Victorian afterlife
Subtitle: postmodern culture rewrites the nineteenth century
By: John Kucich and Dianne F. Sadoff, editors.
Contributors: Kucich, John.; Sadoff, Dianne F.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; English fiction -- Film and video adaptations; Postmodernism; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Historiography; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th century
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.