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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