Victorian Literature and Culture


Contents of Volume 26
Number 1


Enlarging the Heart: L. E. L.'s "The Improvisatrice," Hemans's "Properzia Rossi," and Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh
Margot K. Louis

The Radicalism of Felix Holt: George Eliot and the Pioneers of Labor
Christopher Z. Hobson

Folklore, Fear, and the Feminine: Ghosts and Old Wives' Tales in Wuthering Heights
Paula M. Krebs

Reading Failure in(to) Jude the Obscure: Hardy's Sue Bridehead and Lady Jeune's "New Woman" Essays, 1855-1900
William A. Davis, Jr.

Foucault, Dickens, and David Copperfield
Gareth Cordery

Congestion of the Brain in an Age of Unpoetrylessness: Matthew Arnold's Digestive Tracts for the Times
Ortwin De Graef


Disciplining and Disinfecting Working -Class Readers in the Victorian Public Library Lewis C. Roberts

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Farcical Process, Fictional Product: Thackeray's Theatrics in Lovel the Widower
Anne Layman Horn

SPECIAL EFFECTS

The "Supplementary Chapter" to Bulwer Lytton's A Strange Story Andrew Brown

REVIEW ESSAYS

Speaking of Illness: Nerves, Narratives, and Nineteenth-Century Psychology
Susan Walsh

"Reader Response" in the Nineties
Elizabeth A. Flynn

Victorian Art History
Joseph A. Kestner


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