Neo-Victorianism The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999-2009

by Heilmann, Ann; Llewellyn, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780230241138
• ISBN10: 0230241131
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This field-defining book offers an interpretation of the recent figurations of neo-Victorianism published over the last ten years. Using a range of critical and cultural viewpoints, it highlights the problematic nature of this 'new' genre and its relationship to re-interpretative critical perspectives on the nineteenth century.

Author Biography

ANN HEILMANN is Professor of English at the University of Hull, UK, where she directs the Centre for Victorian Studies. The author of New Woman Fiction (2000) and New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird (2004), she has edited three essay collections, including Feminist Forerunners (2003), and is the co-editor of The Collected Short Stories of George Moore (with Mark Llewellyn, 2007) and of four anthologies, most recently Anti-Feminism in Edwardian Literature (with Lucy Delap, 2006). She acts as the general editor of Routledge's Major Works History of Feminism and Pickering and Chatto's Gender and Genre series. 

MARK LLEWELLYN is Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, UK, Secretary to the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS), Editor of the Journal of Gender Studies (Routledge/Taylor and Francis), and Consultant Editor to Neo-Victorian Studies. He has published widely on late-Victorian literature, particularly the work of George Moore; contemporary women's writing; and theorizations of the neo-Victorian: his most recent publications include the edited collections Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing (with Ann Heilmann, 2007) and Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature (with Dinah Birch, 2010). Mark is currently working on a book entitled Incest in English Culture, 1835-1908.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Memory, Mourning, Misfortune: Ancestral Houses and (Literary) Inheritences
Race and Empire: Postcolonial Neo-Victorians
Sex and Science: Bodily and Textual (Re) Inscriptions 
Spectrality and S(p)ecularity: Some Reflections in the Glass
Doing it With Mirrors, or Tricks of the Trade: Neo-Victorian Metatextual Magic
The Way we Adapt Now: or, The Neo-Victorian Theme Park
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index