Join V21 in celebrating the awarding of the James Russell Lowell Prize to Caroline Levine for her tremendous work FORMS: Whole,Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (Princeton UP, 2015). 2nd Annual V21@MLA Happy Hour/ Levine Prize Party: Friday 6 January, 6:30-8:00pm, Maggiano’s Restaurant (ask for the private room under “Levine”), 1201 Filbert Street (directly across from the convention center). Book …read more
How do we teach to the present? “Victorian Teaching Now” collects reflections, anecdotes, and proposals that describe how we might connect our study of Victorian literature and culture to modern life and politics. As we continue to gather perspectives from the larger V21 community, we present the first series of contributions, written by Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Amy R. Wong, Roger …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
In concert with other university, academic, and intellectual organizations and institutions, the V21 Collective unequivocally condemns all hate speech and hate acts with racist, Islamophobic, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, anti-semitic, ableist, sexist, and bigoted agendas. A central tenet of V21’s project has been the embrace of “strategic presentism,” a mode of literary and cultural analysis that opens …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
This year’s NAVSA theme is “Social Victorians,” and V21 honors the theme in both scholarly presentations and collective sociality. We welcome all NAVSA-goers and Phoenix-region friends and foes to join us for the 2nd annual V21 @ NAVSA Social Hour on Friday November 4th, 9pm-11pm at Hanny’s Bar & Restaurant, a couple of blocks from …read more
On this first anniversary of our inaugural symposium, we are delighted to announce that the symposium proceedings are now published in a special issue of boundary2 online. Table of Contents below; to access any article, follow links here. b2o: v21 special issue b2o: an online journal is an online-only, open access, peer-reviewed journal published by …read more
A finely crafted syllabus is one of the best antidotes to positivist historicism, because instead of just doing the default period-driven grabbag (“Mid Victorian Literature”) it can create a narrative or make an argument, and focus on conceptual or formal concerns (“Mid-Victorian Experiments in Omniscience and the Science of Mind”). Affiliates have contributed syllabi below; …read more
V21 is pleased to announce our second annual Summer Reading Group series. This year’s topics are Symptom, World, and Scale; readings include primary texts, philosophical texts, and literary criticism. The Chicago area group will meet for SCALE August 18 3-5pm, in the DePaul Library Rosati Room (2350 N Kenmore Ave). Specifics for groups in …read more