Nora Gilbert is a professor of English at the University of North Texas, where she co-specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and twentieth-century American film. She is the author of Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Censorship, and the Benefits of Censorship (2013) and co-editor of Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice (2026). Her essays have appeared in such venues as PMLA, Film & History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Review, Eighteenth-Century Life, Screen, and Public Books. Since 2017, she has served as editor of Studies in the Novel.

Review from previous edition Gilbert's fetching descriptions of this underexamined narrative feature make a compelling contribution. Gone Girls will inspire some of its readers to bolt directly back to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels that, as the author eloquently puts it, ‘remind us of the radical, often underestimated potency of running to break free.

Nora Gilbert is a professor of English at the University of North Texas, where she co-specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and twentieth-century American film. She is the author of Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Censorship, and the Benefits of Censorship (2013) and co-editor of Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice (2026). Her essays have appeared in such venues as PMLA, Film & History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Review, Eighteenth-Century Life, Screen, and Public Books. Since 2017, she has served as editor of Studies in the Novel.

Review from previous edition Gilbert's fetching descriptions of this underexamined narrative feature make a compelling contribution. Gone Girls will inspire some of its readers to bolt directly back to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels that, as the author eloquently puts it, ‘remind us of the radical, often underestimated potency of running to break free.