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Collations: Book Forum on Jonathan Farina’s Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Posted on 28th June, by in Collations Book Forum

V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Anna E. Clark, Tara K. Menon and Daniel Wright in conversation about Jonathan Farina’s insightful new work, Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2017). Far from quotidian in its claims, Everyday Words explores what it regularly names as “rudimentary” and “common” words and phrases—“as if,” “but” and “that sort …read more

4th Annual V21 Collective Summer Reading Groups

Posted on 16th May, by in Summer Reading Groups

V21 is delighted to announce our fourth (!) annual Summer Reading Group series. This year’s topics are Work, Blackness, and Sex.  As is traditional for our summer syllabi, each cluster mixes primary Victorian, secondary critical, and theoretical/philosophical texts. The Chicago area group will meet June 21, July 20, and August 21, 3pm-5pm at the DePaul Library …read more

Collations: Book Forum on Bruce Robbins’s The Beneficiary

Posted on 26th April, by in Collations Book Forum

The V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Alex Bove, Racheal Fest and Nathan Hensley in conversation about Bruce Robbins’s most recent publication The Beneficiary (Duke, 2017). Robbins’s The Beneficiary offers a history of humanitarianism that encompasses a wide range of writers, artists and pundits from the nineteenth century forward, concluding that “whatever our political principles, we …read more

V21 at ASECS; Social Hour

Posted on 20th March, by in Events of Note

The American Society for 18th Century Studies annual meeting this week features a roundtable on ASECS and V21, concerning the special dix-huitièmiste relationship to historicism, presentism, formalism, theory, and manifestos, as well as infrastructures like Collations and Summer Reading Groups.  V21 is grateful for these chances to reflect on long durée inquiry, comparativism, conceptually-driven scholarship, …read more

Collations: Book Forum on Emily Steinlight’s Populating the Novel

Posted on 14th March, by in Collations Book Forum

V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Daniel Kasper, Rithika Ramamurthy, and David Womble in conversation about Emily Steinlight’s splendid new book Populating the Novel: Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life (Cornell, 2018). Steinlight deftly surveys the literary forms wherein writers responded to exponential population growth by “radically rearticulat[ing] what it means to belong to …read more

Collations: Book Forum on Nasser Mufti’s Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture

Posted on 30th January, by in Collations Book Forum

V21 welcomes Will Glovinksy (Columbia), Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb (Williams College), and Bruce Robbins (Columbia) in conversation about Nasser Mufti’s Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture (Northwestern, 2018). In exploring the modern understanding of “civil war,” Mufti’s boldly challenges dominant conceptions of civilization, civility, modernization, and nationalism. He offers a persuasive …read more

V21 at MLA! 3rd annual happy hour; Bruce Robbins book party; panels!

Posted on 11th December, by in Events of Note

If anything is to survive the 21st century, collective agency will be paramount.  Come practice togetherness at the 3rd annual V21 MLA happy hour! Thursday 4 January, 5pm-7pm, at Faces And Names, 159 W 54th St, just neighboring the Sheraton. We’ll be raising a special glass to Bruce Robbins, in celebration of his new book …read more

Collations: Book Forum on Jesse Rosenthal’s Good Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel

Posted on 20th November, by in Collations Book Forum

Collations: Book Forum welcomes Thomas Albrecht (Tulane), Daniel Pollack-Pelzner (Linfield College), and Katherine Voyles (U of Washington, Bothell) in discussing Jesse Rosenthal’s Good Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel. In his insightful new work, Rosenthal masterfully weaves together philosophy and fiction to contemplate the “moral conceptualizations of narrative form” (5) for Victorian writers …read more

Collations: Book Forum on Benjamin Morgan’s The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature

Posted on 24th October, by in Collations Book Forum

The V21 Collective’s Collations: Book Forum welcomes Elisha Cohn (Cornell University), Kate Flint (University of Southern California) and Travis Lau (UPenn) in discussing Benjamin Morgan’s The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature (Chicago, 2017). Morgan’s exciting, interdisciplinary new work explores Victorian aesthetic thought, situating it “at the intersection of multiple discourses and …read more

NOVEL THEORY: Society for Novel Studies, in conjunction with V21

Posted on 12th September, by in Events of Note

NOVEL THEORY –the biannual conference of The Society for Novel Studies— in conjunction with V21 Collective May 31-June 2, 2018 at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY What is the theory of the novel for the 21st century?  How do novels theorize? CFP and details at http://blogs.cornell.edu/sns2018/ Deadline for paper and panel proposals: December 1 Keynote …read more

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