General interest posts
The Digital Victorian Periodical Project (PI Alison Chapman), generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, is delighted to announce a major site update! The new edition features an expanded poetry index (over 3,000 new poems from seven additional periodicals …
Essays in Honor of Brian Maidment Brian Maidment was a leading light in the study of Victorian visual culture and periodicals. His numerous books and articles delved into what he affectionately termed “down market mass circulation print culture”: popular prints, poetry by working-class or self-taught writers, graphic humor, caricature, and satire. He drew scholarly attention to traditionally overlooked forms and figures, from scraps and sketches …
Victorians Institute Conference 2025
September 13-14 2025, Furman University, Greenville, SC
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sharon Marcus, Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
As we confront the intersecting and immediate threats of climate crisis, economic precarity, structural inequality, and political extremism, the academic humanities may at first appear removed from the concrete and pressing problems facing modern citizens. We ask why, and how, we …
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 …
A Special Issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal
Our friends over at Victorian Popular Fictions Journal share a call for contributions to a special issue of the Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, entitled “Poison(s) and Poisoning in Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction,” and guest-edited by Manon Burz-Labrande and Sarah Frühwirth. This issue will …
