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CFP: RSVP Special Session for MLA 2023

February 11, 2022

The Research Society of Victorian Periodicals seeks proposals for a Special Session at the
January 5-8, 2023 MLA convention in San Francisco, in keeping with the presidential theme of
“Working Conditions” (News from the MLA 2023 Presidential Theme: Working Conditions).

We welcome abstracts of 250-400 words on all aspects of work and working conditions within
and represented by the nineteenth-century press. We particularly welcome proposals oriented
toward social justice issues that cross geographic (including oceanic) borders and that offer
intersectional approaches to race, class, and gender.

Topics might include:

  • Hierarchies of working conditions in periodical production and distribution
  • Outsourcing of press labor
  • Reforms of working conditions and their national and international press coverage
  • Periodical representations of enslaved and oppressed laborers, including colonial workers
  • New archival sources for investigating working conditions demanded by periodical production
  • Periodical representations of work conditions for educators (a special focus of the 2023
    Presidential Theme) in day schools, boarding schools, universities, and those emerging after the 1870 Education Act
  • Sensational exposés of working conditions as sensation journalism and/or reformist interventions
  • Press coverage of Parliamentary debates about working conditions
  • Royal Commission investigations of working conditions in periodical reports and editorials, and
    their inspiration in fiction and poetry
  • New approaches to Henry Mayhew’s documentation of workers and working conditions in
    newspaper, periodical, and book form
  • Working-class periodicals and workers
  • The use of sentimentality, empathy, and rage in press coverage of working conditions
  • Global and local working conditions in the digitizing of nineteenth-century periodicals

Please send proposals and a short bio or 1-page c.v. to Linda K. Hughes by 10 March 2022.

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