Thursday 28 November 2013

Journal Announcement: Special issue of AJVS on Neo-Victorianism


Issue 18.3 (2013) of the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies has just been published and is freely available at the journal website. It is a special themed issue on Neo-Victorianism guest edited by Michelle J. Smith.

Articles:
*Neo-Victorianism: An Introduction
Michelle J. Smith

*Neo-Victorian Biofiction and the Special/Spectral Case of Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Hottentot Venus
Marie-Luise Kohlke

*Neo-Victorian Presence: Tom Phillips and the Non-Hermeneutic Past
Christine Ferguson

*Twisting Dickens: Modding Childhood for the Steampunk Marketplace in Cory Doctorow’s “Clockwork Fagin” (2011)
Sharon Bickle

*Tme Machine Fashion: Neo-Victorian Style in Twenty-First Century Subcultures
Christine Feldman-Barrett

*Robert Browning and Mick Imlah: Forming and Collecting the Dramatic Monologue
John Morton

*The Spectre and the Stage: Reading and Ethics at the Intersection of Psychoanalysis, the neo-Victorian, and the Gothic
Jessica Gildersleeve

Book Reviews
*Dickens and Modernity by Juliet John, ed. (rev.)
Grace Moore

*Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire by Elizabeth Ho (rev.)
Kristine Moruzi

*Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999-2009 by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn (rev.)
Michelle J. Smith

*Neo-Victorian Gothic: Horror, Violence and Degeneration in the Re-Imagined Nineteenth Century by Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben, eds (rev.)
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming