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-fromearly neo-Victorian texts such as A. S. Byatt'sPossession(1963) and Jean Rhys'Wide Sargasso Sea(1966) to recent steampunk, from musical theatre to slumming,and fromThe Alienistto queerness-in their investigation of how this fiction reconstructs the past, informed by and reinforming the present.