Neo-victorian cities : : reassessing urban politics and poetics / / edited by Marie-Luise Kohlke, Christian Gutleben; cover illustration, design by Marie-Luise Kohlke ; contributors, Isabelle Cases [and thirteen others].
This volume explores the complex aesthetic, cultural, and memory politics of urban representation and reconfiguration in neo-Victorian discourse and practice. Through adaptations of traditional city tropes – such as the palimpsest, the labyrinth, the femininised enigma, and the marketplace of desire...
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| Superior document: | Neo-Victorian Series, Volume 4 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Neo-Victorian series ;
Volume 4. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben
- Troping the Neo-Victorian City: Strategies of Reconsidering the Metropolis / Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben
- Making and Unmaking ‘Marvellous Melbourne’: The Colonial City as Palimpsest in Neo-Victorian Fiction and Non-Fiction / Kate Mitchell
- Neo-Victorian Cities and the Ramifications of Global Capitalism in Ayeesha Menon’s Mumbai Chuzzlewits / Nathalie Vanfasse
- Re-imagining the Victorian Flâneur in the 1960s: The London Nobook-body Knows by Geoffrey Fletcher and Norman Cohen / Isabelle Cases
- ‘Part Barrier, Part Entrance to a Parallel Dimension’: London and the Modernity of Urban Perception / Julian Wolfreys
- Vulnerable Visibilities: Peter Ackroyd’s Monstrous Victorian Metropolis / Jean-Michel Ganteau
- Mapping Gothic London: Urban Waste, Class Rage and Mixophobia in Dan Simmons’s Drood / Mariaconcetta Costantini
- Neo-Victorian Cities of the Dead: Contemporary Fictions of the Victorian Cemetery / Susan K. Martin
- Londons under London: Mapping Neo-Victorian Spaces of Horror / Paul Dobraszczyk
- A Strangely Mingled Monster: Gender and Spatial Transgression in the Hardcore Metropolis of Paul Thomas’s Jekyll and Hyde / Laura Helen Marks
- Steampunking New York City in Kate and Leopold / Margaret D. Stetz
- The Ship and the Gun: The Perversity of Neo-Victorian Belfast in Glenn Patterson’s The Mill for Grinding Old People Young / Barry Sheils
- Adaptive Re-Use: Producing Neo-Victorian Space in Hong Kong / Elizabeth Ho
- Contributors / Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben
- Index / Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben.