Neo-Victorian Things: Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film (1st ed. 2022)

By: Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier and Danielle Mariann Dove

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783031062018
Related ISBNs:: 9783031062001
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 08/18/22
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Sarah E. Maier
Edited by:: Brenda Ayres
Edited by:: Danielle Mariann Dove