The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Ohio University Press
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• Release Date : 29 April 2024

Simon Joyce examines heritage culture, contemporary politics, and the "neo-Dickensian" novel to offer a more affirmative assessment of the Victorian legacy, one that lets us imagine a model of social

• Publisher : McFarland
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• Release Date : 21 May 2013

The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present—as one can see from, for example, large-scale adaptations of written works, as well as the explosion of commodities and

• Publisher : Ohio University Press
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• Release Date : 29 April 2024

Annotation The echoes of Victorian literature and culture impact contemporary practices and values, according to Krueger (English, Marquette U.). She presents 11 essays that address such issues as the problematics of

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 01 June 2020

Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media investigates contemporary fiction, cinema and television shows set in the Victorian period that depict mad murderers, lunatic doctors, social

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 29 April 2016

Neo-Victorian Freakery explores the way in which contemporary fiction, film, and television has revisited the lives of nineteenth-century freak show performers. It locates the neo-Victorian freak show as a crucial

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 04 February 2019

This Pivot examines a body of contemporary neo-Victorian novels whose uneasy relationship with the past can be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, including cannibalism. Not only is the imagery

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 27 June 2018

Senior colonial officer from 1813 to 1859, Inspector General James Barry was a pioneering medical reformer who after his death in 1865 became the object of intense speculation when rumours arose about his

• Publisher : Ohio University Press
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• Release Date : 15 December 2016

Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 20 November 2023

From contemporary deployments of taxidermy, magic lanterns and microscopy to the visualization of forgotten lives, marginalized narratives and colonial histories, this book explores how the work of artists including Mat

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
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• Release Date : 10 January 2023

The book offers a study of Victorian and neo-Victorian women as portrayed on the pages of the selected nineteenth-century novels and modern, revisionary works. Immersed in the wide socio-cultural context