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Neo-Victorian Gothic : horror, violence and degeneration in the re-imagined nineteenth century /
This volume, the third in Rodopi's Neo-Victorian Series, reassesses neo-Victorianism as a quintessentially Gothic movement. Through their revival of bygone spectres, their obsession with forgotten skeletons in the cupboard, and their exploration of nineteenth-century extremities, neo-Victorian...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. :
Editions Rodopi B.V.,
2012.
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| Colección: | Neo-Victorian series ;
v. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The (mis)shapes of neo-Victorian Gothic: continuations, adaptations, transformations / Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben
- pt. 1. Imperial impostures and improprieties. The limits of neo-Victorian history: Elizabeth Kostova's The historian and The swan thieves / Andrew Smith ; Reclaiming plots: Albert Wendt's 'Prospecting' and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl's Ola nā iwi as postcolonial neo-Victorian Gothic / Cheryl D. Edelson ; Monsters against empire: the politics and poetics of neo-Victorian metafiction in The league of extraordinary gentlemen / Sebastian Domsch ; A bodily metaphorics of unsettlement: Leora Farber's Dis-location/Re-location as neo-Victorian Gothic / Jeanne Ellis
- pt. 2. The horrid and the sexy. Neo-Victorian Gothic and spectral sexuality in Colm Tóibín's The master / Patricia Pulham ; 'Jack the Ripper' as neo-Victorian Gothic fiction: twentieth-century and contemporary sallies into a late Victorian case and myth / Max Duperray ; Chasing the dragon: bangtails, toffs, Jack and Johnny in neo-Victorian fiction / Sarah E. Maier ; Neo-Victorian female Gothic: fantasies of self-abjection / Marie-Luise Kohlke
- pt. 3. Hybrid forms. Epistemological rupture and the Gothic sublime / Van Leavenworth ; Dead words and fatal secrets: rediscovering the sensational document in neo-Victorian Gothic / Kym Brindle ; 'Fear is fun and fun is fear': A reflexion on humour in neo-Victorian Gothic / Christian Gutleben.