Neo-Victorian Things: Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film

Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film is the first volume to focus solely on the replication, reconstruction, and re-presentation of Victorian things. It investigates the role of materiality in contemporary returns to the past as a means of assessing the function of things in remembering, revisioning, and/or reimagining the nineteenth century. Examining iterations of material culture in literature, film and popular television series, this volume offers a reconsideration of nineteenth-century things and the neo-Victorian cultural forms that they have inspired, animated, and even haunted. By turning to new and relatively underexplored strands of neo-Victorian materiality--including opium paraphernalia, slave ships, clothing, and biographical objects--and interrogating the critical role such objects play in reconstructing the past, this volume offers ways of thinking about how mis/apprehensions of material culture in the nineteenth century continue to shape our present understanding of things.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031062035
• ISBN13: 9783031062032
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"