"Victorianist and neo-Victorianist scholars alike will find innovative and insightful analyses in the dialogue Tomaiuolo creates between texts, and between centuries." (Catherine Quirk, The Wilkie Collins Journal, wilkiecollinssociety.org, Vol. 18, 2021)
1. Introduction: Dickens in Dismaland.- 2. Dirt Out of Place in Sweet Thames, The Great Stink and The Crimson Petal and The White.- 3. Julia Pastrana's Traces, or the Afterlives of the Victorian Ape Woman.- 4. Reanimating the Zombies of Nineteenth-Century London in Victorian Undead.- 5. Penny Dreadful from Neo-Victorian to Neo-Baroque.- 6. Picturing Deviance: Neo-Victorian Visual Art.- 7. Conclusion: Banksy at the Great Exhibition.
Saverio Tomaiuolo is Associate Professor of English at Cassino University, Italy. He has published In Lady Audley’s Shadow. Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres (2010), Victorian Unfinished Novels. TheImperfect Page (2012) and a critical introduction to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (2014). His entry on “neo-Victorianism” is included in the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature (2015).