Victorian Ideologies in Contemporary British Cultures
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1. Edition, 2019
212 Pages
ISBN: 978-3-8253-4622-5
Product: Book
Edition: Softcover
Subject: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Series: anglistik & englischunterricht, Volume No.: 90
Available: 06.05.2019
Keywords:
Williams, Raymond, Großbritannien, Viktorianismus, englische Literatur, englische Kultur, Hunderby, Krimiserien, Intermedialität, Sherlock, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Werbung, Sensation Fiction, Byatt, A. S., James Miranda Barry, Sophie and the Sybil, Neo-Viktorianismus, Serienkultur, 21. Jahrhundert, Duncker, Patricia, Klassensystem, Black British Fiction, Structures of Feeling, gender studies, Spatial Studies, Ideologie
‘Victorian’ is often used synonymously with ‘outdated’ today. However, some of the ideologies underlying contemporary social structures still seem to be heavily influenced by 19th-century thinking. The volume looks at Victorian and contemporary ‘texts’ to explore this ideological continuity. Apart from Neo-Victorian novellas, comics and TV series which openly take up Victorian concerns, the articles also foreground contemporary material less obviously ‘Victorian’, such as advertisements or the novels of the ‘black male underclass’.
At the same time the contributors show how texts from both eras can also contain ‘structures of feeling’ which contradict dominant Victorian ideologies. Topics discussed range from gender, class and ethnicity to questions of seriality, spatiality and spirituality–issues significant both during the Victorian period and after. The volume also features an interview with British author and academic Patricia Duncker on how the Victorians and Victorianism have shaped her life and writings.
Contrib. by: Christina Flotmann-Scholz, Anna Lienen, Felicitas Meifert-Menhard, Rainer Emig, Philip Jacobi, Stephan Karschay, Sabrina Sontheimer, Natalie Veith, Sara Strauß, Ellen Redling, Patricia Duncker
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William Baker in: The Year´s Work in English Studies, 100 (2021), 877
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Marlena Tronicke in: Journal for the Study of British Cultures, 27/1 (2020), 101-104
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in: Bibliographie Moderner Fremdsprachenunterricht, 2019/3 [Do-916-90]
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