Neo-Victorianism and the memory of empire:
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1. Verfasser: Ho, Elizabeth (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Continuum International Publishing 2012
Schriftenreihe:Continuum literary studies
Continuum studies in philosophy
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Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Introduction; Neo-Victorianism and Improper Postcolonialisms; The "N-word" and the "V-word"; Improper Postcolonialisms; Past Recovery: Methods of Remembering; Patel and Pun, or, A Chapter Review; Chapter 1; Neo-Victorianism and "Ripperature": Alan Moore's From Hell; Ripperature and Gender: Margaret Thatcher's "Queenliness"; Ripperature and Heritage: Melancholic Narratives and a Critique of Neo-Victorianism; Post-Imperial Landscapes: Ripperature, Psychogeography, and Englishness; Jack the Rippe; Chapter 2
Neo-Victorianism Down Under: Peter Carey's Jack MaggsThe House that Jack Built Down Under; Charles Dickens, You Bastard; "Singing for his Supper:" The National Author in Australia; Mesmerism and Trauma; Citizenship; Chapter 3; Neo-Victorianism South of Nowhere: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace; Neo-Victorianism, Whiteness, and Multiculturalism; From Susanna Moodie to Grace Marks; White Men Need Not Apply; Quilting: Multiculturalism and Feminism "Made Strange"; "Je me souviens:" Neo-Victorian Memoro-Politics; ". . . A White Lie Such as the Angels Tell"; Chapter 4
"Far-Flung" Neo-Victorianism: Hong Kong and Jackie Chan's Neo-Victorian FilmsAnother "Island Story"; Smoke and Mirrors: The Opium War in Hong Kong Texts; Neo-Victorianism and Jackie Chan I: "Born in Hong Kong"; Neo-Victorianism and Jackie Chan II: Shanghai Noon, Shanghai Knights, and the Chinese Diaspora; Chapter 5; Neo-Victorianism and Science Fiction: "Steampunk"; Steampunk: An Orientation; Empires: The Difference Engine and The Diamond Age; Steamboy: Japan's Victorian Past; Around the World Again; Chapter 6; The Neo-Victorian-at-Sea: Toward a Global Memory of the Victorian
Examining the global dimensions of Neo-Victorianism, this book explores how the appropriation of Victorian images in contemporary literature and culture has emerged as a critical response to the crises of decolonization and Imperial collapse. Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire explores the phenomenon by reading a range of popular and literary Anglophone neo-Victorian texts, including Alan Moores Graphic Novel From Hell, works by Peter Carey and Margaret Atwood, the films of Jackie Chan and contemporary Steampunk science fiction. Through these readingsElizabeth Ho explores how constructio
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ISBN:9781441197788
1441197788
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