Neo-Victorian Things Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film

“Neo-Victorian Things successfully situates itself at the intersection of neo-Victorian studies and material culture studies, meticulously examining previously unexplored or overlooked objects. … Each chapter revolves around aclearly identified focus … . It is highly recommended for scholars in the field, or anyone simply with an interest in the Victorian past and its relevance today.” (Hatunnur Ciftci, KULT_online - Review Journal for the Study of Culture, Issue 69, May, 2024)

Sarah E. Maier  and Brenda Ayres have coedited and contributed chapters to the following: Neo-Disneyism: Inclusivity in the Twenty-First Century of Disney’s Magic Kingdom  (Oxford, 2022),  The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture  (2022),  The Theological Dickens  (Routledge, 2022),  Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media (Palgrave, 2020);  Neo-Gothic Narratives: Illusory Allusions from the Past  (Anthem, 2020);  Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture  (Routledge, 2019); and  Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-first Century  (Anthem 2019). The two cowrote  A Vindication of the Redhead: The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts  (Palgrave, 2021).

Danielle  Mariann  Dove is a TeachingFellow in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Surrey. Her research and publications centre on Victorian and neo-Victorian literature, with a specific focus on dress and fashion history, material culture, and literary celebrity. Her monograph on dress in neo-Victorian fiction is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic.