Neo-Victorian Things: Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film (1st ed. 2022)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2022
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9783031062018
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783031062001
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 08/31/22
- Copyrighted By:
- The Editor
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Sarah E. Maier
- Edited by:
- Brenda Ayres
- Edited by:
- Danielle Mariann Dove
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