Neo-Victorianism features contemporary twentieth- and twenty-first-century depictions of nineteenth-century settings, events, and characters. Specifically, literary and visual works utilise this historical environment (and often, real historical events) to reflect and address contemporary issues. Mark Llewellyn notes how neo-Victorian works often represent “marginalised voices, new histories of sexuality … and other generally ‘different’ versions of the Victorian” (165).
View More Challenging Cis-Heteronormativity in The Night BrotherAuthor: Emma Catan
Emma Catan (she/they) is a third-year (part time) PhD candidate at Northumbria University; their thesis is titled ‘Cross-Dressing and ‘Transgression’ in the Neo-Victorian city’. Their research interests focus on gender and space; how city-spaces are constructed and policed, and how social codes can be transgressed through gender performance (specifically, cross-dressing). They also have interests in fantasy and science-fiction; early modern and nineteenth-century literature, and the works of Terry Pratchett.
Emma has guest edited for Alluvium during 2020-2022, and was elected in 2022 to the Executive Committee of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies for 2022-2024. They run the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies podcast, Victorian Legacies, and can be found on Twitter as @academicmeeple and @victorianlegac1