Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Histories and Hauntings

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Salley Vickers, Venice, and the Victorians

      • Francis O’Gorman

      Pages 3-22

   3. Spectrality, S(p)ecularity, and Textuality: Or, Some Reflections in the Glass

      • Mark Llewellyn

      Pages 23-42

3. Spectral Women

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43

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   2. Repetition and Eternity: The Spectral and Textual Continuity in Michèle Roberts’s In the Red Kitchen

      • Agnieszka Golda-Derejczyk

      Pages 45-57

   3. The Maid, the Master, her Ghost and his Monster: Alias Grace and Mary Reilly

      • Esther Saxey

      Pages 58-82

4. Sensing the Past

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Olfactory Ghosts: Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White

      • Silvana Colella

      Pages 85-110

   3. The Haunting of Henry James: Jealous Ghosts, Affinities, and The Others

      • Ann Heilmann

      Pages 111-130

5. Ghosts in the City

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Haunted Places, Haunted Spaces: The Spectral Return of Victorian London in Neo-Victorian Fiction

      • Rosario Arias

      Pages 133-156

   3. Mapping Histories: The Golem and the Serial Killer in White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings and Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem

      • Patricia Pulham

      Pages 157-179

6. Back Matter

   Pages 180-197

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Exploring the pervasive presence of the Victorian past in contemporary culture, these essays use the trope of haunting and spectrality as a critical tool with which to consider neo-Victorian works, as well as our ongoing fascination with the Victorians, combining original readings of well-known novels with engaging analyses of lesser-known works.

• culture
• fiction
• Henry James
• novel
• Victorian era
• British and Irish Literature

'...the editors ought to be congratulated on the high standard of the publication. It provides useful information on a wide-range of theories and neo-Victorian novels. Arias and Pulham have handsomely gathered eight essays which demonstrate the enormous critical potential of the tropes of haunting and spectrality in the field of Neo-Victorian Studies. Furthermore, the analysis of these tropes offered in the collection has proved to be a useful tool to expose and problematize both Victorian and contemporary gender, sexual, and social politics. It is for this reason that scholars engaged, not only with neo-Victorian fiction, but also with gender and trauma studies, should find this volume worth reading and inspiring.' - Miscelánea

• University of Malaga, Spain

  Rosario Arias

• University of Portsmouth, UK

  Patricia Pulham

SILVANA COLELLA Associate Professor of English, University of Macerata, Italy AGNIESZKA GOLDA-DEREJCZYK Lecturer in Contemporary British Literature, Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia, Poland ANN HEILMANN Professor of English, University of Hull, UK MARK LLEWELLYN Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool, UK FRANCIS O'GORMAN Professor of Victorian Literature, University of Leeds, UK ESTHER SAXEY Visiting Tutor, English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK