Guest editors Laurel Brake, Fionnuala Dillane, and Mark Turner invite essays of 5,000-7,000 words in length (including notes and bibliography) for Victorian Periodical Review‘s next special issue, “The Book Review in the Long Nineteenth Century,” to be published Summer 2022. … Continue reading
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Tell Us What You Think In addition to the RSVP Digital Salon, we’d like to gauge RSVP members’ interest in attending any other virtual event(s) this upcoming academic year (Fall 2020-Spring 2021). To that end, we’ve created a brief survey … Continue reading
Last week we announced our Curran Fellowship winners for 2020 via our monthly newsletter. Curran Fellowships are awarded annually to help scholars defray the costs of travel to and research on primary sources and archives in the 19th-century periodical press. … Continue reading
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is pleased to announce the call for papers for our next annual conference. The conference, entitled ‘Work/Leisure, Duty/Pleasure’, will be hosted by the University of Brighton, UK, and will take place 25-27 July 2019. Proposals are … Continue reading
The ongoing effort to identify the writers of articles, stories, and poems in the Victorian press that is the Curran Index is getting a new look, and new super-powers! With the support of RSVP, our intrepid editor, Gary Simons, is … Continue reading
PhD Studentship: The People’s Friend? Recovering Scottish Popular Magazine Culture – with National Library of Scotland and the University of Strathclyde. Deadline for applications 17 May 2018 Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded collaborative PhD to research Scottish popular magazine … Continue reading
Dr. Karen Bourrier shares her Victorian Bestsellers class, comparing All the Year Round installments of The Moonstone with the ones in Harper’s Weekly here at her blog: … Continue reading
Melodee Beals has kindly shared her latest talk on scissors-and-paste in the 19th-century British Empire with us on Youtube: … Continue reading
RSVP is giving away copies of the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism (DNCJ) free to new and renewing subscribers to the Victorian Periodicals Review! (If you renewed recently, just add another year to your renewal and you’re good to … Continue reading
CFP: Special Issue of Victorian Periodicals Review Essays in Honor of Sally Mitchell Proposals due March 1, 2018 Completed Essays due September 1, 2018 Sally Mitchell (1937-2016) was a pioneering feminist scholar and teacher in the field of Victorian … Continue reading