Victorian Afterlife by John Kucich PAPERBACK 9780816633241

Victorian AfterlifePostmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century\nAuthor(s): John Kucich, Dianne F. Sadoff\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816633241, 978-0816633241\nSynopsis\nA foundational look at contemporary uses of the Victorian and the presence of the past in postmodern culture.\n\nCelebrated films by Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion, and Ang Lee; best-selling novels by A. S. Byatt and William Gibson; revivals of Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carrolls Alice, and nostalgic photography; computer graphics and cyberpunk performances: contemporary culture, high and low, has fallen in love with the nineteenth century. Major critical thinkers have found in the period the origins of contemporary consumerism, sexual science, gay culture, and feminism. And postmodern theory, which once drove a wedge between contemporary interpretation and its historical objects, has lately displayed a new self-c.