Victorian Literature and Culture


Contents of Volume 29
Number 1


Editors' Topic: Constructions of Victorian Classes [Part II]

 

The Smell of Class: British Novels of the 1860s
JANICE CARLISLE

Down among the Dead: Edwin Chadwick's Burial Reform Discourse in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England
MARY ELIZABETH HOTZ

The Importance of Being an Earnest Improver: Class, Caste, and Self-Help in Mid-Victorian England
ANNE BALTZ RODRICK

Charles Kingsley, the Romantic Legacy, and the Unmaking of the Working-Class Intellectual
EVAN M. GOTTLIEB

Thomas Carlyle, Chartism, and the Irish in Early Victorian England
ROGER SWIFT

Instructive Sufficiency: Re-Reading the Governess through Agnes Grey
DARA ROSSMAN REGAIGNON

"The sovereign people are in a beastly state": The Beer Act of 1830 and Victorian Discourse on Working-Class Drunkenness
NICHOLAS MASON

Performing the Voyage Out: Victorian Female Emigration and the Class Dynamics of Displacement
JANET C. MYERS



Review Essays

 

Victorian Art History: Rap 2 Unwrapped
JOSEPH A. KESTNER

Millennial Victoria
ALISON BOOTH

 

Works in Progress

 

Making What Will Suffice: Carlyle's Fetishism
YOON SUN LEE

Wilde's Salomé and the Ambiguous Fetish
AMANDA FERNBACH

Ethnographic Collecting and Travel: Blurring Boundaries, Forming a Discipline
LAURA FRANEY

 


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