Editors' Introduction

The eighth annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association met in Montreal in November of 2010 to explore the broad theme of "Scale and Perspective." Once again, we publish here work originally presented at the conference. We invited Nicholas Dames, Regenia Gagnier, and Stephen Arata each to select a cluster of three compelling papers from the conference. We publish their selections, and their responses to those selections, in the pages that follow.

NAVSA's ninth annual conference will be held in Nashville, Tennesee, at Vanderbilt University on November 3-6, 2011, exploring the theme "Performance and Play." For more information on the organization and the annual conference, see its website: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/navsa/.