Elizabeth Ho

Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 Moore's Graphic Novel From Hell, works by Peter Carey and Margaret Atwood, the films of Jackie Chan and contemporary 'Steampunk' science fiction. Through these readings Elizabeth Ho explores how constructions of popular memory and fictionalisations of the past reflect political and psychological engagements with our contemporary post-Imperial circumstances.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441197788
• Artikelnr.: 38457889

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Ho is Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College, USA. She is co-editor of the book Thatcher and After: Margaret Thatcher and Her Afterlife in Contemporary Culture (Palgrave, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Neo
Victorianism and Improper Postcolonialisms \ 1. Neo
Victorianism and "Ripperature:" Alan Moore's From Hell \ 2. Neo
Victorianism Down Under: Peter Carey's Jack Maggs \ 3. Neo
Victorianism South of Nowhere: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace \ 4. "Far
flung" Neo
Victorianism: Hong Kong and Jackie Chan's Neo
Victorian Films \ 5. Neo
Victorianism and Science Fiction: "Steampunk" \ 6. Neo
Victorian
at
Sea: Towards a global "Victorian" \ Bibliography \ Index.