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Meet our acquisitions editor:

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Becca Bostock, Associate Editor
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Acquires in: Victorian Studies

I acquire monographs in Victorian Studies, and I’m looking forward to hearing what you’re working on.


Sex, Celibacy, and Deviance: The Victorians and the Song of Songs cover

Sex, Celibacy, and Deviance: The Victorians and the Song of Songs

Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies

Duc Dau

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The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction cover

The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction

Jennifer MacLure

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Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel cover

Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel

Livia Arndal Woods

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The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature cover

The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature

Renée Fox

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Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature cover

Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature

Meg Dobbins

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Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders cover

Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders

Gretchen Braun

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Twisted Words: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain cover

Twisted Words: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain

Katherine Judith Anderson

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Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre cover

Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre

Dara Rossman Regaignon

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Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel cover

Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel

Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

Alexandra Valint

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Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies cover

Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies

Edited by Peter J. Capuano and Sue Zemka

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Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel cover

Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel

Adam Grener

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Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature cover

Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies

Winter Jade Werner

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Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century cover

Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century

Lissette Lopez Szwydky

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The Tenniel Illustrations to the “Alice” Books, Second Edition cover

The Tenniel Illustrations to the “Alice” Books, Second Edition

Michael Hancher

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Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories cover

Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories

Barbara Black

$34.95   $24.47  Paper

Winner, 2020 Victorian Society in America Award

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Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue cover

Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue

Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies

Edited by Joshua King and Winter Jade Werner

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Chemical Crimes: Science and Poison in Victorian Crime Fiction cover

Chemical Crimes: Science and Poison in Victorian Crime Fiction

Cheryl Blake Price

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Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel cover

Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel

Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies

Mark Knight

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Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character cover

Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character

Megan Ward

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Shortlisted, 2018 British Society for Literature and Science book prize

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Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature cover

Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Edited by Jill Galvan and Elsie Michie

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Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture cover

Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Keridiana W. Chez

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Dickens’s Forensic Realism: Truth, Bodies, Evidence cover

Dickens’s Forensic Realism: Truth, Bodies, Evidence

Andrew Mangham

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The Sanitary Arts: Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns cover

The Sanitary Arts: Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns

Eileen Cleere

$26.95 $18.87 Paper

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Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians

Molly Clark Hillard

$33.95 $23.77 Paper

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Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre cover

Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre

Dara Rossman Regaignon

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Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders cover

Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders

Gretchen Braun

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Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel cover

Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel

Adam Grener

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Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature cover

Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies

Winter Jade Werner

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Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century

Lissette Lopez Szwydky

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Haphazard Families: Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of Modern Adoption cover

Haphazard Families: Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of Modern Adoption

Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture

Eric C. Walker

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Romanticism’s Other Minds: Poetry, Cognition, and the Science of Sociability cover

Romanticism’s Other Minds: Poetry, Cognition, and the Science of Sociability

Cognitive Approaches to Culture

John Savarese

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Gothic Geoculture: Nineteenth-Century Representations of Cuba in the Transamerican Imaginary cover

Gothic Geoculture: Nineteenth-Century Representations of Cuba in the Transamerican Imaginary

Global Latin/o Americas

Ivonne M. García

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Necessary Nonsense: Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology cover

Necessary Nonsense: Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology

Cognitive Approaches to Culture

Irving Massey

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Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature

Victorians journal cover, with a maroon Victorian floral-patterned background with the journal title superimposed over it
We proudly publish Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, edited by Deborah Logan of Western Kentucky University. Now in its seventh decade, the journal welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to Victorian literature and culture and continues to respond to developmental shifts in the discipline of Victorian studies. Formerly published as The Victorian Newsletter (ISSN: 0042-5192), VCL looks forward to continuing its long history of scholarly excellence and professional integrity.

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