ID - 144113061 TI - Victoriana : histories, fictions, criticisms PY - 2007 SN - 9780748628186 9780748611478 9780748611461 0748611479 0748611460 PB - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Thematology KW - English literature KW - Literature KW - Brontë, Charlotte KW - Great Britain KW - History in literature KW - Literature and history KW - Nostalgia in literature KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - Brontë, Charlotte, KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Piano (Motion picture) KW - Civilization KW - Historiography. KW - Brontë, Charlotte, - 1816-1855 KW - Brontë, Charlotte, - 1816-1855 - Jane Eyre UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:144113061 AB - 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 Toibin'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. ER -