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The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--from large-scale adaptations of written works through commodities to interactive theme parks. This book is an introduction to the novelistic refashionings of the Victorian age with a special focus on revisions of Charlotte Bronte's<em> Jane Eyre</em> and Charles Dickens's <em>Great Expectations</em>. Post-Victorian research is still in the making and the first segment of the book is devoted to clarifying definitions, terminology, interpretive contexts and discourses. Two major frameworks for reading post-Victorian fiction are developed in the rest of the book: the literary scene and political and social aspects of analysis. These frameworks are introduced in more detail in two chapters on authors, readers, criticism and the market, and on narratives of national, cultural and self identities. These perspectives are combined in the last two sections. Among the works examined are Caryl Phillips's <em>Cambridge</em>, Matthew Kneale's <em>English Passengers</em>, Peter Carey's <em>Oscar and Lucinda</em> and<em> Jack Magg</em>s, Lloyd Jones's <em>Mister Pip</em>, Jean Rhys's <em>Wide Sargasso Sea</em>, D.M. Thomas's <em>Charlotte</em>, and Jasper Fforde's <em>The Eyre Affair</em>.
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"Rewriting the Victorians is a valuable contribution to the study of post-Victorian fiction... This informative and thought-provoking introduction of the general context and main concerns of the rewritings is enriched by insightful and detailed close analyses of post-Victorian novels. Therefore, Kirchknopf’s study... is an appropriate and valuable resource for those new to this area of research, as well as for scholars already involved in the study of literary engagement with the Victorian past." - Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Volume 20, No. 2, 2014
About the Author:
<strong>Andrea Kirchknopf</strong> is a lecturer at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
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- PublisherMcFarland & Co
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0786471344
- ISBN 13 9780786471348
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages236
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