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Applications Wanted by October 15 The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) seeks a suitably qualified periodicals scholar to serve as Editor of the Curran Index or applications from pairs of highly qualified scholars to serve as Co-Editors. This collaboratively sourced, ongoing, open access project is devoted to identifying the authors of unsigned and pseudonymous articles, reviews, poetry, and fiction in the periodical press of Britain and its empire over the long nineteenth century. The larger purpose of the project is to enrich and expand our understanding …

Our Vice President, Alison Chapman, is delighted to announce the publication of Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1870s, which is out now and available from Cambridge University Press. Part of CUP’s Literature in Transition series, this volume explores how the literary culture of the 1870s was shaped by periodicals, newspapers, and magazines, offering new perspectives on the …

RSVP is delighted to share the publication of Periodical Famines: Irish Memories in Transatlantic News Media, 1845–1919 (2025), a new monograph by Lindsay Janssen, now available from Indiana University Press!

This new study examines how nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals shaped collective memory of the Great Irish Famine and its aftermath. Through a transatlantic lens, Periodical Famines traces the circulation of famine narratives across periodical networks in Ireland, Britain …