Victoriana - Histories, Fictions, Criticism

Cora Kaplan

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2007

Victoriana - Histories, Fictions, Criticism

Cora Kaplan

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748628186

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About this book

A series of astute critical reflections on our enduring fascination with all things Victorian.

In this book Cora Kaplan looks at the politics of ‘Victoriana’ from the 1970s to the present, a politics that emerges from the alternation between nostalgia and critique in fiction, film, biography and literary studies. She asks how Jane Eyre can still evoke tears and rage, as well as inspiring imitation and high art, and why Henry James has become fiction’s favourite late Victorian character in the new millennium?

‘Victoriana’, the book argues, has developed a modern history of its own in which we can trace the shifting social and cultural concerns of the last few decades. Through the constant interrogation of ‘history’ in such innovative works as John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman, A.S. Byatt’s Possession, David Lodge’s Nice Work, Peter Ackroyd’s Dickens, Jane Campion’s The Piano, Colm Tóibín’s The Master, Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith, Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty and Julian Barnes’s Arthur and George, 'Victoriana' maps out a very particular postmodern temporality.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Heroines, Hysteria and History: Jane Eyre and her Critics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Biographilia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. Historical Fictions – Pastiche, Politics and Pleasure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
4. Retuning The Piano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Afterword – The Empire at Home Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 184
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: February 14, 2007
ISBN: 9780748628186