Neo-Victorian Cities
Reassessing Urban Politics and Poetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23540228 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marie-Luise Kohlke, Christian Gutleben |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 376 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Reassessing Urban Politics and Poetics (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004292338 |
| OpenAlex | W4241957785 |
| ISBN | 9789004292338 |
| Open Library | OL29718905M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This volume explores the complex aesthetic, cultural, and memory politics of urban representation and reconfiguration in neo-Victorian discourse and practice. Through adaptations of traditional city tropes – such as the palimpsest, the labyrinth, the femininised enigma, and the marketplace of desire – writers, filmmakers, and city planners resurrect, preserve, and rework nineteenth-century metropolises and their material traces while simultaneously Gothicising and fabricating ‘past’ urban realities to serve present-day wants, so as to maximise cities’ potential to generate consumption and profits. Within the cultural imaginary of the metropolis, this volume contends, the nineteenth century provides a prominent focalising lens that mediates our apperception of and engagement with postmodern cityscapes. From the site of capitalist romance and traumatic lieux de mémoire to theatre of postcolonial resistance and Gothic sensationalism, the neo-Victorian city proves a veritable Proteus evoking myriad creative responses but also crystallising persistent ethical dilemmas surrounding alienation, precarity, Othering, and social exclusion.
Aesthetics · Alienation · Art · Gentrification · Idyll · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Precarity · Psychoanalysis · Resistance (ecology) · Romance · Sociology · The Imaginary · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Law · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Cities and towns · Cities and towns in art · Cities and towns in literature · English fiction · History · History and criticism · Local government · Metropolitan government · Municipal government
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |