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Neo-Victorian is an aesthetic movement which amalgamates Victorian and Edwardian aesthetic sensibilities with modern principles and technologies. A large number of magazines and websites are devoted to Neo-Victorian ideas in dress, family life, interior decoration, morals, and other topics.
A large number of neo-Victorian novels have reinterpreted, reproduced and rewritten Victorian culture. Significant texts include The French Lieutenant’s Woman ( John Fowles, 1969), Possession ( A. S. Byatt, 1990), Arthur and George ( Julian Barnes, 2005), Dorian, An Imitation ( Will Self, 2002) Jack Maggs ( Peter Carey, 1997), Wide Sargasso Sea ( Jean Rhys, 1966). Recent neo-Victorian novels have often been adapted to the screen, from The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Karel Reisz, 1981) to the television adaptations of Sarah Waters ( Tipping the Velvet, BBC2, 2002, '' Fingersmith '', BBC1, 2005, '' Affinity '' ITV, 2008) and Michel Faber ( The Crimson Petal and the White, BBC 1, 2011). These narratives may indicate a 'sexsation' of neo-Victorianism (Kohlke) and have been called 'in-yer-face' neo-Victorianism (Voigts-Virchow). Recent productions of neo-Victorianism on screen include Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes films, the BBC’s Sherlock (2010-), Ripper Street (2012-), ITV’s '' Whitechapel '' (2009–13) or the Showtime series Penny Dreadful (2014-). The neo-Victorian formula can be expanded to include Edwardian consumer culture ( Downton Abbey, ITV 2010-, The Paradise, BBC 2012-2013) and Mr Selfridge (ITV 2013-).
In September 2007, Exeter University explored the phenomenon in a major international conference titled Neo-Victorianism: The Politics and Aesthetics of Appropriation. Academic studies include Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999–2009. Other foundational texts of neo-Victorian criticism are Kucich and Sadoff (2000), Kaplan (2007), Kohlke (2008-), Munford and Young (2009), Mitchell (2010), Davies (2012), Whelehan (2012), Kleinecke-Bates (2014), Böhm-Schnitker and Gruss (2014) and others.