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The introduction provides an overview of neo-Victorianism, giving a brief history; defining it as a term, genre, and discipline; and identifying its key scholarship. Following this are synopses of the chapters of this handbook.
The production of neo-Victorian artefacts, fictions, and fantasies has become too prolific to be contained as a ghost in the corner of the Victorian studies parlour…
—Marie-Luise Kohlke (“Introduction: Speculations In and On the Neo-Victorian Encounter.” Neo-Victorian Studies 1, no. 1, 2008, 1)
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Maier, S.E., Ayres, B. (2024). Introduction. In: Ayres, B., Maier, S.E. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32160-3_1
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