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No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS.  \nAny person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nFirst published 2010 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN  \nPalgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS.  \nPalgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.  \nPalgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world.  \nPalgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.  \nISBN 978–0–230–24113–8 hardback  \nThis book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nA catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \n19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10  \nPrinted and bound in Great Britain by  \nCPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne  \nIn memory of Hazel Irene Van-Gasse, 1923–2009  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nContents  \nList of Illustrations ix  \nAcknowledgements x  \nIntroduction: Neo-Victorianism and Post-Authenticity: On the Ethics and Aesthetics of Appropriation 1  \n1 History, literature, and criticism 8  \n2 Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the  \ntwenty-first century 28  \n3 Going forward, looking backward 32  \n1 Memory, Mourning, Misfortune: Ancestral Houses and (Literary) Inheritances 33  \n1.1 Meta-morphoses: Classical,(early)modern, and  \nneo-Victorian echoes in Wesley Stace’s Misfortune (2005) 37  \n1.2 ‘My mother not my mother; myself not myself’:  \nThe mother (as) text in Sarah Blake’s  \nGrange House (2000) 41  \n1.3 ‘Tell me the truth’: Trauma, witnessing, and authorship in Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale (2006) 47  \n1.4 ‘There was something unheimlich about it’:  \nFamilial/textual legacies and spectral returns in  \nJohn Harwood’s The Ghost Writer (2004) 55  \n1.5 Conclusion 63  \n2 Race and Empire: Postcolonial Neo-Victorians 66  \n2.1 Hybridity and resistance in Amitav Ghosh’s  \nSea of Poppies (2008) 70  \n2.2 Voices across borders: Laura Fish’s Strange Music (2008) 81  \n2.3 Orientalism and transculturalism: Ahdaf Soueif’s  \nThe Map of Love (1999) and Kate Pulling","cbCaipwMkYMPeeMf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipwMkYMPeeMf","pdf",6244483,336,"English","# Introduction: Neo-Victorianism and Post-Authenticity\n## 1 History, literature, and criticism\n## 2 Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the twenty-first century\n## 3 Going forward, looking backward\n# 1 Memory, Mourning, Misfortune: Ancestral Houses and (Literary) Inheritances\n## 2 Race and Empire: Postcolonial Neo-Victorians\n## 3 Sex and Science: Bodily and Textual (Re)Inscriptions\n## 4 Spectrality and S(p)ecularity: Some Reflections in the Glass\n## 5 Doing It with Mirrors, or Tricks of the Trade: Neo-Victorian Metatextual Magic\n## 6 The Way We Adapt Now: or, the Neo-Victorian Theme Park","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of the book?\",\"answer\":\"The book investigates neo-Victorianism’s reworking of the nineteenth century through contemporary texts and cultural forms, with attention to ethics and aesthetics of appropriation.\"},{\"question\":\"Which major themes are discussed across the chapters?\",\"answer\":\"Themes include memory and inheritance, trauma and authorship, race and empire, hybridity and resistance, sex and science, spectrality, metatextual magic, and contemporary adaptation.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book approach the relation between contemporary works and Victorian authenticity?\",\"answer\":\"It frames neo-Victorian practice as a post-authentic activity, asking how appropriation and aesthetic strategies create ethical and imaginative effects.\"}]","Neo-Victorianism - The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century - 1999-2009 | PDF",1789943445,517]