Neo Victorian Freakery

Author : Helen Davies
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137402563
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorian Freakery written by Helen Davies and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neo-Victorian Freakery explores the way in which contemporary fiction, film, and television has revisited the lives of nineteenth-century freak show performers. It locates the neo-Victorian freak show as a crucial forum for debating the politics of disability, gender, sexuality and race within the genre more broadly.

Author : Helen Davies
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349567553
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorian Freakery written by Helen Davies and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neo-Victorian Freakery explores the way in which contemporary fiction, film, and television has revisited the lives of nineteenth-century freak show performers. It locates the neo-Victorian freak show as a crucial forum for debating the politics of disability, gender, sexuality and race within the genre more broadly.

Author : Helen Davies
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137402563
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorian Freakery written by Helen Davies and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neo-Victorian Freakery explores the way in which contemporary fiction, film, and television has revisited the lives of nineteenth-century freak show performers. It locates the neo-Victorian freak show as a crucial forum for debating the politics of disability, gender, sexuality and race within the genre more broadly.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004434356
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorian Biofiction written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting neo-Victorian biofiction’s crucial role in reimagining and augmenting the historical archive, this volume explores the complex ethical consequences of a creative movement of historiographic revisionism, combining biography and fiction in a dialectic tension of empathy and voyeuristic spectacle.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004336613
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorian Humour written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting neo-Victorian humour’s crucial role in shaping contemporary re-visions of nineteenth-century culture, this volume explores the major aesthetic, ideological and ethical issues raised by refracting the past through a comic lens, especially through self-conscious irony, parody, and black humour.

Author : Saverio Tomaiuolo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319969501
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deviance in Neo-Victorian Culture written by Saverio Tomaiuolo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that ‘deviance’ represents a central issue in neo-Victorian culture, and that the very concept of neo-Victorianism is based upon the idea of ‘diverging’ from accepted notions regarding the nineteenth-century frame of mind. However, the study of the ways in which the Victorian age has been revised by contemporary authors does not only entail analogies with the present but proves – by introducing what is perhaps a more pertinent description of the nineteenth century – that it was much more ‘deviant’ than it is usually depicted and perceived. Deviance in Neo-Victorian Culture: Canon, Transgression, Innovation explores a wide variety of textual forms, from novels to TV series, from movies and graphic novels to visual art. The scholarly and educational purpose of this study is to stimulate readers to approach neo-Victorianism as a complex cultural phenomenon.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004322256
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorian Villains written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Antonija Primorac
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319645595
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorianism on Screen written by Antonija Primorac and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kathleen Renk
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030482871
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel written by Kathleen Renk and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel: Erotic “Victorians” focuses on the work of British, Irish, and Commonwealth women writers such as A.S. Byatt, Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, Helen Humphreys, Margaret Atwood, and Ahdaf Soueif, among others, and their attempts to re-envision the erotic. Kathleen Renk argues that women writers of the neo-Victorian novel are far more philosophical in their approach to representing the erotic than male writers and draw more heavily on Victorian conventions that would proscribe the graphic depiction of sexual acts, thus leaving more to the reader’s imagination. This book addresses the following questions: Why are women writers drawn to the neo-Victorian genre and what does this reveal about the state of contemporary feminism? How do classical and contemporary forms of the erotic play into the ways in which women writers address the Victorian “woman question”? How exactly is the erotic used to underscore women’s creative potential?

Author : Muren Zhang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350135607
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorianism, Empathy and Reading written by Muren Zhang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the words of J. Brooks Boustan, the empathic reader is a participant-observer, who, as they read, is both subject to the disruptive and disturbing responses that characters and texts provoke, and aware of the role they are invited to play when responding to fiction. Calling upon the writings of Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Sarah Waters, Michael Cox and Jane Harris, this book examines the ethics of the text-reader relationship in neo-Victorian literature, focusing upon the role played by empathy in this engagement. Bringing together recent cultural and theoretical research on narrative temporality, empathy and affect, Muren Zhang presents neo-Victorian literature as a genre defined by its experimentation with 'empathetic narrative'. Broken down into themes such as voyeurism, shame, nausea, space and place, Neo-Victorianism, Empathy and Reading argues that such literature pushes the reader to critically reflect upon their reading expectations and strategies, as well as their wider ethical responsibilities. As a result, Zhang breathes new life into the debates associated with the genre and demonstrates new ways of reading and valuing these contemporary texts, providing a future-orientated, reparative and politically meaningful way of reading neo-Victorian literature and culture.