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 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.