Catalogo
Metropolis, Empire and Modernity - Bologna University Press
Collana
Rizomatica, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture moderne - LILEC
Metropolis, Empire and Modernity
The Dickensian Legacy in Neo-Victorian and Postcolonial Literature
di Federica Zullo
The Victorian revivalism witnessed since the early 1990s has produced new approaches to engaging with history, literature and culture. Is it nostalgia for the past or difficulty in interpreting the present that has led numerous contemporary English language writers to look back to the nineteenth century? What does neo-Victorianism mean? What are the new paths of investigation in “neo-Dickensian” novels? This volume looks at works of literature as well as cultural and critical reflections within the broader Anglophone and postcolonial perspective, where neo-Victorianism is interpreted as a self-conscious act of revision of the Victorians themselves. Taking into account the richness and ongoing vitality of the Dickensian world, this volume analyses how the discourse of Imperialism entered both Charles Dickens’s novels and the complete context of mid-Victorian literary and cultural life. Questions of race, Otherness, crime, emigration, the depiction of the poor and colonial subjects are all discussed in the light of contemporary re-examinations of Victorian and Dickensian issues, through the works of modern authors that include J.G. Farrell, Tabish Khair and Peter Carey. Federica Zullo is Research Fellow of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bologna. She is the author of Il cerchio della storia. Conflitti e paure nell’opera di Amitav Ghosh (2009), and co-edited Post-Conflict Reconstructions (with R.G. Miranda, 2013), The Invention(s…
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Disciplina
Letteratura e linguistica
Argomento
Letteratura
Formato
140 × 210 mm
Pagine
168
Anno
2015
Confezione
Brossura
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN
9788869230493