Victorians and Videogames

Victorians and Videogames: Literary and Thematic Representations of the Nineteenth Century in Virtual Play

PART 1: Ludic and Narrative Intertextuality

1 Powerful Innocence: George MacDonald's Legacy in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Heather L.N. Hess

2 Silence by (Game) Design: Shapeshifting and Assimilation in "The Little Mermaid" and the Wolf Among Us

Lin Young

3 Futurity and the Death Drive in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014)

Ian M. Clark And Jesse Gauthier

4 Race, Gender, and Reparative Revisions in Lauren Woolbright and Marie Jarrell's Videogame Sequel Blood of the Vampire (2018)

Felipe Espinoza Garrido

PART 2: Genre and Character (re)Creation

5 "Her Beauty Was Blinding": Amnesia: Justine as Sensation Fiction

Zoe Antoinette Eddy

6 Do-It-Yourself Arcadia: The Pastoral, William Morris, and Stardew Valley

Shannon Payne

7 London Detective Mysteria: A Case Study on the Limitations and Potentials of the Otome Detective in Japanese Neo-Victorian Video Games

Mimi Okabe

8 Queering the Neo-Victorian Video Game: Intrigues at the Boarding School

Rachel M. Friars

PART 3: Navigation, Colonization, Exploration

9 80 Days, 80 Plays: Curious Failure as Antidote to Empire in Verne and inkle Studio's 80 Days

Holly Wiegand

10 "A Hunger Draws the Desperate Here": The Virtual Return of Franklin's Lost Expedition

Travis Hay

11 Autistic Masking in Wuthering Heights and Little Nightmares II

Brooke Cameron

12 "I Caught a Frog! or It's a New Neighbor . . . and I Have Some Apologizing To Do": Victorian Species in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Kelsey G. Quinn

PART 4: Science, Systems, Technologies

13 Fragments of Time, Technological Ghosts, and Gothic Narratives in Horizon Zero Dawn

David A. Smith

14 Blood and Blackness in FromSoftware's Bloodborne: Toward a Theory of Racial Recursivity

Austin Anderson

15 Dangerous Collection: The Decolonization of Victorian Botany in Strange Horticulture

Jennifer Minnen And Melissa Kagen

16 Lies of P: Victorian Posthuman and Metamorphic Bodies

Francesca Arnavas And Mattia Bellini