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
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
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
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
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
V21 is delighted to spread the word about the new Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA) annual prize for essays that expand the geographic, ethnic, racial, and methodological diversity of scholarship in the field. The award will recognize work that foregrounds nineteenth-century texts, contexts, perspectives, and insights by or about British colonial subjects residing outside the metropole, …read more
V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Adam Fales, Heidi Smith, and Devin Griffiths in conversation about Megan Ward’s fascinating new book, Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character (Ohio State Press, 2018). In this provocative work, Ward proposes “a new genealogy of realist character” (2) as a corrective to the historical preference for subjective interiority. …read more
Join V21 for our 4th annual MLA social hour, Friday 4 January, 6pm-10pm! This year we’re lucky to have an affiliate house near the convention. Come early, come late, take the Blue Line from MLA hotels or on your way in from OHare. If you haven’t already received the address in an invite, drop us …read more
The V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Kathleen Frederickson (UC Davis), Sara Lyons (U of Kent, Canterbury), and Scott Thompson (Temple) in conversation about Sebastian Lecourt’s inspired and inspiring—or perhaps reservedly “hope[ful]” (199)—new work Cultivating Belief: Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, & the Secular Imagination (Oxford, 2018). Locating in Victorian anthropology an understanding of religion as “a …read more
Have a contribution to our presentist pedagogy series, or a percolating essay about Victorian culture in the C21? Get in touch! With the New York Times’ and New Yorker’s exposés of Harvey Weinstein nearing their one-year anniversary, press coverage of #MeToo has begun to settle into a familiar set of narrative conventions. In his recent—and …read more