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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.
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Introduction Histories of the Present; mystifications; Modernity and Culture, the Victorians and Cultural Studies; At Home in the Nineteenth Century: Photography, Nostalgia, and the Will to Authenticity; The Uses and Misuses of Oscar Wilde; Being True to Jane Austen; A Twentieth-Century Portrait: Jane Campion's American Girl; Display Cases; engagements; Found Drowned: The Irish Atlantic; The Embarrassment of Victorianism: Colonial Subjects and the Lure of Englishness; Hacking the Nineteenth Century; Queen Victoria and Me.
- Sorting, Morphing, and Mourning: A.S. Byatt Ghostwrites Victorian FictionAsking Alice: Victorian and Other Alices in Contemporary Culture; Specters of the Novel: Dracula and the Cinematic Afterlife of the Victorian Novel; Postscript Contemporary Culturalism: How Victorian Is It?; Contributors; Index.