Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Sarah E. Maier ,
Brenda Ayres ,
Danielle Mariann Dove
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 2022 ed.
Weight: 0.452kg
ISBN: 9783031062001
ISBN 10: 3031062000
Pages: 233
Publication Date: 18 July 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
“Neo-Victorian Things successfully situates itself at the intersection of neo-Victorian studies and material culture studies, meticulously examining previously unexplored or overlooked objects. … Each chapter revolves around aclearly identified focus … . It is highly recommended for scholars in the field, or anyone simply with an interest in the Victorian past and its relevance today.” (Hatunnur Ciftci, KULT_online - Review Journal for the Study of Culture, Issue 69, May, 2024)
Author Information
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 TeachingFellow 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.
