Elisavet Ioannidou
Biographic Data
| ID | 6683062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisavet Ioannidou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisavet |
| FAMILY NAME | Ioannidou |
| SIGNATURE | IOANNIDOU E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0753-0920 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Rethinking the Pamela controversy at the age of post-truth and #MeToo
This article examines Martin Crimp’s play When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other (2019), arguing that the obscurity of its protagonists’ relationship and the unintelligibility of their motives for engaging in an ambiguous sexual power-play that blurs the boundaries between consent and threat revives the controversy surrounding its source material, namely Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela (1740). The debate as to whether Richardson’s heroine…
Past hauntings for the future
This article focuses on the appearance of Victorian ghosts in the second act of Caryl Churchill’s play Cloud Nine (1979). I argue that the 1979 setting of this act constitutes: an intermediary point between the twentieth-century attempt to comprehend, learn from, and possibly also reject the Victorian past in favour of the greater liberation of the then-present; and the reconstitution of Victorianism that Margaret Thatcher’s electoral victory ini…
Self-Fashioning Illusions
Examining the conflicting approaches to the fragmentation of the self and the feasibility of self-awareness featured in Christopher Priest’s novel The Prestige (1995), this article reflects on the evaluation, and subsequent reinvention, of the Victorian era in the genre commonly known as neo-Victorian fiction. Alfred Borden, the novel’s Victorian protagonist, fashions himself as a unique and unified individual even though his identity is, in fact…
From Crisis to Compensation
Examining the ambivalent place of the sideshow and the laboratory within Victorian culture and its reimaginings, this essay explores the contradiction between the narratively orchestrating role and peripheral location of the sideshow in Leslie Parry’s Church of Marvels (2015) and the laboratory in NBC’s Dracula (2013–2014), reading these neo-Victorian spaces as heterotopias, relational places simultaneously belonging to and excluded from the domi…
Neo-Victorian Visions of the Future
Neo-Victorian texts frequently associate science and technology with criminal acts, which their perpetrators perceive as acts of progress, because of their potential to initiate the world's passage to the future. Stemming from Victorian apprehensions of science, most notably the possibility of the scientist's malevolence, the abuse of science by neo-Victorian villains presents a criminal past that will give birth to a dystopian future. As the fut…
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Neo-Victorian Visions of the Future
Neo-Victorian texts frequently associate science and technology with criminal acts, which their perpetrators perceive as acts of progress, because of their potential to initiate the world's passage to the future. Stemming from Victorian apprehensions of science, most notably the possibility of the scientist's malevolence, the abuse of science by neo-Victorian villains presents a criminal past that will give birth to a dystopian future. As the fut…
From Crisis to Compensation
Examining the ambivalent place of the sideshow and the laboratory within Victorian culture and its reimaginings, this essay explores the contradiction between the narratively orchestrating role and peripheral location of the sideshow in Leslie Parry’s Church of Marvels (2015) and the laboratory in NBC’s Dracula (2013–2014), reading these neo-Victorian spaces as heterotopias, relational places simultaneously belonging to and excluded from the domi…
Self-Fashioning Illusions
Examining the conflicting approaches to the fragmentation of the self and the feasibility of self-awareness featured in Christopher Priest’s novel The Prestige (1995), this article reflects on the evaluation, and subsequent reinvention, of the Victorian era in the genre commonly known as neo-Victorian fiction. Alfred Borden, the novel’s Victorian protagonist, fashions himself as a unique and unified individual even though his identity is, in fact…
Rethinking the Pamela controversy at the age of post-truth and #MeToo
This article examines Martin Crimp’s play When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other (2019), arguing that the obscurity of its protagonists’ relationship and the unintelligibility of their motives for engaging in an ambiguous sexual power-play that blurs the boundaries between consent and threat revives the controversy surrounding its source material, namely Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela (1740). The debate as to whether Richardson’s heroine…
Past hauntings for the future
This article focuses on the appearance of Victorian ghosts in the second act of Caryl Churchill’s play Cloud Nine (1979). I argue that the 1979 setting of this act constitutes: an intermediary point between the twentieth-century attempt to comprehend, learn from, and possibly also reject the Victorian past in favour of the greater liberation of the then-present; and the reconstitution of Victorianism that Margaret Thatcher’s electoral victory ini…
Art (4 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works)