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From Behind the Scenes at the Museum to Big Sky, this book explores the major themes and formal concerns in Kate Atkinson's fiction (history, memory, feminism, metafiction, genre revision). It situates Atkinson's ouvre in terms of an aesthetics of hydridity that runs through her eleven novels, one play and one collection of stories to date.

Authors, English --- Authors --- Atkinson, Kate. --- Bildungsroman. --- Contemporary novel. --- Detective fiction. --- Endings. --- Feminist literature. --- Historical novel. --- Neo-Victorian. --- closure. --- humour. --- revision.

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Steampunk culture. --- Steampunk fiction --- Steampunk films. --- History and criticism. --- Motion pictures --- Steam punk fiction --- Fiction --- Neo-Victorian culture --- Neo-Victorianism (Subculture) --- Steampunk subculture --- Subculture

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Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film is the first volume to focus solely on the replication, reconstruction, and re-presentation of Victorian things. It investigates the role of materiality in contemporary returns to the past as a means of assessing the function of things in remembering, revisioning, and/or reimagining the nineteenth century. Examining iterations of material culture in literature, film and popular television series, this volume offers a reconsideration of nineteenth-century things and the neo-Victorian cultural forms that they have inspired, animated, and even haunted. By turning to new and relatively underexplored strands of neo-Victorian materiality—including opium paraphernalia, slave ships, clothing, and biographical objects—and interrogating the critical role such objects play in reconstructing the past, this volume offers ways of thinking about how mis/apprehensions of material culture in the nineteenth century continue to shape our present understanding of things.

Steampunk culture. --- Steampunk fiction --- Steampunk films. --- History and criticism. --- Motion pictures --- Steam punk fiction --- Fiction --- Neo-Victorian culture --- Neo-Victorianism (Subculture) --- Steampunk subculture --- Subculture --- Literature, Modern --- Motion pictures. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Audio-Visual Culture. --- 19th century. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Literature --- History and criticism

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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.

Historical fiction, English --- English fiction --- Literature and history --- English fiction. --- Historical fiction, English. --- Literature and history. --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- English historical fiction --- English literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- 1900-2099 --- Great Britain. --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Steampunk culture. --- Families. --- Sex role. --- Gender expression. --- Expression, Gender --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex role --- Family --- Families --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Neo-Victorian culture --- Neo-Victorianism (Subculture) --- Steampunk subculture --- Subculture --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Gender role --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles