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This handbook demonstrates that spreading scandals seemed to have
been one of the most entertaining source of activities but also and
normative efforts made by the Victorians to ensure conformity of
decorum. Whether to initiate female nurses into what had been
male-dominated professions in medicine and military or for women to
assert authority under the guise of spiritual dispensation or for
women to murder their husbands and wives or for men to desire men
and women to desire women, this handbook of Victorian scandals
covers a gamut of moral infractions and transgressions either
practiced, rumored, or fantasized in art forms. Although there have
been others who have written on Victorian scandals, this handbook
provides a broad spectrum of infractions that were considered
scandalous to the Victorians and has been written by scholars in
diverse disciplines. This handbook identifies Victorian
transgressions that made the news and that may still shock modern
readers. Evoking both moral outrage and popular entertainment,
Victorian scandals, as analyzed in this handbook, will give readers
a telescopic view of the lives and attitudes that the Victorians
effected to govern themselves and each other.
This is the first collection to investigate Charles Dickens on his
vast and various opinions about the uses and abuses of the tenets
of Christian faith that imbue English Victorian culture. Although
previous studies have looked at his well-known antipathies toward
Dissenters, Evangelicals, Catholics, and Jews, they have also
disagreed about Dickens' thoughts on Unitarianism and speculated on
doctrines of Protestantism that he endorsed or rejected. Besides
addressing his depiction of these religious groups, the volume's
contributors locate gaps in scholarship and unresolved illations
about poverty and charity, representations of children, graveyards,
labor, scientific controversy, and other social issues through an
investigation of Dickens' theological concerns. In addition, given
that Dickens' texts continue to influence every generation around
the globe, a timely inclusion in the collection is a consideration
of the neo-Victorian multi-media representations of Dickens' work
and his ideas on theological questions pitched to a postmodern
society.
A Vindication of the Redhead investigates red hair in literature,
art, television, and film throughout Eastern and Western cultures.
This study examines red hair as a signifier, perpetuated through
stereotypes, myths, legends, and literary and visual
representations. Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier provide a history
of attitudes held by hegemonic populations toward red-haired
individuals, groups, and genders from antiquity to the present.
Ayres and Maier explore such diverse topics as Judeo-Christian
narratives of red hair, redheads in Pre-Raphaelite paintings, red
hair and gender identity, famous literary redheads such as Anne of
Green Gables and Pippi Longstocking, contemporary and Neo-Victorian
representations of redheads from the Black Widow to The Girl with
the Dragon Tattoo, and more. This book illuminates the symbolic
significance and related ideologies of red hair constructed in
mythic, religious, literary, and visual cultural discourse.
Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental
Illness in Literature and Other Media investigates contemporary
fiction, cinema and television shows set in the Victorian period
that depict mad murderers, lunatic doctors, social dis/ease and
madhouses as if many Victorians were "mad." Such portraits demand a
"rediagnosing" of mental illness that was often reduced to only
female hysteria or a general malaise in nineteenth-century
renditions. This collection of essays explores questions of
neo-Victorian representations of moral insanity, mental illness,
disturbed psyches or non-normative imaginings as well as considers
the important issues of legal righteousness, social responsibility
or methods of restraint and corrupt incarcerations. The chapters
investigate the self-conscious re-visions, legacies and lessons of
nineteenth-century discourses of madness and/or those persons
presumed mad rediagnosed by present-day (neo-Victorian)
representations informed by post-nineteenth-century psychological
insights.
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 narratives—from early neo-Victorian texts such as
A. S. Byatt’s Possession (1963) and Jean
Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) to recent steampunk,
from musical theatre to slumming, and from The
Alienist to queerness—in their investigation of how this
fiction reconstructs the past, informed by and reinforming the
present. Â
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.
A Vindication of the Redhead investigates red hair in literature,
art, television, and film throughout Eastern and Western cultures.
This study examines red hair as a signifier, perpetuated through
stereotypes, myths, legends, and literary and visual
representations. Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier provide a history
of attitudes held by hegemonic populations toward red-haired
individuals, groups, and genders from antiquity to the present.
Ayres and Maier explore such diverse topics as Judeo-Christian
narratives of red hair, redheads in Pre-Raphaelite paintings, red
hair and gender identity, famous literary redheads such as Anne of
Green Gables and Pippi Longstocking, contemporary and Neo-Victorian
representations of redheads from the Black Widow to The Girl with
the Dragon Tattoo, and more. This book illuminates the symbolic
significance and related ideologies of red hair constructed in
mythic, religious, literary, and visual cultural discourse.
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 Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental
Illness in Literature and Other Media investigates contemporary
fiction, cinema and television shows set in the Victorian period
that depict mad murderers, lunatic doctors, social dis/ease and
madhouses as if many Victorians were "mad." Such portraits demand a
"rediagnosing" of mental illness that was often reduced to only
female hysteria or a general malaise in nineteenth-century
renditions. This collection of essays explores questions of
neo-Victorian representations of moral insanity, mental illness,
disturbed psyches or non-normative imaginings as well as considers
the important issues of legal righteousness, social responsibility
or methods of restraint and corrupt incarcerations. The chapters
investigate the self-conscious re-visions, legacies and lessons of
nineteenth-century discourses of madness and/or those persons
presumed mad rediagnosed by present-day (neo-Victorian)
representations informed by post-nineteenth-century psychological
insights.
Old Roger Melton has died, leaving behind one of the greatest
fortunes in Europe. His arrogant relative Ernest Melton expects to
be the heir, but much to the family's surprise Roger leaves his
vast estate to his obscure young nephew, Rupert Sent Leger. But
Rupert's newfound wealth comes with strange conditions attached,
one of which is that he must inhabit the old castle of Vissarion in
the remote Balkan nation known as the Land of the Blue Mountains.
Rupert, an intrepid adventurer, agrees and travels to Vissarion
with his Aunt Janet, who possesses the occult power of Second
Sight. But all is not as it seems at Vissarion. Rupert finds
himself visited by a ghostly woman clothed in a burial shroud who
sleeps in a tomb. Haunted by her strange beauty, Rupert wonders
whether she is a phantom, a vampire, or something else entirely. He
is determined to solve this mystery, but the solution is even more
dangerous than he could possibly imagine First published in a now
scarce edition in 1909, "The Lady of the Shroud" is one of Stoker's
most popular supernatural novels and a worthy successor to
"Dracula" (1897). Often reprinted in severely abridged editions,
"The Lady of the Shroud" returns to print in this new edition,
containing the original unabridged text, together with a new
introduction by Sarah E. Maier, annotations, the text of
contemporary reviews, a chronology of Bram Stoker's life and works,
a bibliography, and Stoker's important 1908 article "The Censorship
of Fiction."
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