Neo-Victorian Gothic : horror, violence and degeneration in the re-imagined nineteenth century

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Neo-Victorian Gothic : horror, violence and degeneration in the re-imagined nineteenth century

edited by Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben

（Neo-Victorian series / series editors, Marie-Luise Kohlke, Christian Gutleben, v. 3）

Rodopi, 2012

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

This volume, the third in Rodopi's Neo-Victorian Series, reassesses neo-Victorianism as a quintessentially Gothic movement. Through their revival of bygone spectres, their obsession with forgotten skeletons in the cupboard, and their exploration of nineteenth-century extremities, neo-Victorian works not only reflect our contemporary Gothic culture but also reactivate it and even enrich it with new variations such as postcolonial, eco or steampunk Gothic. Addressed to scholars and students of both Gothic and Neo-Victorian Studies, this volume will also interest contemporary literature specialists, cultural theorists, and those working on popular historical memory, as it explores the paradox of culture's coincident turn to ethics and sensationalism. As exemplified in its generic variety and hybridity, neo-Victorian Gothic resorts to the spectacularisation of horror while simultaneously demonstrating the hyperreal, textual and self-reflexive nature of these spectacles, just as it resorts to the exploitation of hyperbolic and violent sexuality at the same time as challenging sexual norms and identity politics. In spite of these apparent contradictions, the Gothic forms of neo-Victorianism demonstrate their fundamentally ethical goal of interrogating the uncertain limits between self and other, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, past and present.

目次

Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben: The (Mis)Shapes of Neo-Victorian Gothic: Continuations, Adaptations, Transformations Imperial Impostures and Improprieties Andrew Smith: The Limits of Neo-Victorian History: Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian and The Swan Thieves Cheryl D. Edelson: Reclaiming Plots: Albert Wendt's 'Prospecting' and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl's Ola Na Iwi as Postcolonial Neo-Victorian Gothic Sebastian Domsch: Monsters against Empire: The Politics and Poetics of Neo-Victorian Metafiction in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Jeanne Ellis: A Bodily Metaphorics of Unsettlement: Leora Farber's Dis-Location/Re-Location as Neo-Victorian Gothic The Horrid and the Sexy Patricia Pulham: Neo-Victorian Gothic and Spectral Sexuality in Colm Toibin's The Master Max Duperray: 'Jack the Ripper' as Neo-Victorian Gothic Fiction: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Sallies into a Late Victorian Case and Myth Sarah E. Maier: Chasing the Dragon: Bangtails, Toffs, Jack and Johnny in Neo-Victorian Fiction Marie-Luise Kohlke: Neo-Victorian Female Gothic: Fantasies of Self-Abjection Hybrid Forms Van Leavenworth: Epistemological Rupture and the Gothic Sublime in Slouching Towards Bedlam Kym Brindle: Dead Words and Fatal Secrets: Rediscovering the Sensational Document in Neo-Victorian Gothic Christian Gutleben: 'Fear Is Fun and Fun Is Fear': A Reflexion on Humour in Neo-Victorian Gothic Contributors Index

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