“This place has more stairs than the Museum of Natural Philosophy” – the Imaginary World of Stephen Hunt’s The Court of the Air
“This place has more stairs than the Museum of Natural Philosophy” – the Imaginary World of Stephen Hunt’s The Court of the Air

Author(s): Katarzyna Kozak
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: neo-Victorian; Stephen Hunt; secondary worlds; mythology; supernatural
Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the fictional secondary world portrayed in Stephen Hunt’s 21st-century, neo-Victorian novel, The Court of the Air. Although technologically advanced, this is reminiscent of the Victorian period, and the author discusses the connection created between nature and historical developments, as well as the use of mythology and the supernatural, which are related to Victorian interest in the paranormal.

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