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Victorian afterlife : postmodern culture rewrites the nineteenth century
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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 betw...
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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- Creator
- John Kucich and Dianne F. Sadoff, editors
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- JSTOR ebooks
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xxx, 344 pages) : illustrations
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- ISBNs
- 081663324X, 9780816633234, 0816652864, 9780816633241, 9780816652860, 0816633231
- OCLC
- ocn437191435, ocn229431579
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : Histories of the present / Dianne F. Sadoff and John Kucich -- Modernity and culture, the Victorians and cultural studies / John McGowan -- At home in the nineteenth century : photography, nostalgia, and the will to authenticity / Jennifer Green-Lewis -- The uses and misuses of Oscar Wilde / Shelton Waldrep -- Being true to Jane Austen / Mary A. Favret -- A twentieth-century portrait : Jane Campion's American girl / Susan Lurie -- Display cases / Judith Roof -- Found drowned : the Irish Atlantic / Ian Baucom -- The embarrassment of Victorianism : colonial subjects and the lure of Englishness / Simon Gikandi -- Hacking the nineteenth century / Jay Clayton -- Queen Victoria and me / Laurie Langbauer -- Sorting, morphing, and mourning : A.S. Byatt ghostwrites Victorian fiction / Hilary M. Schor -- Asking Alice : Victorian and other Alices in contemporary culture / Kali Israel -- Specters of the novel : Dracula and the cinematic afterlife of the Victorian novel / Ronald R. Thomas -- Postscript : Contemporary culturalism : how Victorian is it? / Nancy Armstrong
Subjects
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
- Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
- English fiction -- Film adaptations.
- Postmodernism.
- Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Historiography.
- Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century.
- Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th century.