The Corset in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction: Unlacing the Past

"An exploration of how the corset constructs character and narrative in mid-Victorian sensation and contemporary Neo-Victorian literature, this book re-contextualizes the Victorian corset within its own cultural narratives and treats these as a primary context for Neo-Victorian fiction. Examining the Victorian corset in situ and how modern writers engage with both current stereotypes and Victorian contexts to reconstruct and reinterpret the corset and its meaning for modern readers, it covers the works The Woman in White, No Name, Not Wisely, but Tool Well, Fingermsith, The Corset and the Enola Holmes series"-- Provided by publisher.