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'History Repeating...' (NL, 5-3-15)
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Dr Sam Knowles
Intertextuality
'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', Edgar Allan Poe, 1841
'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', Robert Louis Stephenson, 1886
Graphic Novels and Comics
Eisner: comics were 'dismissed as cheap entertainment for kids'.
Today's Questions
1. Why do authors use neo-Victorianism?
2. What does it accomplish?
Neo-Victorianism
3. How is graphic novel form important?
Nineteenth-Century Time
Steampunk
'The curiously hybrid temporality of steampunk is among its most compelling characteristics [...It] provides us with anachronism: a past that is borrowing from the future or a future borrowing from the past. [...] What does it mean when a subgenre and a cultural phenomenon looks to the past to understand more contemporary anxieties?'
Leeds Sixth Form, 18-09-19
1938
1898
, Volume I (1999)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
1605/15
1830
'[I]n the late eighties and early nineties, a number of authors turned to the Victorian period (and to its most notorious crimes) in their fiction as a means of exploring contemporary approaches to law and order and social breakdown.'
Kathryn Bird, '"Civilised society doesn't just happen": The Animal, The Law, and "Victorian Values" in Kim Newman's ', , 7 (2014): 1--24 (p. 2).
Anno Dracula
Neo-Victorian Studies
The Origin of Species...
Charles Darwin,
(1838--59)
'The need for one text to be read in the light of its allusions to and differences from the content or structure of other texts; the (allusive) relationship between [...] literary texts.'
Oxford English Dictionary
1759--67
1986
Rachel Bowser and Brian Croxall, 'Introduction: Industrial Evolution', Special Issue: Steampunk, Science, and (Neo)Victorian Technologies, , 3 (2010): 1--45 (p. 2).
Neo-Victorian Studies
Charles Lyell,
(1830--33)
Principles of Geology
'[This was] the doctrine [...] of slow change wrought by such quiet agents as erosion and sedimentary deposit, forces everywhere still evident.'
James Secord, 'Introduction', in Charles Lyell, (NY: Penguin, 1997), ix--xliii (p. xvi).
Principles of Geology
meta-narrative: 'any narrative which is concerned with the idea of storytelling, specifically one which alludes to other narratives, or refers to itself and to its own artifice.'
Oxford English Dictionary
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Avengers
Dr Henry Jekyll Dr Bruce Banner
Mr Hyde The Hulk
'History Repeating: Neo-Victorianism, Intertextuality, and
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
'...creat[ing] a nineteenth-century nightmare born out of the values admired by "eminent neo-Victorians" such as [Margaret] Thatcher.'
Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire
Elizabeth Ho, (London: Continuum, 2012), p. 28.
(dir. Ritchie, 2009)
Sherlock Holmes
1989