Product Description Cora Kaplan reflects on our peculiar and enduring fascination with things Victorian in film, fiction, biography and literary studies. Review [An] incisive, lively collection.--Esther Schor"Times Literary Supplement" (10/12/2007)Kaplan presents us with critical writing that is rich in the recognition of modernity's paradoxes.--David Amigoni"Victorian Studies" (01/01/0001)Provocative and pleasurable reading.--Jill L. Matus"Journal of British Studies" (01/01/0001)"[An] incisive, lively collection." -- Esther Schor, "Times Literary Supplement""Lively, thoughtful." -- "Studies in English Literature""Provocative and pleasurable reading." -- Jill L. Matus, "Journal of British Studies" About the Author Cora Kaplan is Emerita Professor of English, University of Southampton, and Visiting Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London. Her work includes Sea Changes: Essays in Culture and Feminism and Genders (with David Glover).