Neo-Victorian Things: Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film

Maier, Sarah E.; Ayres, Brenda; Dove, Danielle Mariann

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2023-07-19

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783031062032

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06201-8

Dimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm

Pages: 233.0