Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire

by Elizabeth Ho

Book Overview

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 Moore's Graphic Novel From Hell, works by Peter Carey...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472525523
• ISBN13: 9781472525529
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"