Issue 8.2 (Summer 2012)
Special Issue:
Law and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England
Guest Edited by Julia McCord Chavez and Katherine Gilbert
Introduction
Julia McCord Chavez and Katherine Gilbert, “Introduction
Articles
Christine L. Krueger, “The Queer Heroism of a Man of Law in A Tale of Two Cities”
Catherine Siemann, “Appellate Lawyers in Petticoats: Access to Justice in Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady”
Matthew Ingleby, “Bulwer-Lytton, Braddon, and the Bachelorization of Legal Bloomsbury”
Gregory Brennen, “Legal Fictions, Legal Limits: The Noble Patriarch and the Power of Law in Victorian Literature”
Danaya C. Wright, “Policing Sexual Morality: Percy Shelley and the Expansive Scope of the Parens Patriae in the Law of Custody of Children”
Clare McGlynn, “John Stuart Mill on Prostitution: Radical Sentiments, Liberal Proscriptions”
Colleen Fenno, “Testimony, Trauma, and a Space for Victims: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria: Or the Wrongs of Woman”
Reviews
Marlene Tromp, “The Case of the Brontës in Law and Fiction.” Review of Ian Ward’s Law and the Brontës.
Elsie B. Michie, “Global Capitalism and Nineteenth-Century Literature.” Review of Ayse Çelikkol’s Romances of Free Trade: British Literature, Laissez-Faire, and the Global Nineteenth Century.
Barbara Leckie, “I Don’t: The Failed-Marriage Plot and the Victorian Novel.” Review of Kelly Hager’s Dickens and the Rise of Divorce: the Failed-Marriage Plot and the Novel Tradition.
Thad Logan, “Imitations of Life, or Art (and Industry) at Home.” Review of Talia Schaffer’s Novel Craft: Victorian Domestic Handicraft and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.
Reviews Editor: Susan David Bernstein
Reviews Assistant: Amy Kahrmann Huseby
Technical Editor: Josh Reid