| Title | : | Neo-Victorian Things |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres & Danielle Mariann Dove |
| Release | : | 2022-07-17 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Literary Criticism, Books, Fiction & Literature, Arts & Entertainment, Film, TV |
| Size | : | 1168868 |
| 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 materialculture in the nineteenth century continue to shape our present understanding of things. |
