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.
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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
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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 Senior 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.