Katherine Byrne is Lecturer in English at the University of Ulster, UK. She has published articles and book chapters on Victorian fiction and medicine, adaptation, and neo-Edwardian television. Her previous book, Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination, was published in 2011.

'This timely book contributes handsomely to debates about heritage television, commemoration cultures, and historical fiction more generally. It traces contemporary obsession with the Edwardians in judicious, thoughtful, and innovative ways.' - Jerome de Groot, University of Manchester, UK

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Neo-Edwardian Television, and 'Heritage' Today 1. The Edwardians in Popular Memory. 2. An Adaptation of an Adaptation: The Forsyte Saga 3. Class and conservatism in Downton Abbey 4. From Downton to the Department Store: Sex, Shopping and Heritage in Mr Selfridge 5. A Return to 'Quality': Parade's End 6. 'An Ordinary Epic': The Village Conclusion