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 … Continue reading
“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 … Continue reading
Out Now: Dickens, Reynolds and Mayhew on Wellington Street: The Print Culture of a Victorian Street Mary L. Shannon, University of Roehampton, UK (Ashgate: April 2015) Following a successful launch event at the Menzies Centre, King’s College London this book … Continue reading
All are invited to a virtual launch of the Teaching [19th-century] Transatlanticism website (http://teachingtransatlanticism.tcu.edu) from 5:30-6:30 CST on Monday, September 22, 2014. This website features sample transatlantic teaching materials (syllabi, lesson plans, new publications relevant to teaching), information about the … Continue reading
Victorian Periodicals Review is pleased to announce two forthcoming special issues! Issue 47.4 (Winter 2014) will feature articles on “Tradition and the New” with guest editors Natalie Houston and Margret Beetham. Issue 48.2 (Summer 2015) will be entitled “Digital Pedagogies: Building … Continue reading
The 2014 Research Society for Victorian Periodicals conference will be held at the University of Delaware’s Wilmington campus on September 12 and 13. The conference theme is “Places, Spaces and the Victorian Periodical Press.” In addition to a wide … Continue reading
