Sarah E. Maier PhD, is Professor of English & Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.Rachel M. Friars, PhD is an independent scholar in Canada.

“Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen explores lesbian representation in nineteenth-century-set films and series, including Tipping the Velvet, Gentleman Jack, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Maier and Friars examine how these portrayals challenge historical silences, interrogate the viewer’s gaze, and reimagine the visibility of Victorian lesbian identities onscreen.” —Brenda Ayres, Liberty University, VA, USA.

• Acknowledgements; Chapter One-Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen; Chapter Two-“Damn you for staring at me!”: Spectacle and Spectatorship; Chapter Three-Illusions of Control: Pornographic Excess and Lesbian Eroticism in Fingersmith (2005); Chapter Four-Stoically Sapphic: Gentlemanly Encryption and Disruptive; One; Chapter Six-“Fucking Bitches”: The Biofictional Recreation; Chapter Seven-Quaint Collaborators: Women in Love or, Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019); Chapter Eight-Of Masculine Mind and Lesbian Body: Mary Anning in Ammonite (2020); Chapter Nine-“I stand before my duties weeping”: Queer Failure in The World to Come (2020); Chapter Ten-Killing Mr. Rochester: Lesbian Desire and Post-Heritage Violence in; Killing Mr. Rochester: Lesbian Desire and Post-Heritage Violence in; The Confessions of Frannie Langton (2022); Epilogue: The Future of Lesbians on Screen; Index

Sarah E. Maier PhD, is Professor of English & Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.Rachel M. Friars, PhD is an independent scholar in Canada.

“Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen explores lesbian representation in nineteenth-century-set films and series, including Tipping the Velvet, Gentleman Jack, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Maier and Friars examine how these portrayals challenge historical silences, interrogate the viewer’s gaze, and reimagine the visibility of Victorian lesbian identities onscreen.” —Brenda Ayres, Liberty University, VA, USA.

• Acknowledgements; Chapter One-Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen; Chapter Two-“Damn you for staring at me!”: Spectacle and Spectatorship; Chapter Three-Illusions of Control: Pornographic Excess and Lesbian Eroticism in Fingersmith (2005); Chapter Four-Stoically Sapphic: Gentlemanly Encryption and Disruptive; One; Chapter Six-“Fucking Bitches”: The Biofictional Recreation; Chapter Seven-Quaint Collaborators: Women in Love or, Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019); Chapter Eight-Of Masculine Mind and Lesbian Body: Mary Anning in Ammonite (2020); Chapter Nine-“I stand before my duties weeping”: Queer Failure in The World to Come (2020); Chapter Ten-Killing Mr. Rochester: Lesbian Desire and Post-Heritage Violence in; Killing Mr. Rochester: Lesbian Desire and Post-Heritage Violence in; The Confessions of Frannie Langton (2022); Epilogue: The Future of Lesbians on Screen; Index

Sarah E. Maier PhD, is Professor of English & Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.Rachel M. Friars, PhD is an independent scholar in Canada.

“Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen explores lesbian representation in nineteenth-century-set films and series, including Tipping the Velvet, Gentleman Jack, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Maier and Friars examine how these portrayals challenge historical silences, interrogate the viewer’s gaze, and reimagine the visibility of Victorian lesbian identities onscreen.” —Brenda Ayres, Liberty University, VA, USA.

• Acknowledgements; Chapter One-Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen; Chapter Two-“Damn you for staring at me!”: Spectacle and Spectatorship; Chapter Three-Illusions of Control: Pornographic Excess and Lesbian Eroticism in Fingersmith (2005); Chapter Four-Stoically Sapphic: Gentlemanly Encryption and Disruptive; One; Chapter Six-“Fucking Bitches”: The Biofictional Recreation; Chapter Seven-Quaint Collaborators: Women in Love or, Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019); Chapter Eight-Of Masculine Mind and Lesbian Body: Mary Anning in Ammonite (2020); Chapter Nine-“I stand before my duties weeping”: Queer Failure in The World to Come (2020); Chapter Ten-Killing Mr. Rochester: Lesbian Desire and Post-Heritage Violence in; Killing Mr. Rochester: Lesbian Desire and Post-Heritage Violence in; The Confessions of Frannie Langton (2022); Epilogue: The Future of Lesbians on Screen; Index