Neo-Victorian Gothic : horror, violence and degeneration in the re-imagined nineteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Kohlke, Marie-Luise, Gutleben, Christian
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, [2012]
Series:	Neo-Victorian series.
Subjects:	English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. English fiction > 21st century > History and criticism. Gothic revival (Literature) > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Gothic revival (Literature) > Great Britain > History > 21st century. English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. English literature > 21st century > History and criticism. 1900 - 2099 Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; The (Mis)Shapes of Neo-Victorian Gothic: Continuations, Adaptations, Transformations; PART I Imperial Impostures and Improprieties; 1. The Limits of Neo-Victorian History: Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian and The Swan Thieves; 2. Reclaiming Plots: Albert Wendt's 'Prospecting' and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl's Ola Nā Iwi as Postcolonial Neo-Victorian Gothic; 3. Monsters against Empire: The Politics and Poetics of Neo-Victorian Metafiction in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
4. A Bodily Metaphorics of Unsettlement: Leora Farber's Dis-Location / Re-Location as Neo-Victorian GothicPART II The Horrid and the Sexy; 5. Neo-Victorian Gothic and Spectral Sexuality in Colm Tóibín's The Master; 6. 'Jack the Ripper' as Neo-Victorian Gothic Fiction: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Sallies into a Late Victorian Case and Myth; 7. Chasing the Dragon: Bangtails, Toffs, Jack and Johnny in Neo-Victorian Fiction; 8. Neo-Victorian Female Gothic: Fantasies of Self-Abjection; PART III Hybrid Forms; 9. Epistemological Rupture and the Gothic Sublime in Slouching Towards Bedlam.
10. Dead Words and Fatal Secrets: Rediscovering the Sensational Document in Neo-Victorian Gothic11. 'Fear Is Fun and Fun Is Fear': A Reflexion on Humour in Neo-Victorian Gothic; Contributors; Index.