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Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film 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. 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 offers ways of thinking about how mis/apprehensions of material culture in the nineteenth century continue to shape our present understanding of things.

Steampunk culture. --- Steampunk fiction --- Steampunk films. --- History and criticism. --- Motion pictures --- Steam punk fiction --- Fiction --- Neo-Victorian culture --- Neo-Victorianism (Subculture) --- Steampunk subculture --- Subculture --- Literature, Modern --- Motion pictures. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Audio-Visual Culture. --- 19th century. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Literature --- History and criticism