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Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: Blackness and neo-Victorian studies: re-routing imaginations of the nineteenth century / Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Marlena Tronicke, and Julian Wacker -- PART 1 Black life writing and biofictions -- Confessions of a Black Ouidaite: autoethnographic neo-Victorianism / Jesse Ryan Erickson -- Black, Queer, Victorian? The precarious neo-Victorian afterlives of Prince Alemayehu / Susanne Gruss -- We need to talk about Sarah Baartman: Black bodies, white voices, and the politics of NeoVictorian authorship / Helen Davies -- A "natural tint": Red Velvet and the archive of Black Victorian theatre / Marlena Tronicke -- PART 2 Black Victorians on screen: politics, ethics, protests -- "For all the blood we share, for all the miles we have walked... we are not the same": revealing an intolerant past in Showtime's Penny dreadful / U. Melissa Anyiwo -- Three Lady Macbeths and a critique of imperialism / Antonija Primoracvi -- The Birth of a nation, transatlantic encounters, and African Americans as 'global' neo-Victorians / Lewis Mondal -- PART 3 Material remains, refashionings, and reconstructions -- The Black dandy and neo-Victorianism: re-fashioning a stereotype / Maria Weilandt -- Steamfunk: remembering Black futures in Nisi Shawl's Everfair / Judith Rahn and Iolanda Ramos -- Country houses, slavery and the Victorians: reinterpreting heritage sites / Corinne Fowler -- Afterwod: Beyond Bridgerton: Blackness and neo-Victoriana / Jennifer DeVere Brody -- Index. "Black Neo-Victoriana is the first book-length study on contemporary re-imaginations of Blackness in the long nineteenth century. Located at the intersections of postcolonial studies, Black studies, and neo-Victorian criticism, this interdisciplinary collection engages with the global trend to reimagine and rewrite Black Victorian subjectivities that have been continually marginalised in both historical and cultural discourses. Contributions cover a range of media, from novels and drama to film, television and material culture, and draw upon cultural formations such as Black fandom, Black dandyism, or steamfunk. The book evidences how neo-Victorian studies benefits from reading re-imaginations of the long nineteenth century vis-à-vis Black epistemologies, which unhinge neo-Victorianism's dominant spatial and temporal axes and reroute them to conceive of the (neo-)Victorian through Blackness"--
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