Special issues of VPR explore a particular theme under the management of a guest editor. Subscribers can read the following special issues and the full back catalog of VPR online at Project Muse (2005-present) and JSTOR (1968-2004). Please note that an individual or an institutional subscription may be necessary to access these databases.
“Race and Transnationalism.” VPR 56.4 (Winter 2023)
Lars Atkin and Matt Poland, guest editors
“Revolution(s), Evolution(s), Circulation(s).” VPR 56.2 (Summer 2023)
Françoise Baillet and Kristin Kondrlik, guest editors
“The Book Review in the Long Nineteenth Century.” VPR 55.2 (Summer 2022)
Laurel Brake, Fionnuala Dillane and Mark W. Turner, guest editors
“Collaboration.” VPR 54.2 (Summer 2021)
Jennifer Phegley, guest editor
“Essays in Honor of Margaret Beetham.” VPR 53.4 (Winter 2020)
Gemma Outen and Andrew Hobbs, guest editors
“Honoring Sally Mitchell.” VPR 52.4 (Winter 2019)
Katherine Malone, editor
“Reassessing the Strand Magazine, 1891-1918.” VPR 52.2 (Summer 2019)
Emma Liggins and Minna Vuohelainen, guest editors
“Copying and Copyright, Publishing Practice and the Law.” VPR 51.4 (Winter 2018)
Will Slauter, guest editor
“Borders and Border Crossings in the Victorian Periodical Press.” VPR 51.3 (Fall 2018)
Barbara Korte and Stefanie Lethbridge, guest editors
“Domesticity, Culture, and the Victorian Press.” VPR 51.2 (Summer 2018). Julie Codell, guest editor
“Honoring Linda Peterson.” VPR 50.2 (Summer 2017)
Alexis Easley, editor
“Our Golden Anniversary.” VPR 50.1 (Spring 2017)
Alexis Easley, editor
“Moments of Challenge and Change.” VPR 49.4 (Winter 2016)
Shannon R. Smith and Ann M. Hale, guest editors
“Waterloo and Its Afterlife in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical and Newspaper Press.” VPR 48.4 (Winter 2015)
Christopher Keirstead and Marysa Demoor, guest editors
“A Return to Theory.” VPR 48.3 (Fall 2015)
Matthew Philpotts, guest editor
“Digital Pedagogies.” VPR 48.2 (Summer 2015)
Clare Horrocks and Kim Edwards Keates, guest editors
“Tradition and the New.” VPR 47.4 (Winter 2014)
Natalie M. Houston and Margaret Beetham, guest editors
“Work and Leisure.” VPR 46.3 (Fall 2013)
Andrew King, guest editor
“Victorian Networks and the Periodical Press.” VPR 44.2 (Summer 2011)
Alexis Easley, guest editor
“Supplements.” VPR 43.2 (Summer 2010)
Marysa Demoor and Kate Macdonald, guest editors
“Fortieth Anniversary Issue.” VPR 41.1 (Spring 2008)
Rosemary T. VanArsdel, guest editor
“Periodical Pedagogy.” VPR 39.4 (Winter 2006)
Teresa Mangum, guest editor
“Interdisciplinary Work and Periodical Connections.” VPR 38.2 (Summer 2005)
Andrea Broomfield, guest editor
“Australian, New Zealand, and South African Periodicals.” VPR 37.4 (Winter 2004)
Rosemary VanArsdel, guest editor
“The Nineteenth-Century Press in India.” VPR 37.3 (Summer 2004)
Julie Codell, guest editor
“The Cornhill Magazine.” VPR 32.3 (Fall 1999)
Barbara Quinn Schmidt, guest editor
“Victorian Women Editors and Critics.” VPR 31.1 (Spring 1998)
D. J. Trela, guest editor
“Nineteenth-Century Women and Periodicals.” VPR 29.2 (Summer 1996)
D. J. Trela, guest editor
“American Periodicals.” VPR 28.3 (Fall 1995)
Benjamin Fisher, guest editor
“Wellesley Index: The Eclectic Review, 1805-1868.” VPR 27.3 (Fall 1994)
Mary Ruth Hiller, guest editor
“Wellesley Index.” VPR 26.4 (Winter 1993)
Richard D. Fulton, editor
“Wellesley Index Special Issue II.” VPR 24.3 (Fall 1991)
Robert Colby and Josef L. Altholz, guest editors
“Art Issue II: Production/Reproduction in Victorian Art and the Press.” VPR 24.2 (Summer 1991)
Julie Codell, guest editor
“Art Issue I: Production/Reproduction in Victorian Art and the Press.” VPR 23.1 (Spring 1991)
Julie Codell, guest editor
“Athenaeum Issue II.” VPR 23.4 (Winter 1990)
Barbara Quinn Schmidt, editor
“Wellesley Index.” VPR 23.2 (Summer 1990)
Robert Colby, guest editor
“Athenaeum Issue I.” VPR 23.1 (Spring 1990)
Barbara Quinn Schmidt, editor
“Critical Theory and Periodical Research.” VPR 22.3 (Fall 1989)
Laurel Brake and Anne Humphreys, guest editors
“Dickens Issue: Part Two.” VPR 22.2 (Summer 1989)
J. Don Vann, guest editor
“Dickens Issue.” VPR 21.4 (Winter 1988)
J. Don Vann, guest editor
“Kingsley and Macmillan’s Magazine.” VPR 19.4 (Winter 1986)
Larry Uffelman and Patrick Scott, guest editors