Issue 12.3 (Winter 2016)
Special Issue:
Gender in Victorian Popular Fiction, Art, and Culture

Guest Edited by Janine Hatter and Helena Ifill

Introduction

Janine Hatter and Helena Ifill, “Gender in Victorian Popular Fiction, Art, and Culture

Articles

Philippa Abbott, “Popular Fictions of Gender in the Newgate Novels

Brooke Fortune, “Jack Sheppard and the Eternal Boy

Mary Clai Jones, “Refashioning Spaces of Play in Victorian Doll Stories

Flore Janssen, “‘Common Rules of Street Politeness’? The Clash of Gender and Social Class in Representations of Street Harassment by Elizabeth Gaskell and Eliza Lynn Linton

Erin Louttit, “‘not men’s playthings and slaves’: Popular Fiction, Gender Inequality, and Women’s Education in Alice Mangold Diehl’s Dr. Paull’s Theory

Susan Hroncek, “‘They Would Take Me for a Witch or Poisoner’: Marginalization and the Woman Scientist in Fin-de-Siècle Speculative Fiction

Reviews

Shannon Scott, “Objectifying the Brontës: Making the Inanimate Intimate.” Review of Deborah Lutz’s The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects.

Sarah Kniesler, “Issues Other than Desire.” Review of Talia Schaffer’s Romance’s Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction.

Simon J. James, “Remaking Victorian Men.” Review of Tara MacDonald’s The New Man: Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel.

Sarah Parker, “Independent Women.” Review of Emma Liggin’s Odd Women? Spinsters, Lesbians and Widows in British Women’s Fiction, 1850s-1930s.

Indu Ohri, “The Conflict between Individuality, Science, and Theology in the Victorian Ghost Story.” Review of Jen Cadwallader’s Spirits and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction.

Editors-in-Chief: Stacey Floyd and Melissa Purdue
Reviews Editor: Carolyn Oulton
Assistant to the Reviews Editor: Alyson Hunt
Technical Editor: Josh Reid
Assistant to the Technical Editor: Luke Baugher