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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Neo-Victorian"”.
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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Reading of Contemporary Neo-Victorian Fiction
This thesis is about a body of contemporary neo-Victorian novels whose uneasy relationship with the past can be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, even cannibalism. Cannibalism operates on different levels throughout many works, and there is a sense of surreptitious insistence about it in the …
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The Neo-Victorian Novel, 1990-2010
… with direct and indirect connection to the Victorian era, at a time when a focus on the new millenium might have been expected. This proliferation of what came to be termed 'neo-Victorian novels' shows no sign of abating and has now given rise to scholarly research on the subject. The …
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Female Ensembles: Lesbian Neo-Victorian Fiction, 1998-2023
… it (1997) to lesbian literary history through neo-Victorian novels, short fiction, and film from the last twenty-five years. Chapter one argues that this subgenre of writing attempts to revise the fragmented historical record of queer history, and these texts hope for a liberated queer future …
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Epistolary Encounters : Diary and Letter Pastiche in Neo-Victorian Fiction.
… presence of fictional letters and diaries in neo-Victorian fiction. It investigates how intercalated documents fashion pastiche narrative structures to organise conflicting viewpoints invoked in diaries, letters, and other addressed accounts as epistolary forms. This study concentrates on the …
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Neo-Victorian Dickens(es): The Hogarth/Dickens Circle and Recent Biofiction
… Dickens’s domestic circle recur as characters in neo-Victorian biofiction published between 1990 and 2010. Following the postmodern foregrounding of the marginalised figures of history, biofiction of this kind rewrites – and “re-rights” – biographical materials in order to enable Victorian figures …
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Following Neo-Victorian paths - Il personaggio tra realtà storica e trasposizione letteraria
… attenzione al nuovo genere del romanzo neo-vittoriano. Attraverso un'approfondita analisi di "The Prestige" di Christopher Priest e di "Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem" di Peter Ackroyd, è possibile affermare che i personaggi storici non hanno più una funzione di mero supporto, come …
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Neo-Victorianism and empathy : time, affect, and the ethics of reading
… in order to interrogate the ethics of reading neo-Victorian literature. I present neo-Victorian literature as a genre defined by its contemporary exploitation of, and experimentation with, ‘empathetic narrative’ (Sylvia Adamson, 2001) and, in contrast with the historical preoccupation of much …
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The reappropriation of the Victorian in the novels of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter
… and Margaret Atwood display more influence from Victorian literature than may be immediately apparent. While they have both written historical novels that have been embraced by Neo-Victorian studies, the influence of the literature of the nineteenth century goes beyond these works, with the theme …
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Clockwork Heroines: Female Characters in Steampunk Literature
<p>Steampunk is a progressive literary genre that evokes, imitates, and re-imagines the nineteenth century and favors the Industrial Revolution ideals of science and technology. In a historical framework, it mixes nineteenth-century conventions and retrofuturistic machinery with science fiction and …