Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns

"An exceptionally distinguished and innovative collection of essays, Victorian Turns, Neo-Victorian Returns explores some of the many ways in which the Victorians turned their world in new directions, creating imaginative patterns that continue to intrigue and inspire. The particular strength of the volume lies in its double perspective, as it brings fresh critical insight to a wide range of Victorian texts and authors, and demonstrates the multiplicity of their cultural reach, while...
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"An exceptionally distinguished and innovative collection of essays, Victorian Turns, Neo-Victorian Returns explores some of the many ways in which the Victorians turned their world in new directions, creating imaginative patterns that continue to intrigue and inspire. The particular strength of the volume lies in its double perspective, as it brings fresh critical insight to a wide range of Victorian texts and authors, and demonstrates the multiplicity of their cultural reach, while pointing to the continuing vitality of the period as a source of imaginative energy for contemporary readers. 'Neo-Victorianism' is now generating much critical interest, and these essays amount to a significant contribution to this expanding field. It is a powerful reminder of why it is still worth returning to the legacies of Victorian literary thought." Professor Dinah Birch, School of English, University of Liverpool "A rich and varied collection which offers multiple perspectives on the ways in which nineteenth-century British novelists responded to and shaped a relatively new literary form and their world, and on the returns and reshaping of their fictions in the cultural forms in the twentieth and twenty first centuries." Professor Lyn Pykett, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Aberystwyth University "Bringing together some of the best contemporary American, Australasian and British scholars, this volume presents a view of nineteenth-century literature as ever in dialogue - with its own cultural milieu, and its own cultural heritage, but also with the future, in its own turn. As such it constitutes an apt return to Professor Margaret Harris for her tireless promotion, over many years, of critical dialogue about the Victorians and their afterlives." Professor Hilary Fraser, Geoffrey Tillotson Chair in Nineteenth-Century Studies, Birkbeck University of London.