Victorian Literature and Culture


Contents of Volume 33
Number 1


Thackeray, Capital Punishment, and the Demise of Jos Sedley
DEBORAH A. THOMAS

The Man Who Wrote a New Woman Novel: Grant Allen’s The Woman Who Did and the Gendering of New Woman Authorship
VANESSA WARNE and COLETTE COLLIGAN

Trouble with She-Dicks: Private Eyes and Public Women in The Adventures of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
ELIZABETH CAROLYN MILLER

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EDITORS’ TOPIC: VICTORIAN TAXONOMIES

Unnatural Interbreeding: H. G. Wells’s A Modern Utopia as Species and Genre
HARVEY N. QUAMEN

Reading and (Re)Writing Class: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters
KAREN BOIKO

Reading a Head: Jane Eyre, Phrenology, and the Homoerotics of Legibility
MARY A. ARMSTRONG

“A Fashionable Dinner is Arranged as Follows”: Victorian Dining Taxonomies
NATALIE KAPETANIOS MEIR

Racial and Criminal Types: Indian Ethnography and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four
JOHN MCBRATNEY

“The Fit and Unfit”: Suitable Settlers for Britain’s Mid-Nineteenth-Century Colonial Possessions
ROBERT GRANT

Illicit Inscriptions: Reframing Forgery in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth
SARA A. MALTON

Thomas Mitchell and the Wellington Caves: The Relationship among Science, Religion, and Aesthetics in Early-Nineteenth-Century Australia
KERRY HECKENBERG

Between Economies in The Mill on the Floss: Loans versus Gifts, or Auditing Mr. Tulliver’s Accounts
KATHLEEN BLAKE

Antisemitism and Social Critique in Dickens’s Oliver Twist
SUSAN MEYER

The Imperial Food Chain: Eating as an Interface of Power in Women Writers’ Geography Primers
MEGAN NORCIA

Cure, Classification, and John Clare
MICHELLE FAUBERT

Malthusian Menopause: Aging and Sexuality in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford
LISA NILES

REVIEW ESSAYS

Victorians Live
HERBERT SUSSMAN

Reading Class
SALLY MITCHELL


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