Neo-Victorian Madness Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness
Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media investigates contemporary fiction, cinema and television shows set in the Victorian period that depict mad murderers, lunatic doctors, social dis/ease and
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Neo-Victorian Madness
Sarah E. Maier · Brenda Ayres Editors
Neo-Victorian Madness Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media
Editors Sarah E. Maier University of New Brunswick Saint John, NB, Canada
Brenda Ayres Liberty University Lynchburg, VA, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-46581-0 ISBN 978-3-030-46582-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46582-7 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: “Ophelia Surfacing” copyright Robert J. Moore This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Robert J. Moore who granted us permission to use his painting Ophelia Surfacing on our cover. We are so grateful for the pioneering work in neo-Victorianism, starting with David Kucich and Dianne F. Sadoff in 2000 who published a collection of essays, Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century. Peter Widdowson in 2006 called it “re-visionary fiction,” Sally Shuttleworth in 2006 labelled it “the retro-Victorian novel,” Cora Kaplan in 2007 called it “Victoriana” and preferred the term “NeoVictorian” and Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn in 2010, liked “NeoVictorianism.” Nadine Boehm-Schnitker and Susanne Gruss published an invaluable collection in 2014 titled Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture: Immersions and Revisitations. In that volume, Marie-Luise Kohlke referred to “neo-Victorian’s shape-shifting” (2) and asserted that we were currently busy tapping into the “cultural gold rush vein of neo-Victorian literature” (21). There have been others, too, who have asked why we are rewriting the Victorian past, bu
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