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- Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century
- Book
- 2000
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
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Celebrated films by Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion, and Ang Lee; best-selling novels by A. S. Byatt and William Gibson; revivals of Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll’s Alice, and nostalgic photography; computer graphics and cyberpunk performances: contemporary culture, high and low, has fallen in love with the nineteenth century. Major critical thinkers have found in the period the origins of contemporary consumerism, sexual science, gay culture, and feminism. And postmodern theory, which once drove a wedge between contemporary interpretation and its historical objects, has lately displayed a new self-consciousness about its own appropriations of the past. This diverse collection of essays begins a long-overdue discussion of how postmodernism understands the Victorian as its historical predecessor. Contributors: Nancy Armstrong, Brown U; Ian Baucom, Duke U; Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt U; Mary A. Favret, Indiana U; Simon Gikandi, U of Michigan; Jennifer Green-Lewis, George Washington U; Kali Israel, U of Michigan; Laurie Langbauer, U of North Carolina; Susan Lurie, Rice U; John McGowan, U of North Carolina; Judith Roof, Indiana U; Hilary M. Schor, USC; Ronald R. Thomas, Trinity College; and Shelton Waldrep, U of Southern Maine.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction: Histories of the Present
- pp. ix-xxx
- mystifications
- The Uses and Misuses of Oscar Wilde
- pp. 49-63
- Being True to Jane Austen
- pp. 64-82
- Display Cases
- pp. 101-122
- engagements
- Found Drowned: The Irish Atlantic
- pp. 125-156
- Hacking the Nineteenth Century
- pp. 186-210
- Queen Victoria and Me
- pp. 211-233
- Contributors
- pp. 327-330
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816652860
Related ISBN(s)
9780816633241
MARC Record
OCLC
229431579
Pages
376
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No