Neo-Victorianism and Medievalism : : Re-appropriating the Victorian and Medieval Pasts / / edited by Martin A. Danahay and Ann F. Howey.

• Superior document: Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024
• TeilnehmendeR: Danahay, Martin A.,; Howey, Ann F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.; Neo-Victorian Series ; 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 pages)

Bringing together neo-Victorian and medievalism scholars in dialogue with each other for the first time, this collection of essays foregrounds issues common to both fields. The Victorians reimagined the medieval era and post-Victorian medievalism repurposes received nineteenth century tropes, as do neo-Victorian texts. For example, aesthetic movements such as Arts and Crafts, which looked for inspiration in the medieval era, are echoed by steampunk in its return to Victorian dress and technology. Issues of gender identity, sexuality, imperialism and nostalgia arise in both neo-Victorianism and medievalism, and analysis of such texts is enriched and expanded by the interconnections between the two fields represented in this groundbreaking collection.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction: Neo-Victorianism and Medievalism-Why Together? Why Now? -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 How Distant Is the Past? Exoticism, Familiarity, Commodification, Nostalgia -- 3 (Re)Defining the Fields: When, Where, and What It Means -- 4 The Politics of Race and Place: Confronting (Dis)Continuities with the Past -- 5 (Re)Presenting Gender and Sexuality -- 6 Steampunk, Neo-Victorianism and Medievalism: the Question of Authenticity -- 7 The Essays -- 8 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part 1: (Re)Defining the Fields -- 1 Negotiating Identity: an Editor's Perspective -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Defining Medieval(ism) -- 2 Medievalism vs. Neomedievalism -- 3 (Neo)Medievalism Studies Relative to (Neo-)Victorian Studies -- 4 The Benefits of (Neo-)Victorian Studies for (Neo)Medievalism Studies -- 5 The Benefits of (Neo)Medievalism Studies for (Neo-)Victorian Studies -- 6 Conclusion -- 2 Irish Neo-Victorianism and an Gorta Mór -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An Gorta Mór (1845-52) -- 3 The Clinical Gaze -- 4 The Tourist Gaze -- 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part 2: Race and Place -- 3 Digital White Supremacy, White Rage, and the Middle Age -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 The Alt-Medieval Ecosystem -- 1.1 Androphilic Anarcho-fascists -- 1.2 The Crusades, #DeusVult, and Islamophobia -- 1.3 Byzantine White Nationalism -- 1.4 Charles Martel Society -- 2 The Stakes: Alt-Right Radicalization and #Charlottesville -- 3 #Charlottesville -- 4 #Christchurch and the Alt-Medieval in 2019 -- Works Cited -- 4 The Three Phases of a Statue: Queen Victoria and the Monumental Past -- Keywords -- 1 Monuments and Time -- 2 Monumental Time -- 3 Case Study: Montréal's Queen Victoria Monuments -- 4 Time of the Monumental Subject -- 5 Time of Construction -- 6 Time of Contemporary Engagements -- 7 Conclusion -- Works Cited.

Part 3: Gender and Sexuality -- 5 Janus-Faced Neo-Victorianism in Penny Dreadful: to the Nineteenth Century -- Keywords -- 1 Witchcraft, Spiritualism, and Penny Dreadful's Neomedievalism -- 2 The Nineteenth Century as Another "Dark Age" -- 3 Beastly Ages: Medieval-Victorian Heroic Monsters -- 4 Coda: Neo-Victorianism, Today's Medievalism, and "Otherness" -- Works Cited -- Filmography -- 6 Mourning Wood: Adapting the Patriarchy in Contemporary Robin Hood Cinema -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Spaces of Education and Robin Hood Films -- 3 Rejecting Innovation -- 4 Conclusion: Masculinity and Toxic Nostalgia -- Works Cited -- Filmography -- 7 Medieval Knights and Mighty Young Men -- Keywords -- 1 Knights, Heroic Masculinity and (Neo?)Victorian Medievalism -- 2 Charlotte M. Yonge's The Heir of Redclyffe (1853) -- 3 Rodman Philbrick's Freak the Mighty (1993) and The Mighty (1998) -- 4 Medievalism, "Salvation," and Masculinity -- 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 8 Remarkable Teenagers in a World Gone Steampunk: Rewriting Young Protagonists in the Victorian Era -- Keywords -- 1 Steampunk and Young Adult Novels -- 2 Race, Class, Gender, and Espionage: the Finishing School Series -- 3 Observing the "Foreigner": How Carriger Fails to Rewrite the British Empire -- 4 Which Is Inevitable? Gender or Empire? -- Works Cited -- Part 4: Steampunk, Neo-Victorianism and Medievalism -- 9 "Steam Wars," the Special Edition: Steampunk on the Move -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction: Steampunk on Steroids -- 2 Steampunk Technofantasy: Looks Like Science, Works Like Magic -- 3 Retrofuturism: Imagining the Past Imagining the Future -- 4 Vintage, Not Victorian: That Old-Time Steampunk Feeling -- 5 Conclusion: Steampunk on the Move … in Ratrods and Mack Trucks -- Works Cited -- 10 "Some Traveller from New Zealand": Steampunk, Retrofuturism -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 A New Dark Age.

2 St. Paul's Cathedral as Symbol -- 3 Steampunk, the Neo-Victorian, and the Medieval -- Works Cited -- 11 Fake News from Nowhere: William Morris, Steampunk and Postmodern History -- Keywords -- 1 Fake News in The Commonweal -- 2 Steampunk and Alternative History -- 3 History vs. Postmodernism -- 4 Conclusion: Fake Objects, Fake History and Fake News -- Works Cited -- Index.