Contents

• Introduction : Histories of the present / Dianne F. Sadoff and John Kucich
• Modernity and culture, the Victorians and cultural studies / John McGowan
• At home in the nineteenth century : photography, nostalgia, and the will to authenticity / Jennifer Green-Lewis
• The uses and misuses of Oscar Wilde / Shelton Waldrep
• Being true to Jane Austen / Mary A. Favret
• A twentieth-century portrait : Jane Campion’s American girl / Susan Lurie
• Display cases / Judith Roof
• Found drowned : the Irish Atlantic / Ian Baucom
• The embarrassment of Victorianism : colonial subjects and the lure of Englishness / Simon Gikandi
• Hacking the nineteenth century / Jay Clayton
• Queen Victoria and me / Laurie Langbauer
• Sorting, morphing, and mourning : A.S. Byatt ghostwrites Victorian fiction / Hilary M. Schor
• Asking Alice : Victorian and other Alices in contemporary culture / Kali Israel
• Specters of the novel : Dracula and the cinematic afterlife of the Victorian novel / Ronald R. Thomas
• Postscript : Contemporary culturalism : how Victorian is it? / Nancy Armstrong