This book argues that ¿deviance¿ represents a central issue in neo-Victorian culture and that
the very concept of neo-Victorianism is based upon the idea of ¿diverging¿ from accepted
notions regarding the nineteenth-century frame of mind. However the study of the ways in which
the Victorian age has been revised by contemporary authors does not only entail analogies with
the present but proves ¿ by introducing what is perhaps a more pertinent description of the
nineteenth century ¿ that it was much more ¿deviant¿ than it is usually depicted and perceived.
Deviance in Neo-Victorian Culture: Canon Transgression Innovation explores a wide variety of
textual forms from novels to TV series from movies and graphic novels to visual art. The
scholarly and educational purpose of this study is to stimulate readers to approach
neo-Victorianism as a complex cultural phenomenon.
