The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031321596
• ISBN13: 9783031321597
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 527 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"