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Working Women on Screen Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism
Working Women on Screen: Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism critically examines screen media representations of women’s participation in the...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism
This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors’...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality
This handbook provides an extensive overview of traditional and emerging research areas within the field of intermediality studies, understood...
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Psychoanalysis and Film Methodical Approaches to Latent Meaning
This essential is dedicated to the connection between psychoanalysis and film. Psychoanalysis is suitable for a methodically guided film viewing. This...
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Anglo-American Stage and Screen Drama The Post-Democratic World Order
Anglo-American Stage and Screen Dramaanalyses and discusses the contemporary role of stage and screen drama as a critical forum for progressive...
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The Sociolinguistics of South African Television Language Ideologies in Selected Case Studies
This book explores the interwoven relationship between language, media, and society in post-Apartheid South Africa. The author examines selected case...
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Adapting Television and Literature
Adapting Television and Literature is an incisive collection of essays that explores the growing sub-category of television adaptations of literature...
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Gothic Nostalgia The Uses of Toxic Memory in 21st Century Popular Culture
This book is an original and innovative study of how Gothic nostalgia and toxic memory
are used to underpin and promote the ongoing culture wars and...
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The Mediaverse and Speculative Fiction Television Understanding Speculative TV Fandoms
Some (web) television texts achieve immense commercial success. Certain commercially successful texts boast dedicated, creative, and exponentially...
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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...