Table of Contents
Mariaconcetta Costantini and Helena Ifill. Welcome
Articles
Tabitha Sparks. Reading the Women’s Sentimental Novel: A Romance
Joanna Turner. “The most accomplished liar in literature”? Uncovering Marie Corelli’s Hidden Early Life
Elizabeth Steere. “The mystery of the Myrtle Room”: Reading Wilkie Collins’ The Dead Secret as an Early Female Detective Novel
Kevin Hart. Criminal Bodies in Popular Victorian and Modernist Detective Fiction
Camilla Del Grazia. Interpreting Issues of Heredity and Inheritance in Holmesian Children through Criminal Anthropology and Degeneration Theory
Emma Butler-Way. Threads of Identity: Fashion, Finery, and Performance in Ellen Wood’s East Lynne and Wilkie Collins’s No Name
Sebastian Kukavica. The Splendour of Decadence: The Moral Geography of the European South in Victorian Travelogues
Katie Brandt Sartain. “To whom shall the outcast prostitute tell her tale!”: Endo/Exo-Writer Perspectives of Nineteenth-Century Sex Workers in Madeleine, An Autobiography and Mary Barton
Thomas G. Cole II. Degenerative Doctoring: Coercion, Experimentation and Ethics in Arthur Machen’s Gothic Horror
Edition
Grant Allen, edited and introduced by Scott C. Thompson. Philistia: Final Chapter (1884)
Book Reviews
Paolo Miccoli review essay. Rediscovering Ellen Wood: New Italian Translations
Flore Janssen reviews Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity by Linda K. Hughes
Kathryn Nogue reviews The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative: Autobiography, Sensation, and the Literary Marketplace by Sean Grass