Editor's introduction.

Thriving in its fourth year of existence, the North American Victorian Studies Association met last fall at Purdue University in west Lafayette, Indiana, providing once again an occasion for Victorian Studies to devote an issue to papers delivered at the conference. the aim of our yearly NAVSA issue has been to convey to readers something of the explorative, collaborative excitement of the conference itself, a venue for scholarship that offers a warm welcome to the provisional and speculative, the engagingly incomplete and alluringly partial. That was true again this year, but the 2006 conference offered its own distinctive opportunities, as it was held in conjunction with the …