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Collations: Book Forum on Susan Zieger’s The Mediated Mind: Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century

Posted on 17th December, by in Collations Book Forum

The V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Lindsay Wilhelm, Richard Menke, and Kimberly Hall in conversation about Susan Zieger’s The Mediated Mind: Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century (Fordham, 2018). Zieger’s compelling new work explores ephemeral forms of “printed paper and imprinted objects,” as various kinds of new media that “touched every region of …read more

V21 at MLA! 5th annual social hour and panels

Posted on 9th December, by in Events of Note

Join V21 for our 5th annual MLA social hour, Saturday 11 January, 5pm-7pm, at The Fountain Bar (in the Sheraton). This year we’re delighted to partner with the Forum on Victorian and Modernist Lit, which will start their gathering at 6:30pm in the same venue, so the hours of affiliating are many.  Make new collectives! …read more

Collations: Book Forum on Elaine Auyoung’s When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind

Posted on 22nd October, by in Collations Book Forum

The V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Katarzyna Bartoszynska, Carolyn Dever and Milan Terlunen in conversation about Elaine Auyoung’s When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind (Oxford, 2018). Auyoung’s provocative and compelling new work of scholarship begins with this question: “how can nineteenth-century novels bring readers into intimate relation with fictional personas and world that seem …read more

social hour at NAVSA 2019!

Posted on 10th October, by in Uncategorized

NAVSA-goers and Columbus companions are warmly invited to join the V21 Collective Social Hour Thursday evening 17 October in the Hilton bar Gallerie, 9pm onward, for camaraderie, contestation, other modes of “social.” Before and after, check out these affiliate panels amidst the great program: 1G. Romantics and Victorians I: Legacies and Divergences  Room: George Bellows …read more

Collations: Book Forum on Sarah Allison’s Reductive Reading: A Syntax of Victorian Moralizing

Posted on 17th June, by in Collations Book Forum

The V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Paul Fyfe, Kate Holterhoff and Sheila Liming in conversation about Sarah Allison’s Reductive Reading: A Syntax of Victorian Moralizing (Hopkins, 2018). A masterful integration of digital humanistic approaches and more traditional close-reading methods, Reductive Reading makes a compelling, persuasive case for the way that the style of Victorian literature …read more

5th annual summer reading groups!

Posted on 15th May, by in Summer Reading Groups

V21 is delighted to announce our fifth (!) annual Summer Reading Group series. This year’s topics are EQUALITY, THE STATE, and THE PLANET. We are excited this year to cosponsor THE PLANET with VCOLOGIES! As is traditional for our summer syllabi, each cluster mixes primary Victorian, secondary critical, and theoretical/philosophical texts. The Chicago area group …read more

Dennis M. Hogan – Matter and the Idea: Hugo, Viollet-le-Duc, and the Nineteenth-Century Invention of Notre Dame

Posted on 29th April, by in Think Pieces

Une restauration peut être plus désastreuse pour un monument que les ravages des siècles et les fureurs populaires! (A restoration can be more disastrous to a monument than the ravages of time and popular fury!) ––Jean-Baptiste Lassus and Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Project de restauration de Notre-Dame de Paris In the days following the fire at Notre …read more

Collations: Book Forum on Anne C. McCarthy’s Awful Parenthesis: Suspension and the Sublime in Romantic and Victorian Poetry

Posted on 27th March, by in Collations Book Forum

The V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes A.K. Huseby, John Schulz, and Annmarie Drury in conversation about Anne C. McCarthy’s Awful Parenthesis: Suspension and the Sublime in Romantic and Victorian Poetry (Toronto, 2018). McCarthy’s impressive new study “argues that suspension… [– as the] seemingly paradoxical concatenation of activity and passivity, of presence and absence — marks …read more

V21 @ ACLA 5th annual social hour!

Posted on 25th February, by in Uncategorized

ACLA-bound affiliates, friends, and colleagues are cordially invited to join the V21 Collective for our social hour, Friday March 8th, 5pm-7pm at The Tombs. Check out affiliate panels before and after – up with comparative work! Propaganda and Plagiarism: Postcolonial Print Cultures and the Practices of Translation Aestheticism and Decadence in Comparative Contexts: Criticism, Philosophy, …read more

Collations: Book Forum on Michael Tondre’s The Physics of Possibility: Victorian Fiction, Science, and Gender

Posted on 5th February, by in Collations Book Forum

The V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Elspeth Green (Princeton University), David Coombs (Clemson University) and Anna Henchman (Boston University) in conversation about Michael Tondre’s The Physics of Possibility: Victorian Fiction, Science, and Gender (UVA Press, 2018). Tondre’s illuminating new work explores the wide range of intellectual projects, including the physical and mathematical sciences alongside fiction, …read more

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