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The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror (Paperback)
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When Margaret Thatcher called in 1979 for a return to Victorian
values such as hard work, self-reliance, thrift, and national
pride, Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock responded that
\u201cVictorian values\u201d also included \u201ccruelty, misery,
drudgery, squalor, and ignorance.\u201d The Victorians in the
Rearview Mirror is an in-depth look at the ways that the twentieth
century reacted to and reimagined its predecessor. It considers how
the Victorian inheritance has been represented in literature,
politics, film, and visual culture; the ways in which modernists
and progressives have sought to differentiate themselves from an
image of the Victorian; and how conservatives (and some liberals)
have sought to revive elements of nineteenth-century life.
Nostalgic and critical impulses combine to fix an understanding of
the Victorians in the popular imagination. Simon Joyce examines
heritage culture, contemporary politics, and the
\u201cneo-Dickensian\u201d novel to offer a more affirmative
assessment of the Victorian legacy, one that lets us imagine a
model of social interconnection and interdependence that has come
under threat in today\u2019s politics and culture. Although more
than one hundred years have passed since the death of Queen
Victoria, the impact of her time is still fresh. The Victorians in
the Rearview Mirror speaks to diverse audiences in literary and
cultural studies, in addition to those interested in visual culture
and contemporary politics, and situates detailed close readings of
literary and cinematic texts in the context of a larger argument
about the legacies of an era not as distant as we might like to
think.
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