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  • Becoming Anne Lister

    Diaries, Adaptations, and Afterlives

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Becoming Anne Lister: Diaries, Adaptations, and Afterlives examines Anne Lister’s historical legacy as a prolific diarist, landowner, and queer woman, as well as her representation in transmedia adaptations in neo-Victorian literature, film and television. ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen

    In Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen, Maier and Friars argue that the on-screen portrayal of lesbians situated in the long nineteenth century across various countries is at the very least a dual task; the imperative project of revoicing lesbian silence and female companionship is complicated by the lack of and/or complex representation of such women in the past. The adaptations, with varying ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism

    Edited by Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors’ life stories, graphic novels, and contemporary fiction set in the nineteenth century. Contextualized by Sarah E Maier and Brenda Ayres in a comprehensive introduction, the collection describes current trends in neo-Victorian scholarship of novels, ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture

    Edited by Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture exposes, explores, and examines what Victorians once considered flagrant breaches of decorum. Infringements that were fantasized through artforms or were actually committed exceeded entertaining parlor gossip; once in print they were condemned as socially contaminative but were also consumed as delightfully sensational. Written ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives examines the neo-Victorian themes and motifs currently appearing in young adult fiction—specifically addressing the themes of authorship, sexuality, and criminality in the context of the Victorian age in British and American cultures. This book explicates the complicated relationship between the Victorian past and the turn to Victorian modes of thought on ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Woke Cinderella

    Twenty-First-Century Adaptations

    Series series Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations
    Glass slippers, a fairy godmother, a ball, a prince, an evil stepfamily, and a poor girl known for sitting amongst the ashes: incarnations of the "Cinderella" fairy tale have resonated throughout the ages. Hidden between the lines of this fairy tale exists a history of fantasy about agency, power, and empowerment. This book examines twenty-first-century “Cinderella” adaptations that envision the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Gothic Mash-Ups

    Hybridity, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Gothic Storytelling

    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role of intertextuality in Gothic storytelling through the analysis of texts from diverse periods and media. Drawing on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors examine crossover fictions, multi-source film and comic book adaptations, neo-Victorian pastiches, performance magic, monster mashes, and intertextual Gothic works of various kinds. ... Read more

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  • A Vindication of the Redhead

    The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    A Vindication of the Redhead investigates red hair in literature, art, television, and film throughout Eastern and Western cultures. This study examines red hair as a signifier, perpetuated through stereotypes, myths, legends, and literary and visual representations. Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier provide a history of attitudes held by hegemonic populations toward red-haired individuals, groups, ... Read more

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  • The Theological Dickens

    Edited by Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This is the first collection to investigate Charles Dickens on his vast and various opinions about the uses and abuses of the tenets of Christian faith that imbue English Victorian culture. Although previous studies have looked at his well-known antipathies toward Dissenters, Evangelicals, Catholics, and Jews, they have also disagreed about Dickens’ thoughts on Unitarianism and speculated on ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Neo-Victorian Things

    Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Neo-Gothic Narratives

    Illusory Allusions from the Past

    Edited by Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature
    Neo-Gothic Narratives defines and theorises what, exactly, qualifies as such a text, what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times, whether nostalgia plays a role and whether there is room for humour besides the sobriety and horror in these narratives across various media. What attracts us to the Gothic that makes us want to resurrect, reinvent, echo it? Why do we let the ... Read more

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  • Neo-Victorian Madness

    Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media

    Edited by Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media investigates contemporary fiction, cinema and television shows set in the Victorian period that depict mad murderers, lunatic doctors, social dis/ease and madhouses as if many Victorians were “mad.” Such portraits demand a “rediagnosing” of mental illness that was often reduced to only female ... Read more

    $134.99 USD