Román Severní vody Iana McGuirea v kontextu neoviktoriánské prózy

• Authors: Chalupský Petr

Title variants

EN

IAN MCGUIRE’S THE NORTH WATER IN THE CONTEXT OF NEO-VICTORIAN FICTION

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Over more than fifty years of its existence, and particularly since the 1990s, the genre of Neo-Victorian fiction has gained in popularity, readership, status and prestige not only in Britain but worldwide. Its definition and delineation, however, have undergone certain evolution over the past three decades which, understandably, has included a number of substantial metamorphoses. Ian McGuire’s novel, The North Water (2016), is set in Victorian England and tells a story of a fraudulent whaling expedition to the Arctic Circle. Although in its portrayal of a moral conflict between good and evil, or more precisely, between fallible responsibility and ultimate selfishness, The North Water follows the Conradian tradition rather than that of a conventional mainstream Victorian narrative, this article argues that the novel in fact represents a distinct example of Neo-Victorian fiction which complies with the more recent development of this genre.

Keywords

CS

Ian McGuire; Severní vody; neoviktoriánská próza; etika; alternativní viktoriánství

EN

Ian McGuire; The North Water; Neo-Victorian Fiction; Ethics; alternative Victorianism

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 2

Contributors

author

Chalupský Petr

• Univerzita Karlova

Identifiers

DOI

10.14712/23366729.2021.2.3