Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture Immersions and Revisitations | Literature

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This book provides a comprehensive reflection of the processes of canonization (un)pleasurable consumption and the emerging predominance of topics and theoretical concerns in neo-Victorianism. The repetitions and reiterations of the Victorian in contemporary culture document an unbroken fascination with the histories technologies and achievements as well as the injustices and atrocities of the nineteenth century. They also reveal that in many ways contemporary identities are constructed through a Victorian mirror image fabricated by the desires imaginings and critical interests of the present. Providing analyses of current negotiations of nineteenth-century texts discourses and traumas this…