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Adaptive/Appropriative Reuse in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Having One's Cake and Eating It Too
Marie-luise Kohlke 
Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century, Pages: 169 - 187
Swansea University Author:
Marie-luise Kohlke
Abstract
This chapter considers neo-Victorian fiction in terms of notions of 'reuse' more commonly applied to the repurposing, renovation, and modernisation of historical buildings, exploring the multiple heterogeneous cultural utilisations of the neo-Victorian and the audience appetites it serves.
| Published in: | Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century |
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| ISBN: | 9781784995102 |
| Published: |
Manchester, UK
Manchester University Press
2017
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36098 |
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| Abstract: |
This chapter considers neo-Victorian fiction in terms of notions of 'reuse' more commonly applied to the repurposing, renovation, and modernisation of historical buildings, exploring the multiple heterogeneous cultural utilisations of the neo-Victorian and the audience appetites it serves. |
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| Keywords: |
adaptive reuse, appropriative reuse, biofiction,Barbara Chase-Riboud, Richard Flanagan, Gothic, heterogeneity, Hottentot Venus, presentist concerns, repurposing, Wanting |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Start Page: |
169 |
| End Page: |
187 |