Neo-Victorian tropes of trauma : : the politics of bearing after-witness to nineteenth-century suffering / / edited by Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben.
This collection constitutes the first volume in Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, which explores the prevalent but often problematic re-vision of the long nineteenth century in contemporary culture. Here is presented for the first time an extended analysis of the conjunction of neo-Victorian fiction an...
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| Superior document: | Neo-Victorian series ; 1 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Neo-Victorian series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (414 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Bearing After-Witness to the Nineteenth Century / Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben
- Postmodernism Revisited : The Ethical Drive of Postmodern Trauma in Neo-Victorian Fiction / Christian Gutleben and Julian Wolfreys
- Trauma by Proxy in the “Age of Testimony”: Paradoxes of Darwinism in the Neo-Victorian Novel / Georges Letissier
- Apes and Grandfathers: Traumas of Apostasy and Exclusion in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Graham Swift’s Ever After / Catherine Pesso-Miquel
- ‘Perfectly innocent, natural, playful’: Incest in Neo-Victorian Women’s Writing / Mark Llewellyn
- The Neo-Victorian Nation at Home and Abroad: Charles Dickens and Traumatic Rewriting / Dianne F. Sadoff
- Photography, Trauma and the Politics of War in Beryl Bainbridge’s Master Georgie / Vanessa Guignery
- The Neo-Victorian Frame of Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas: Temporal and Traumatic Reverberations / Celia Wallhead and Marie-Luise Kohlke
- Australia’s ‘Other’ History Wars: Trauma and the Work of Cultural Memory in Kate Grenville’s The Secret River / Kate Mitchell
- Famine, Femininity, Family: Rememory and Reconciliation in Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You / Ann Heilmann
- Unmanning Exoticism: The Breakdown of Christian Manliness in The Book of the Heathen / Elisabeth Wesseling
- Turmoil, Trauma and Mourning in Jane Urquhart’s The Whirlpool / Elodie Rousselot
- Tipoo’s Tiger on the Loose: Neo-Victorian Witness-Bearing and the Trauma of the Indian Mutiny / Marie-Luise Kohlke
- Contributors
- Index.