For a special issue devoted to the NAVSA conference held in Toronto, Canada, Victorian Studies asked three participants—Harriet Ritvo, James Vernon, and Kate Flint—to select and introduce papers which they thought addressed in provocative ways especially fresh and pressing topics. In this fashion, the journal hopes to sustain the interaction developed at the conference, circulating some of its best papers while conveying the forward-looking, open-ended nature of the event as a whole.
Section One
Amanda Anderson,
"Victorian Studies and the Two Modernities"
Lauren Goodlad,
"Towards a Victorianist's Theory of Androgynous Experiment"
Talia Schaffer,
"Taming the Tropics: Charlotte Yonge Takes on Melanesia"
Kate Flint,
Response
Section Two
Michelle Elleray,
"Crossing the Beach: A Victorian Tale Adrift in the Pacific "
Amy King,
"Reorienting the Scientific Frontier: Victorian Tide-Pools and Literary Realism"
James Elwick,
"The Philosophy of Decapitation: Analysis, Biomedical Reform, and Devolution in London's Body Politic, 1830-1850"
Harriet Ritvo,
Response
Section Three
Matthew Rowlinson,
"Theory of Victorian Studies: Anachronism and Self-Reflexivity"
Catherine Gallagher,
"Theoretical Answers to Interdisciplinary Questions, or Interdisciplinary Answers to Theoretical Questions"
Sukanya Banerjee,
"Political Economy, the Gothic, and the Question of Imperial Citizenship"
James Vernon,
Response
This issue, 47.2, is not yet available! If you are a NAVSA member, you will receive your copy later this year. If you are not receiving your issues of Victorian Studies, please contact our Secretary-Treasurer, Cannon Schmitt, at cschmitt@wayne.edu