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Victorian Periodicals Review
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.338

Number of Followers: 13

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ISSN (Print) 0709-4698 - ISSN (Online) 1712-526X
Published by Project MUSE

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Emigration with a Vengeance: Undercover Investigative Journalism and
Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Amateur Emigrant
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  Abstract: “Leviathan deserves a big canvas . . .”“I shall say as little as possible,” declares the anonymous author of “Life in the Steerage” in 1870, “being unwilling to shock the nerves of my readers by a too open recital of things seen and done on board an emigrant ship.”1 The “almost indescribable” scenes that he did share after crossing the Atlantic as a steerage passenger were harrowing enough: packed compartments awash in vomit and seawater; women trembling in fear of sexual assault; children wailing; and everywhere an “almost unbearable” stench.2 For over three weeks, the ship’s crew had indiscriminately deposited rations, often vile, among the throng of passengers, as indifferent to their pleas as the captain, who ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-08-08T00:00:00-05:00
Readership and Railway Accidents: John Herapath’s Railway Magazine
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  Abstract: In May 1835, John Herapath founded his Railway Magazine, the first periodical dedicated to reporting on the development of the railway network in Britain and abroad. The first steam-powered passenger railway line, the Liverpool & Manchester, had opened only five years previously on September 15, 1830, and its inaugural journey had been accompanied by the violent and gruesome death of William Huskisson, member of Parliament for Liverpool and former president of the Board of Trade.1 Huskisson had been struck down by George Stephenson’s Rocket locomotive during a short stop in the procession, and he died from his injuries later that day.2 From its birth, then, the railway struggled to separate itself from danger and ... Read More
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The Authority of Anonymity: Sophia Jex-Blake’s Scotsman Leaders and the
Politics of Self-Citation
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  Abstract: On November 18, 1870, five women walked toward Surgeons’ Hall at the University of Edinburgh to take an anatomy exam.1 Led by Sophia Jex-Blake, they had recently triumphed when they became the first women to matriculate into a British university, following a seven-month battle for admission. Now, one year later, as the majority of the medical faculty refused to teach them and worked behind the scenes to block them from required clinical instruction in the Royal Infirmary, it was evident that their once-undeniable victory was not secure. Some of the male medical students, encouraged by their professors, had begun provoking them in the classroom and shutting doors in their faces.2 Given this increasingly hostile ... Read More
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Reading Reception in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
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  Abstract: In the summer of 1890, Oscar Wilde responded to a scathing review of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) with the following: “Each man sees his own sin in Dorian Gray. What Dorian Gray’s sins are no one knows. He who finds them has brought them.”1 Written in the midst of a months-long back-and-forth with editors and reviewers from the Scots Observer, the Daily Chronicle, and the St. James’s Gazette, Wilde’s reply echoed the aesthetic sentiment that art and audience were mutually determined—that a work of art was just as susceptible to an audience’s influence as an audience was to a work of art’s. It should come as no surprise, then, that the 1891 edition of Dorian Gray was substantially altered, expanded, and ... Read More
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Multimodal and Pedagogical Possibilities in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
Research
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  Abstract: Digital technologies have changed how researchers work with nineteenth-century periodicals. It has been well documented that digital resources promise to open new research pathways, and they have already transformed how we see our primary objects of study. Scholars such as James Mussell, Bob Nicholson, Seth Cayley, and Clare Horrocks have highlighted how digital archives can enrich student experiences with nineteenth- century periodicals while, at the same time, introducing students to the many methodological challenges, cautions, and affordances of digital research. Because of these discussions and others, we have a good idea of how digital archives affect research and teaching. I argue, however, that digital ... Read More
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Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre by Dara Rossman
Regaignon, and: The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and
Nineteenth Century Popular Culture by Tamara S. Wagner (review)
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  Abstract: Child-rearing is the central topic in both Tamara S. Wagner’s The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth Century Popular Culture and Dara Rossman Regaignon’s Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre. Each text, however, approaches the issue from a different angle. Wagner examines the image of the Victorian baby; Regaignon, conversely, analyzes the origins of maternal anxiety. These texts’ distinct methodological approaches yield valuable insights for periodical studies scholars about motherhood, child-rearing, and babyhood.In The Victorian Baby in Print, Wagner asserts that, while maternity and childhood have received scholarly attention, “the iconic image of the Victorian ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-08-08T00:00:00-05:00
Sisyphe heureux. Les revues littéraires et artistiques: Approches et
figures by Évanghélia Stead (review)
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  Abstract: While much has been written about the periodical press as a privileged space in which social and political groups could construct and convey their discourses, the role of newspapers and reviews as cultural agents has received less scholarly attention. Far from being mere depositories of culture or banks of useful knowledge, periodicals are fundamentally hybrid structures engaged in an ongoing dialogue with an array of other publications, media, or activities. In Sisyphe heureux, Évanghélia Stead highlights literary and artistic fin de siècle reviews as “powerful publications in media negotiation” and as “complex nexuses of intellectual and aesthetic trading,” offering a fresh view on their particular value in ... Read More
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Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian Cartoonist by Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin,
and Julian Waite (review)
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  Abstract: If not for Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin, and Julian Waite’s dedicated interest, “Marie Duval” (1847–90) might well have continued to languish as a subject of scholarly interest, the true extent and importance of her work obscured by the complexities of her many adopted identities and by the ascription of many of her cartoons in Judy to her husband, C. H. Ross, who edited the magazine. The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism acknowledges that Emilie de Tessier (Duval’s birth name) “took on the majority of the drawing of Ally Sloper” (Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor, eds., Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism [London: Academia Press, 2009], 327). Richard Scully concentrates on William Boucher’s political ... Read More
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The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture, 1880–1950 ed. by Elke
D’hoker and Chris Mourant (review)
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  Abstract: In keeping with its excellent offerings in the field of periodical studies, Edinburgh University Press has published a new volume examining short fiction within the realm of magazine culture. The editors, Elke D’hoker and Chris Mourant, assert that the interplay between the genre of the short story and the development of periodical publication “reveals a functional system of discourse in which generic conventions are moulded in interaction with reader expectations, magazine policies and authorial intentions” (5). As the editors note, the fourteen essays presented in the volume are best understood as case studies exploring these variables. Each essayist focuses on a particular journal or subset of journals ... Read More
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The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective
Fiction by Samuel Saunders (review)
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  Abstract: Samuel Saunders’s book, The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction, joins a long tradition of scholarly works tracing the invention and evolution of detective fiction in the nineteenth century. Based, as we are told, on his dissertation, Saunders’s book identifies two gaps in the existing scholarship on detective fiction: first, generic studies “insecurely connect sporadically-published texts together” to create a literary timeline; and second, historical studies rarely explore detective fiction’s “connection to contemporary representations of actual law enforcement” (1). Saunders aims to rectify these oversights by examining Victorian journalism about the police and crime and ... Read More
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Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in Victorian Fiction by Alexandra
Valint (review)
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  Abstract: In the introduction to Narrative Bonds, Alexandra Valint positions Victorian multinarrator novels as a disruption of “our assumptions about the Victorian novel’s conventional form” (23). In opposition to the orthodox view that the omniscient narrators of Charles Dickens or George Eliot are paradigmatic for Victorian fiction, Valint argues that multinarrator novels highlight Victorian cultural suspicions regarding the reliability of singular, omniscient perspectives and underscore Victorian assumptions about the necessity of collaboration to arrive at the truth. From this starting point, Valint first situates Victorian multinarrator structures within the continuum of multinarrator fiction from the eighteenth through ... Read More
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Victorians on Broadway: Literature, Adaptation, and the Modern American
Musical by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman (review)
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  Abstract: Sharon Aronofsky Weltman’s Victorians on Broadway: Literature, Adaptation, and the Modern American Musical examines the Broadway musical’s creative and critical engagement with Victorian literature and culture. Weltman focuses on the intertextual network surrounding Broadway adaptations and their Victorian sources and explores other adaptations including plays, films, and illustrations. Beginning with the musical theater adaptations of Victorian literature produced in the “Golden Age of Broadway” in the 1940s, Weltman follows the chronological development of American musical theater, from musical comedy to integrated musical to the megamusical (4). This chronological organization allows Weltman to analyze each ... Read More
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Biographies
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  Abstract: Françoise Baillet is Professor of British History and Culture at Caen Normandie University, France. Her research addresses the role of the periodical press in shaping class, gender, and national identities in nineteenth-century Britain. She is the author of Discours culturels de Punch et ordre social victorien (1850–1880), forthcoming from Presses Universitaires de Rennes in 2022.Alicia Barnes is a PhD candidate at the University of Surrey. Her research interrogates the intersections between imperialism and railways in nineteenth-century English literature, including periodicals, poetry, novels, and travelogues. More broadly, her research interests span the long nineteenth century, national myth-making ... Read More
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Endnotes
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  Abstract: RSVP’s international online conference, “Margin/Limit/Periphery/Edge,” will be held September 15–17, 2022. This year, RSVP is hosting the conference on the Whova platform (a desktop and mobile app). We hope that this format will foster interactivity and accessibility so that we can share our research and have free-flowing conversations. Once logged into our conference site, you will be able to view the conference program, connect with fellow participants through chat and message boards, and more. Registration is free. For more information, please visit https://rs4vp.org/rsvp-conference.The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The ... Read More
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