Neo-Victorian Families Gender, Sexual and Cultural Politics
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 aroun...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi
2011.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Neo-Victorian Series ; v.2. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31073128*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introducing Neo-Victorian Family Matters:Cultural Capital and Reproduction; PART I Endangered Childhoods and Lost Futures:Filthiness and Philanthropy; 1. From London's East End to West Baltimore:How the Victorian Slum Narrative Shapes The Wire; 2. Failing Families: Echoes of Nineteenth-CenturyChild Rescue Discourse in Contemporary Debatesaround Child Protection; 3. The Figure of the Child in Neo-Victorian Queer Families; 4. Neo-Victorian Childhoods:Re-Imagining the Worst of Times.
- PART II Performing (Im)Possible Happy Families:Deconstruction and Reconstruction5. Deconstructing the Victorian Family?Trying to Reach Cloud Nine; 6. The Cratchits on Film:Neo-Victorian Visions of Domesticity; 7. The Rise and Fall of the Forsytes:From Neo-Victorian to Neo-Edwardian Marriage; 8. The Lost Mother and the Enclosed Lady: Gender andDomesticity in MTV's Adaptation of Wuthering Heights; 9. Monarchs and Patriarchs: Angela Carter's Recreationof the Victorian Family in The Magic Toyshop; PART III The Mirror of Society:Familial Trauma, Dissolution and Transformation.
- 10. Family Traumas and Serial Killingin Peter Ackroyd's Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem11. Family Trauma and Reconfigured Families:Philip Pullman's Neo-Victorian Detective Series; 12. "That heartbroken island of incestuous hatreds":Famine and Family in Joseph O'Connor's Star of the Sea; 13. (In)Visible Disability in Neo-Victorian Families; 14. More Than Kith and Less Than Kin: Queering the Familyin Sarah Waters's Neo-Victorian Fictions; Contributors; Index;
