Neo-Victorian Things

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<p><i>Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film</i> is the first volume to focus solely on the replication, reconstruction, and re-presentation of Victorian things. It investigates the role of materiality in contemporary returns to the past as a means of assessing the function of things in remembering, revisioning, and/or reimagining the nineteenth century. Examining iterations of material culture in literature, film and popular television series, this volume offers a reconsideration of nineteenth-century things and the neo-Victorian cultural forms that they have inspired, animated, and even haunted. By turning to new and relatively underexplored strands of neo-Victorian materialityincluding opium paraphernalia, slave ships, clothing, and biographical objectsand interrogating the critical role such objects play in reconstructing the past, this volume<i> </i>offers ways of thinking about how mis/apprehensions of material culture in the nineteenth century continue to shape our present understanding of things.<br></p><p></p>

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<p><b>Sarah E. Maier </b>and<b> Brenda Ayres </b>have<b> </b>coedited and contributed chapters to the following: <i>Neo-Disneyism: Inclusivity in the Twenty-First Century of Disney¿s Magic Kingdom </i>(Oxford, 2022), <i>The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture </i>(2022), <i>The Theological Dickens </i>(Routledge, 2022), <i>Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media</i>(Palgrave, 2020); <i>Neo-Gothic Narratives: Illusory Allusions from the Past </i>(Anthem, 2020);<i> Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture </i>(Routledge, 2019); and <i>Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-first Century </i>(Anthem 2019). The two cowrote <i>A Vindication of the Redhead: The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts</i> (Palgrave, 2021). </p><p><b>Danielle </b><b>Mariann </b><b>Dove</b> is a TeachingFellow in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Surrey. Her research and publications centre on Victorian and neo-Victorian literature, with a specific focus on dress and fashion history, material culture, and literary celebrity. Her monograph on dress in neo-Victorian fiction is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic.</p>

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