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Winner of the Colby Book Prize 2017 Announced

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize is The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers co-edited by Andrew King, Alexis Easley and John Morton. The Committee, chaired by Katherine Ledbetter, describes the book as “a standard reference work” that offers “cutting-edge, comprehensive scholarship by experts in each area”. The volume was seen as “wide-ranging and diverse” in ways that stepped beyond Great Britain to consider British newspapers and periodicals in relation to North American, European, Australian and Asian publications. Congratulations to all scholars involved […]

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Finding Mr. Poe: Intertextuality and Periodicity between Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens

  Katie Bell is a PhD student at the University of Leicester. Her thesis is titled “The Diaspora of Dickens: Death, Decay and Regeneration”, the focus of which is the intertextuality of Dickens’s works and 20th century American texts of the Southern Gothic genre. The American authors examined in her thesis are William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor and Carson McCullers.  She is based in the United States where she is also a volunteer docent for The Wren’s Nest, the home of Atlanta author Joel Chandler Harris most famous for his ‘Br’er Rabbit’ tales.  She can be found on Twitter @decadentdickens   Edgar Allan […]

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Call for Papers: Editing the Twentieth Century

Members of the RSVP community may be interested in the following CFP: ‘Editing the Twentieth Century’, The British Library. 5 September 2017 Call for Papers: What do editors actually do? What makes a good editor? And more importantly, what makes a successful editor? From the Times Literary Supplement to Les Temps Modernes and Novyi Mir, from The Criterion to Die neue Rundschau and Spare Rib, there can be no doubting the influence of literary-intellectual magazines in selecting and shaping our cultural knowledge, our beliefs and values. But we still know surprisingly little about how these crucial cultural institutions were led and managed […]

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Memorial Service for Michael Wolff

A memorial gathering to celebrate the life and work of Michael Jonas Wolff will be held on Sunday, February 19, 2017 at 9:30AM at the Jewish Community of Amherst. There will then be a gathering back at the Marriott Courtyard hotel for a light lunch after the service. Jessica, Jeremy and Judith Wolff ask that if you would like to share a brief ​tribute or ​memory of Michael, to email them in advance.

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RSVP Annual Conference CFP Extended: 15th Feb

The call for papers for our next conference Borders and Border Crossings is still open and the website can be found here. The conference will take place at Freiburg University, Germany, 27th – 29th July 2017. RSVP is an interdisciplinary and international organization welcoming all scholars interested in the richly diverse world of the 19th-century British press. Please send a proposal (250 words maximum) and a short CV (no more than 200 words) to rs4vp2017@gmail.com by 15th February 2017. Individual presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes, and proposals for panels of three are welcome. Please include a brief rationale for the panel along with […]

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‘The Private Space of Police and Prison’ by Sam Saunders (Liverpool John Moores University)

  Sam Saunders is a current PhD candidate at Liverpool John Moores University, where he is researching the role of the periodical press on the construction and evolution of Victorian detective fiction. His research explores non-fiction periodical discussions on the police and crime, as well as early examples of serialised crime fiction. Sam has previously written for the British Association for Victorian Studies and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post UK. He is also completing articles for the Journal of the Police History Society and the Law Crime and History Journal, due to be published later this year. […]

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