Table of Contents
Introduction
Andrew King: Victorian Popular Fictions Journal – Welcome to issue 2 (Autumn 2019)
Articles
Minna Vuohelainen: “A strange enough region wherein to wander and muse”: Mapping Clerkenwell in Victorian Popular Fictions
Tabitha Sparks: Neither Surface nor Distant: Feminine Sociality in Helen C. Black’s Notable Women Authors of the Day
Tamara S. Wagner: The Antipodes of Victorian Fiction: Mapping “Down Under”
Luisa Villa: With Gordon, Kitchener and Others in the Sudan: Mapping Fictional Engagement with the Imperial Frontier
Rebecca Nesvet: Sweeney Todd’s Indian Empire: Mapping the East India Company in The String of Pearls
Sophie Raine: Mapping the Metropolis through Streetwalking in Parker’s The Young Ladies of London
Samuel Saunders: “I was again passing along Leicester Square … with all my eyes about me”: Mapping Popular “Police Memoir” Detective Fiction
Claire Whitehead: Spaces of Mystery, Knowledge and Truth in Early Russian Crime Fiction: Semyon Panov’s Three Courts, or Murder during the Ball (1876)
Andrew Hewitt: Maps, Power, and Affect in Richard Jefferies and Anthony Trollope
Michael Horton: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Print Them: Mapping Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers
Shuhita Bhattacharjee: Of Mahatmas and Chelas: Theosophy and the “Cartography of the Supernatural” in Richard Marsh and F. Anstey
Book Reviews
James Hamby reviews Richard Jefferies, After London; Or Wild England, edited by Mark Frost
Anna Brecke reviews Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History by Pamela Gilbert
Mara Mattoscio reviews Frances Elliot and Italy. Writing Travel, Writing the Self by Silvia Antosa
Elizabeth R.M. Sheckler reviews The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
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