.... Glimpses of chronicle narration can be seen operating within and against the competitive character systems that dominate canonical Victorian novels. A twentieth-century variant, Gilbreth and Carey's Cheaper by the Dozen , proves that the mutualistic form is also capable of hardening the boundaries around...

...' Cheaper by the Dozen (1948). Together, the first four essays in this special issue invite us to see the familiar trope of exhumation that identifies everything Victorian, from the archeological plundering of antiquities to the discovery of the unconscious as the means of anachronistically experiencing...