Iolanda Cristina de Freitas Ramos
Biographic Data
| ID | 8418290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iolanda Cristina de Freitas Ramos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iolanda Cristina de Freitas |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramos |
| SIGNATURE | RAMOS I C F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lisbon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0872-595X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
R. F. Burton Revisited
This article draws on an alternate history approach to the Victorian world and discusses steampunk and neo-Victorian literary and cultural features. It focuses on Richard Francis Burton-one of the most charismatic and controversial explorers and men of letters of his time-who stands out in a complex web of both real-life and fictional characters and events. Ultimately, the essay presents a twenty-first-century revisitation of the British Empire a…
Introduction
In response to Lytton Strachey’s remark that the history of the Victorian Age would never be written because we know too much about it (9), one can argue that the greater our temporal distance to the Victorians is, the more we appear to be interested in them. As Dianne F. Sadoff and John Kucich have noted about this persistent preoccupation, “the Victorian age [is] historically central to late-century postmodern consciousness” (Kucich and Sadoff …
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Introduction
In response to Lytton Strachey’s remark that the history of the Victorian Age would never be written because we know too much about it (9), one can argue that the greater our temporal distance to the Victorians is, the more we appear to be interested in them. As Dianne F. Sadoff and John Kucich have noted about this persistent preoccupation, “the Victorian age [is] historically central to late-century postmodern consciousness” (Kucich and Sadoff …
R. F. Burton Revisited
This article draws on an alternate history approach to the Victorian world and discusses steampunk and neo-Victorian literary and cultural features. It focuses on Richard Francis Burton-one of the most charismatic and controversial explorers and men of letters of his time-who stands out in a complex web of both real-life and fictional characters and events. Ultimately, the essay presents a twenty-first-century revisitation of the British Empire a…
Art (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Australian History and Society (1 work) · British Empire (1 work) · Charisma (1 work) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 work) · Empire (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)