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Manet’s painting, ‘Masked Ball at the Opera’, showing masked and elegantly dressed figures in a dimly lit opera house.

Play in the Long Nineteenth Century

January 2026

A.0. Editorial: Play in the Long Nineteenth Century
Editorial

Sophie Thompson (University of Kent)

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A.1. Playing the King on Stage: Shakespeare’s Richard II in the Shadow of Napoleon
Article

Fernanda Korovsky Moura (Leiden University)

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A.2. Rivalry, Chess and Duality in Thomas Hardy’s ‘An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress’ (1868) and A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)
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Rebecca Welshman (University of Liverpool)

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A.3. The Parameters of Play in Honoré Daumier’s Caricatures
Article

Catherine J. L. Theobald (Brandeis University), Alyssa N. Knudsen (University of Massachusetts)

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A.4. Paget at Play, or Play in(g) Paget: Decadence, Performance and Play in the Life of Henry Cyril Paget (1875-1905)
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Lucia Cowen (Cardiff University)

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R.1. Review: Rory Muir, Love and Marriage In the Age of Jane Austen. Yale University Press, 2025. 407pp. ISBN 9780300281071, $24.00.
Review

Madeleine Mikinski (University of York)

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R.2. Review: John MacNeil Miller, The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science. University of Virginia Press, 2024. 228pp. ISBN 9780813951782, $32.50.
Review

Joshua Fagan (University of Washington)

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R.3. Review: Steam: Impressionist Painting Across the Atlantic. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 5 November 2022–ongoing.
Review

Rachel Peacock (Queen's University)

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R.4. Review: Essie Fox, Dangerous. Orenda Books, 2025. 307pp. ISBN 978191678844, £16.99.
Review

Maria Gemma Silva Ferrández (University of Stirling)

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Romance, Revolution and Reform is an interdisciplinary PGR-led journal specialising in the long nineteenth century and run in association with the Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research.

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