This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors life stories, graphic novels, and contemporary fiction set in the nineteenth century. Contextualized by Sarah E Maier and Brenda Ayres in a comprehensive introduction, the collection describes current trends in neo-Victorian scholarship of novels, film, theatre, crime, empire/postcolonialism, Gothic, materiality, religion and science, amongst others. A variety of scholars from around the world contribute to this volume by applying an assortment of theoretical approaches and interdisciplinary focus in their critique of a wide range of narrativesfrom early neo-Victorian texts such as A. S. Byatts Possession (1963) and Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) to recent steampunk, from musical theatre to slumming, and from The Alienist to queernessin their investigation of how this fiction reconstructs the past, informed by and reinforming the present.
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The introduction provides a distinctive history of the term neo-Victorian and explores the uses, app . The themes and texts explored are many and diverse. This is a substantial book . All of these and many more offer a great deal of thought-provoking explorations of how we rewrite the nineteenth century, but there are, of course, too many for me to explore them all in detail. (Serena Trowbridge, PRS, Pre-Raphaelite Society Review, 2024)
Introduction: Neo-Victorianism - Sarah E. Maier and Brenda
Ayres.- Section 1: Neo-Victorian Genesis.- Chapter 1: Reinventing the
Victorians by Jean Rhys and John Fowles - Catherine Layton.- Chapter 2:
Tradition and Innovation in A.S. Byatts Possession - Pritika Pradhan,
Rutgers University.- Chapter 3: Neo-Victorian Poetry - Jo Morton, University
of Greenwich.- Section 2: Neo-Victorian Performances.- Chapter 4: Adapting
Wilkie Collins Adapting Himself: Revisiting The Moonstone (1868, 1877, 2016)
- Robert Laurella, University of Oxford.- Chapter 5: Miss Potter and
Victorian Womens Artistic Aspirations - Maria Juko, University of
Hamburg.- Chapter 6: And thou art like the poisonous tree / That stole my
life away: The Afterlives of Pre-Raphaelite Women in Desperate Romantics -
Anne-Marie Beller and Claire OCallaghan, Loughborough University,
UK.- Chapter 7: Interpretations are Illimitable: Adapting George Eliot -
Saswati Halder, Jadavpur University.- Chapter 8: Neo-Victorian Musical
Theatre - Marija Reiff, American University of Sharjah.- Chapter 9: The
Tortured Genius of the Neo-Victorian West End - Louise Creechan, Durham
University.- Chapter 10: Music Hall and The Handprint of History on the
Present Moment - Catherine Quirk, Edge Hill University.- Section 3:
Neo-Victorian Crime, Empire, and Postcolonialism.- Chapter 11: The Thug in
the Margin and the Murderer in the Centre: Re-reading the Victorian Discourse
of Criminology in Tabish Khairs The Thing About Thugs - Sajalkumar
Bhattacharya, Kazi Nazrul University.- Chapter 12: Neo-Victorian Violence -
Sophie Franklin, University of Tübingen.
Chapter 13: Rewriting the Convict
Life in Australia: A Reading of Peter Careys Jack Maggs - Anjan Saikia,
Kamargaon College.- Chapter 14: Under Transimperial Eyes: Traversing Anarchy,
Crime, and Patriotism in Neo-Japanese- Victorian Anime, Moriarty, the Patriot
- Preeshita Biswas, Texas Christian University.- Chapter 15: The Brontė Myth,
Biofiction and Neo-Victorian Crime Novels - Barbara Braid, University of
Szczecin.- Chapter 16: The Sinister Community of Objects: An Archaeological
Reading of The Silent Companions - Arka Chakraborty, Jadavpur
University.- Section 4: Neo-Victorian Gothic and Materiality.- Chapter 17:
Temporality of the Neo-Victorian: Abjection in Matthew Kneales Sweet Thames
- Suvendu Ghatak, University of Florida.- Chapter 18: The Hauntology of the
Neo-Victorian Ghost Story - Brenda Ayres.- Chapter 19: Crimson Peak: The
Ghosting of the Past - Brenda Ayres.- Chapter 20: The Limehouse Golem: Female
Agency and Neo-Victorian Slumming - Brooke Cameron, Queens University,
Ontario.- Chapter 21: Dust and Sewers, Filth and Waste: Disgusting
Neo-Victorian Narratives - Eckart Voigts, TU Braunschweig.- Chapter 22:
Victorian Ghostwriters, House Whisperers, and the Haunted House in Home
Before Dark - Brenda Ayres.- Section 5: Neo-Victorian Other(s). -Chapter 23:
Cult of the Neo-Victorian Child - Patricia Pulham, University of
Surrey.- Chapter 24: Neo-Victorian Bodies of Inquiry: Narratives for Tweens
to Teens - Sarah E. Maier.- Chapter 25: Neo-Victorian Queerness: New
Directions - Rachel M. Friars, Queens University, Ontario.- Chapter 26: On
Neo-Victorian Addiction, Alienism, Sex, and Insanity - Sarah E.
Maier.- Chapter 27: Men in Womens Clothes: Re-Imagining Stella and Fanny
in Neo-Victorian Celebrity Biofiction - Danielle Mariann Dove, University of
Surrey and Danż van Dam, Leiden University.- Section 6: Neo-Victorian
Religion and Science.- Chapter 28: Dracula Never Dies: Spirituality and
Science in the Neo-Victorian Vampire - Carole Senf, Georgia Tech.- Chapter
29: Neo-Victorian Religion - Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, SUNY
Brockport.- Chapter 29: Exotic Prehistory or Relevant Science: Sukumar Rays
Posthuman Subversion of Victorian Travel Literature - Sutirtho Roy,
University of Calcutta.- Chapter 30: Im going to break you and remake you:
Reimagining David Lynchs The Elephant Man in Museum, Documentary, and Comedy
- Helen Davies, University of Wolverhampton and Louise Logan-Smith, Teesside
University.- Section 7: Neo-Victorian Outcomes.- Chapter 31: Neo-Victorian
Graphic Novel - Catherine Golden, Skidmore College.- Chapter 32: Gaslight:
The Play, the Film, the Verb - Benjamin Poore, University of York.- Chapter
33: Is Steampunk Neo-Victorian? - Martin Danahay, Brock University.- Chapter
34: Drag, Dreadfuls, and Draculas: (Neo-)Victorians for TV - Sarah E. Maier
Sarah E. Maier is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick Saint John, Canada.
Brenda Ayres teaches online courses for Liberty University and Southern New Hampshire University, USA.
Maier and Ayres have coedited several collections of essays. The most recent are Neo-Victorian Things (2022), Neo-Disneyism (2022), The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture (2022), The Theological Dickens (2022), A Vindication of the Redhead (2021), Neo-Victorian Madness (2020) Neo-Gothic Narratives: (2020), Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture (2019), and Reinventing Marie Corelli (2019).
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