Neo-Victorian Fiction and Historical Narrative [electronic resource] : The Victorians and Us /
Hadley, L.author.
Placing the popular genre of neo-Victorian fiction within the context of the contemporary cultural fascination with the Victorians, this book argues that these novels are distinguished by a commitment to historical specificity and understands them within their contemporary context and the context of Victorian historical and literary narratives.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Writing the Victorians -- Narrating the Victorians -- Detecting the Victorians -- Resurrecting the Victorians -- Reading the Victorians -- Coda: Writing as the Victorians.
Placing the popular genre of neo-Victorian fiction within the context of the contemporary cultural fascination with the Victorians, this book argues that these novels are distinguished by a commitment to historical specificity and understands them within their contemporary context and the context of Victorian historical and literary narratives.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British literature.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Fiction.