This volume is a themed collection of essays by scholars from a number of academic institutions, focusing on the strategies of contemporary reimagining, refashioning and rewriting Victorian culture. While the emergent field of “Neo-Victorian Studies” has recently received considerable scholarly attention, inspiring conferences, collections of essays, peer-reviewed journals and monograph series, this volume considers Victorianomania in its broadest sense, examining the contemporary response to the literature and culture of the long 19th century.
Victorianomania can be traced today not only in works of fiction self-consciously foregrounding the importance of the past, but also in many genres and sub-genres of culture. By addressing the manifold allusions, adaptations, and reworking of 19th-century sources, this volume aims to give a significant contribution to the current interest in our engagement with the 19th-century past.

Simonetta Falchi is Researcher of English Language and Literature at the University of Sassari (Italy). Her main research interest is the reception of Victorian literature and culture in contemporary new media.
Greta Perletti is Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the Universities of Bergamo and Trento (Italy). She has published two monographs and a number of articles on the interactions between literary and medical discourse in Victorian culture.
Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz is Senior Lecturer in Social History and Cultural Studies at the University of Málaga (Spain). She has published extensively on sexuality and identity issues both in the Victorian past and in contemporary Neo-Victorian fiction.