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Street Urchins, Sociopaths and Degenerates offers a nuanced consideration of what is an overlooked but nonetheless important trope in late Victorian genre fiction. In doing so, it provides an insightful contribution to ongoing discussions of gothicity at the fin de siecle, and points to interesting new directions for the study of orphanhood in twentieth century and contemporary literature. --Maria Beville, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick Street Urchins, Sociopaths and Degenerates offers a nuanced consideration of what is an overlooked but nonetheless important trope in late Victorian genre fiction. In doing so, it provides an insightful contribution to ongoing discussions of gothicity at the fin de siecle, and points to interesting new directions for the study of orphanhood in twentieth century and contemporary literature. --Maria Beville, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick

Street Urchins, Sociopaths and Degenerates offers a nuanced consideration of what is an overlooked but nonetheless important trope in late Victorian genre fiction. In doing so, it provides an insightful contribution to ongoing discussions of gothicity at the fin de siecle, and points to interesting new directions for the study of orphanhood in twentieth century and contemporary literature. --Maria Beville, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick

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David Floyd is Assistant Professor of English at Charleston Southern University. His research interests are Victorian literature, Gothic theory, nineteenth-century psychological theory, and postcolonialism. He has presented papers on Dickens, Stoker, Stevenson, Lovecraft, and Arthurian literature in North America and the United Kingdom.

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