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Neo-Victorian tropes of trauma : the politics of bearing after-witness to nineteenth-century suffering /

This collection constitutes the first volume in Rodopi's Neo-Victorian Series, which explores the prevalent but often problematic re-vision of the long nineteenth century in contemporary culture. Here is presented for the first time an extended analysis of the conjunction of neo-Victorian ficti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kohlke, Marie-Luise
Otros Autores: Gutleben, Christian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010.
Colección:Neo-Victorian series ; vol. 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This collection constitutes the first volume in Rodopi's Neo-Victorian Series, which explores the prevalent but often problematic re-vision of the long nineteenth century in contemporary culture. Here is presented for the first time an extended analysis of the conjunction of neo-Victorian fiction and trauma discourse, highlighting the significant interventions in collective memory staged by the belated aesthetic working-through of historical catastrophes, as well as their lingering traces in the present. The neo-Victorian's privileging of marginalised voices and its contestation of master-narr.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (414 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789042032316
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9789042032309
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