Neo-Victorian Things: Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film

Sarah E. Maier (Curatore)

Brenda Ayres (Curatore)

Springer International Publishing AG, 2023

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.

• Curatore: Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres
• Editore: Springer International Publishing AG
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 233 p.
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm
• EAN: 9783031062032

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