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Shriek, Roar, and Rattle: Trains as Engines of Doom in Victorian Fiction

"Poor Mr. Casaubon": Narratorial Guidance and Reader Judgment in Middlemarch

All the World's a Stage—With Only One Player On It

Suspended in Time: Thomas Hardy and the Original Cliffhanger

Writing the "Other": Jews in Trollope's Novels

Shielding the Reader: "Fallen" Women and the Realist Victorian Novel

Antisemitism and Philosemitism: Jews in Dickens's Novels

At the Edge of Death: Safety Coffins, Poe, and Dracula

Love Triangles, Death, and Art in Dahl’s "Skin" and Wilde’s "Dorian Gray"

Narration and Voicelessness in The Woman in White

Some Writer: The Invisible Author in the Web

The Art of the Deal: Not-Cinderella Stories from Charles Dickens

Why the Duck-Billed Reader?

Fish, Champagne, Excuses, and Threats: Letters in Trollope’s Novels

Predators at Home: Not-Cinderella Stories from the Sherlock Holmes Canon

A Mysterious Death: Metaphor and Science in Bleak House

A Title of One's Own

Heiresses as Prey: Trollope’s Not-Cinderellas

The Unwritten End: When Authors Die Before Their Characters

More Than Entertainment: Teachings in the Victorian Novel

Dickens, Dracula, and Djinni: Literature as Entertainment

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