Simonetta Falchi – Greta Perletti – Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz (eds.), Victorianomania. Reimagining, Refashioning and Rewriting Victorian Literature and Culture

Abstract

As Lotman stated, cultures do not live in complete isolation: the exchange between past and present, which overcomes even geographical barriers, is inevitable, and its outcomes unpredictable. Our contemporary culture makes no exception. We are drawn to the rediscovery of a past which does not want to be forgotten: Victorianomania. Reimagining, Refashioning and Rewriting Victorian Literature and Culture intends to prove it by examining the varied ramifications of Neo-Victorianism in literature and popular culture.