Książka Neo-Victorian Gothic Marie-Luise Kohlke

Neo-Victorian Gothic

Horror, Violence and Degeneration in the Re-imagined Nineteenth Century

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydawca: Brill
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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This volume, the third in Rodopi's Neo-Victorian Series, reassesses neo-Victorianism as a quintessen...

Informacje o książce

Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2012
strony
352
EAN
9789042036253
ISBN
9789042036253
Enbook ID
09012798
Wydawca
Waga
566
Wymiary
155 x 229 x 22

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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 works not only reflect our contemporary Gothic culture but also reactivate it and even enrich it with new variations such as postcolonial, eco or steampunk Gothic. Addressed to scholars and students of both Gothic and Neo-Victorian Studies, this volume will also interest contemporary literature specialists, cultural theorists, and those working on popular historical memory, as it explores the paradox of culture's coincident turn to ethics and sensationalism. As exemplified in its generic variety and hybridity, neo-Victorian Gothic resorts to the spectacularisation of horror while simultaneously demonstrating the hyperreal, textual and self-reflexive nature of these spectacles, just as it resorts to the exploitation of hyperbolic and violent sexuality at the same time as challenging sexual norms and identity politics. In spite of these apparent contradictions, the Gothic forms of neo-Victorianism demonstrate their fundamentally ethical goal of interrogating the uncertain limits between self and other, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, past and present.

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