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
Welcome to the second “Collations: Book Forum” on recent publications in Victorian Studies and related areas of research. We are delighted to discuss Elisha Cohn’s Still Life: Suspended Development in the Victorian Novel (Oxford UP, 2016). Cohn’s Still Life posits a “new theory of Victorian aesthetics” by utilizing what the V21 Manifesto identifies as “speculative and synthetic methods” that allow …read more
Welcome to the inaugural “Collations: Book Forum” on recent publications in Victorian Studies and related areas of research. We are delighted to begin with Jesse Oak Taylor’s Sky of Our Manufacture (UVA Press, 2016). In keeping with V21’s commitment to exploring variations of presentism as a corrective to positivist historicism, Jesse Oak Taylor’s Sky of Our Manufacture explores …read more