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The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism
| The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism |
| Autore | Ayres Brenda |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (525 pages) |
| Altri autori (Persone) | MaierSarah E |
| ISBN | 3-031-32160-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Editors -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The Hauntology/Narratology of the Neo-Victorian Ghost Story -- Home Before Dark -- The Whispering House -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Neo-Victorian Victoria(s) on Screen -- Returning to the Heritage Film: Biofiction, Celebrity, and Nostalgia -- Why Bother? Adapting Queen (Neo)Victoria -- "The symbol of an entire age": Queen Victoria on Film3 -- Spent Youth: The Young Victoria -- Old Age: Victoria & -- Abdul -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Neo-Victorian Fiction on Screen -- The Terror and the Pitfalls of the Imperial Gothic -- From the Imperial Gothic to a Neo-Victorian Adaptation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Gaslight: The Play, the Film, the Noun, the Verb -- The Sources of the Story -- The Play: Neo-Victorian Self-Consciousness -- The Film: Gaslight Melodrama and Pastiche -- "Gas Light" for the Twenty-first Century -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Postcolonial and Global Neo-Victorianisms -- Wide Sargasso Sea and Postcolonial Neo-Victorian Studies -- Conceptualising Postcolonial and Global Neo-Victorian Studies -- Postcolonial and Global Neo-Victorian Approaches -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: "Too frivolous, too middlebrow, too populist, and too commercial": Examining the Neo-Victorian Musical -- Optimistic Nostalgia, "Victorian Liberalism," and the Neo-Victorian Musical -- Earnest Emotion and the Neo-Victorian Megamusical -- Self-referential and Parodic Neo-Victorian Musicals -- Bibliography -- Bibliography of Major Neo-Victorian Musical Productions in London and New York, Late 1990s-Present -- Chapter 8: Coming of Age: Neo-Victorian, Dickensian Children -- Reimaging the Child -- A Neo-Victorian, Dickensian Christmas -- Neo-Victorian Child Heroes.
Bibliography -- Chapter 9: Fred Saberhagen's Dracula: The Vampire as Neo-Victorian Hero -- Adaptations of Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Fred Saberhagen's Dracula Series -- The Dracula Tape -- Dracula and Sherlock Holmes -- Other Novels in the Series -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10: Neo-Victorianism and the End(s) of Religion -- The Ends of Faith and Form -- The Ends of Religion and Empire -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11: Exotic Prehistory or Relevant Science? Post-human Subversion of Prehistoric Travel Narratives in Neo-Victorian Literature -- Victorian Precedents and Neo-Victorian Narratives Which Conform -- The Neo-Victorian Narratives Which Subvert Victorian Tropes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12: Neo-Victorian Darwin -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13: "The Unclosed Coffin": The Neo-Victorian Afterlives of Elizabeth Siddal -- Lizzie's Afterlives -- Revisiting the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood -- Passivity and the (Neo-)Victorian Woman -- Death and the Pre-Raphaelite Muse -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 14: Fits Like a Glove: Neo-Victorian Metonyms of Fingers, Hands, and Gloves -- Beneath the Gloves in The Crimson Petal and the White -- Beneath the Gloves in Fingersmith and The Handmaiden -- The Glove, Hands, and Fingers of Neo-Victorian Metafiction -- Bibliography -- Chapter 15: Neo-Victorian Poetry -- Neo-Victorian Poetry in Criticism -- Poetry in Neo-Victorian Fiction and Film -- Neo-Victorian Poems -- The Neo-Victorian "Found Poem" -- Bibliography -- Chapter 16: Neo-Victorian Graphic Novels: Learning to Unmaster the Archive -- In Broad Strokes -- Archive Dreams -- Alice Geo-Graphical, Alice Intertextual -- Bibliography -- Chapter 17: Biofiction and the Neo-Victorian Crime Novel: The Case of the Brontës -- (Counterfactual) Literary Biofictions -- The Brontë Sisters as Characters in Counterfactual Biofictions. The Brontë Myth and Biomythography in Biofiction -- Biofictional Pastiche of a Myth-Debunking Biography -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 18: Neo-Victorian Violence -- Violence in Neo-Victorian Studies -- Recovering Victorian Violence -- Adapting Canonical Violence -- Contaminating Neo-Victorian Violence -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 19: The Limehouse Golem: Female Agency and Neo-Victorian Slumming -- Neo-Victorian Slumming in the East End -- Drag and the Urban Golem -- Biofiction and the Risks of Neo-Victorian Slumming -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 20: Dust and Sewers, Filth and Waste: "Disgusting" Retro-Speculation in Neo-Victorian Narratives -- Examples of Retro-Speculation: Re-creating the Victorian Waste Regime -- The "In-yer-face" Synaesthesia of Medicine, Hygiene, Sewers, Effluvia, and Miasma -- Bibliography -- Chapter 21: "This Much I Know": The Ghosting of the Past in Crimson Peak -- Bibliography -- Chapter 22: New Wine in Old Bottles: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus -- Synopsis of Nights at the Circus -- Fevvers: One White Woman's Pilgrimage Through Victorian Patriarchy -- "A Circus is Always a Microcosm"31 -- Escaping Misplaced Trust -- New Wine -- Bibliography -- Chapter 23: Victorian Women's Hysteria and Neo-Victorian Women's Madness -- Bodies of Water -- Fingersmith -- Coda -- Bibliography -- Chapter 24: "The Testimony of Love": The Lesbian Neo-Victorian Novel -- Defining the Lesbian Neo-Victorian Novel -- Lesbianism in the Nineteenth Century -- Sarah Waters and the Lesbian Neo-Victorian Novel -- Apparitional Power in Hannah Kent's Devotion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 25: Misfits and Queers: Alienism, Detective Agency, and Neo-Victorian Investigation in The Alienist(s) -- The Crimes -- The Team of Misfits and Oddlings -- Finding Answers: Faith v. Science -- Scientific Investigation and Truth. Bibliography -- Chapter 26: Is Steampunk Neo-Victorian? -- Defining Steampunk -- Steampunk and History -- Steampunk and Material Culture -- Steampunk and the Politics of Gender -- Steampunk and Decolonisation -- Bibliography -- Chapter 27: Epilogue -- Index. |
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Silent voices [[electronic resource] ] : forgotten novels by Victorian women writers / / edited by Brenda Ayres
| Silent voices [[electronic resource] ] : forgotten novels by Victorian women writers / / edited by Brenda Ayres |
| Autore | Ayres Brenda |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, CT, : Praeger, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823/.8099287 |
| Collana | Contributions in women's studies |
| Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism |
| Soggetto non controllato |
English Fiction
Women And Literature Literary Criticism |
| ISBN |
1-282-40782-1
9786612407826 0-313-03931-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. ""Not the Superiority of Belief, but Superiority of True Devotion"": Grace Aguilar's Histories of the Spirit; 2. The Victorian Heroine Goes A-Governessing; 3. The Detective Maidservant: Catherine Crowe's Susan Hopley; 4. Deathbeds and Didacticism: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna and Victorian Social Reform Literature; 5. Class Counts: The Domestic-Professional Writer, the Working Poor, and Middle-Class Values in The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten and The Story of a Modern Woman
6. On the Face of the Waters: Flora Annie Steel and the Politics of Feminist Imperialism7. Re-reading the Domestic Novel: Anne Thackeray's The Story of Elizabeth; 8. ""I Am Not Esther"": Biblical Heroines and Sarah Grand's Challenge to Institutional Christianity in The Heavenly Twins; 9. Dinah Mulock Craik: Sacrifice and the Fairy-Order; 10. Marie Corelli: ""The Story of One Forgotten""; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778425603321 |
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Ayres Brenda
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| Westport, CT, : Praeger, 2003 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A Vindication of the Redhead : The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts / / by Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier
| A Vindication of the Redhead : The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts / / by Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier |
| Autore | Ayres Brenda |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina |
809
809.93353 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 19th century
Literature, Modern - 20th century Literature, Modern - 21st century Literature - History and criticism Clothing and dress - Social aspects Human body in popular culture Goth culture (Subculture) Civilization - History Nineteenth-Century Literature Contemporary Literature Literary Criticism Fashion and the Body Gothic Studies Cultural History |
| ISBN | 3-030-83515-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: “Hair is the Woman’s Glory”—Unless It’s Red -- 2. The Devil Has Red Hair: And So Do Other Dissemblers in Judeo-Christian Narratives -- 3. “Real Are the Dreams”: Red Hairy Incubi and Unheavenly Succubi -- 4. Les Roux Fatales: The Plaits of Pre-Raphaelite Redheads -- 5. The Agency of Red Hair on the Mage Gender Equivocal in Mr. Rochester, The Little Stranger, The Danish Girl, and Elsewhere -- 6. “Here we are again!” Red-haired Golems Galore Including Those in Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem -- 7. Tangled Webs of Red Hair from the Grimm Brothers to Kate Morton -- 8. The Other Redheads Throughout Asia and Africa -- 9. Tough Little Red-Headed Orphans: Anne (of Green Gables), Little Orphan Annie, Madeline, and Pippi -- 10. Rebellious Royals: From Disney’s Ariel to Pixar’s Merida -- 11. Neo-Victorian Freakery: Flaming-Haired Women, Art, Dolls, and Detection -- 12. STEAM(y) and Marvel(ous) Women: Agent Scully, Lisbeth Salander, Beth Harmon and the Black Widow -- 13. Epilogue: The Splitting of Red Hairs. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910513583103321 |
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Ayres Brenda
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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