstructing the past, this volume offers ways of thinking about how mis/apprehensions of material culture in the nineteenth century continue to shape our present understanding of things.

Author : Nadine Boehm-Schnitker,Susanne Gruss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134614691

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Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture by Nadine Boehm-Schnitker,Susanne Gruss Pdf

This book 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. Neo-Victorian Literature and 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.

Author : Michael Tondre
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813941462

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The Physics of Possibility by Michael Tondre Pdf

The Physics of Possibility traces the sensational birth of mathematical physics in Victorian literature, science, and statistics. As scientists took up new breakthroughs in quantification, they showed how all sorts of phenomena—the condition of stars, atoms, molecules, and nerves—could be represented as a set of probabilities through time. Michael Tondre demonstrates how these techniques transformed the British novel. Fictions of development by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and others joined the vogue for alternative possibilities. Their novels not only reflected received pieties of maturation but plotted a wider number of deviations from the norms of reproductive adulthood. By accentuating overlooked elements of form, Tondre reveals the novel’s changing identification with possible worlds through the decades when physics became a science of all things. In contrast to the observation that statistics served to invent normal populations, Tondre brings influential modes of historical thinking to the foreground. His readings reveal an acute fascination with alternative temporalities throughout the period, as novelists depicted the categories of object, action, and setting in new probabilistic forms. Privileging fiction’s agency in reimagining historical realities, never simply sanctioning them, Tondre revises our understanding of the novel and its ties to the ascendant Victorian sciences.

Author : D. Hassler-Forest,P. Nicklas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137443854

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The Politics of Adaptation by D. Hassler-Forest,P. Nicklas Pdf

In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their underlying ideologies that are reshaping our global media landscape, including questions of audience participation and transmedia storytelling.

Author : Iris Kleinecke-Bates
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Deborah Cartmell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118917534

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A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation by Deborah Cartmell Pdf

This is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena. Featuring a range of theoretical approaches, and chapters on the historical, ideological and economic aspects of adaptation, the volume reflects today’s acceptance of intertextuality as a vital and progressive cultural force. Incorporates new research in adaptation studies Features a chapter on the Harry Potter franchise, as well as other contemporary perspectives Showcases work by leading Shakespeare adaptation scholars Explores fascinating topics such as ‘unfilmable’ texts Includes detailed considerations of Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Author : Danielle Mariann Dove
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350294707

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Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction by Danielle Mariann Dove Pdf

Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction is the first full-length study to investigate and attend to the deeply suggestive and highly symbolic iterations of Victorian women's dress in the contemporary cultural imagination. Drawing upon a range of popular and less well-studied neo-Victorian novels published between 1990 and 2014, as well as their Victorian counterparts, 19th-century illustrative material, and extant Victorian garments, Danielle Dove explores the creative possibilities afforded by dress and fashion as gendered sites of agency and affect. Focusing on the relationship between texts and textiles, she demonstrates how dress is central to the narrativization, re-formulation, and re-fashioning of the material past in the present. In its examination of the narrative trajectories, lively vitalities, and material entanglements that accrue to, and originate from, dress in the neo-Victorian novel, this study brings a fresh approach to reading Victorian sartorial culture. For researchers and students of Victorian and neo-Victorian studies, dress history, material culture, and gender studies, this volume offers a rich resource with which to illuminate the power of fashion in fiction.

Author : Jessica Cox
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030292904

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Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction by Jessica Cox Pdf

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.