Overview

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 narratives—from 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 queerness—in their investigation of how this fiction reconstructs the past, informed by and reinforming the present.  

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Author:   Brenda Ayres ,  Sarah E. Maier
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
Weight:   0.980kg
ISBN:  

9783031321597

ISBN 10:   3031321596
Pages:   527
Publication Date:   21 January 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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. Byatt’s 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 Women’s 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 O’Callaghan, 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 Khair’s 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 Carey’s 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 Brontë 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 Kneale’s 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, Queen’s 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, Queen’s University, Ontario Chapter 26: On Neo-Victorian Addiction, Alienism, Sex, and Insanity  - Sarah E. Maier Chapter 27: “Men in Women’s Clothes”: Re-Imagining Stella and Fanny in Neo-Victorian Celebrity Biofiction - Danielle Mariann Dove, University of Surrey and Daný 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 Ray’s Posthuman Subversion of Victorian Travel Literature - Sutirtho Roy, University of Calcutta Chapter 30: “I’m going to break you and remake you”: Reimagining David Lynch’s 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  

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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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