Deviance in Neo-Victorian Culture Canon, Transgression, Innovation /

This book argues that 'deviance' represents a central issue in neo-Victorian culture, and that the very concept of neo-Victorianism is based upon the idea of 'diverging' from accepted notions regarding the nineteenth-century frame of mind. However, the study of the ways in which...

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Main Author: Tomaiuolo, Saverio (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature, Modern-21st century.
ISBN:9783319969503
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Dickens in Dismaland
  • 2. Dirt Out of Place in Sweet Thames, The Great Stink and The Crimson Petal and The White
  • 3. Julia Pastrana's Traces, or the Afterlives of the Victorian Ape Woman
  • 4. Reanimating the Zombies of Nineteenth-Century London in Victorian Undead
  • 5. Penny Dreadful from Neo-Victorian to Neo-Baroque
  • 6. Picturing Deviance: Neo-Victorian Visual Art
  • 7. Conclusion: Banksy at the Great Exhibition.

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