Victorian Memes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10867005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bourrier Bourrier, Karen Bourrier (0000-0002-7984-864X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 272 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-5222 • E-ISSN: 1527-2052 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/victorianstudies.58.2.08 |
| OpenAlex | W4238954946 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
From November 2014 to May 2015, I collected references to four Victorian authors—Dinah Craik, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope—on the social media site Twitter. I argue that the realist novel, as exemplified by these writers’ works, offers a particularly fertile ground for the development of memes that resonate with current cultural values, including the importance of love, the best ways to deal with failure and success, and the folly of gossip. Shaped by the technical affordances of Twitter, these memes also take on distinctive formal features, including a tendency to nominalization, the imperative voice, and the use of superlatives. The result is that, in their remediated form, these sentimental and didactic tweets often sound more “Victorian” than realist novels themselves
Art · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Humor Studies and Applications
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |