Neo-Victorianism on Screen

Antonija Primorac is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Croatia. Antonija co-edited the 2015 special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies entitled Neo-Victorianism and Globalisation: Transnational Dissemination of Nineteenth-Century Cultural Texts. She has published on adaptation, neo-Victorianism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, Canadian literature and literature in translation.

• 1. Introduction: Neo-Victorianism on Screen and Postfeminist Media Culture.- 2. Postfeminism and Screen Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes Stories: The Case of Irene Adler.- 3. Re-presenting the Past: Gender, Colonial Space, and Cultural Nostalgia in Neo-Victorianism on Screen.- 4. Caged Birds: Corsets, Cages and Embowered Women in Contemporary Victoriana on Screen.- 5. Re-Fashioning Victorian Heroines and Family Relations: Tailoring and Shape-Shifting as Queer Adaptation and Appropriation.- 6. Conclusion: No Country for Old Women.- 7. Index.

“Neo-Victorianism on Screen is a thoroughly researched and well-argued treatise on the role of the Victorian heroine in modern film. … I found Primorac’s text to be thought-provoking, engaging, thoroughly considered, and well-written.” (Katrina Healey, The Wilkie Collins Journal, wilkiecollinssociety.org, Vol. 18, 2021)“Primorac’s monograph is a timely and thought-provoking study in so far as it not only discloses the major role TV and film adaptations have played in defining twenty-first-century conceptualizations of Victorian femininity but also, and perhaps even more importantly, addresses a striking imbalance in the field of neo-Victorian studies at large.” (Marlena Tronicke, Symbolism, October, 2018)​