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Victorian afterlife : postmodern culture rewrites the nineteenth century /

Major critical thinkers have found in the nineteenth century the origins of contemporary consumerism, sexual science, gay culture, and feminism. And postmodern theory, which once drove a wedge between contemporary interpretation and its historical objects.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kucich, John, Sadoff, Dianne F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Histories of the present / Dianne F. Sadoff and John Kucich
  • Modernity and culture, the Victorians and cultural studies / John McGowan
  • At home in the nineteenth century : photography, nostalgia, and the will to authenticity / Jennifer Green-Lewis
  • The uses and misuses of Oscar Wilde / Shelton Waldrep
  • Being true to Jane Austen / Mary A. Favret
  • A twentieth-century portrait : Jane Campion's American girl / Susan Lurie
  • Display cases / Judith Roof
  • Found drowned : the Irish Atlantic / Ian Baucom
  • The embarrassment of Victorianism : colonial subjects and the lure of Englishness / Simon Gikandi
  • Hacking the nineteenth century / Jay Clayton
  • Queen Victoria and me / Laurie Langbauer
  • Sorting, morphing, and mourning : A.S. Byatt ghostwrites Victorian fiction / Hilary M. Schor
  • Asking Alice : Victorian and other Alices in contemporary culture / Kali Israel
  • Specters of the novel : Dracula and the cinematic afterlife of the Victorian novel / Ronald R. Thomas
  • Postscript : Contemporary culturalism : how Victorian is it? / Nancy Armstrong.