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
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
Editors’ Note: As part of our ongoing commitment to methodological experimentation, V21 invited graduate students at the cutting edge of the field to tarry with our recent special issue of boundary2 online, Presentism, Form, and the Future of History. Students from around the US and abroad have charted out exciting new directions that were raised, …read more
As part of our ongoing commitment to methodological experimentation, V21 invited graduate students at the cutting edge of the field to tarry with our recent special issue of boundary2 online, Presentism, Form and the Future of History. Students from around the US and abroad have charted out exciting new directions that were raised, often in …read more
As part of our ongoing commitment to methodological experimentation, V21 invited graduate students at the cutting edge of the field to tarry with our recent special issue of boundary2 online, Presentism, Form and the Future of History. Students from around the US and abroad have charted out exciting new directions that were raised, often in …read more
As part of our ongoing commitment to methodological experimentation, V21 invited graduate students at the cutting edge of the field to tarry with our recent special issue of boundary2 online, Presentism, Form and the Future of History. Students from around the US and abroad have charted out exciting new directions that were raised, often in …read more
As part of our ongoing commitment to methodological experimentation, V21 invited graduate students at the cutting edge of the field to tarry with our recent special issue of boundary2 online, Presentism, Form and the Future of History. Students from around the US and abroad have charted out exciting new directions that were raised, often in …read more
Graduate Students! How does V21 change the field for you? What can V21 do for you? We are keen to brainstorm widely about grad projects, and here’s a new one: if you read our special issue of boundary2online offering the proceedings of our inaugural symposium “Presentism, Form, and the Future of History” we want to …read more
A dreaded sunny day, so let’s go where we’re wanted, and I meet you at Piazza San Marco, by the vaporetto stop. You teach me the word “Risorgimento.” I smile, which changed my whole look from the severe and resolved expression of a man ready to do and dare everything, to the keen honest …read more
The V21 manifesto charges Victorian Studies with having fallen prey to positivist historicism, a critical malady whose primary symptom is the aim to exhaustively describe the past.[i] On my own reading, positivist historicism is what remains after New Historicism runs out of steam. The New Historicism electrified criticism with the touch of the real by …read more