Introducing neo-Victorian family matters : cultural capital and reproduction / Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben -- From London's east end to West Baltimore : how the Victorian slum narrative shapes The wire / Matthew Kaiser -- Failing families : echoes of nineteenth-century child rescue discourse in contemporary debates around child protection / Shurlee Swain -- The figure of the child in neo-Victorian queer families / Louisa Yates -- Neo-Victorian childhoods : re-imagining the worst of times / Marie-Luise Kohlke -- Deconstructing the Victorian family? : trying to reach Cloud nine / MarĂa Isabel Seguro -- The Cratchits on film : neo-Victorian visions of domesticity / Regina Hansen -- The rise and fall of the Forsytes : from neo-Victorian to neo-Edwardian marriage / Sarah Edwards -- The lost mother and the enclosed lady : gender and domesticity in MTV's adaptation of Wuthering heights / Hila Shachar -- Monarchs and patriarchs : Angela Carter's Recreation of the Victorian family in The magic toyshop / Sarah Gamble -- Family traumas and serial killing in Peter Ackroyd's Dan Leno and the limehouse golem / Susana Onega -- Family trauma and reconfigured families : Philip Pullman's neo-Victorian detective series / Anca Vlasopolos -- "That heartbroken island of incestuous hatreds" : famine and family in Joseph O'Connor's Star of the sea / Melissa Fegan -- (In)visible disability in neo-Victorian families / Rosario Arias -- More than kith and less than kin : queering the family in Sarah Waters's neo-Victorian fictions / Georges Letissier.