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Adapting Victorian Gypsies for the Screen: Ethnicity, Otherness and (In)visibility in Neo-Victorian Popular Film
Martín-González, Juan José
(2016-09-06)
This paper aims at analysing the presence of gypsy characters in two neo-Victorian popular films, namely Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman (2010) and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows (2011). The cultural construction ... -
Danger and Disability: The Female Body of Miniature in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (2018-11-21)
Neo-Victorian reimaginations of the freak simultanously repeat and reject the binaries of normalcy and deviance to criticise the exploitative and objectifying conventions of nineteenth-century enfreakment practices. This ... -
Distinguishing neo-Edwardianism from neo-Victorianism
(2014-12-01)Ever since the 1930s, with Vita Sackville-West’s The Edwardians (1930), representations of the Edwardian period can be found in British fiction. However, those have evolved throughout the years, as neo-Edwardian novels ... -
Feminist Geography and the Cityscape in Neo-Victorian Literature
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (2014-12-17)
Feminist Geography is a relatively new discipline within Human Geography that undertakes the study of space, place and gender as scholars try to work out how these categories intersect in the production of social identities ... -
Gender Performance and Spatial Negotiation in the Neo-Victorian Novel
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Universidad de Málaga, 2014)
The present volume examines Judith Butler's concept of gender performance in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus (1984), Sarah Waters's. Tipping the Velvet (1998) and Peter Ackroyd's. Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem ... -
'I Have Every Reason to Love England': Black (neo)Victorianism and Transatlantic Fluidity in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Martín-González, Juan José (2016-12-13)
Within neo-Victorianism, or contemporary fiction which rewrites the Victorian age, Marie-Lousie Kohlhe has pointed out a critical “reluctance to engage head-on in cross-cultural comparisons, which seem essential ... -
“'I Have Every Reason to Love England': Dark (Neo)Victorianism and Transatlantic Radicalism in Belinda Starling's The Journal of Dora Damage (2007).”
Martín-González, Juan-José (Nordic Association of English Studies - Umeå University, 2016-12-31)
This paper provides a close reading on post-colonial engagements with American slavery in Belinda Starling’s neo-Victorian novel The Journal of Dora Damage (2007), particularly on the transoceanic links between Antebellum ... -
Lorna Gibb’s A Ghost Story (2015): An Assemblage of Matter and Spirit.
Arias-Doblas, María Rosario (2023)
Much has been written on Victorian Spiritualism and the spiritualist medium, who was, in general terms, female with some notable exceptions like Daniel D Home, for example. Since the 1980s feminist historians like Alex ... -
(Neo)Victorian Globalisation and Sino-Indian Relations in Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke (2011)
Martín-González, Juan José (2019-01-16)
In light of renewed perspectives on Victorian global politics and international relations, this paper provides a close reading of Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke (2011). Set in 1839, this second instalment in the so-called ... -
Neo-Victorian Incest Trauma and the Fasting Body in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Nordic Irish Studies, 2017)
The Catholic nuclear family, as a product of historical and cultural contingencies, has predominantly figured as dysfunctional in Irish literature. Emma Donoghue’s most recent novel, The Wonder (2016), builds on trauma, ... -
“Not the Kind of Thing Anyone Wants to Spell Out”: Lesbian Silence in Emma Donoghue’s Neo-Victorian Representation of the Codrington Divorce
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Lambda Nordica, 2013)
This article looks into how Donoghue uses the trope of silence to reiterate lesbian history in her reimagination of the relationship between Helen Codrington and Emily Faithfull. I will argue that the public/private dichotomy ... -
Restaging Femininities on the Neo-Victorian Popular Stage.
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (2023)
The neo-Victorian fascination with nineteenth-century popular entertainment has been consistent since Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus (1984) and it has proved a fruitful ground for contemporary authors to explore ... -
The Deviant Body in Neo-Victorian Literature: A Somatechnical Reading of The Freak in Rosie Garland’s The Palace of Curiosities (2013)
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Universidad de la Rioja, 2016-04)
The contemporary fascination with historical, social and literary representations of the deviant body calls for new understandings of corporeality that question the body as a purely biological entity, and invites readings ... -
The Philanthropist in Neo-Victorian Literature: (Im)Proper Femininity, Gender Inversion and Freakishness
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Universidad de La Laguna, 2017)
The present article singles out the female philanthropist in neo-Victorian fiction to explore the patriarchal unease regarding the unsexing effect of feminism in the mid-Victorian era as well as the literary constructions ... -
‘The Private Rooms and Public Haunts': Theatricality and The City of London In Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and The White.
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
The Victorian period was a densely voyeuristic era in which visual forms of entertainment proliferated and the culture of spectacle stretched beyond the theatrical scene. The use of theatrical imagery for representing the ... -
The somatechnics of enfreakment: literary articulations of the body
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (2015-04-22)
Lately, the Victorian freak show has attracted scholarly and literary attention alike. New critical approaches to the freak show set the European exhibition of human corporeal deviance apart from the American side show as ...