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CFP: Special Issue of Victorian Periodicals Review – Essays in Honor of Sally Mitchell

CFP: Special Issue of Victorian Periodicals Review  Essays in Honor of Sally Mitchell Proposals due March 1, 2018 Completed Essays due September 1, 2018   Sally Mitchell (1937-2016) was a pioneering feminist scholar and teacher in the field of Victorian studies whose work opened new avenues for the study of women’s writing, cultural history, and journalism. Throughout her career, periodicals were at the heart of her research, which included groundbreaking work on women’s penny papers and popular reading, an innovative study of The New Girl, critical biographies of Dinah Mulock Craik and Frances Power Cobbe, indispensable histories such as Daily […]

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RSVP Field Development Grant Accepting Proposals Now

In 2017 the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals will award one RSVP Field Development Grant to a single researcher or a team of researchers pursuing a project that would facilitate research by other scholars. Two smaller awards may be given if the right projects present themselves. The amount of the award will be up to $27,500. Please see the Field Development Grant page of our website for more details. The deadline for applications is February 1, 2017.

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‘Trilby-Mania’ by Erica Haugtvedt (Ohio State University)

  Erica Haugtvedt is a Ph.D. candidate at Ohio State University. Her research focuses on early forms of transmedia and participatory culture emerging from engagement with Victorian serial narratives published in numbers or in periodicals. She is fundamentally interested in the emotional dynamics of serial reading. Her article ‘The Sympathy of Suspense: Gaskell and Braddon’s Slow and Fast Sensation Fiction in Family Magazines’ will appear in the Spring 2016 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. You can contact Erica on Twitter @EHaugtvedt and at haugtvedt.3@osu.edu   Trilby-Mania: Serial Fiction Merchandising during the fin de siècle ‘For we’ve got Trilby jugs and Trilby […]

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RSVP 2015 Conference in Ghent makes international news

RSVP’s 2015 conference in Ghent was a fascinating experience — splendid papers and plenary lectures in a gloriously historic setting. We’ll be posting more about it soon. The biggest news out of the conference, however, was this: scholar and bookdealer Jeremy Parrott revealed at RSVP, for the first time anywhere, his discovery of a “marked set” of All the Year Round. This hitherto unrecorded “deluxe edition” in scarlet binding has handwritten marginalia identifying (almost) all of the contributors by name, next to each one’s contribution. Between 300 and 400 contributors of some 2500 articles, stories, and poems, are now conclusively […]

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Postgraduate Research Blog Launch

We are delighted to announce the launch of our postgraduate research blog. The Research blog area is a space for our postgraduate students to showcase their research projects and for the wider RSVP community to read and enjoy! Each post will include the contact details of our featured writer. We encourage you to get in touch with them for further discussion of the topics raised. Our inaugural post comes from Ann M. Hale (University of Greenwich) and is entitled ‘On Serendipity.’ You can read it here. If you would like to write a blog post for the website please contact […]

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