Posts On Collations Book Forum

Collations: Book Forum on Megan Ward’s Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character

Posted on 19th December, by in Collations Book Forum

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

Collations Book Forum on Sebastian Lecourt’s Cultivating Belief: Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, & the Secular Imagination

Posted on 30th October, by in Collations Book Forum

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

Collations: Book Forum on Daniel Wright’s Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel

Posted on 9th August, by in Collations Book Forum

V21’s Collations: Book Forum welcomes Dustin Friedman, Ellis Hanson and Tara Thomas in conversation about Daniel Wright’s lively, pleasurable (or perhaps pleasure-full) and discerning new work, Bad Logic (Hopkins, 2018), which begins, appropriately enough, with this incitement: “it can seem a kind of magic to put into language the vagaries of desire” (1). Wright’s book …read more

Collations: Book Forum on Jonathan Farina’s Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Posted on 28th June, by in Collations Book Forum

V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Anna E. Clark, Tara K. Menon and Daniel Wright in conversation about Jonathan Farina’s insightful new work, Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2017). Far from quotidian in its claims, Everyday Words explores what it regularly names as “rudimentary” and “common” words and phrases—“as if,” “but” and “that sort …read more

Collations: Book Forum on Bruce Robbins’s The Beneficiary

Posted on 26th April, by in Collations Book Forum

The V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Alex Bove, Racheal Fest and Nathan Hensley in conversation about Bruce Robbins’s most recent publication The Beneficiary (Duke, 2017). Robbins’s The Beneficiary offers a history of humanitarianism that encompasses a wide range of writers, artists and pundits from the nineteenth century forward, concluding that “whatever our political principles, we …read more

Collations: Book Forum on Emily Steinlight’s Populating the Novel

Posted on 14th March, by in Collations Book Forum

V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Daniel Kasper, Rithika Ramamurthy, and David Womble in conversation about Emily Steinlight’s splendid new book Populating the Novel: Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life (Cornell, 2018). Steinlight deftly surveys the literary forms wherein writers responded to exponential population growth by “radically rearticulat[ing] what it means to belong to …read more

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

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

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