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ISSUE #53
February 2009

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN) is an International Refereed Electronic Journal devoted to British Nineteenth-Century Literature. The journal, which began publication as Romanticism on the Net in February 1996, is published four times a year. It expanded its scope in August 2007 to include Victorian literature.

The next issue of the journal (issue #54 [May 2009]) will appear in late August.

Last update: 1 July 2009




Founding Editor (Romantic): Michael Eberle-Sinatra (Université de Montréal) – Editor (Victorian): Dino Franco Felluga (Purdue University)

Review Editor (Romantic): Eric Gidal (University of Iowa) – Review Editor (Victorian): Lauren M. E. Goodlad (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Editorial Graduate Research Assistants: Elvina Koay and Brigitte Boudreau (Université de Montréal); Kristi Embry, Julie Barst and Allan Hunter (Purdue University); Carl Lehnen (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Editorial Board: Alan Bewell (University of Toronto); Susan Brown (University of Guelph); Dennis Denisoff (Ryerson University); Lauren M. E. Goodlad (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Nicholas Halmi (University College, Oxford); Dino Franco Felluga (Purdue University); Michael Eberle-Sinatra (Université de Montréal); Kevin Hutchings (University of Northern British Columbia); Gary Kelly (University of Alberta); Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Ryerson University); Robert Miles (University of Victoria); Ronald Tetreault (Dalhousie University); Julia M. Wright (Dalhousie University)

International Advisory Board: Amanda Anderson (Johns Hopkins University); Nancy Armstrong (Brown University); Laurel Brake (Birkbeck, University of London); Joseph Childers (University of California, Riverside); Jay Clayton (Vanderbilt University); Nora Crook (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge); Jack Donovan (University of York); Andrew Elfenbein, (University of Minnesota); Tim Fulford (Nottingham Trent University); Hilary Fraser (Birkbeck, University of London); Neil Fraistat (University of Maryland); Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania); Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter); Pamela Gilbert (University of Florida); Bruce Graver (Providence College); Elaine Hadley (University of Chicago); Antony Harrison (North Carolina State University); Diane Long Hoeveler (Marquette University); Jerrold E. Hogle (University of Arizona); George P. Landow (Brown University) ; Michael Levenson (University of Virginia); Alan Liu (University of California Santa Barbara); Laura Mandell (Miami University); Jon Mee (University of Warwick); Andrew H. Miller (Indiana University); Jeanne Moskal (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); Michael O'Neill (University of Durham); Seamus Perry (Balliol College, Oxford); Leah Price (Harvard University); Charles E. Robinson (University of Delaware); Nicholas Roe (St. Andrews University); Matthew Scott (University of Reading); Richard C. Sha (American University); Linda Shires (Stern College, Yeshiva University); Garrett Stewart (University of Iowa); Herbert Tucker (University of Virginia); Nicola Trott (Balliol College, Oxford); John Walsh (Indiana University); Susan J. Wolfson (Princeton University); Duncan Wu (Georgetown University).


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Table of Contents of Current Issue:

"Materiality and Memory"

Guest-edited by Kate Flint

Kate Flint (Rutgers University): 'Introduction'

Articles:

Clare Pettitt (King’s College, London): 'Peggotty’s Work-Box: Victorian Souvenirs and Material Memory'
Kara Marler-Kennedy (Rice University): '
Immortelles: Literary, Botanical, and National Memories'
Kate Flint (Rutgers University): '
Photographic Memory'
Athena Vrettos (Case Western Reserve University): '
"Little bags of remembrance": du Maurier’s Peter Ibbetson and Victorian Theories of Ancestral Memory'
Megan Ward (Lawrence University): '
William Morris’s Conditional Moment'
Catherine Robson (University of California, Davis): 'Memorization and Memorialization: "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna"'
Adelene Buckland (Newnham College, Cambridge): '“Pictures in the Fire”: the Dickensian Hearth and the Concept of History'
Jonathan Farina (Seton Hall University): 'Middlemarch and "that Sort of Thing"'

Reviews:

Joseph W. Childers (University of California, Riverside): 'Sally Ledger. Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination'
Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University): '
Andrew Franta. Romanticism and the Rise of the Mass Public'
Sarah Moss (University of Kent): '
Carl Thompson. The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination'
J. Jennifer Jones (University of Rhode Island): '
Ron Broglio. Technologies of the Picturesque: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments, 1750-1830'
Sean Dempsey (Boston University): 'Peter Melville. Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation'
Priti Joshi (University of Puget Sound): '
Christopher Herbert. War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma'
Irene Tucker (University of California, Irvine): 'Julia Wright. Ireland, India and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century'
Rachel Ablow (State University of New York, Buffalo): '
Nicholas Dames. The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction'
Bryan B. Rasmussen (California Lutheran University): 'Anna Maria Jones. Problem Novels: Victorian Fiction Theorizes the Sensational Self'
Patrick Brantlinger (Indiana University): '
Francis O’Gorman, ed. Victorian Literature and Finance'
Jim Hansen (University of Illinois): 'Adrian S. Wisnicki. Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel'
Timothy L. Carens (College of Charleston): '
Deborah Epstein Nord. Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930'
Dennis Denisoff (Ryerson University): '
Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ed. Andrew Elfenbein; Robert Louis Stevenson. Joseph Conrad and Mary Shelley. Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Secret Sharers, and Transformation: Three Tales of Doubles. Eds. Susan J. Wolfson and Barry V. Qualls'
Susan Zlotnick (Vassar College): 'Rebecca Stern. Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England'
John Plotz (Brandeis University): 'Julia Prewitt Brown. The Bourgeois Interior: How the Middle Class Imagines Itself in Literature and Film'



Articles from Issue #52
(November 2008):

"Science, Technology and the Senses"

Guest-edited by Sibylle Erle and Laurie Garrison

Laurie Garrison and Sibylle Erle (University of Lincoln and Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln): 'Introduction'

Articles:

Sibylle Erle (Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln): 'Blake, Colour and the Truchsessian Gallery: Modelling the Mind and Liberating the Observer'
Kelly Grovier (The University of Wales, Aberystwyth): '
"Paradoxes of the Panoscope": "Walking" Stewart and the Making of Keats's Ambivalent Imagination'
Laurie Garrison (University of Lincoln): '
Imperial Vision in the Arctic: Fleeting Looks and Pleasurable Distractions in Barker’s Panorama and Shelley’s Frankenstein'
Gavin Budge (University of Hertfordshire): '
The Hero as Seer: Character, Perception and Cultural Health in Carlyle'
Verity Hunt (University of Reading): '
Raising a Modern Ghost: The Magic Lantern and the Persistence of Wonder in the Victorian Education of the Senses'