neo-Victorian fictional biography; Wanting; The Quickening Maze
Résumé :
[en] Taking her cue from the contemporary interest in both life-writing and Victorian individuals, Steveker focuses on the genre of neo-Victorian fictional biography. Providing close readings of Adam Foulds’s The Quickening Maze (2009) and Richard Flanagan’s Wanting (2009), Steveker argues that these two novels not only undermine clichéd perceptions of the ‘eminent Victorians’ whose lives they depict, but also question the idealised image of the Victorian age as a period of confident humanism and individual self-respect. Making two Victorian authors return as neo-Victorian fictional characters, Foulds’s and Flanagan’s novels exemplify the desire of repetition which is symptomatic of the neo-Victorian project.
Disciplines :
Littérature
Auteur, co-auteur :
STEVEKER, Lena ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Humanities (DHUM)
Co-auteurs externes :
no
Langue du document :
Anglais
Titre :
‘Eminent Victorians’ and Neo-Victorian Fictional Biography.
Date de publication/diffusion :
2014
Titre de l'ouvrage principal :
Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture: Immersions and Revisitations
