Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture

Taylor & Francis

Introduction: Fashioning the Neo-Victorian Nadine Boehm-Schnitker and Susanne Gruss Part I: Commodifying the Past: Canonization, Consumption, Pleasure 1. Mining the Neo-Victorian Vein: Prospecting for Gold, Buried Treasure, and Uncertain Metal Marie-Luise Kohlke 2. On Metalepsis, Immersion and Re-Plotting of the Victorians Rosa Karl 3. Material Culture and Nostalgia: Present-ing the Past in Cranford Anne Enderwitz and Doris Feldmann Part II: Resurrecting Cultural Icons: Spectral Returns and Revisitations 4. \u2018Eminent Victorians\u2019 and Neo-Victorian Fictional Biography Lena Steveker 5. The Firm of Charles and Charles: Authorship, Science and Neo-Victorian Masculinities Cora Kaplan 6. Bio-Fiction: Neo-Victorian Revisions of Genetics and Evolution \u2013 The Cases of Darwin and Mendel Eckart Voigts-Virchow 7. Neo-Victorian Gay Fictions: A Critique of Stereotyping and Self-Reflexivity Nadine Boehm-Schnitker Part III: Traces, Traumas and Retrospective Anxieties 8. Traces and Vestigh