Daragh Downes, Trish Ferguson: Introduction: Exploring the hinterland of Victorian fiction
Michael Slater: Prize novelists and condensed novels: Thackeray and Bret Harte
Adam Abraham: Before New Grub Street: Thomas Miller and the contingencies of authorship
Ciaran Brady: Emboldening the weak: early fiction of James Anthony Froude
Monika Mazurek: George Borrow: the scholar, the gipsy, the priest
Elizabeth Andrews: Sensation fiction as social activism: Charles Reade's It is never too late to mend and Felicia Skene's Hidden depths
Daragh Downes: Sheer luck, Holmes? Clues towards canon formation in Victorian detective fiction
Samantha J.M. Aliu: Politics of the strange and unusual: mesmerism and the medical professional in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Dr. Carrick (1878)
Christopher Pittard: Silas K. Hocking, Her Benny, and the poetics of the prolific
Trish Ferguson: Henry Hawley Smart's The Great Tontine and the art of book-making
Matthew Ingleby: Double standards: reading the revolutionary Doppelgänger in The prophet's mantle
Ailise Bulfin: Richard Marsh and the realist Gothic: pursuing traces of an evasive author in his fin-de-siècle popular fiction
Paul Raphael Rooney: Dat cura commodum, or, A portrait of a deviant mind: Arthur Griffith's The Rome express, John Milne's The express series and late-Victorian detective fiction