As in past years, Victorian Studies asked observers to collect, introduce, and respond to some of the papers they felt were most provocative, interesting, or fresh. This year, Carolyn Williams and Mary Poovey selected essays, and Dino Franco Felluga will contribute a special essay on the NINES (Networked Interface for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship) initiative, entitled "Addressed to the NINES: The Victorian Archive and the Disappearance of the Book."
Section
One
Lisa Brocklebank,
"Psychic Reading"
Rachel Oberter,
"Esoteric Art Confronting the Public Eye: The Abstract Spirit Drawings of Georgiana Houghton"
Jill Galvan,
"Narration as Mediation in George Eliot's 'The Lifted Veil'"
Mary Poovey,
Response
Section
Two
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"