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Introduction: Undisciplining Victorian Studies by Chatterjee, Ronjaunee, Christoff, Alicia Mireles, Wong, Amy R.

“…[...]while holding the specificity of anti-Blackness very much before us, we suggest that Sharpe's insights are necessary to the broader thinking of race and…”
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Hating Victorian Studies Properly by Mufti, Nasser

“…What does Victorian studies look like from the vantage point of Pan-African anticolonialism? Writers like W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, C. L. R. James, and…”
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Paravictorianism: Mary Shelley and Viral Sovereignty by Kolb, Anjuli Fatima Raza

“…This article revisits the 2006 diplomatic standoff between Indonesia and the World Health Organization over wild-type (or naturally occurring) viral flu…”
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Reading in the Aftermath: An Asian American Jane Eyre by Moy, Olivia Loksing

“…What business do we have to speak of Brontë novels in relation to ourselves? For scholars of color, how do we engage with canon without reifying our own…”
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V21 FORUM ON STRATEGIC PRESENTISM: Introduction by Coombs, David Sweeney, Coriale, Danielle

“…To make presentism a strategy means asking how presentism might help us better understand and address the ways the past is at work in the exigencies of the…”
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Charles Darwin and the Victorian Pre-History of Climate Denial by MacDuffie, Allen

“…Recent theorists of the response to anthropogenic climate change have focused on what Naomi Klein terms “soft denial”: the tendency to accept the scientific…”
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Imperial Innocence: The Kawaii Afterlife of Little Black Sambo by Kalnay, Erica Kanesaka

“…This essay argues that the Victorian racial imaginary of Helen Bannerman's 1899 children's book Little Black Sambo lives on in the kawaii, or “cute,” aesthetic…”
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Buffer Zones: Notes on Afghanistan, Race, and Empire by Aslami, Zarena

“…This short essay traces my own path to what we might call Victorian race studies. I begin with an account of how nineteenth-century Afghanistan exceeds Said's…”
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Cousin Theory: Brown Kinship and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel by Pierce, Joseph M., Chander, Manu Samriti

“…This essay discusses kinship relations in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone (England, 1868) and Jorge Isaacs's María (Colombia, 1867). We begin by differentiating…”
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Fin du Globe: On Decadent Planets by Morgan, Benjamin

“…As scholars across disciplines have turned their attention to the climate crisis, they have developed expanded critical frameworks—most notably, the…”
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Seriality, Miscellaneity, and Compression in Nineteenth-Century Print by Turner, Mark W.

“…This article explores the relationship between seriality, miscellaneity, and compression in nineteenth-century print. Thinking about seriality and…”
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Tracing Characters: Political Shorthand and the History of Victorian Writing by Berman, Carolyn Vellenga

“…This essay examines Charles Dickens's apprenticeship to political shorthand in order to reconsider the relationship between parliamentary representation and…”
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The Angry Woman's Case Against the Mask Lyric: Or, Redefining the Dramatic Monologue by Morgan, Monique R.

“…Feminist scholars have broadened the canon of dramatic monologues to include the works of women poets and have questioned the dynamics of sympathy and judgment…”
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Tory-radical Feeling in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley and Early Victorian England by Roberts, Matthew

“…The moral issues that Charlotte Brontë addresses in her novel Shirley can be read as a Tory-radical exploration of the tensions and contradictions in early…”
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Witness Narratives and Working-Class Suffering: “The Cry of the Children,” Corn Law Rhymes, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Unpublished Hunger Ballad by Stone, Marjorie

“…The primary historical context for interpretations of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's “The Cry of the Children” (1843) has long been the 1842–43 Children's…”
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George Eliot and Spinoza: Philosophical Formations by Carlisle, Clare

“…In 1856, George Eliot completed the first English translation of Spinoza's Ethics. This article proposes a philosophical and historical framing of the affinity…”
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Orientalism, Redux by Hu, Jane

“…This essay explores the unfinished business of Victorian Orientalism by tracing the aesthetic afterlife of Charles Dickens's “demented … Mandarin” in Kevin…”
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Weird Beyond Description: Weird Fiction and the Suspicion of Scenery by Miller, John MacNeill

“…This paper uses Algernon Blackwood's weird tale “The Willows” (1907) to argue that the genre of weird fiction is characterized by a disproportionate investment…”
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Race and the Dramatic Monologue by Gregory, Melissa Valiska

“…Throughout the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth century, white poets on both sides of the Atlantic wrote hundreds of dramatic monologues in the…”
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Liberalism's Perverse Pleasures: Coercive Contract in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Davenport, Emma

“…This article argues that Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde posits a theory of liberalism. It reads the dynamics of consent and…”
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