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Forthcoming:
Volume 37 (2025) – Special Issue:
Blackness, Race, and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Studies
Wendy Castenell and A. Maggie Hazard, co-editors
wcastenell@wlu.edu; ahazar1@saic.edu
This special issue will explore how Blackness was constructed and problematized by a hegemonic global structure across national boundaries during the long nineteenth century. The issue will pay particular attention to emerging concepts of Black identities during this period.
Current Volume: Volume 36 (2024)
Carol Harrison and Maria LaMonaca Wisdom, “Biography, Women’s Friendship, and Anglo-Catholicism: Lady Georgiana Fullerton and Her Circle”
Cátia C. Rodrigues, “Homosociality/Homoeroticism and Religious Symbolism: Female Art Collectors and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Works, 1848–65”
Sean Donaghue-Johnston, “Dangerous Dens of Amusement: Penny Gaffs and the Moral Education of the London Street Folk”
Jessica Leigh Hester, “‘”We the people” would soon decide for them’: Grave Robbing and the Black Press in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia”
Tiffany Johnson Bidler, “Thomas Eakins’s Portrait of Professor Benjamin Howard Rand and the Scientific Performance Involving Color, Light, and Vision in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia”
Ellen Rees, “Ibsen’s Happy Endings, Or the Vaudeville Origins of Modern Drama”
Colleen Tripp, “Negotiating Ornamentalism and Spectacle Ethnography in Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance”