TY - BOOK ID - 77937425 TI - Neo-Victorian Families. AU - Kohlke, Marie-Luise AU - Gutleben, Christian PY - 2011 SN - 1283366401 9786613366405 9401207240 9789401207249 9789042034372 9042034378 9781283366403 6613366404 PB - Amsterdam Editions Rodopi DB - UniCat KW - Historical fiction, English KW - English fiction KW - Literature and history KW - English fiction. KW - Historical fiction, English. KW - Literature and history. KW - History and literature KW - History and poetry KW - Poetry and history KW - English historical fiction KW - English literature KW - History KW - History and criticism. KW - 1900-2099 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 - Steampunk culture. KW - Families. KW - Sex role. KW - Gender expression. KW - Expression, Gender KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Sex role KW - Family KW - Families KW - Family life KW - Family relationships KW - Family structure KW - Relationships, Family KW - Structure, Family KW - Social institutions KW - Birth order KW - Domestic relations KW - Home KW - Households KW - Kinship KW - Marriage KW - Matriarchy KW - Parenthood KW - Patriarchy KW - Neo-Victorian culture KW - Neo-Victorianism (Subculture) KW - Steampunk subculture KW - Subculture KW - Social aspects KW - Social conditions KW - Gender role KW - Sex differences (Psychology) KW - Social role KW - Gender expression KW - Sexism KW - Gender roles KW - Gendered role KW - Gendered roles KW - Role, Gender KW - Role, Gendered KW - Role, Sex KW - Roles, Gender KW - Roles, Gendered KW - Roles, Sex KW - Sex roles UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77937425 AB - Tracing representations of re-imagined Victorian families in literature, film and television, and social discourse, this collection, the second volume in Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, analyses the historical trajectory of persistent but increasingly contested cultural myths that coalesce around the heterosexual couple and nuclear family as the supposed ‘normative’ foundation of communities and nations, past and present. It sheds new light on the significance of families as a source of fluctuating cultural capital, deployed in diverse arenas from political debates, social policy and identity politics to equal rights activism, and analyses how residual as well as emergent ideologies of family are mediated and critiqued by contemporary arts and popular culture. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students of neo-Victorian studies, as well as scholars in contemporary literature and film studies, cultural studies and the history of the family. Situating the nineteenth-century family both as a site of debilitating trauma and the means of ethical resistance against multivalent forms of oppression, neo-Victorian texts display a fascinating proliferation of alternative family models, albeit overshadowed by the apparent recalcitrance of familial ideologies to the same historical changes neo-Victorianism reflects and seeks to promote within the cultural imaginary. ER -