As has been its custom, Victorian Studies has devoted an issue to last year's NAVSA conference. Two participants, Mary Poovey and Carolyn Williams, selected papers that seemed noteworthy, and, to further conversations begun at the conference, have written responses. Additionally, Dino Felluga has written a special article on the NINES (Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) initiative and its relationship to NAVSA.

Section One: Mediums, Media, Mediation

Rachel Oberter ,
"Esoteric Art Confronting the Public Eye: The Abstract Spirit Drawings of Georgiana Hougton"

Lisa Brocklebank ,
"Psychic Reading "

Jill Galvan ,
"The Narrator as Medium in George Eliot's 'The Lifted Veil'"

Mary Poovey,
Response

Section Two: Genre Matters

David Kurnick,
"Empty Houses: Thackeray's Theater of Interiority"

Rosemarie Bodenheimer,
"Dickens, Fascinated"

Daniel Hack,
"Revenge Stories of Modern Life"

Nicole Fluhr,
"Empathy and Identity in Vernon Lee's Hauntings"

Carolyn Williams,
Response

Section Three: Addressed to the NINES

Dino Franco Felluga,
"The Victorian Archive and the Disappearance of the Book "