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Neo-Victorianism and the memory of empire /
Examining the global dimensions of Neo-Victorianism, this book explores how the appropriation of Victorian images in contemporary literature and culture has emerged as a critical response to the crises of decolonization and Imperial collapse. Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire explores the ph...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Continuum International Publishing,
2012.
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| Colección: | Continuum literary studies.
Continuum studies in philosophy. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Introduction; Neo-Victorianism and Improper Postcolonialisms; The "N-word" and the "V-word"; Improper Postcolonialisms; Past Recovery: Methods of Remembering; Patel and Pun, or, A Chapter Review; Chapter 1; Neo-Victorianism and "Ripperature": Alan Moore's From Hell; Ripperature and Gender: Margaret Thatcher's "Queenliness"; Ripperature and Heritage: Melancholic Narratives and a Critique of Neo-Victorianism; Post-Imperial Landscapes: Ripperature, Psychogeography, and Englishness; Jack the Rippe; Chapter 2.
- Neo-Victorianism Down Under: Peter Carey's Jack MaggsThe House that Jack Built Down Under; Charles Dickens, You Bastard; "Singing for his Supper:" The National Author in Australia; Mesmerism and Trauma; Citizenship; Chapter 3; Neo-Victorianism South of Nowhere: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace; Neo-Victorianism, Whiteness, and Multiculturalism; From Susanna Moodie to Grace Marks; White Men Need Not Apply; Quilting: Multiculturalism and Feminism "Made Strange"; "Je me souviens:" Neo-Victorian Memoro-Politics; ". . . A White Lie Such as the Angels Tell"; Chapter 4.
- "Far-Flung" Neo-Victorianism: Hong Kong and Jackie Chan's Neo-Victorian FilmsAnother "Island Story"; Smoke and Mirrors: The Opium War in Hong Kong Texts; Neo-Victorianism and Jackie Chan I: "Born in Hong Kong"; Neo-Victorianism and Jackie Chan II: Shanghai Noon, Shanghai Knights, and the Chinese Diaspora; Chapter 5; Neo-Victorianism and Science Fiction: "Steampunk"; Steampunk: An Orientation; Empires: The Difference Engine and The Diamond Age; Steamboy: Japan's Victorian Past; Around the World Again; Chapter 6; The Neo-Victorian-at-Sea: Toward a Global Memory of the Victorian.