Welcome to the second 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:

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

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Articles

‘Down with the Bell!’ The Nāblus Uprising of April 1856

Gabriel Polley, University of Exeter

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Resisting mechanisation? Reading Shortshanks’ ‘The March of Intellect’ (c. 1828) through the lenses of Daniel and Edward Irving

Helen-Frances Dessain, Independent Scholar

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The Path of Least Resistance: Mapping the 1832 Reform Act and Felix Holt

Delphine Gatehouse, University of London

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Gender and Social Resistance in Marie Corelli’s The Young Diana

Erin Louttit

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‘Tired Inside’: Illness as Social Resistance in George MacDonald’s Adela Cathcart

Jessica Lewis

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Thomas Hardy's Unmen and Othered Men

Tracy Hayes,

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Reviews

Laura Eastlake, Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity

Quentin Broughall

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Catherine Waters, Special Correspondence and the Newspaper Press in Victorian Print Culture, 1850-1886

Françoise Baillet

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Barbara Leckie, Open Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Matthew Reznicek

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Gregory Mackie, Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife

Aaron Eames

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Phyllis Weliver, Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism

Roger Hansford

 

Nicoletta Leonardi and Simone Natale (eds), Photography and Other Media in the Nineteenth Century

Beth Knazook

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