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Collations: Book Forum on Ian Newman’s The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution

Posted on 31st August, by in Collations Book Forum

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

Collations: Book Forum on Thomas Albrecht’s The Ethical Vision of George Eliot

Posted on 19th May, by in Collations Book Forum

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

Collations: Book Forum on Abigail Joseph’s Exquisite Materials: Episodes in the Queer History of Victorian Style

Posted on 29th March, by in Collations Book Forum

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

Collations: Book Forum on David Coombs’s Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science

Posted on 16th December, by in Collations Book Forum

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

Collations: Book Forum on Grace Lavery’s Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan

Posted on 18th August, by in Collations Book Forum

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

Collations: Book Forum on Dustin Friedman’s Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self

Posted on 4th May, by in Collations Book Forum

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

Collations: Book Forum on Mary L. Mullen’s Novel Institutions: Anachronism, Irish Novels and Nineteenth-Century Realism

Posted on 11th February, by in Collations Book Forum

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

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

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

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

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