Neo-Victorian families : gender, sexual and cultural politics /
Neo-Victorian families : gender, sexual and cultural politics /
edited by Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben.
- 1 online resource (410 pages)
- Neo-Victorian series ; v. 2 .
- Neo-Victorian Series 2. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004357914. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introducing Neo-Victorian Family Matters: Cultural Capital and Reproduction / From London’s East End to West Baltimore: How the Victorian Slum Narrative Shapes The Wire / Failing Families: Echoes of Nineteenth-Century Child Rescue Discourse in Contemporary Debates around Child Protection / The Figure of the Child in Neo-Victorian Queer Families / Neo-Victorian Childhoods: Re-Imagining the Worst of Times / Deconstructing the Victorian Family? Trying to Reach Cloud Nine / The Cratchits on Film: Neo-Victorian Visions of Domesticity / The Rise and Fall of the Forsytes: From Neo-Victorian to Neo-Edwardian Marriage / The Lost Mother and the Enclosed Lady: Gender and Domesticity in MTV’s Adaptation of Wuthering Heights / Monarchs and Patriarchs: Angela Carter’s Recreation of the Victorian Family in The Magic Toyshop / Family Traumas and Serial Killing in Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem / Family Trauma and Reconfigured Families: Philip Pullman’s Neo-Victorian Detective Series / “That heartbroken island of incestuous hatreds”: Famine and Family in Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea / (In)Visible Disability in Neo-Victorian Families / More Than Kith and Less Than Kin: Queering the Family in Sarah Waters’s Neo-Victorian Fictions / Contributors -- Index. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben -- Matthew Kaiser -- Shurlee Swain -- Louisa Yates -- Marie-Luise Kohlke -- María Isabel Seguro -- Regina Hansen -- Sarah Edwards -- Hila Shachar -- Sarah Gamble -- Susana Onega -- Anca Vlasopolos -- Melissa Fegan -- Rosario Arias -- Georges Letissier --
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Tracing representations of re-imagined Victorian families in literature, film and television, and social discourse, this collection, the second volume in Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, analyses the historical trajectory of persistent but increasingly contested cultural myths that coalesce around the heterosexual couple and nuclear family as the supposed ‘normative’ foundation of communities and nations, past and present. It sheds new light on the significance of families as a source of fluctuating cultural capital, deployed in diverse arenas from political debates, social policy and identity politics to equal rights activism, and analyses how residual as well as emergent ideologies of family are mediated and critiqued by contemporary arts and popular culture. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students of neo-Victorian studies, as well as scholars in contemporary literature and film studies, cultural studies and the history of the family. Situating the nineteenth-century family both as a site of debilitating trauma and the means of ethical resistance against multivalent forms of oppression, neo-Victorian texts display a fascinating proliferation of alternative family models, albeit overshadowed by the apparent recalcitrance of familial ideologies to the same historical changes neo-Victorianism reflects and seeks to promote within the cultural imaginary.
9789401207249
10.1163/9789401207249 DOI
2011410573
1900-2099
Historical fiction, English--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Literature and history--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Literature and history--History--Great Britain--21st century.
English fiction.
Historical fiction, English.
Literature and history.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR888.H5 / N46 2011
823.081090914
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introducing Neo-Victorian Family Matters: Cultural Capital and Reproduction / From London’s East End to West Baltimore: How the Victorian Slum Narrative Shapes The Wire / Failing Families: Echoes of Nineteenth-Century Child Rescue Discourse in Contemporary Debates around Child Protection / The Figure of the Child in Neo-Victorian Queer Families / Neo-Victorian Childhoods: Re-Imagining the Worst of Times / Deconstructing the Victorian Family? Trying to Reach Cloud Nine / The Cratchits on Film: Neo-Victorian Visions of Domesticity / The Rise and Fall of the Forsytes: From Neo-Victorian to Neo-Edwardian Marriage / The Lost Mother and the Enclosed Lady: Gender and Domesticity in MTV’s Adaptation of Wuthering Heights / Monarchs and Patriarchs: Angela Carter’s Recreation of the Victorian Family in The Magic Toyshop / Family Traumas and Serial Killing in Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem / Family Trauma and Reconfigured Families: Philip Pullman’s Neo-Victorian Detective Series / “That heartbroken island of incestuous hatreds”: Famine and Family in Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea / (In)Visible Disability in Neo-Victorian Families / More Than Kith and Less Than Kin: Queering the Family in Sarah Waters’s Neo-Victorian Fictions / Contributors -- Index. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben -- Matthew Kaiser -- Shurlee Swain -- Louisa Yates -- Marie-Luise Kohlke -- María Isabel Seguro -- Regina Hansen -- Sarah Edwards -- Hila Shachar -- Sarah Gamble -- Susana Onega -- Anca Vlasopolos -- Melissa Fegan -- Rosario Arias -- Georges Letissier --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Tracing representations of re-imagined Victorian families in literature, film and television, and social discourse, this collection, the second volume in Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, analyses the historical trajectory of persistent but increasingly contested cultural myths that coalesce around the heterosexual couple and nuclear family as the supposed ‘normative’ foundation of communities and nations, past and present. It sheds new light on the significance of families as a source of fluctuating cultural capital, deployed in diverse arenas from political debates, social policy and identity politics to equal rights activism, and analyses how residual as well as emergent ideologies of family are mediated and critiqued by contemporary arts and popular culture. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students of neo-Victorian studies, as well as scholars in contemporary literature and film studies, cultural studies and the history of the family. Situating the nineteenth-century family both as a site of debilitating trauma and the means of ethical resistance against multivalent forms of oppression, neo-Victorian texts display a fascinating proliferation of alternative family models, albeit overshadowed by the apparent recalcitrance of familial ideologies to the same historical changes neo-Victorianism reflects and seeks to promote within the cultural imaginary.
9789401207249
10.1163/9789401207249 DOI
2011410573
1900-2099
Historical fiction, English--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Literature and history--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Literature and history--History--Great Britain--21st century.
English fiction.
Historical fiction, English.
Literature and history.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR888.H5 / N46 2011
823.081090914