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Britannia's Unruly Pages : = Victorian Forms and Neo-Victorian Fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Britannia's Unruly Pages :/
Reminder of title:	Victorian Forms and Neo-Victorian Fiction.
Author:	Fong, Ryan Dennis.
Description:	1 online resource (255 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 74-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International74-07A.
Subject:	British and Irish literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3544726click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781267758835

Britannia's Unruly Pages : = Victorian Forms and Neo-Victorian Fiction.
Fong, Ryan Dennis.

Britannia's Unruly Pages :Victorian Forms and Neo-Victorian Fiction. - 1 online resource (255 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 74-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references

The last forty years have witnessed the enthusiastic consumption and reproduction of materials from Victorian literature and culture; this dissertation, Britannia's Unruly Pages: Victorian Forms and Neo-Victorian Fiction, focuses on three contemporary British novels that rewrite late-nineteenth-century works of fiction. I argue that these recent novels return to the Victorian past in order to interrogate historical patterns of structural violence and to compose literary modes of reparation. Rooted in a rigorous narratological and historical examination of my chosen Victorian texts, this project demonstrates how salient works of fin-de-siecle fiction use narrative form to develop incisive social critiques. It shows how contemporary works then appropriate these structures in subverting inherited norms around race, gender, class, and sexuality while simultaneously acknowledging their continuing legacy. Through these analyses, this project refutes the contention that "Neo-Victorian" writing functions as either a depoliticized mode of postmodern play or a manifestation of conservative nostalgia. Chapter One focuses on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman, and reveals how Fowles redeploys Hardy's construction of counterfactual lines of plot, which critics have called the optative, in order to redress the acts of gendered and classed violence that condemn Tess to her eventual fate. Chapter Two scrutinizes Rudyard Kipling's early Indian fiction and J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur, and argues that Farrell draws on the way that Kipling triangulates depictions of landscape, animality, and brutality in order to place colonial hierarchies in states of crisis and thereby undermine the imperial desire to bureaucratically organize, totalize, and control. Chapter Three examines how Emma Tennant's Two Women of London replicates Robert Louis Stevenson's structures of perspective in the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in advancing a feminist critique of Thatcherism, by showing how it produces working-class mothers as its paradigmatic and monstrous "Other." The dissertation closes with an afterword Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty and examines its doubled acts of return, in rewriting Henry James's late-Victorian novella The Spoils of Poynton and representing it alongside the emerging AIDS crisis of the 1980s.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781267758835Subjects--Topical Terms:

3433225
British and Irish literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

BritainIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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