collective social hour is back! we are pleased to partner with the Forum on Victorian and Early 20th C. English to welcome MLA-goers for mirth and gab. join us: Saturday 7 January 5:30-7:00pm The View Lounge Marriott Marquis Be sure to also party Hardy with Vcologies as they celebrate the publication of After Darwin and …read more
The V21 Collations Book Forum is pleased to welcome Elizabeth Oldfather, Jacob Henry Leveton, and Michael Gamer in conversation about Ian Newman’s The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge, 2019). Newman provocatively reexamines the transformations in the English social, political, and literary landscape through the locus of the tavern. While Romantic …read more
The V21 Collective & VCologies are pleased to convene an interdisciplinary summer reading group on the subject of “Radical Ecologies.” Focusing on critical theory in the Marxist tradition, we will be seeking to engage, historicize, and apprehend the place of Metabolic Rift analysis as developed in the venerable Monthly Review School and in relation to …read more
The V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Rachel Hollander, Beth Bevis Gallick, and Sam Tett in conversation about Thomas Albrecht’s The Ethical Vision of George Eliot (Routledge, 2020). Albrecht’s exciting new study tracks a double conception of ethics as it develops over the course of Eliot’s career, a development consisting of both “an ethics of connecting …read more
The V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Shannon Draucker, Julia Fuller, and Kate Thomas in conversation about Abigail Joseph’s Exquisite Materials: Episodes in the Queer History of Victorian Style (Delaware, 2019). As evocative and suggestive as the works she addresses in it, “the project of this book,” she says, “is to explore the histories and pathways …read more
The V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Elaine Auyoung, Nate Crocker, and Anna Gibson in conversation about David Sweeney Coombs’s Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science (Virginia, 2019). Coombs’s book is a fascinating intervention into our understanding of the physiology of reading. Provocatively juxtaposing nineteenth century physiological epistemologies of perception alongside Victorian literature, …read more
V21Collective special issue of Criticism published May 2020! Theories of the Nineteenth Century Vol. 61, No. 4, Fall 2019 guest edited by Zach Samalin and Anna Kornbluh Introduction: A Map the Size of the Empire (Samalin) What Does It Mean to Periodize a Theory? Three Feminist Encounters with Theories of the Nineteenth Century (Kathy Psomiades) …read more
The V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Anna Maria Jones, Erica Kanesaka Kalnay and Kristin Mahoney in conversation about Grace E. Lavery’s Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan (Princeton, 2019). Near the end of the book’s introduction, Lavery points to “the Japan this book is about” (30). The Japan that she has named …read more
The V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Jill Ehnenn, David Agruss, and Richard Kaye in conversation about Dustin Friedman’s exciting new work: Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self (Johns Hopkins, 2019). Friedman’s book stages a key intervention in queer theory by proposing that the queer aesthetes that constellated around Walter Pater should be situated …read more
The V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Matthew Reznicek, Dani Green, and John Plotz in conversation about Mary L. Mullen’s compelling new scholarly work: Novel Institutions: Anachronism, Irish Novels and Nineteenth-Century Realism (Edinburgh, 2019). As Mullen states with characteristic precision and clarity in the Introduction, “Novel Institutions offers a new understanding of the politics of institutions …read more