Neo-Victorian writers imaginatively revisit Victorian ideas, values, debates and tropes, reinterpreting them through a postmodern lens all the while. A.S. Byatt's Morpho Eugenia (1992) is a case in point. Set in the nineteenth century, and located in England, the novella self-reflexively appropriates the Victorian to reinterpret pressing contemporary issues, ranging from gender to imperialism, religion and science. Firmly grounded in the uncertainties of narratives, and the maneuvers of discourse, the text abounds in aporetic moments that deconstruct totalizing, homogenous received notions of the Victorian. It is in this context that the difference between historical fiction set in Victorian times, and Neo-Victorian fiction emerges. Whereas the former presents conventional readings of the Victorian, Neo-Victorian fiction distinguishes itself by being actively engaged in deconstructing Victorian paradigms and reproducing contemporary arguments and debates in a Victorian context, hence negotiating new meanings through exchanges with that culture and its dichotomous values. It is in this light that the paper examines how Byatt's text revisits the complexities and contradictions of that age in order to engage with them anew and demonstrates how, through subscribing to the poetics of postmodernism, Morpho Eugenia exposes old constructs that have previously shaped the world to give way to emergent discourses and structures.