Digital Scissors, Computational Paste: Re-Visualising the Content of 19th-Century Newspapers
Melodee Beals has kindly shared her latest talk on scissors-and-paste in the 19th-century British Empire with us on Youtube:
VPR/DNCJ promotion
RSVP is giving away copies of the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism (DNCJ) free to new and renewing subscribers to the Victorian Periodicals Review! (If you renewed recently, just add another year to your renewal and you’re good to go.) You don’t need to put in a promotion code, just sign up and this essential reference book will be mailed to you, while supplies last. These copies are already going fast, and there’s a limited number of them, so best to act quickly if you want a copy. And of course with your subscription (which only costs $35) comes […]
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 […]
Women in Punch 1841 – 1920, 02 Nov 2017, Senate House, London
Registration is now open for ‘Women in Punch 1841 – 1920’, 02 Nov 2017, Senate House, London. Punch: or the London Charivari first appeared in 1841, published as a weekly magazine with a strong political agenda. Although some work has been done on the social reform agenda of Punch, very little is known about women in the magazine. Were there any women contributors? What representations of women appeared in the magazine, both in images and text? Women were certainly a subject for humour and caricature in Punch, but what were the political implications of those comic illustrations? What was the role played […]
Dr. Paul Fyfe wins Prestigious Donald Gray Prize
Congratulations to RSVP member Dr. Paul Fyfe winner of this year’s Donald Gray Prize for the best essay published in the field of Victorian studies. Dr. Fyfe’s article ‘An Archaeology of Victorian Newspapers‘ was published in the Winter 2016 edition of Victorian Periodicals Review. The NAVSA judging committee – Deborah Denenholz Morse (Chair), Mary Jean Corbett, Martin Danahay, and Peter Hoffenberg – commented: Paul Fyfe’s ‘An Archaeology of Victorian Newspapers’ excavates a portion of “the largely hidden history of how Victorian data gets to now” by filling in some of the gaps between then and now. This fascinating essay, which draws on the […]
Pushing the Bounds of Obscenity in The Times and Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern Woman
Jennifer Wood recently finished her Masters degree and is hoping to begin a PhD in 2018 to continue her work. She is researching the history of divorce in Victorian literature and its role in pushing the boundaries of decency in Victorian culture and hopes to expand into transcontinental studies of divorce. When not working on her research, she teaches both American history as well as Western civilization to undergraduates at Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City. You can reach Jennifer at Jennifer.wood@mcckc.edu Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern Woman, first serialized in The Lady’s Pictorial […]