RSVP
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
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 to collect your thoughts. Your input will drive our efforts to help us stay connected during this time, so thank you in advance!
Please take a moment to fill out the survey here: https://forms.gle/
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 working with a team to convert the old set of pages, which are made up of blocks of text that have had to be scrolled through, into a fully functional online database that can be searched in a variety of ways. Please visit this new and improved work in progress here (http://curranindex.org/) and read about all the latest additions to this rapidly expanding resource.
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:
Melodee Beals has kindly shared her latest talk on scissors-and-paste in the 19th-century British Empire with us on Youtube:
I’m glad to report that “The Commercial History of a Penny Magazine” (1833), ed. Laurie Dickinson and Sarah Wadsworth (1995), is now available again, at the Internet Archive: • http://wayback.archive-it.org/4530/20150917234658/http://english.umn.edu/PM/PennyMag.html
“Digital Pedagogies: Building Learning Communities for Studying Victorian Periodicals”
Since Patrick Leary’s seminal essay “Googling the Victorians”, first published in 2005, significant advancements have been made in the field of periodical research, largely as a result of the rise in digital projects. In almost ten years of scholarship, researchers have been examining and developing new digital methods for analysing and extrapolating data. Scholars have been considering not only the construction of digital resources but how they can be used in many different ways; to enhance research, to identify neglected texts, to inspire and engage students. This special number of VPR gives us the opportunity to bring together these ideas and debates, to reflect on how the field of periodicals research has changed as a result of the digital revolution and to consider where it may be in the next ten years.
Resources:
Jennifer PHEGLEY Victorian Family Magazines Class
Kylee Ann Hingston & Caley Ehnes