Essays
- Annette Federico, “Stevenson’s Mortal Questions”
- Rosemary Jann, “Discourses of Merit in Galton’s Eugenics”
- Charles Sligh, “‘Making Ready for Death’: Walter Pater and the Anthological Moment of ‘Dante Gabriel Rossetti”’
- Jude Wright, “‘I had peopled else this isle with Dudleys’: The Tempest in Uncle Silas”
- Erin Louttit, “Epic Poetry and the Creation of a Sympathetic Victorian Buddha”
- Andrea Gazzaniga, “Collaborative Space and the Poetics of Enclosure in Michael Field’s Underneath the Bough”
- Fran Thielman, “Jane Eyre and Public Health: A Closer Look at the Lowood School Epidemic” (2013 Winner of the Victorians Institute Graduate Paper Competition)
Reviews
- Andrew Lallier, Rev. of The Ritual Culture of Victorian Professionals: Competing for Ceremonial Status, 1838-1877, by Albert Pionke
- Sarah Winter, Rev. of How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain, by Leah Price
- Regina Hewitt, Rev. of William Maginn and the British Press, by David Latané, and Romanticism and Blackwood’s Magazine: “An Unprecedented Phenomenon,” edited by Robert Morrison and Daniels S. Roberts
- Stacey Floyd, Rev. of The Chartist Imaginary: Literary Form in Working-Class Political Theory and Practice, by Margaret Loose
- Linda Shires, Rev. of Thomas Hardy and Desire: Conceptions of the Self, by Jane Thomas
- Daniel J. Siegel, Rev. of Victorian Sacrifice: Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels, by Ilana M. Blumberg
- Kathryn Powell, Rev. of Economic Women: Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture, edited by Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport
- Keaghan Turner, Rev. of Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities, edited by Jonathon Shears and Jen Harrison
- Casey A. Cothran, Rev. of Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians, by Molly Clark
- Andrew Adams, Rev. of Music and Academia in Victorian Britain, by Rosemary Golding
- Rebecca King, Rev. of Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities: Constructions of Masculinity in Art and Literature, edited by Amelia Yeates and Serena Trowbridge
Notes on Contributors
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Cover Image: “Charles Robert Darwin,” by Edward Linley Sambourne, Punch 81 (22 October 1881), 190.