We, the "other victorians"

We, the "other victorians"

The declaration of "the end of history", understood as the elimination of all fissures and social tensions, is one of the intellectual parameters which form the bases of contemporary neo-liberal culture. The aim of this collection is to question the notion of a cultural process whereby discourses are rewritten while being, at times, reinscribed in a context that has been emptied of any historical meaning. By relating the Foucauldian analysis of the technologies of the self to a dialectical understanding of Cultural History, this collection aims to bridge theory and practice. The essays included in this book aim to demonstrate how the heritage of Victorian thought is still alive in the formation of contemporary neo-liberal philosophy. For this reason, the authors analyse how 19th-century cultural production created and/or interpreted medical discourse, domesticity and gender or popular literature, and how we "the other Victorians" have used them not only to forge hegemony, but also to construct counterhegemonic discourses and discourses of resistance. Silvia Caporale-Bizzini is Senior Lecturer of English Literature in the Department of English Studies and Director of the Women's Studies Centre at Alicante University.

  • Cover
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • Thorstein Veblen: Gadfly of the Gilded Age
  • The Construction of a Liberal Response to Drug Abuse in India
  • Organs for the Body: the Victorian Anatomy Legacy
  • The Cottage Homes of England: Victorian Beau Ideal
  • The Press and Publishing: Technology and Business 1855 to 1885
  • The Age(s) of Genre
  • Postmodern post-mortem on a Victorian corpse or how postmodern fiction rewrites the 19th century
  • This Side of the Misty Sea, Where Wynken, Blynken and Nod Saw Off the Kitty's Tale—a personal and critical discovery of childhood's lost icon Eugene Field
  • Cultural Constructions of Class in Cuaron's and Dickens' s Great Expectations
  • THE AUTHORS
  • THE EDITOR

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