The Victorians elevated the home and heteronormative family life to an almost secular religion. Yet alongside the middle-class domestic ideal were other families, many of which existed in the literature of the time.Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literatureis chiefly concerned with these atypical or "queer" families. This collection serves as a corrective against limited definitions of family and is a timely addition to Victorian studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, the collection opens up new possibilities for uncovering submerged, marginalized, and alternative stories in Victorian literature. Broad in scope, subjects range from Count Fosco and his animal "children" in Wilkie Collins's TheWoman in White, to male kinship within and across Alfred Tennyson'sIn Memoriamand Herman Melville'sMoby-Dick, and the nexus between disability and loving relationships in the fiction of Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge.Queer Victorian Familiesis a wide-ranging and theoretically adventurous exposé of the curious relations in the literary family tree.