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...
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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. 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
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Neo-Victorianism and Post-Authenticity: On the Ethics and Aesthetics of Appropriation; 1 Memory, Mourning, Misfortune: Ancestral Houses and (Literary) Inheritances; 2 Race and Empire: Postcolonial Neo-Victorians; 3 Sex and Science: Bodily and Textual (Re)Inscriptions; 4 Spectrality and S(p)ecularity: Some Reflections in the Glass; 5 Doing It with Mirrors, or Tricks of the Trade: Neo-Victorian Metatextual Magic; 6 The Way We Adapt Now: or, the Neo-Victorian Theme Park; Notes; Bibliography; Index
