Overview
Covers a range of topics including fiction, life-writing, literary scholarship, film, and art
Explores the haptic turn in cultural and literary studies
Connects the study of materiality in Victorian and Neo-Victorian literature and culture
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film is the first volume to focus solely on the replication, reconstruction, and re-presentation of Victorian things. It investigates the role of materiality in contemporary returns to the past as a means of assessing the function of things in remembering, revisioning, and/or reimagining the nineteenth century. Examining iterations of material culture in literature, film and popular television series, this volume offers a reconsideration of nineteenth-century things and the neo-Victorian cultural forms that they have inspired, animated, and even haunted. By turning to new and relatively underexplored strands of neo-Victorian materiality—including opium paraphernalia, slave ships, clothing, and biographical objects—and interrogating the critical role such objects play in reconstructing the past, this volume offers ways of thinking about how mis/apprehensions of material culture in the nineteenth century continue to shape our present understanding of things.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sarah E. Maier and Brenda Ayres have coedited and contributed chapters to the following: Neo-Disneyism: Inclusivity in the Twenty-First Century of Disney’s Magic Kingdom (Oxford, 2022), The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture (2022), The Theological Dickens (Routledge, 2022), Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media(Palgrave, 2020); Neo-Gothic Narratives: Illusory Allusions from the Past (Anthem, 2020); Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture (Routledge, 2019); and Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-first Century (Anthem 2019). The two cowrote A Vindication of the Redhead: The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts (Palgrave, 2021).
Danielle Mariann Dove is a Teaching Fellow in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Surrey. Her research and publications centre on Victorian and neo-Victorian literature, with a specific focus on dress and fashion history, material culture, and literary celebrity. Her monograph on dress in neo-Victorian fiction is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neo-Victorian Things
Book Subtitle: Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film
Editors: Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres, Danielle Mariann Dove
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06201-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06200-1Published: 18 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06203-2Published: 19 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06201-8Published: 17 July 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 233
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, Audio-Visual Culture