"This volume provides highly relevant information about a wide range of theories and Neo-Victorian literary and visual texts. The essays have a critical potential in their approach to gender, sexual and social politics and tropes of trauma both in Victorian and contemporary representations, which make the volume fascinating and worth reading." – Maria Isable Romero Ruiz, University of Malaga, in: Miscelánea: a Journal of English and American Studies 46 (2012), pp.145-149"The essays in Neo-Victorian Families: Gender, Sexual and Cultural Politics provide a wide-ranging account of the centrality of discourses of the familial to neo-Victorianism in a variety of genres and forms. From the re-presentation of narratives of slum communities and childhoods in popular contemporary US drama like The Wire through to reconstructions of national identity as a kinship beyond geographical and historical constraints, individual chapters set attentiveness to analytical detail alongside conceptual frameworks that illuminate new aspects of the genre and its poetics. As the editors make clear in their theoretically informed and textually astute introduction, neo-Victorianism increasingly offers ways of recasting the political, philosophical and epistemological concerns of the present via an intellectually challenging engagement with the contentious histories, lived and imagined, of the nineteenth century." – Mark Llewellyn, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK

• Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben: Introducing Neo-Victorian Family Matters: Cultural Capital and ReproductionEndangered Childhoods and Lost Futures: Filthiness and PhilanthropyMatthew Kaiser: From London’s East End to West Baltimore: How the Victorian Slum Narrative Shapes The WireShurlee Swain: Failing Families: Echoes of Nineteenth-Century Child Rescue Discourse in Contemporary Debates around Child ProtectionLouisa Yates: The Figure of the Child in Neo-Victorian Queer FamiliesMarie-Luise Kohlke: Neo-Victorian Childhoods: Re-Imagining the Worst of TimesPerforming (Im)Possible Happy Families: Deconstruction and ReconstructionMaría Isabel Seguro: Deconstructing the Victorian Family? Trying to Reach Cloud NineRegina Hansen: The Cratchits on Film: Neo-Victorian Visions of DomesticitySarah Edwards: The Rise and Fall of the Forsytes: From Neo-Victorian to Neo-Edwardian MarriageHila Shachar: The Lost Mother and the Enclosed Lady: Gender and Domesticity in MTV’s Adaptation of Wuthering HeightsSarah Gamble: Monarchs and Patriarchs: Angela Carter’s Recreation of the Victorian Family in The Magic ToyshopThe Mirror of Society: Familial Trauma, Dissolution and TransformationSusana Onega: Family Traumas and Serial Killing in Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse GolemAnca Vlasopolos: Family Trauma and Reconfigured Families: Philip Pullman’s Neo-Victorian Detective SeriesMelissa Fegan: “That heartbroken island of incestuous hatreds”: Famine and Family in Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the SeaRosario Arias: (In)Visible Disability in Neo-Victorian FamiliesGeorges Letissier: More Than Kith and Less Than Kin: Queering the Family in Sarah Waters’s Neo-Victorian FictionsContributorsIndex

"This volume provides highly relevant information about a wide range of theories and Neo-Victorian literary and visual texts. The essays have a critical potential in their approach to gender, sexual and social politics and tropes of trauma both in Victorian and contemporary representations, which make the volume fascinating and worth reading." – Maria Isable Romero Ruiz, University of Malaga, in: Miscelánea: a Journal of English and American Studies 46 (2012), pp.145-149"The essays in Neo-Victorian Families: Gender, Sexual and Cultural Politics provide a wide-ranging account of the centrality of discourses of the familial to neo-Victorianism in a variety of genres and forms. From the re-presentation of narratives of slum communities and childhoods in popular contemporary US drama like The Wire through to reconstructions of national identity as a kinship beyond geographical and historical constraints, individual chapters set attentiveness to analytical detail alongside conceptual frameworks that illuminate new aspects of the genre and its poetics. As the editors make clear in their theoretically informed and textually astute introduction, neo-Victorianism increasingly offers ways of recasting the political, philosophical and epistemological concerns of the present via an intellectually challenging engagement with the contentious histories, lived and imagined, of the nineteenth century." – Mark Llewellyn, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK

• Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben: Introducing Neo-Victorian Family Matters: Cultural Capital and ReproductionEndangered Childhoods and Lost Futures: Filthiness and PhilanthropyMatthew Kaiser: From London’s East End to West Baltimore: How the Victorian Slum Narrative Shapes The WireShurlee Swain: Failing Families: Echoes of Nineteenth-Century Child Rescue Discourse in Contemporary Debates around Child ProtectionLouisa Yates: The Figure of the Child in Neo-Victorian Queer FamiliesMarie-Luise Kohlke: Neo-Victorian Childhoods: Re-Imagining the Worst of TimesPerforming (Im)Possible Happy Families: Deconstruction and ReconstructionMaría Isabel Seguro: Deconstructing the Victorian Family? Trying to Reach Cloud NineRegina Hansen: The Cratchits on Film: Neo-Victorian Visions of DomesticitySarah Edwards: The Rise and Fall of the Forsytes: From Neo-Victorian to Neo-Edwardian MarriageHila Shachar: The Lost Mother and the Enclosed Lady: Gender and Domesticity in MTV’s Adaptation of Wuthering HeightsSarah Gamble: Monarchs and Patriarchs: Angela Carter’s Recreation of the Victorian Family in The Magic ToyshopThe Mirror of Society: Familial Trauma, Dissolution and TransformationSusana Onega: Family Traumas and Serial Killing in Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse GolemAnca Vlasopolos: Family Trauma and Reconfigured Families: Philip Pullman’s Neo-Victorian Detective SeriesMelissa Fegan: “That heartbroken island of incestuous hatreds”: Famine and Family in Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the SeaRosario Arias: (In)Visible Disability in Neo-Victorian FamiliesGeorges Letissier: More Than Kith and Less Than Kin: Queering the Family in Sarah Waters’s Neo-Victorian FictionsContributorsIndex

"This volume provides highly relevant information about a wide range of theories and Neo-Victorian literary and visual texts. The essays have a critical potential in their approach to gender, sexual and social politics and tropes of trauma both in Victorian and contemporary representations, which make the volume fascinating and worth reading." – Maria Isable Romero Ruiz, University of Malaga, in: Miscelánea: a Journal of English and American Studies 46 (2012), pp.145-149"The essays in Neo-Victorian Families: Gender, Sexual and Cultural Politics provide a wide-ranging account of the centrality of discourses of the familial to neo-Victorianism in a variety of genres and forms. From the re-presentation of narratives of slum communities and childhoods in popular contemporary US drama like The Wire through to reconstructions of national identity as a kinship beyond geographical and historical constraints, individual chapters set attentiveness to analytical detail alongside conceptual frameworks that illuminate new aspects of the genre and its poetics. As the editors make clear in their theoretically informed and textually astute introduction, neo-Victorianism increasingly offers ways of recasting the political, philosophical and epistemological concerns of the present via an intellectually challenging engagement with the contentious histories, lived and imagined, of the nineteenth century." – Mark Llewellyn, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK

• Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben: Introducing Neo-Victorian Family Matters: Cultural Capital and ReproductionEndangered Childhoods and Lost Futures: Filthiness and PhilanthropyMatthew Kaiser: From London’s East End to West Baltimore: How the Victorian Slum Narrative Shapes The WireShurlee Swain: Failing Families: Echoes of Nineteenth-Century Child Rescue Discourse in Contemporary Debates around Child ProtectionLouisa Yates: The Figure of the Child in Neo-Victorian Queer FamiliesMarie-Luise Kohlke: Neo-Victorian Childhoods: Re-Imagining the Worst of TimesPerforming (Im)Possible Happy Families: Deconstruction and ReconstructionMaría Isabel Seguro: Deconstructing the Victorian Family? Trying to Reach Cloud NineRegina Hansen: The Cratchits on Film: Neo-Victorian Visions of DomesticitySarah Edwards: The Rise and Fall of the Forsytes: From Neo-Victorian to Neo-Edwardian MarriageHila Shachar: The Lost Mother and the Enclosed Lady: Gender and Domesticity in MTV’s Adaptation of Wuthering HeightsSarah Gamble: Monarchs and Patriarchs: Angela Carter’s Recreation of the Victorian Family in The Magic ToyshopThe Mirror of Society: Familial Trauma, Dissolution and TransformationSusana Onega: Family Traumas and Serial Killing in Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse GolemAnca Vlasopolos: Family Trauma and Reconfigured Families: Philip Pullman’s Neo-Victorian Detective SeriesMelissa Fegan: “That heartbroken island of incestuous hatreds”: Famine and Family in Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the SeaRosario Arias: (In)Visible Disability in Neo-Victorian FamiliesGeorges Letissier: More Than Kith and Less Than Kin: Queering the Family in Sarah Waters’s Neo-Victorian FictionsContributorsIndex