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Dust and Sewers, Filth and Waste: “Disgusting” Retro-Speculation in Neo-Victorian Narratives
This chapter investigates neo-Victorian material culture and more specifically the way in which neo-Victorian writing engages with Victorian...
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Neo-Victorian Victoria(s) on Screen
In this chapter, Friars and DeMerchant explore neo-Victorian representations of Queen Victoria on film from 1913–2019, with a focused analysis of two...
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Introduction
The introduction provides an overview of neo-Victorianism, giving a brief history; defining it as a term, genre, and discipline; and identifying its...
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Victorian Women’s Hysteria and Neo-Victorian Women’s Madness
From a modern perspective, most Victorians seemed to have been obsessed about controlling women, subjugating the animal within men, and adjudicating...
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Epilogue
Beginning with A. S. Byatt’s Possession of 1990, Ayres suggests that, despite the plethora of critical attention already paid to Byatt, there is more...
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Misfits and Queers: Alienism, Detective Agency, and Neo-Victorian Investigation in The Alienist(s)
One of the subgenres in neo-Victorian writing that has had a great deal of interest and success is a revisioning of the detective novel. These texts...
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Postcolonial and Global Neo-Victorianisms
The theoretical and practical twin interventions of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s “Three Women’s Texts and a...
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Neo-Victorian Violence
Although violence has been critically examined in relation to neo-Victorian subgenres—such as trauma, crime and Gothicism—the nature, form, and...
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Neo-Victorianism and the End(s) of Religion
Neo-Victorian fiction may be grounded in postmodernism, but its treatment of religion is rooted in modernism’s rejection of Victorian evangelical...
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“Too frivolous, too middlebrow, too populist, and too commercial”: Examining the Neo-Victorian Musical
Musical adaptations of Victorian and neo-Victorian texts have long been popular, with adaptations of already existing texts and Victorian-inspired...
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Introduction: Work it, Girl!
“Working it” is a phrase loaded with cultural connotations. From the Black, queer dancehalls of 1980s America, to the lyrics and titles of popular...
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Work It, Robot! Exploring Forced Choices of Femininity in I’m Your Man [Ich bin dein Mensch] (Maria Schrader, Germany, 2021)
This chapter explores German science fiction film I’m Your Man [Ich bin dein Mensch] (Maria, Schrader, Germany, 2021). The chapter scrutinises the...
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Selling Sunset… and My Postfeminist Sexual Capital: New Sexual Subjectivities in Reality TV
Selling Sunset is a Netflix-produced real estate drama that revolves around a high-end LA brokerage firm. The reality show offers a hyperfeminised...
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Introduction
This chapter will discuss the history of game show music and the current state of game show scholarship. Since such scholarship is nonexistent, the...
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Revival and Revisionism: 1986–2007. Part 1: Global Destruction and Domination
This chapter begins the exploration of the British sitcom spinoff film’s third mannerist/decadent phase, where it becomes more openly self-reflexive,...
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The ‘Golden Age’: 1969–1980. Part 1: Racists, Romans, and Randy Busmen
This chapter begins the exploration of the British sitcom spinoff film’s classic/mature stage, aka its ‘Golden Age’. It sketches in the economic...
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Genre Trouble: Netflix’s Lady Dynamite and Self-Help Television
The focus in this chapter is on Mitchell Hurwitz’s Netflix show, Lady Dynamite (2016–2017)—an audacious and challenging comedy, drawn from the real...
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Queering Emily Dickinson for the Millennial Age
Dickinson, the 2019 Apple TV+ series created by Alena Smith, is a very queer YA adaptation. As argued elsewhere, queer and adaptation are...
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Conclusion
This book was conceptualized to investigate the production and distribution of language ideologies in post-Apartheid South African television....
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Introduction
The South African television industry has undergone tremendous political, social, cultural, and technological changes since its inception in 1975....