| Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory etc; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria 1837–; Major critical thinkers have found in the nineteenth century the origins of contemporary consumerism, sexual science, gay culture, and feminism. And postmodern theory, which once drove a wedge between contemporary interpretation and its historical objects |