Journal Cfp: Special Issue Women’s Writing Beyond Braddon: Forgotten Female Sensationalists
Conference Cfp: Disability and the Victorians: Confronting Legacies Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies 30th July-1st August 2012 Leeds Trinity University College
Trinity University Leeds, 27th-28th June 2011
The Victorian Popular Fiction Association was established in 2009 following the successful Victorian Popular Novelists 1860-1900 conference. It holds regular research seminars and other events to serve as a forum for the dissemination and, hopefully, publication of the vast amount of research currently being undertaken in this field. It also holds an annual conference. Victorian Popular Culture: Prose, Stage and Screen – Programme.
VPF Study day: Florence Marryat
Conference cfp: George MacDonald and His Contemporaries
Review: Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print: Belgravia and Sensationalism
Archive: Punch and the Victorian Periodical Press Collection
Magic Lantern: Bibliography
Conference cfp: Picturing Women’s Health 1750-1910
Conference cfp: Research Society for Victorian Periodicals – Work and Leisure
Call for book reviewers
Victoriographies: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing, 1790-1914
Published by Edinburgh Univerisity Press from May 2011
http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/vic
Victoriographies is concerned with writing of the long nineteenth century and writing about the nineteenth century. While committed to addressing the idea of what constitutes Victorian literature, Victoriographies also aims, in returning to the text as text, to explore not only, and as if for the first time, those canonical texts and authors that seem to be familiar, but also to interrogate the understudied, those years, decades, authors and publications which demand a response, and for which the journal aims to take responsibility. Victoriographies encourages articles and research that focus on literary writing as writing, and not merely as a semi-transparent medium for sociological or historical investigation, naive in the assumption that language is solely a vehicle for presenting reality. The study and close analysis of the rhetoric and form of Victorian writing and the literary from 1790 to 1914 will be taken up with the explicit intention to explore, through close critical engagement and rigorous reading, notions of a ‘deep’ materiality or historicity, by which it is understood that there is a materiality of the letter commensurate with the materiality of history, and that language and literary mediation traces, and translates, the contours of such materiality and historicity.
To join the database, please send me a note at k.hext@ex.ac.uk/kjhext@gmail.com. Potential reviewers will receive biannual book review lists and other select journal updates via my blind e-mail list.
Professor Julian Wolfreys, Editor
Dr. Kate Hext, Book Reviews Editor (UK & Europe)
Dr. Megan Becker-Leckrone, Book Reviews Editor (North America)
Advance notice of a forthcoming conference:
DRAWING AND THE VICTORIAN ARTIST
Birmingham and Midland Institute, Margaret St, Birmingham, and Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
18-19 March 2011
Drawing and the Victorian Artist is a two-day conference organised jointly by Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery and the Birmingham and Midland Institute to coincide with a major survey exhibition at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, The Poetry of Drawing: Pre-Raphaelite Designs, Studies and Watercolours (29 January – 15 May 2011).
The planned conference will extend the debate beyond the exhibition to examine the wider contexts of drawing in the nineteenth century, presenting new and current research into Victorian art and casting new light on subjects including the training of artists, the making and collecting of drawings, the development of spaces for exhibiting works on paper, and changing approaches to drawing at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is intended to be of relevance to academics and to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as to a general audience. Further details to follow.
Conference cfp (ARPF ARCHIVE) : Popular fictions: Selling Culture? Victorian Strand
