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Contemporary Women's Writing Advance Access originally published online on February 26, 2009
Contemporary Women's Writing 2009 3(1):103-111; doi:10.1093/cww/vpn018
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Elective (Historical) Affinities: Contemporary Women Writing the Victorian

Ann Heilmann

University of Hull, UK A.Heilmann@hull.ac.uk

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The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction. Jeannette King. 2005. Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 210. £69.95, $79.95 hardback.

The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900–2000. Diana Wallace. 2005. Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 269. £53, $89.95 hardback, £18.99, $32.95 paperback.

Why does Victoria still reign in our imaginations? The last two decades have seen a proliferation of novels set in the Victorian period which revisit the plots and parody the style of prominent Victorian texts, reinvent and fictionalize real-life Victorian figures, and project a twenty-first century imagination into nineteenth-century characters, their anxieties and desires. Whether on television (where Victorian period and docu-drama, reality shows, and adaptations of Victorian classics are premium), on the cinematic screen (The Piano, The Village, The Prestige), even in political . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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