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Autore |
Kucich John |
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Titolo |
Victorian Afterlife [[electronic resource] ] : Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 1996 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (375 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction |
English literature |
Literature and history |
Postmodernism |
English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc - 19th century - Great Britain |
Literature and history - History - 19th century - Great Britain |
Literature and history - History - 20th century |
English Literature |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction Histories of the Present; mystifications; Modernity and Culture, the Victorians and Cultural Studies; At Home in the Nineteenth Century: Photography, Nostalgia, and the Will to Authenticity; The Uses and Misuses of Oscar Wilde; Being True to Jane Austen; A Twentieth-Century Portrait: Jane Campion's American Girl; Display Cases; engagements; Found Drowned: The Irish Atlantic; The Embarrassment of Victorianism: Colonial Subjects and the Lure of Englishness; Hacking the Nineteenth Century; Queen Victoria and Me |
Sorting, Morphing, and Mourning: A. S. Byatt Ghostwrites Victorian FictionAsking Alice: Victorian and Other Alices in Contemporary |
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Culture; Specters of the Novel: Dracula and the Cinematic Afterlife of the Victorian Novel; Postscript Contemporary Culturalism: How Victorian Is It?; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Major critical thinkers have found in the nineteenth century the origins of contemporary consumerism, sexual science, gay culture, and feminism. And postmodern theory, which once drove a wedge between contemporary interpretation and its historical objects |
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