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Adaptation and Illustration New Cartographies
This collection examines the relationship between illustration and adaptation from an intermedial and transcultural perspective. It aims to foster a...
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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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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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Illustration and Adaptation in the Balbussos’ Pride and Prejudice (2013) and The Handmaid’s Tale (2012)
Illustration has a varied life as a mode of adaptation. From frontispieces that concentrate an entire work into a single visual to magazines and...
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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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Ad-app-tive Illustration: Or, the Uses of Illustration
This chapter discusses how the interactive illustrations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland made possible by mobile software application...
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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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Ekphrasis, Illustration, and Adaptation: Annie Ernaux’s Intermedial Autobiographic and Photographic Production
As a genetic critic interested in word and image relationships in the illustrated manuscripts of various writers and artists, I find myself...
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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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Adapting Novel Illustrations for the Almanac: Text/Image Relations in Chodowiecki’s Illustrations for Rousseau’s Julie
This chapter focuses on Chodowiecki’s illustrations for Rousseau’s bestselling novel Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse (1761), which appeared in the...
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“Alternative Dickens”: The Graphic Adaptation of the Inimitable in The New Yorker
The original illustrations to Dickens’s serial fiction are well-known to scholars and general readers, but there has been little sustained discussion...
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Introduction: The Circulation of Images—Illustration, Adaptation and the Global Turn
The introduction maps out the theoretical advances in and crossovers between adaptation studies, illustrations studies and intermediality in order to...
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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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Copyright Law, Authorial Ownership, and Adaptation Between Novels and Plays in Nineteenth-Century Britain
This chapter traces continuities and changes in the laws governing authorship and ownership in adaptation. Writers had no legal or economic rights...