Vol. 15 No. 2 (2025): 2024/2025 Special Issue: Neo-Victorian Contagion: Re-Imagining Past Epidemics, Infection Control and Public Health Crises

Articles

• Infectious Reimagining: An Introduction to Neo-Victorian Contagion

  Marie-Luise Kohlke

  i-xxix

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• The (Neo-)Victorian Sherlock Holmes Paradigm

  Saverio Tomaiuolo

  1-31

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• Viral Monsters: Frankenstein’s Creatures in TV Series and Neo-Victorian ‘Contagious’ Re-Writings of the Canon

  Alessandra Olga Grazia Serra

  32-61

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• Diagnosing Disease: Discrimination and Precarity in Emma Donoghue’s Frog Music (2014) and Michael Nava’s The City of Palaces (2014)

  Georgia Ntola

  62-93

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• “The Plague swept through here”: The Negotiation of Victorian Anxieties about Contagion and Class in The Order: 1886 (2015) and Dishonored (2012)

  Sarah E. Beyvers

  94-120

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• “This contrived Quarantine”: Local Lockdown as Heterotopia in Sheri Holman’s The Dress Lodger (2000)

  Rosalind Crocker

  121-147

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• Nationalistic Contagion in Dacre Stoker and J. D. Barker’s Dracul: or, “the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck”

  Christian Gallichio

  148-168

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• Short-Storying Neo-Victorian Contagion: The 1847 Typhus Epidemic in Andrea Barrett’s ‘Ship Fever’

  Jeanne Ellis

  169-201

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Reviews and Review Essays

• Zadie Smith and the Form of the Historical Novel Review of Zadie Smith, The Fraud

  Benjamin D. O'Dell

  202-215

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• Neo-Victorian ArtReview of Isobel Elstob, Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art: Britain and Beyond

  Margaret D. Stetz

  216-229

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• Notes on Contributors

  NVS Editorial Team

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