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.
| ISBN: | 9783031321597 |
| Publication date: | 11th February 2024 |
| Author: | Brenda Ayres |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer International Publishing AG |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 527 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Performing arts Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: plays and playwrights |
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.
The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Performing arts, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights
The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism is available in Hardback
The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism was written by Brenda Ayres and published by Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer International Publishing AG
The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism has 527 pages
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