Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures In Literature And Film

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 material culture in the nineteenth century continue to shape our present understanding of things.

• | Author: Sarah E. Maier|Brenda Ayres|Danielle Mariann Dove
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Aug 16, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 246 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 3031062000
• | ISBN-13: 9783031062001