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Victorian Beauty

This introduction celebrates the work of Professor Hilary Fraser and discusses the contributions to this issue of 19 on the theme of Victorian Beauty.

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Correction: ‘Such a pleasant little sketch [...] of this irritable artist’:...

A correction notice for the original article: Maria Alambritis, ‘“Such a pleasant little sketch […] of this irritable artist”: Julia Cartwright and the Reception of Andrea Mantegna in Late...

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‘The great event of modern history’: The Victorian Press Visualizes its...

From images of periodical subdivision and recycled papers on the move, to perfect machines, disruptive compositors, strikes and disasters, the press had many different ways of visualizing its...

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Around the Wire: Telegraphic Infrastructure and Gothic Energies in Late...

This article explores a link between gutta-percha, the natural South-East Asian latex used nearly exclusively as an insulation for nineteenth-century British telegraph cables, and the development of...

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Railways, Disjointed Mobility, and National Decline: Navigating George...

This article thinks through the imagined impact of railway collapse in George Chesney’s short story ‘The Battle of Dorking’ (1871). By interrogating the representation of railway infrastructure and...

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‘I was not know for sure what be the Queen, Evan; was you?’: Fictions of...

Amy Dillwyn’s The Rebecca Rioter (1880) combines attention to a historical contest over infrastructure with a narrative of personal development defined by infrastructural lack. Dillwyn thus uses the...

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Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures before ‘Infrastructure’

What is at stake when we bring nineteenth-century projects into dialogue with critical infrastructure studies? This introduction highlights the conceptual, material, and geopolitical stakes of...

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Afterword

The afterword draws out the political stakes of the recent expansion of critical infrastructure studies. Describing the articles’ interventions, it explains how nineteenth-century studies is well...

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Net-work: Irish Sea Crossings with and beyond Infrastructure

This article explores the co-constitution of networks and infrastructure in the context of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture. We consider Maria Edgeworth’s conceptualization of the term...

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Restructuring with Anthony Trollope: Managing Change in Chronicle Provincial...

This article examines the series of novels by Anthony Trollope, known as the Barsetshire Chronicles, in relation to the idea of living through infrastructural transition. It contends that the novels,...

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