Table of Contents
Reappraising Penny Fiction
special issue guest edited by Stephen Basdeo and Rebecca Nesvet
Articles
Rebecca Nesvet and Stephen Basdeo. Reappraising Penny Fiction
Sophie Raine. “Founded on Fact”: Paratextual Politics in Penny Fiction
Rebecca Nesvet. What’s in a Name? Mr. and Mrs. Lovett and the Politics of Penny Fiction
Brooke Cameron. Domestic Plots and Class Reform in Varney the Vampire
Sara Hackenberg. “The Magician of Civilised Life”: The Literary Detective in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Early Penny Fiction
Madeline B. Gangnes. Editor, Reader, and Value for Money in Young Folks
Laurie Langbauer. Young America: Dime Novels and Juvenile Authorship
Stephen Basdeo and Luiz A. Guerra. Juana Manso’s Mistérios del Plata (1852) and a Global “Mysteries” Tradition
Robert L. Mack. Confronting the ‘Real’ Sweeney Todd: a Personal Journey of Discovery
Book Reviews
Victoria Clarke reviews Jessica Valdez, Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel
Nicole C. Dittmer reviews Rob Breton, The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction
Weiquan Gao reviews Amy Matthewson, Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era