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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Issue 6 (Victorian Fiction and the Material Imagination)

In this issue:

This issue of 19 focuses on the representation of the material in Victorian literature. From the material imagination of gas to household clearances and women property owners, articles reflect the breadth of current work in this area and engage with a range of topics including thing theory, cultural phenomenology and objecthood. Authors explored in this edition include George Eliot, Dickens and Thackeray. A special forum on the digitisation of nineteenth-century material artefacts explores issues such as the nature of the material object in virtual space, the relationship between object, image and text in digital format, and the politics of online collections.

Guest Edited by Victoria Mills

Contributors:

Adelene Buckland, ‘Thomas Hardy, Provincial Geology and the Material Imagination’

Steve Connor, ‘Gasworks’

Katherine Inglis, ‘Becoming Automatous: Automata in The Old Curiosity Shop and Our Mutual Friend’

David Trotter, ‘Household Clearances in Victorian Fiction’

Deborah Wynne, ‘Equivocal Objects: The Problem of Women’s Property in Daniel Deronda’

Claire Pettit, ‘On Stuff’ (Review Essay)

This issue also features a SPECIAL FORUM on Digitisation and Materiality, featuring contributions by George P. Landow, Laura Mandell, James Mussell, John Plunkett and Ella Ravilious.

Launched in October 2005, 19 is a peer-reviewed web journal for the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, providing a permanent and accessible home to the pioneering scholarship presented at its seminars and conferences. Visit our website for free access to
current and past editions (including Interdisciplinarity; Periodicity; Literature and the Press; Sentimentality; Verbal and Visal Interactions in Print Culture), interactive media, scholarly debate, and links to nineteenth-century web resources.

www.19.bbk.ac.uk

VICTORIAN FICTION

An Online Research Guide

Lionel Stevenson's Victorian Fiction: A Guide to Research (1964) covered eleven novelists. George H. Ford's Victorian Fiction: A Second Guide (1978) added six more. But the lesser Victorian novelists still remained unknown. Their exclusion, as Sheila M. Smith pointed out, "gives a distorted view of the literary activity of the nineteenth century."

Victorian Fiction: An Online Research Guide offers comprehensive coverage of fifty-one major novelists, such as Dickens, George Eliot, the Brontes, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Thomas Hardy; minor novelists, such as Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Reade, Samuel Butler, and George Gissing; and underread novelists, such as George Egerton, Vernon Lee, Amy Levy, Eliza Lynn Linton, Ouida, and John Oliver Hobbes.

It includes editions of primary works and contemporary reviews and critical works from 1830 onward, and provides chronologies and information on biographies of novelists and their manuscript holdings.

Conduct sophisticated search of the entire 35,000+ entries on books, articles, and dissertation abstracts, each with linked & cross-referenced subject words and phrases on areas of interest.

Or narrow down your search to a limited number of recommended and annotated essential entries on each novelist or novel selected from hundreds of peer-reviewed books and articles.

* Coverage from 1830 to the present
* Information on primary works & manuscript holdings
* Chronologies and editions *Annotated entries with subject keywords
* Peer-reviewed books and articles identified
* Searching, printing & saving of essential entries
* Fast, accurate & relevant.

For more information, please check

www.victorianfiction.com

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