Neo-Victorianism on Screen Postfeminism and Contemporary Adaptations of Victorian Women /

• Main Author: Primorac, Antonija (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
• Subjects: Motion pictures.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Great Britain-History.; Ethnology-Europe.; Adaptation Studies.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; History of Britain and Ireland.; British Culture.

This book broadens the scope of inquiry of neo-Victorian studies by focusing primarily on screen adaptations and appropriations of Victorian literature and culture. More specifically, this monograph spotlights the overlapping yet often conflicting drives at work in representations of Victorian heroi...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Neo-Victorianism on Screen and Postfeminist Media Culture
• 2. Postfeminism and Screen Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes Stories: The Case of Irene Adler
• 3. Re-presenting the Past: Gender, Colonial Space, and Cultural Nostalgia in Neo-Victorianism on Screen
• 4. Caged Birds: Corsets, Cages and Embowered Women in Contemporary Victoriana on Screen
• 5. Re-Fashioning Victorian Heroines and Family Relations: Tailoring and Shape-Shifting as Queer Adaptation and Appropriation
• 6. Conclusion: No Country for Old Women
• 7. Index.