Publications – Dr Manon Burz-Labrande

Monograph

“‘Useful Knowledge’ versus ‘Wastes of Print’: Working-Class Education and Edward Lloyd”. Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 3.1 (Spring 2021): 123-139. Double-blind peer-reviewed. https://doi.org/10.46911/QODX5600

“‘Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd’: The Transmedial Circulation of a Victorian Narrative”. Polysèmes “Contemporary Victoriana” 23 | 2020. Double-blind peer-reviewed.
https://doi.org/10.4000/polysemes.6781

“‘Embalmed pestilence’, ‘intoxicating poisons’: Rhetoric of contamination, contagion, and the Gothic marginalisation of penny dreadfuls by their contemporary critics”. In Nicole C. Dittmer and Sophie Raine (Eds), Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic: Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror. University of Wales Press, 2023, pp. 91-113.
“‘Lost, as it were, from amidst the assemblage of my literary productions’: Authorial agency from scissors-and-paste to remix in Reynolds’s translations”. Co-authored with Marie Léger-St-Jean. In Jennifer Conary and Mary Shannon (Eds), Reynolds Reimagined: Studies in Authorship, Radicalism, and Genre, 1830-1870. Routledge, 2023, pp. 52-81.

(forthcoming) Co-editor of “Poison(s) and Poisoning in Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction,” a special issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal (Autumn 2026), with Sarah Frühwirth. CFP available here!

Editor of Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird (British Library Publishing, 2022). The volume belongs to the Tales of the Weird series.

Managing editor of Encyclopedia of London’s East End (McFarland, 2023), edited by Kevin A. Morrison.

Co-editor of “More than Meets the Ear: Sound & Short Fiction“, a special issue of Short Fiction in Theory & Practice (Vol 11, n°1 & 2, July 2021), with Sylvia Mieszkowski and Harald Freidl.

In Encyclopedia of London’s East End, edited by Kevin A. Morrison. McFarland, 2023.
- “Bazalgette, Joseph” (pp. 21-22)
- “Billingsgate Fish Market” (pp. 27-28)
- “Camberton, Roland” (p. 46)
- “Columbia Market” (pp. 56-57)
- “Docklands & East London Advertiser” (p. 68)
- “Dustmen” (pp. 70-71)
- “East End Women’s Museum” (p. 73)
- “The Gherkin” (p. 91)
- “Globe Town” (p. 94)
- “Lipski, Israel” (pp. 133-134)
- “Mitre Square” (pp. 156-157)
- “Royal Victoria Gardens” (pp. 198-199)
- “Seven Curses of London” (p. 206)
- “Tate & Lyle Sugars” (p. 226)
- “Thames Barrier Park” (p. 227)
- “The Tower of London” (p. 232)
In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing, edited by Lesa Scholl. Living edition.
- “Penny bloods and penny dreadfuls” (2021). https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_448-1
- “Sewell, Mary” (2021). https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_447-1

(forthcoming) Review of Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830 (2021) by Franz J. Potter. Revenant Journal.

“For Better or for Worse.” In Uni-Verse Creative Writing Society of the University of Vienna (Ed.), Pocket Universe #6: Haunted. Uni-Verse//Vienna, 2025.