TY - BOOK ID - 77936036 TI - Neo-Victorian tropes of trauma : the politics of bearing after-witness to nineteenth-century suffering AU - Kohlke, Marie-Luise. AU - Gutleben, Christian. PY - 2010 SN - 9042032316 9789042032316 9789042032309 9042032308 PB - Amsterdam : Rodopi, DB - UniCat KW - Psychic trauma in literature. KW - Historical fiction, English KW - Literature and history KW - English fiction. KW - Historical fiction, English. KW - Historiography. KW - Literature and history. KW - History and literature KW - History and poetry KW - Poetry and history KW - Historical criticism KW - History KW - Authorship KW - English historical fiction KW - English fiction KW - English literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Criticism KW - Historiography KW - 1800-1901 KW - Great Britain KW - Great Britain. KW - Anglia KW - Angliyah KW - Briṭanyah KW - England and Wales KW - Förenade kungariket KW - Grã-Bretanha KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Grossbritannien KW - Igirisu KW - Iso-Britannia KW - Marea Britanie KW - Nagy-Britannia KW - Prydain Fawr KW - Royaume-Uni KW - Saharātchaʻānāčhak KW - Storbritannien KW - United Kingdom KW - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland KW - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland KW - Velikobritanii͡ KW - Wielka Brytania KW - Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta KW - Northern Ireland KW - Scotland KW - Wales KW - Great britain KW - Historical fiction, english KW - Historical fiction, english. KW - Literary criticism KW - Literature. KW - History and criticism KW - Victoria, 1837-1901 KW - European KW - English, irish, scottish, welsh. KW - 1837-2099. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77936036 AB - This collection constitutes the first volume in Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, which explores the prevalent but often problematic re-vision of the long nineteenth century in contemporary culture. Here is presented for the first time an extended analysis of the conjunction of neo-Victorian fiction and trauma discourse, highlighting the significant interventions in collective memory staged by the belated aesthetic working-through of historical catastrophes, as well as their lingering traces in the present. The neo-Victorian’s privileging of marginalised voices and its contestation of master-narratives of historical progress construct a patchwork of competing but equally legitimate versions of the past, highlighting on-going crises of existential extremity, truth and meaning, nationhood and subjectivity. This volume will be of interest to both researchers and students of the growing field of neo-Victorian studies, as well as scholars in memory studies, trauma theory, ethics, and heritage studies. It interrogates the ideological processes of commemoration and forgetting and queries how the suffering of cultural and temporal others should best be represented, so as to resist the temptations of exploitative appropriation and voyeuristic spectacle. Such precarious negotiations foreground a central paradox: the ethical imperative to bear after-witness to history’s silenced victims in the face of the potential unrepresentability of extreme suffering. ER -