Neo-Victorian Gothic

Horror, Violence and Degeneration in the Re-Imagined Nineteenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-420-3625-3
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 547 g

Reihe: Neo-Victorian Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kohlke, Marie-Luise

Gutleben, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Tóibín’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