Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire

Elizabeth Ho is Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College, USA. She is co-editor of the book Thatcher and After: Margaret Thatcher and Her Afterlife in Contemporary Culture (Palgrave, 2010).

‘By demonstrating that recovery from Victoria's empire is a global cultural enterprise and by insisting on neo-Victorianism's import in a postcolonial present - where empire is a thing to be dealt with and not just a thing to be missed - Elizabeth Ho's work refreshes our account of the field. Serious, engaged, and always smart, Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire identifies what's consequential in those of our contemporary pleasures that circulate around a particularized past.'

• Introduction: Neo-Victorianism and Improper Postcolonialisms; 1. Neo-Victorianism and "Ripperature:" Alan Moore's From Hell; 2. Neo-Victorianism Down Under: Peter Carey's Jack Maggs; 3. Neo-Victorianism South of Nowhere: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace; 4. "Far-flung" Neo-Victorianism: Hong Kong and Jackie Chan's Neo-Victorian Films; 5. Neo-Victorianism and Science Fiction: "Steampunk"; 6. Neo-Victorian-at-Sea: Towards a global "Victorian"; Bibliography; Index.