In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Jan Schroeder
pp. v-vi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a985797
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Introduction: Victorian Breeds and Breeding

Kristen Guest, Ronja Frank
pp. 1-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a984991
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Breeding True (or Not)

Harriet Ritvo
pp. 4-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a984992
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"A Racehorse from a Carthorse": Eugene Sue's Redefinition of the Thoroughbred

Richard Nash
pp. 7-11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a984993
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Breed Clubs and Associations

Michael Worboys
pp. 11-15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a984994
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"Pure Breeds" and Hybrids: The Colonial Career of Indian Cattle

David Arnold
pp. 16-19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a984995
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The Industrial Reformation of English Goldfish: Breed, Breeding, and National Identity in Victorian Popular Discourse

Anika Zuhlke
pp. 19-22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a984996
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Breeding Guinea Pigs for Food, Fur, and Fancy

Helen Cowie
pp. 22-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a984997
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The Pursuit of the "Perfect" Pigeon

Kate Whiston
pp. 28-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a984998
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Peter Rabbit: Domesticity, Breeding, and the Contradictions of the Victorian Rabbit

Margo DeMello
pp. 33-37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a984999
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Boythorn's "Most Astonishing Bird": Canary Care Manuals in Charles Dickens's Bleak House

Catherine Burton
pp. 37-41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a985000
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From Breeding to Breed: Proto-Eugenics in Mid-Century Marriage Manuals

Maryssa Grayer
pp. 41-45
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a985001
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Post-Carbon Victorian Studies: Energy, Literature, and the Archaeology of Fossil Power

Michael Tondre
pp. 47-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a985002
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Coal-Heaving and Logistical Labour

Susan Zieger
pp. 63-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a985003
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Energy, Empire, and Colonial Assam's Tea Plantation Economy

Chandrica Barua
pp. 85-103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a985004
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George Eliot's Felix Holt and the "Mass Experience" of Energy

Corbin Hiday
pp. 105-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a985005
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The Racialized Energy and Labour of Illicit Diamond Buyers in Colonial South Africa

Sarah Comyn
pp. 125-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a985006
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Coal and Anti-Blackness in Thomas Hood's "The Demon-Ship"

Kent Linthicum
pp. 143-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a985007
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Exchanges, Equations, and Inequalities: Energy in the Victorian Social World

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
pp. 159-164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a985008
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Conrad's Decentered Fiction by Johan Adam Warodell (review)

Angela Fowler
pp. 165-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a985009
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Anne Brontë and Lord Byron: Lost Echoes of Influence by Jessica Lewis (review)

Sara L. Pearson
pp. 167-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a985010
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Victorian Literary Culture and Ancient Egypt ed. by Eleanor Dobson (review)

Robert Finnigan
pp. 170-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a985011
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Lewis Carroll's Photography and Modern Childhood by Diane Waggoner (review)

Anthony Hamber
pp. 173-177
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a985012
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Liturgy, Ritual, and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century British Literature by Joseph McQueen (review)

D.G. Willey
pp. 177-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a985013
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Contributors

pp. 181-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2025.a985014
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