Neo-Victorian Families

Gender, Sexual and Cultural Politics
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-420-3437-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 656 g

Reihe: Neo-Victorian Series

Tracing representations of re-imagined Victorian families in literature, film and television, and social discourse, this collection, the second volume in Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, analyses the historical trajectory of persistent but increasingly contested cultural myths that coalesce around the heterosexual couple and nuclear family as the supposed ‘normative’ foundation of communities and nations, past and present. It sheds new light on the significance of families as a source of fluctuating cultural capital, deployed in diverse arenas from political debates, social policy and identity politics to equal rights activism, and analyses how residual as well as emergent ideologies of family are mediated and critiqued by contemporary arts and popular culture. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students of neo-Victorian studies, as well as scholars in contemporary literature and film studies, cultural studies and the history of the family. Situating the nineteenth-century family both as a site of debilitating trauma and the means of ethical resistance against multivalent forms of oppression, neo-Victorian texts display a fascinating proliferation of alternative family models, albeit overshadowed by the apparent recalcitrance of familial ideologies to the same historical changes neo-Victorianism reflects and seeks to promote within the cultural imaginary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kohlke, Marie-Luise

Gutleben, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben: Introducing Neo-Victorian Family Matters: Cultural Capital and Reproduction
Endangered Childhoods and Lost Futures: Filthiness and Philanthropy
Matthew Kaiser: From London’s East End to West Baltimore: How the Victorian Slum Narrative Shapes The Wire
Shurlee Swain: Failing Families: Echoes of Nineteenth-Century Child Rescue Discourse in Contemporary Debates around Child Protection
Louisa Yates: The Figure of the Child in Neo-Victorian Queer Families
Marie-Luise Kohlke: Neo-Victorian Childhoods: Re-Imagining the Worst of Times
Performing (Im)Possible Happy Families: Deconstruction and Reconstruction
María Isabel Seguro: Deconstructing the Victorian Family? Trying to Reach Cloud Nine
Regina Hansen: The Cratchits on Film: Neo-Victorian Visions of Domesticity
Sarah Edwards: The Rise and Fall of the Forsytes: From Neo-Victorian to Neo-Edwardian Marriage
Hila Shachar: The Lost Mother and the Enclosed Lady: Gender and Domesticity in MTV’s Adaptation of Wuthering Heights
Sarah Gamble: Monarchs and Patriarchs: Angela Carter’s Recreation of the Victorian Family in The Magic Toyshop
The Mirror of Society: Familial Trauma, Dissolution and Transformation
Susana Onega: Family Traumas and Serial Killing in Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
Anca Vlasopolos: Family Trauma and Reconfigured Families: Philip Pullman’s Neo-Victorian Detective Series
Melissa Fegan: “That heartbroken island of incestuous hatreds”: Famine and Family in Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea
Rosario Arias: (In)Visible Disability in Neo-Victorian Families
Georges Letissier: More Than Kith and Less Than Kin: Queering the Family in Sarah Waters’s Neo-Victorian Fictions
Contributors
Index