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Table of Contents

  1. Editors’ Note
  2. Constance Crompton, Kristen Guest, Ruth Knechtel, Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge, Vanessa Warne
  3. p. 7
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0037
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Forum - Victorian Accidents

  1. The Hartley Colliery Disaster
  2. Jamie L. Bronstein
  3. pp. 9-13
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0041
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  1. 1834: “Melancholy and Affecting Accident: Eleven Persons Drowned”
  2. Allison Fieldberg
  3. pp. 13-17
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0045
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  1. Accidental Death: Lizzie Siddal and the Poetics of the Coroner’s Inquest
  2. Paul Fyfe
  3. pp. 17-22
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0049
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  1. “The Entombment of Thomas Shaw”: Mining Accidents and the Politics of Workers’ Bodies
  2. Marjorie Levine-Clark
  3. pp. 22-26
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0027
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  1. Mountaineering Accidents
  2. Alan Mcnee
  3. pp. 26-30
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0032
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  1. 25 August 1861: The Clayton Tunnel Rail Crash, the Medical Profession, and the Sensation Novel
  2. Karen M. Odden
  3. pp. 30-34
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0036
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  1. The Accidental Discovery of Mauve
  2. Anthony S. Travis
  3. pp. 34-38
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0040
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  1. Storm and Stone: Accidental Archaeology at Skara Brae in Orkney
  2. Virginia Zimmerman
  3. pp. 39-43
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0044
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  1. Accidental Pregnancy
  2. Aeron Hunt
  3. pp. 43-46
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0048
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Articles

Special Issue - Victorians and Risk

Guest Editor - Daniel Martin

  1. Introduction: The Victorians and Risk
  2. Daniel Martin
  3. pp. 47-54
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0031
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  1. The Ethics of Risk in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South: The Role of Capital in an Industrial Romance
  2. Eleanor Reeds
  3. pp. 55-71
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0035
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  1. Spectral Economics and the Horror of Risk in Charlotte Riddell’s Ghost Stories
  2. Sarah Bissell
  3. pp. 73-89
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0039
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  1. “The True Logic of the Future”: Images of Prediction from the Marginal Revolution
  2. Keith Clavin
  3. pp. 91-108
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0043
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  1. Slipping into Marriage: How Heroines Create Desire by Risking Their Reputations
  2. Catherine England
  3. pp. 109-124
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0047
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  1. Penny Death Traps: The Press, the Poor, Parliament, and the “Perilous” Penny Paraffin Lamp
  2. Vicky Holmes
  3. pp. 125-142
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0051
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  1. Risking Life and Wing: Victorian and Edwardian Conceptions of Coal-Mine Canaries
  2. Catherine Burton
  3. pp. 143-159
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0029
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Book Reviews

  1. Thomas Hardy’s Legal Fictions by Trish Ferguson (review)
  2. Marc Milton Ducusin
  3. pp. 161-163
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0052
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  1. Rediscovering Victorian Women Sensation Writers ed. by Anne-Marie Beller and Tara MacDonald (review)
  2. Sarah Lennox
  3. pp. 163-165
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0030
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  1. Kipling’s Art of Fiction, 1884–1901 by David Sergeant (review)
  2. John McBratney
  3. pp. 165-167
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0034
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  1. Victorian Women and the Economies of Travel, Translation and Culture, 1830–1870 by Judith Johnston (review)
  2. Paisley Mann
  3. pp. 167-170
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0038
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  1. The Poet’s Mind: The Psychology of Victorian Poetry 1830–1870 by Gregory Tate (review)
  2. Suzanne Bailey
  3. pp. 170-172
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0042
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  1. Reading Victorian Deafness: Signs and Sounds in Victorian Literature and Culture by Jennifer Esmail (review)
  2. Sue Zemka
  3. pp. 172-174
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0046
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  1. The Great Exhibition: A Documentary History ed. by Geoffrey Cantor (review)
  2. Jackie Amorim
  3. pp. 174-176
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0050
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  1. Common Precedents: The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction by Ayelet Ben-Yishai (review)
  2. Albert D. Pionke
  3. pp. 177-179
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0028
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  1. Contributors
  3. pp. 181-184
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0033
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