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Fiction classified as 'neo-Victorian' has steadily emerged as a crucial mode of British cultural production. It is no coincidence that this most recent Victorian renaissance is taking shape in a climate of widespread empire nostalgia, with imperial-colonial legacies being relegated to a distant 'elsewhere.' In its critical re-visitations of the nineteenth century, neo-Victorianism has the potential to intervene in this often selective memory of Britain's imperial past. Nevertheless, systematic re-readings of empire have so far played a comparatively minor role in neo-Victorian scholarly debate.
This monograph addresses this lacuna by examining how neo-Victorianism negotiates constructions of empire in conjunction with the domestic. Drawing on a range of neo-Victorian novels as well as their Victorian intertexts and bringing these into dialogue with postcolonial theory, it asks how neo-Victorian fiction engages with, perpetuates, or subverts Victorian imaginaries of urban British 'centres' in opposition to remote imperial 'margins.' It examines why domesticity - broadly understood as ideologically charged concepts of family, home, and belonging based on formations of gender, sexuality, and class - can never be constituted independently of empire. In addition, the book raises questions regarding neo-Victorianism's larger potentiality of narrating empire, suggesting that it is precisely the disorienting moments that constitute a characteristically neo-Victorian mode of exploring the entanglements of empire and domesticity.
Contents
.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Domestic Plantations: Afterimages of Enslavement and the Politics of Ventriloquism.- Chapter 3. Unsettling Domesticity: Homemaking Practices and Empire Building.- Chapter 4. (Post)Colonial Justice: Legal Domestication and Anticolonial Resistance.- Chapter 5. Unhomely Homes: Famine, Sickness, and Medical Colonialism.- Chapter 6. Imperial Leather: Bookbinding, Pornography, and Domestic Consumption.- Chapter 7. Rewriting Domesticity: Imperial Regimes of the Normal and Queer Potentiality.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.
