Special issue on Nineteenth-Century Interstitial Spaces by Frederik Van Dam and Chris Louttit

A special issue of the European Journal of English Studies was published on 21 February regarding Nineteenth-Century Interstitial Spaces. Dr Frederik Van Dam and Dr Chris Louttit edited the issue alongside co-editor Joanna Hofer-Robinson. Van Dam and Louttit’s introductory essay, “Spheres within spheres: nineteenth-century interstitial spaces and Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries (2013)” establishes connections within and between the subjects of the other eight contributions to the issue. It builds on existing research It then applies the idea of interstitiality to Eleanor Catton’s neo-Victorian novel The Luminaries (2013). The eight other essays build on existing research influenced by the so-called spatial turn. However, they represent another, more recent scholarly shift highlighting the material properties of technological artefacts against their phenomenological or ideological impact. The entirety of the special issue can be found through this link.