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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

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

Collations: Book Forum on Elisha Cohn’s Still Life: Suspended Development in the Victorian Novel

Posted on 5th December, by in Collations Book Forum

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

Collations: Book Forum on Jesse Oak Taylor’s The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf

Posted on 29th November, by in Collations Book Forum

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

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