
Unintended Authors: Piracy, Plagiarism and Property in Victorian Popular Culture
A Special issue of Victorian Popular Culture edited by Monica Cohen that includes:
Articles
Monica Cohen: Unintended Authors: Piracy, Plagiarism and Property in Victorian Popular Culture
Brian Maidment: “Thief in the Name of Kidd”: Unscrupulous Opportunism and Cheap Print in Late Regency London
Alexis Easley: Frederick Douglass, Copyright, and the British Press, 1845-47
Rob Breton: Women and Children First: Appropriated Fiction in the Ten Hours’ Advocate
Erica Haugtvedt: Class and Complex Transmedia Character in the Early Victorian Period: Jack Sheppard (1839-40)
Julianne Smith: Stage Piracy in Victorian Britain: Bleak House Adaptations
Taryn Hakala: Melodramatic Mayhew: J.B. Johnstone’s How We Live in the World of London
Robert Laurella: Knighthoods and Empty Benches: Wilkie Collins’s Armadale and the Late Victorian Culture Industry
Katherine Bowers: Ghost Writers: Radcliffiana and the Russian Gothic Wave
Mashael I. Alhammad: “A Nondescript Monster”: Fanny Fern in Transatlantic Print Culture
Katerina García-Walsh: Oscar Wilde’s Misattributions: A Legacy of Gross Indecency
Book Reviews
Helena Ifill reviews Gender, the New Woman, and the Monster by Elizabeth D. Macaluso
Asma Char reviews Women’s Authorship and the Early Gothic, edited by Kathleen Hudson
Maria Juko reviews New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832-1860 by Alexis Easley
Kathleen Beal reviews Dickens After Dickens, edited by Emily Bell