The provisional programme for the forthcoming RSVP Conference is available to download from the Conference website along with information about registration, accommodation and travel
RSVP News & Events
New Publication on Dickens & Print Culture – Discount Available
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 is now available to buy. Please do consider ordering it for your libraries!
Dickens, Reynolds and Mayhew on Wellington Street: The Print Culture of a Victorian Street discusses, for the first time, the proximity of the offices of Charles Dickens, G.W.M. Reynolds, and Henry Mayhew, in mid 19th-century London. Wellington Street (home to nearly thirty newspapers and periodicals, as well as a theatre and the musical and theatrical press) was a highly significant location for metropolitan print culture because it was a hub of relationships, influences and connections between writers, booksellers, editors, publishers, theatre managers and audiences, and readers. The book uses archival research, literary criticism, and literary geography to explore Wellington Street at different times of the day and to reveal the ways in which its print networks fostered connections between the discourses of journalism, literature, and drama. It reassesses the intersection between print culture, popular culture, the built environment and urban experience, and reveals the links between Wellington Street and the print culture of colonial Melbourne.
For more details and to download the introduction, go to http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472442048. Use the discount code C15JKW20 at the checkout for 20% off. Valid until 31/08/15.
Cultures of Communication Conference: Registration now open
Early registration is now open for the Cultures of Communication conference taking place this 10-11 September in Edinburgh, with a reduced fee available until 31 July. A preliminary schedule of session times is up on the website, as is the registration page. See http://www.ccii.hss.ed.ac.uk/?page_id=37
VanArsdel Graduate Student Essay Prize
The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honour Rosemary VanArsdel, a founding member of RSVP whose groundbreaking research continues to shape the field of nineteenth-century periodical studies. The deadline for this year’s award competition is May 1, 2015. The winner will receive $500 and publication in the spring 2016 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. Submissions should be 15-25 pages, excluding notes and bibliography. Manuscripts should not have appeared in print. For further details about the prize, contact the editor of VPR, Alexis Easley (maeasley@stthomas.edu).
ESPrit Conference CFP – Politics & Periodicals
Deadline now extended until 1st June 2015.
Full details available at http://www.espr-it.eu/news/2015-esprit-conference/25-call-for-papers