Visual Art, Disability, and Museum Culture in Neo-Victorianism

This chapter discusses the impactful reach of neo-Victorianism into spaces such as the museum, visual arts, and the heritage sector, which continue to play vital roles in our contemporary relationship to the global long nineteenth century, and which are used as sites of inspiration, interrogation, and negotiation by neo-Victorian authors and visual practitioners alike. Contemporary authors and artists simultaneously confront and extend Victorian display techniques and colonial afterlives through their work, and objects (and their difficult histories) can be considered the material hinges of a potential recovery of meaning.