{"product_id":"9783031851735","title":"Narrating Empire and Domesticity in Neo-Victorian Fiction Domestic Elsewheres","description":"\u003ch1\u003eNarrating Empire and Domesticity in Neo-Victorian Fiction\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eDomestic Elsewheres\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMarlena Tronicke\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Modern \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eFiction classified as ‘neo-Victorian’ has steadily emerged as a crucial mode of British cultural production. It is no coincidence that this most recent Victorian renaissance is taking shape in a climate of widespread empire nostalgia, with imperial-colonial legacies being relegated to a distant ‘elsewhere.’ In its critical re-visitations of the nineteenth century, neo-Victorianism has the potential to intervene in this often selective memory of Britain’s imperial past. Nevertheless, systematic re-readings of empire have so far played a comparatively minor role in neo-Victorian scholarly debate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eThis monograph addresses this lacuna by examining how neo-Victorianism negotiates constructions of empire in conjunction with the domestic. Drawing on a range of neo-Victorian novels as well as their Victorian intertexts and bringing these into dialogue with postcolonial theory, it asks how neo-Victorian fiction engages with, perpetuates, or subverts Victorian imaginaries of urban British ‘centres’ in opposition to remote imperial ‘margins.’ It examines why domesticity – broadly understood as ideologically charged concepts of family, home, and belonging based on formations of gender, sexuality, and class – can never be constituted independently of empire. In addition, the book raises questions regarding neo-Victorianism’s larger potentiality of narrating empire, suggesting that it is precisely the disorienting moments that constitute a characteristically neo-Victorian mode of exploring the entanglements of empire and domesticity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarlena Tronicke\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Lecturer in British Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Münster, Germany.\u003c\/span\u003e Her main areas of research and teaching include (neo-)Victorian literature and culture, early modern and contemporary British drama, gender and queer studies, as well as adaptation. Her first monograph, \u003cem\u003eShakespeare’s Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2018. She is co-editor of \u003cem\u003eWriting Brexit: Colonial Remains\u003c\/em\u003e (special issue of \u003cem\u003eJournal of Postcolonial Writing\u003c\/em\u003e, 2020, with Caroline Koegler and Pavan Malreddy), \u003cem\u003eQueering Neo-Victorianism Beyond Sarah Waters\u003c\/em\u003e (special issue of \u003cem\u003eNeo-Victorian Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, 2020, with Caroline Koegler), and the edited collection \u003cem\u003eBlack Neo-Victoriana\u003c\/em\u003e (2021, with Felipe Espinoza Garrido and Julian Wacker).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e03 April 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783031851735\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e319\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51033311740044,"sku":"9783031851735","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031851735.jpg?v=1782488635","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783031851735","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}