Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, 1.2: 'Mapping Victorian Popular Fictions' (special issue)
- Submitting institution
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City, University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 868
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Victorian Popular Fiction Association
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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https://victorianpopularfiction.org/publications/1200-2/victorian-popular-fictions-volume-1-issue-2-autumn-2019/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Vuohelainen was invited to guest-edit this special issue of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association’s open-access Victorian Popular Fictions Journal. She determined the theme of the special issue (mapping), issued a call for papers and selected proposals in consultation with the journal’s general editors. The special issue brings together work by eleven scholars from the UK, US, Singapore, Italy and India. Their essays contribute to the field of the spatial humanities by offerings insights into the theme of mapping, broadly understood, in Australian, imperial, rural, London-centric and Russian texts representing a range of popular genre fiction, including adventure, realism, Gothic, settler narratives, detective and crime fiction and penny bloods, as well as celebrity interviews and newsprint. The special issue extends studies of literary cartography through its investigation of the relationship between genre and spatiality.
Vuohelainen’s editorial work involved organising peer review, helping authors to develop the arguments and structure of their essays, suggesting revisions, and ensuring stylistic and bibliographic consistency across the special issue. Vuohelainen edited each essay twice and then worked with the journal’s general editors to complete the copy-editing. In keeping with the journal’s house style, Vuohelainen’s own extended essay (15,000 words) is a polemical piece that offers a critical intervention in Victorian popular fiction research. This opening essay serves as an introduction to the special issue, surveys the field of the spatial humanities, and includes original geocritical research on the inner London district of Clerkenwell, drawing together a wide range of canonical, popular, journalistic and cartographic material from the late nineteenth century.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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