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New Book on Periodical Memory and the Great Famine

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 …

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In Memoriam: Remembering Brian Maidment

A Tribute from President Priti Joshi
Brian Maidment, a former president of RSVP, but more, a friend to many of us, and mentor to even more, passed away on January 28, 2025.
Brian was the author of many books and articles on, as he put it, “down market mass circulation print culture” of the early nineteenth century, with a focus on graphic humor, caricature, and satire. In a tribute to Brian a few months before his death, Clare Pettitt captured what many of us feel:
“Brian Maidment’s work has not just transformed a field, but actively created a field where there was merely a small patch of earth before. It is not a boring grass field either. It is very far from a monoculture, but a lush meadow, filled with all kinds and varieties of scholars, all united by the inspiration they have drawn […]

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New Book on the Victorian Female Detective

Sara Lodge’s new book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (2024), is now out from Yale University Press! With lots of juicy tidbits from Victorian periodicals, it tells the story of real nineteenth-century women who worked as detectives, alongside their fictional cousins on the Victorian page and stage. […]

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New Book on Periodicals and “The Charitable Child”

Kristine Moruzi is pleased to announce the publication of Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840-1930: The Charitable Child (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)! As the first book-length study on this topic, the book highlights how children’s periodicals contributed to the development of charitable ideals for children between 1840 and 1930, and considers the role of […]

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New Book on Children’s Vegetarian Cultures in Victorian Periodicals

Congratulations to Marzena Kubisz on the publication of her new book from Routledge, Children’s Vegetarian Culture in the Victorian Era: The Juvenile Food Reformers Press and Literary Change (2024)! According to the publisher’s description, “veganism, children’s literature and Victorian periodicals, and it is the first publication to systematically describe the phenomenon of Victorian children’s vegetarianism and its representations in literature and […]

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Congratulations to our President!

Winner of the 2024 NAVSA President’s Award Members of RSVP who happen to share membership in the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) received the wonderful news that our own President, Priti Joshi, has received NAVSA’s 2024 President’s Award! According to NAVSA’s website, the President’s Award “honors members who have […]

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