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1. Introduction: Stuff and Things: Introducing Neo-Victorian Materialities<div>2. Objects and Memorabilia in Deborah Lutz’s&nbsp;<i>The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects</i></div><div>3. “Around the Mizzenpole”: Charles Johnson’s&nbsp;<i>Middle Passage</i>&nbsp;and African Americanizing the Neo-Victorian-at-sea</div><div>4. Touching, Writing, Collecting: Opium Paraphernalia and Neo-Victorian Material Culture</div><div>5. An Instrumental Thing: Pianos Extending and Becoming Postcolonial Bodies in Jane Campion’s&nbsp;<i>The Piano</i>&nbsp;and Daniel Mason’s&nbsp;<i>The Piano Tuner</i></div><div>6. “Wilful Phantoms”: Haunted Dress, Memory, and Agentic Materiality in Colm Tóibín’s&nbsp;<i>The Master</i></div><div>7. The Thing About Haunted Houses: In&nbsp;<i>The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<i>The Haunting of Hill House</i></div><div>8. There’s Something in the Tea: Murder and Materiality in&nbsp;<i>Dark Angel</i></div><div>9. Criminal Things: Sherlock Holmes’ Details of Detection and Their Neo-Victorian Revisions</div><div>10. The Sleight of Hand: Appearance and Disappearance of Things in Neo-Victorian Magic<br></div>

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

<i>Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film</i>&nbsp;is the first volume to focus solely on the replication, reconstruction, and re-presentation of Victorian things. It investigates the role of materiality in contemporary returns to the past as a means of assessing the function of things in remembering, revisioning, and/or reimagining the nineteenth century. Examining iterations of material culture in literature, film and popular television series, this volume offers a reconsideration of nineteenth-century things and the neo-Victorian cultural forms that they have inspired, animated, and even haunted.&nbsp;By turning to new and relatively underexplored strands of neo-Victorian materiality—including opium paraphernalia, slave ships, clothing, and biographical objects—and interrogating the critical role such objects play in reconstructing the past, this volume<i>&nbsp;</i>offers ways of thinking about how mis/apprehensions of material culture in the nineteenth century continue to shape our present understanding of things.

<p>Covers a range of topics including fiction, life-writing, literary scholarship, film, and art</p><p>Explores the haptic turn in cultural and literary studies</p><p>Connects the study of materiality in Victorian and Neo-Victorian literature and culture</p>