Welcome to the inaugural issue of Romance, Revolution & Reform. We are delighted to be an fully open access publication. All of our submissions go through a rigorous double-blind review process, and we are proud to publish work from a mixture of established and emerging scholars.

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Editorial: Regions, Identity, and the Genesis of Romance, Revolution & Reform

Zack White & Katie Holdway, Editor-in-Chief & Deputy Editor

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Articles

'West Country Scum': National Politics, Local Ritual and Space in the English South West, c. 1820-1832

Leonard Baker, University of Bristol

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Anthologies, Periodicals and the Press: Publicising Manchester Poetry in the early 1840s

Harry Bark, University of Oxford

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Old Age, Regionalism and 'North-South' Divide in Late Victorian and Edward England

Tom Heritage, University of Southampton

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A Dialogic Reverberation between Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (1878) and Shen Congwen's Long River (1938-1945)

Yuejie Liu, University of Southampton

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The Dilemma of William Carleton, Regional Writer and Subject Empire

Barry Sloan, Emeritus Professor, University of Southampton

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Reviews

Karin Koehler's Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communications: Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems

Eleanor Shipton, University of Exeter

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Bennett Zon's Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture

Roger Hansford, Editorial Board

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Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research Regionalism Conference

Sophie Welsh, University of Exeter

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