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Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material
Cultures in Literature and Film 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 materiality—including opium
paraphernalia, slave ships, clothing, and biographical
objects—and interrogating the critical role such objects play in
reconstructing the past, this volume offers ways of thinking
about how mis/apprehensions of material culture in the nineteenth
century continue to shape our present understanding of things.
Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material
Cultures in Literature and Film 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 materiality-including opium paraphernalia,
slave ships, clothing, and biographical objects-and interrogating
the critical role such objects play in reconstructing the past,
this volume offers ways of thinking about how mis/apprehensions of
material culture in the nineteenth century continue to shape our
present understanding of things.
Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction is the first
full-length study to investigate and attend to the deeply
suggestive and highly symbolic iterations of Victorian women’s
dress in the contemporary cultural imagination. Drawing upon a
range of popular and less well-studied neo-Victorian novels
published between 1990 and 2014, as well as their Victorian
counterparts, 19th-century illustrative material, and extant
Victorian garments, Danielle Dove explores the creative
possibilities afforded by dress and fashion as gendered sites of
agency and affect. Focusing on the relationship between texts and
textiles, she demonstrates how dress is central to the
narrativization, re-formulation, and re-fashioning of the material
past in the present. In its examination of the narrative
trajectories, lively vitalities, and material entanglements that
accrue to, and originate from, dress in the neo-Victorian novel,
this study brings a fresh approach to reading Victorian sartorial
culture. For researchers and students of Victorian and
neo-Victorian studies, dress history, material culture, and gender
studies, this volume offers a rich resource with which to
illuminate the power of fashion in fiction.
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