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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

Professional Victorianisms in Nineteenth-Century Contexts

Posted on 27th May, by in Special Journal Issues

A special section on V21 has been published in the latest Nineteenth-Century Contexts. The section Table of Contents is below and the articles can be found here. Professional Victorianisms: Immediacy, Urgency, and Interdisciplinarity in/at Work Introduction Christie Harner & Winter Jade Werner Victorian hybridities Christie Harner Making the Victorian essential Paula Krebs Nineteenth-century studies and the small …read more

V21 Summer Reading Groups: The Political Conscious, Imperial Forms, Utopia Now!

Posted on 15th May, by in Events of Note, Summer Reading Groups

V21 is pleased to announce our third annual Summer Reading Group series. This year’s topics are The Political Conscious, Imperial Forms, and Utopia Now!  Each cluster mixes primary, secondary, and theoretical/philosophical texts. The Chicago area group will meet June 21, July 21, and August 21, 2-4pm at the DePaul Library Rosati Room. Join us in person …read more

Collations: Book Forum on Nathan K. Hensley’s Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty

Posted on 5th May, by in Collations Book Forum

The V21 Collective is delighted to introduce our latest “Collations: Book Forum” with a discussion of Nathan K. Hensley’s book Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (Oxford UP, 2016). A masterful and beautifully written book of commanding scope, Hensley’s Forms of Empire  posits a new method of reading the Victorian period’s, and more broadly …read more

Collations: Book Forum on Devin Griffiths’s Age Of Analogy: Science and Literature Between the Darwins

Posted on 24th April, by in Collations Book Forum

The V21 Collective is delighted to introduce our latest “Collations: Book Forum” with a discussion of Devin Griffiths’s book The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature Between the Darwins (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016). Already the recipient of high praise, including a nomination for the British Society for Literature and Science book prize, Age of Analogy “explores …read more

Timothy Chandler: Too Much and Not Enough

Posted on 20th February, by in Think Pieces

Editors’ Note: As part of our ongoing commitment to methodological experimentation, V21 invited graduate students at the cutting edge of the field to tarry with our recent special issue of boundary2 online, Presentism, Form, and the Future of History. Students from around the US and abroad have charted out exciting new directions that were raised, …read more

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