Screen LibraryNeo-Victorian things : re-imagining nineteenth-century material cultures in literature and film /
"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...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham, Switzerland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"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."--Page [4] of cover. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 233 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783031062001 3031062000 |
| Index Number: | PN3448 |
| CLC: |
J905 I106.4 |
| Call Number: | I106.4/N438 |
| Contents: | Introduction. Stuff and things : introducing neo-Victorian materialities / Danielle Mariann Dove and Sarah E. Maier -- Objects and memorabilia in Deborah Lutz's The Brontë cabinet : three lives in nine objects / Rosario Arias -- "Around the mizzenpole" : Charles Johnson's Middle passage and African Americanizing the neo-Victorian-at-sea / Lewis Mondal -- Touching, writing, collecting : opium paraphernalia and neo-Victorian material culture / Nadine Boehm-Schnitker -- An instrumental thing : pianos extending and becoming postcolonial bodies in Jane Campion's The piano and Daniel Mason's The piano tuner / Daný van Dam -- "Wilful phantoms" : haunted dress, memory, and agentic materiality in Colm Tóibíns The master / Danielle Mariann Dove -- The thing about haunted houses : in The turn of the screw, The innocents and The haunting of Hill House / Brenda Ayres -- There's something in the tea : murder and materiality in Dark angel / Claire Nally -- Criminal things : Sherlock Holmes' details of detection and their neo-Victorian revisions / Sahah E. Maier -- The sleight of hand : appearance and disappearance of things in neo-Victorian magic / Brenda Ayres. |