Neo-Victorian tropes of trauma : the politics of bearing after-witness to nineteenth-century suffering /

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Author / Creator:Kohlke, Marie-Luise.
Imprint:Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010.
Description:1 online resource (414 pages)
Language:English
Series:Neo-Victorian series ; vol. 1
Neo-Victorian series ; vol. 1.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11234418
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Other authors / contributors:Gutleben, Christian.
ISBN:9789042032316
9042032316
9789042032309
9042032308
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This collection constitutes the first volume in Rodopi's Neo-Victorian Series, which explores the prevalent but often problematic re-vision of the long nineteenth century in contemporary culture. Here is presented for the first time an extended analysis of the conjunction of neo-Victorian fiction and trauma discourse, highlighting the significant interventions in collective memory staged by the belated aesthetic working-through of historical catastrophes, as well as their lingering traces in the present. The neo-Victorian's privileging of marginalised voices and its contestation of master-narr.
Other form:Print version: Kohlke, Marie-Luise. Neo-Victorian Tropes of Trauma : The Politics of Bearing After-Witness to Nineteenth-Century Suffering. Amsterdam : Rodopi, ©2010 9789042032309