...Ruth M. McAdams Ruth M. McAdams, “Religious Violence without Religion: Bleak Secular Stasis in Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge ” (pp. 243–269) This article analyzes the erasure of religion in Charles Dickens’s historical novel Barnaby Rudge (1841). The novel strangely depicts the anti-Catholic Gordon riots...

...Dehn Gilmore This essay suggests that conservation debates occasioned by the democratization of the nineteenth-century museum had an important impact on William Makepeace Thackeray’s reimagination of the historical novel. Both the museum and the historical novel had traditionally made...