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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:05 am by M. in ,    2 comments
A new recent scholar book with Brontë content:
Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns: Essays on Fiction and Culture
Editor: Penny Gay, Judith Johnston, and Catherine Waters
Date of Publication: 2008-08-01
ISBN: 9781847186621
Cambridge Scolars Publishing

UK: £34.99
US: $69.99

Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns: Essays on Fiction and Culture brings together essays by scholars of international reputation in nineteenth-century British literature. Encompassing new work on Victorian writers and subjects as well as later readings, rewritings, and adaptations, the two-part arrangement of this collection highlights an ongoing dialogue.

Part One: Victorian Turns focuses principally on some of the major novelists of the period—George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë—while placing them in a wide cultural context, in particular that provided by the intellectual journals to which many of the novelists contributed. Reflecting the diversity of debate in the Victorian period, contributors’ essays range across key topics of the day, including the “woman question”, class relations, language, science, work, celebrity, and travel. English writers’ consciousness of the challenging contemporary developments in French literature forms a significant and persistent theme.

In Part Two: NeoVictorian Returns, the rich and varied afterlife of Victorianism is touched on. NeoVictorianism in contemporary literature and film demonstrates an ongoing and productive engagement with an age which established the social and cultural directions of the modern world. In rewritings, appropriations, and colonial writings-back, and in the persistent power of nineteenth-century images and stories in modern cinema, the period’s social, cultural and political modernity continues to flourish.
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2 comments:

  1. Hello Bronteblog team,

    Sounds like a must read for someone as interested in Victoriana as me. Everytime I come to visit this site there's a great book recommendation, at this rate I shall get lost in literature...

    Best, LNH

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  2. Oh, but aren't we all already lost in literature? :)

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