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Table of Contents

Editors’ Note

Constance Crompton, Kristen Guest, Ruth Knechtel, Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge, Vanessa Warne
p. 7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0037
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The Hartley Colliery Disaster

Jamie L. Bronstein
pp. 9-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0041
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1834: “Melancholy and Affecting Accident: Eleven Persons Drowned”

Allison Fieldberg
pp. 13-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0045
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Accidental Death: Lizzie Siddal and the Poetics of the Coroner’s Inquest

Paul Fyfe
pp. 17-22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0049
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“The Entombment of Thomas Shaw”: Mining Accidents and the Politics of Workers’ Bodies

Marjorie Levine-Clark
pp. 22-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0027
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Mountaineering Accidents

Alan Mcnee
pp. 26-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0032
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25 August 1861: The Clayton Tunnel Rail Crash, the Medical Profession, and the Sensation Novel

Karen M. Odden
pp. 30-34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0036
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The Accidental Discovery of Mauve

Anthony S. Travis
pp. 34-38
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0040
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Storm and Stone: Accidental Archaeology at Skara Brae in Orkney

Virginia Zimmerman
pp. 39-43
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0044
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Accidental Pregnancy

Aeron Hunt
pp. 43-46
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0048
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The Ethics of Risk in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South: The Role of Capital in an Industrial Romance

Eleanor Reeds
pp. 55-71
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0035
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Spectral Economics and the Horror of Risk in Charlotte Riddell’s Ghost Stories

Sarah Bissell
pp. 73-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0039
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“The True Logic of the Future”: Images of Prediction from the Marginal Revolution

Keith Clavin
pp. 91-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0043
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Slipping into Marriage: How Heroines Create Desire by Risking Their Reputations

Catherine England
pp. 109-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0047
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Penny Death Traps: The Press, the Poor, Parliament, and the “Perilous” Penny Paraffin Lamp

Vicky Holmes
pp. 125-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0051
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Risking Life and Wing: Victorian and Edwardian Conceptions of Coal-Mine Canaries

Catherine Burton
pp. 143-159
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0029
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Thomas Hardy’s Legal Fictions by Trish Ferguson (review)

Marc Milton Ducusin
pp. 161-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0052
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Rediscovering Victorian Women Sensation Writers ed. by Anne-Marie Beller and Tara MacDonald (review)

Sarah Lennox
pp. 163-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0030
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Kipling’s Art of Fiction, 1884–1901 by David Sergeant (review)

John McBratney
pp. 165-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0034
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Victorian Women and the Economies of Travel, Translation and Culture, 1830–1870 by Judith Johnston (review)

Paisley Mann
pp. 167-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0038
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The Poet’s Mind: The Psychology of Victorian Poetry 1830–1870 by Gregory Tate (review)

Suzanne Bailey
pp. 170-172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0042
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Reading Victorian Deafness: Signs and Sounds in Victorian Literature and Culture by Jennifer Esmail (review)

Sue Zemka
pp. 172-174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0046
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The Great Exhibition: A Documentary History ed. by Geoffrey Cantor (review)

Jackie Amorim
pp. 174-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0050
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Common Precedents: The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction by Ayelet Ben-Yishai (review)

Albert D. Pionke
pp. 177-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0028
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Introduction: The Victorians and Risk

Daniel Martin
pp. 47-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0031
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Contributors

pp. 181-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0033
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