TY - BOOK ID - 77940185 TI - Neo-Victorian Gothic AU - Kohlke, Marie-Luise AU - Gutleben, Christian PY - 2012 VL - v. 3 SN - 9401208964 9789401208963 9789042036253 9042036257 1299034713 PB - Amsterdam New York, N.Y. Editions Rodopi B.V. DB - UniCat KW - Gothic revival (Literature) KW - Literary movements KW - Revival movements (Art) KW - Romanticism 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 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77940185 AB - This volume, the third in Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, reassesses neo-Victorianism as a quintessentially Gothic movement. Through their revival of bygone spectres, their obsession with forgotten skeletons in the cupboard, and their exploration of nineteenth-century extremities, neo-Victorian works not only reflect our contemporary Gothic culture but also reactivate it and even enrich it with new variations such as postcolonial, eco or steampunk Gothic. Addressed to scholars and students of both Gothic and Neo-Victorian Studies, this volume will also interest contemporary literature specialists, cultural theorists, and those working on popular historical memory, as it explores the paradox of culture’s coincident turn to ethics and sensationalism. As exemplified in its generic variety and hybridity, neo-Victorian Gothic resorts to the spectacularisation of horror while simultaneously demonstrating the hyperreal, textual and self-reflexive nature of these spectacles, just as it resorts to the exploitation of hyperbolic and violent sexuality at the same time as challenging sexual norms and identity politics. In spite of these apparent contradictions, the Gothic forms of neo-Victorianism demonstrate their fundamentally ethical goal of interrogating the uncertain limits between self and other, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, past and present. ER -