TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ho,Elizabeth
TI  - Neo-Victorianism and the memory of empire
T2  - Continuum literary studies
SN  - 9781441197788
AV  - PN98.P67 H6 2012eb
U1  - 809/.9113 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Continuum International Publishing
KW  - Postmodernism (Literature)
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Postcolonialism and the arts
KW  - Postmodernisme (Littérature)
KW  - Littérature
KW  - 21e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Postcolonialisme et arts
KW  - Literary studies: post-colonial literature
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - fast
KW  - Englisch
KW  - gnd
KW  - Roman
KW  - Rezeption
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Introduction; Neo-Victorianism and Improper Postcolonialisms; The "N-word" and the "V-word"; Improper Postcolonialisms; Past Recovery: Methods of Remembering; Patel and Pun, or, A Chapter Review; Chapter 1; Neo-Victorianism and "Ripperature": Alan Moore's From Hell; Ripperature and Gender: Margaret Thatcher's "Queenliness"; Ripperature and Heritage: Melancholic Narratives and a Critique of Neo-Victorianism; Post-Imperial Landscapes: Ripperature, Psychogeography, and Englishness; Jack the Rippe; Chapter 2; Neo-Victorianism Down Under: Peter Carey's Jack MaggsThe House that Jack Built Down Under; Charles Dickens, You Bastard; "Singing for his Supper:" The National Author in Australia; Mesmerism and Trauma; Citizenship; Chapter 3; Neo-Victorianism South of Nowhere: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace; Neo-Victorianism, Whiteness, and Multiculturalism; From Susanna Moodie to Grace Marks; White Men Need Not Apply; Quilting: Multiculturalism and Feminism "Made Strange"; "Je me souviens:" Neo-Victorian Memoro-Politics; ". . . A White Lie Such as the Angels Tell"; Chapter 4; "Far-Flung" Neo-Victorianism: Hong Kong and Jackie Chan's Neo-Victorian FilmsAnother "Island Story"; Smoke and Mirrors: The Opium War in Hong Kong Texts; Neo-Victorianism and Jackie Chan I: "Born in Hong Kong"; Neo-Victorianism and Jackie Chan II: Shanghai Noon, Shanghai Knights, and the Chinese Diaspora; Chapter 5; Neo-Victorianism and Science Fiction: "Steampunk"; Steampunk: An Orientation; Empires: The Difference Engine and The Diamond Age; Steamboy: Japan's Victorian Past; Around the World Again; Chapter 6; The Neo-Victorian-at-Sea: Toward a Global Memory of the Victorian
N2  - Examining the global dimensions of Neo-Victorianism, this book explores how the appropriation of Victorian images in contemporary literature and culture has emerged as a critical response to the crises of decolonization and Imperial collapse. Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire explores the phenomenon by reading a range of popular and literary Anglophone neo-Victorian texts, including Alan Moores Graphic Novel From Hell, works by Peter Carey and Margaret Atwood, the films of Jackie Chan and contemporary Steampunk science fiction. Through these readingsElizabeth Ho explores how constructio
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