Title Victoriana : histories, fictions, criticism / Cora Kaplan

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 173 pages) : illustrations Contents Heroines, hysteria, and history : Jane Eyre and her critics -- Biographilia -- Historical fictions : pastiche, politics and pleasure -- Retuning The piano Summary 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 TÃđibÃƯn'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. Features *Uses the Victorian as a touchstone for late 20th and early 21st century writers helping readers to understand the changing meaning of Victorian literature and culture across time.*Explores different genres of Victoriana showing the differences and convergences in the ways in which criticism, biography, fiction and film rewrite the Victorian.*Analyses the pleasures and politics of reading or viewing the recycling of the Victorian past highlighting the relationship between the act of reading and the social and political elements of the texts.*Focuses on work by well-known writers, critics, filmmakers and artists such as A S Byatt, David Lodge, ColmTÃđibÃƯn and Sarah Waters in relationship to nineteenth-century authors such as Charlotte Brontñ, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens and Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT Englisch ... gnd Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Victoriana -- Great Britain Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. ART -- History -- General. Civilization Criticism English literature Victoriana Literatur Rezeption Kultur Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) The Piano (Campion) Biografieën. Historische romans. Victoriaanse tijd. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056625 Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century Subject Great Britain Großbritannien Englisch. Genre/Form Electronic books History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Kaplan, Cora. LC no. 2007386886 ISBN 9780748628186 0748628185 9780748651627 0748651624 9786610762422 6610762422 128076242X 9781280762420

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