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The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism
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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 narrativesâfrom early neo-Victorian texts such as A. S. Byatt's Possession (1963) and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) to recent steampunk, from musical theatre to slumming, and from The Alienist to queernessâin their investigation of how this fiction reconstructs the past, informed by and reinforming the present.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Hauntology/Narratology of the Neo-Victorian Ghost Story
- 3. Neo-Victorian Victoria(s) on Screen
- 4. Neo-Victorian Fiction on Screen
- 5. Gaslight: The Play, the Film, the Noun, the Verb
- 6. Postcolonial and Global Neo-Victorianisms
- 7. âToo frivolous, too middlebrow, too populist, and too commercialâ: Examining the Neo-Victorian Musical
- 8. Coming of Age: Neo-Victorian, Dickensian Children
- 9. Fred Saberhagenâs Dracula: The Vampire as Neo-Victorian Hero
- 10. Neo-Victorianism and the End(s) of Religion
- 11. Exotic Prehistory or Relevant Science? Post-human Subversion of Prehistoric Travel Narratives in Neo-Victorian Literature
- 12. Neo-Victorian Darwin
- 13. âThe Unclosed Coffinâ: The Neo-Victorian Afterlives of Elizabeth Siddal
- 14. Fits Like a Glove: Neo-Victorian Metonyms of Fingers, Hands, and Gloves
- 15. Neo-Victorian Poetry
- 16. Neo-Victorian Graphic Novels: Learning to Unmaster the Archive
- 17. Biofiction and the Neo-Victorian Crime Novel: The Case of the Brontës
- 18. Neo-Victorian Violence
- 19. The Limehouse Golem: Female Agency and Neo-Victorian Slumming
- 20. Dust and Sewers, Filth and Waste: âDisgustingâ Retro-Speculation in Neo-Victorian Narratives
- 21. âThis Much I Knowâ: The Ghosting of the Past in Crimson Peak
- 22. New Wine in Old Bottles: Angela Carterâs Nights at the Circus
- 23. Victorian Womenâs Hysteria and Neo-Victorian Womenâs Madness
- 24. âThe Testimony of Loveâ: The Lesbian Neo-Victorian Novel
- 25. Misfits and Queers: Alienism, Detective Agency, and Neo-Victorian Investigation in The Alienist(s)
- 26. Is Steampunk Neo-Victorian?
- 27. Epilogue
- Back Matter