Marie–luise Kohlke
Biographic Data
| ID | 2366743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marie–luise Kohlke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marie–luise |
| FAMILY NAME | Kohlke |
| SIGNATURE | KOHLKE M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1475-7218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Heterotopic Proliferation in E. S. Thomson’s Jem Flockhart Series
This article explores the convergence, inversion, and collapse of heterotopic spaces in E. S. Thomson’s neo-Victorian Jem Flockhart series about a cross-dressing female apothecary in mid-nineteenth-century London. The eponymous first-person narrator becomes embroiled in the detection of horrific murder cases, with the action traversing a wide range of Michel Foucault’s exemplary Other spaces, including hospitals, graveyards, brothels, prisons, as…
Heterotopic and Neo-Victorian Affinities
The introduction to this special issue on Neo-Victorian Heterotopias investigates the affinities between the spaces designated by Michel Foucault’s ambivalent and protean concept of ‘heterotopia’ and the similarly equivocal, shifting, and adaptable cultural phenomenon of ‘neo-Victorianism’. In both cases, cultural spaces and/or artefacts prove deeply intertwined with chronicity, at once juxtaposing and blending different temporal moments, past an…
The lures of neo‐Victorianism presentism (with a feminist case study of Penny Dreadful )
Commonly credited with a distinctly presentist agenda, neo‐Victorian works invite readers/viewers to infer seeming parallels and continuities between the 19th century and postmodernity. The discernment of presentism's exact operations, however, presupposes an informed audience with a comparatively high level of historical knowledge and sophistication, which cannot be assumed by works targeting a diverse mass market, as in the case of televisual p…
The Neo-Victorian Doctor and Resurrected Gothic Masculinities
Both neo-Victorian fiction and popular discourse repeatedly reprise the nineteenth-century Gothic doctor figure to represent a crisis of post-Enlightenment masculinity, as well as problematising the past's continuing influence over our own time. From parodic to sinister re-imaginings of transgressive medical men, the trope constitutes a significant schema through which the nineteenth century is filtered, formatted, and reactivated in and for the …
Neo-Victorian Gothic
This volume, the third in Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, reassesses neo-Victorianism as a quintessentially Gothic movement. Through their revival of bygone spectres, their obsession with forgotten skeletons in the cupboard, and their exploration of nineteenth-century extremities, neo-Victorian works not only reflect our contemporary Gothic culture but also reactivate it and even enrich it with new variations such as postcolonial, eco or steampunk…
Negotiating Sexual Idioms
Blood and Tears in the Mirror of Memory
Liana Badr's The Eye of the Mirror explores the historical trauma of the 1975-6 siege of the Palestinian refugee camp Tal el-Zaatar in Beirut and the massacre of thousands of its inhabitants by Christian militias. Analogous to Holocaust writing, Badr's fictionalized history, grounded in actual survivor testimonies, enacts a complex politics of cultural memory, but does so from a specifically female perspective. Collapsing the personal and politic…
Into history through the back door
Historical fiction offers women writers and their female protagonists a way into history through the back door, into that masculinized history traditionally characterized, in the words of Angela Ca
Into history through the back door
Historical fiction offers women writers and their female protagonists a way into history through the back door, into that masculinized history traditionally characterized, in the words of Angela Ca
The Neo-Victorian Doctor and Resurrected Gothic Masculinities
Both neo-Victorian fiction and popular discourse repeatedly reprise the nineteenth-century Gothic doctor figure to represent a crisis of post-Enlightenment masculinity, as well as problematising the past's continuing influence over our own time. From parodic to sinister re-imaginings of transgressive medical men, the trope constitutes a significant schema through which the nineteenth century is filtered, formatted, and reactivated in and for the …
Into history through the back door
Historical fiction offers women writers and their female protagonists a way into history through the back door, into that masculinized history traditionally characterized, in the words of Angela Ca
Blood and Tears in the Mirror of Memory
Liana Badr's The Eye of the Mirror explores the historical trauma of the 1975-6 siege of the Palestinian refugee camp Tal el-Zaatar in Beirut and the massacre of thousands of its inhabitants by Christian militias. Analogous to Holocaust writing, Badr's fictionalized history, grounded in actual survivor testimonies, enacts a complex politics of cultural memory, but does so from a specifically female perspective. Collapsing the personal and politic…
Negotiating Sexual Idioms
Neo-Victorian Gothic
This volume, the third in Rodopi’s Neo-Victorian Series, reassesses neo-Victorianism as a quintessentially Gothic movement. Through their revival of bygone spectres, their obsession with forgotten skeletons in the cupboard, and their exploration of nineteenth-century extremities, neo-Victorian works not only reflect our contemporary Gothic culture but also reactivate it and even enrich it with new variations such as postcolonial, eco or steampunk…
The Neo-Victorian Doctor and Resurrected Gothic Masculinities
Both neo-Victorian fiction and popular discourse repeatedly reprise the nineteenth-century Gothic doctor figure to represent a crisis of post-Enlightenment masculinity, as well as problematising the past's continuing influence over our own time. From parodic to sinister re-imaginings of transgressive medical men, the trope constitutes a significant schema through which the nineteenth century is filtered, formatted, and reactivated in and for the …
The lures of neo‐Victorianism presentism (with a feminist case study of Penny Dreadful )
Commonly credited with a distinctly presentist agenda, neo‐Victorian works invite readers/viewers to infer seeming parallels and continuities between the 19th century and postmodernity. The discernment of presentism's exact operations, however, presupposes an informed audience with a comparatively high level of historical knowledge and sophistication, which cannot be assumed by works targeting a diverse mass market, as in the case of televisual p…
Heterotopic Proliferation in E. S. Thomson’s Jem Flockhart Series
This article explores the convergence, inversion, and collapse of heterotopic spaces in E. S. Thomson’s neo-Victorian Jem Flockhart series about a cross-dressing female apothecary in mid-nineteenth-century London. The eponymous first-person narrator becomes embroiled in the detection of horrific murder cases, with the action traversing a wide range of Michel Foucault’s exemplary Other spaces, including hospitals, graveyards, brothels, prisons, as…
Heterotopic and Neo-Victorian Affinities
The introduction to this special issue on Neo-Victorian Heterotopias investigates the affinities between the spaces designated by Michel Foucault’s ambivalent and protean concept of ‘heterotopia’ and the similarly equivocal, shifting, and adaptable cultural phenomenon of ‘neo-Victorianism’. In both cases, cultural spaces and/or artefacts prove deeply intertwined with chronicity, at once juxtaposing and blending different temporal moments, past an…
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