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标题：Horrible Histories: Review of Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben’s Neo-Victorian Gothic: Horror, Violence and Degeneration in the Re-Imagined Nineteenth Century
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作者：Catherine Spooner
期刊名称：Neo-Victorian Studies
电子版ISSN：1757-9481
出版年度：2013
卷号：6
期号：2
页码：181-190
出版社：Swansea University
摘要："[N]eo-Victorianism is by nature quintessentially Gothic" assert Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben in their introduction to the latest volume in Rodopi's Neo-Victorian Series (p. 4, original emphasis). This is a bold claim, but a convincing one. The neo-Victorian 'canon' has a decidedly Gothic flavour, from Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) to Sarah Waters's Fingersmith (2002). In recent years, a certain Gothicised aesthetic has become de rigeur for representing the Victorian period in film and television, from Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009) to BBC1's Ripper Street (2012-13). And a Gothicised version of Victorian dress crops up year after year in fashion magazines, both on the catwalk and as inspiration for fashion shoots (in Spring/Summer 2013, it was the turn of the Pre-Raphaelites). It is becoming hard to imagine the Victorian period as anything other than Gothic, it seems