A series of astute critical reflections on our enduring fascination with all things Victorian In this book Cora Kaplan looks at the politics of Victoriana from the 1970s to the present a politics that emerges from the alternation between nostalgia and critique in fiction film biography and literary studies She asks how Jane Eyre can still evoke tears and rage as well as inspiring imitation and high art and why Henry James has become fiction s favourite late Victorian character in the new millennium Victoriana the book argues has developed a modern history of its own in which we can trace the shifting social and cultural concerns of the last few decades Through the constant interrogation of history in such innovative works as John Fowles s The French Lieutenant s Woman A S Byatt s Possession David Lodge s Nice Work Peter Ackroyd s Dickens Jane Campion s The Piano Colm Toibin s The Master Sarah Waters s Fingersmith Alan Hollinghurst s The Line of Beauty and Julian Barnes s Arthur and George Victoriana maps out a very particular postmodern temporality Features Uses the Victorian as a touchstone for late 20th and early 21st century writers helping readers to understand the changing meaning of Victorian literature and culture across time Explores different genres of Victoriana showing the differences and convergences in the ways in which criticism biography fiction and film rewrite the Victorian Analyses the pleasures and politics of reading or viewing the recycling of the Victorian past highlighting the relationship between the act of reading and the social and political elements of the texts Focuses on work by well known writers critics filmmakers and artists such as A S Byatt David Lodge ColmToibin and Sarah Waters in relationship to nineteenth century authors such as Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth Gaskell Charles Dickens and

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