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  1. Neo-Victorian Families.
    Gender, Sexual and Cultural Politics
    Author: Kohlke, Marie-Luise
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    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... more

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    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 p.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Gutleben, Christian
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789401207249; 9401207240
    RVK Categories: HN 1139
    Series: Neo-Victorian Series, 2 ; v. 2
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (407 pages)
  2. Neo-Victorian Families
    Gender, Sexual and Cultural Politics
    Author: Kohlke, Marie-Luise
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9401207240; 9789401207249
    Series: Neo-Victorian Series, 2
    Subjects: English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; English fiction / 21st century / History and criticism; Historical fiction, English / History and criticism; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Families; Gender expression; Sex role; Steampunk culture; Literatur; Steampunk culture; Families; Sex role; Gender expression; Rezeption; Familie; Geschlechterrolle
    Scope: 1 online resource (407 pages)
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    Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introducing Neo-Victorian Family Matters:Cultural Capital and Reproduction; PART I Endangered Childhoods and Lost Futures:Filthiness and Philanthropy; 1. From London's East End to West Baltimore:How the Victorian Slum Narrative Shapes The Wire; 2. Failing Families: Echoes of Nineteenth-CenturyChild Rescue Discourse in Contemporary Debatesaround Child Protection; 3. The Figure of the Child in Neo-Victorian Queer Families; 4. Neo-Victorian Childhoods:Re-Imagining the Worst of Times

    PART II Performing (Im)Possible Happy Families:Deconstruction and Reconstruction5. Deconstructing the Victorian Family?Trying to Reach Cloud Nine; 6. The Cratchits on Film:Neo-Victorian Visions of Domesticity; 7. The Rise and Fall of the Forsytes:From Neo-Victorian to Neo-Edwardian Marriage; 8. The Lost Mother and the Enclosed Lady: Gender andDomesticity in MTV's Adaptation of Wuthering Heights; 9. Monarchs and Patriarchs: Angela Carter's Recreationof the Victorian Family in The Magic Toyshop; PART III The Mirror of Society:Familial Trauma, Dissolution and Transformation

    10. Family Traumas and Serial Killingin Peter Ackroyd's Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem11. Family Trauma and Reconfigured Families:Philip Pullman's Neo-Victorian Detective Series; 12. "That heartbroken island of incestuous hatreds":Famine and Family in Joseph O'Connor's Star of the Sea; 13. (In)Visible Disability in Neo-Victorian Families; 14. More Than Kith and Less Than Kin: Queering the Familyin Sarah Waters's Neo-Victorian Fictions; 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 p