The new issue of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century is now available at http://19.bbk.ac.uk/index.php/19/issue/view/83

When W. T. Stead died on the Titanic he was the most famous Englishman on board. He was one of the inventors of the modern tabloid. His advocacy of ‘government by journalism’ helped launch military campaigns. His exposé of child prostitution raised the age of consent to sixteen, yet his investigative journalism got him thrown in jail. A mass of contradictions and a crucial figure in the history of the British press, Stead was a towering presence in the cultural life of late-Victorian and Edwardian society. This special issue of 19, guest edited by Laurel Brake and James Mussell, celebrates Stead’s life and legacy in all its diversity 101 years on.

There will be a panel session and reception to mark the publication of this issue at the British Library, 14 May 2013, 18:30-20:00. Speakers will be Kate Campbell, Rohan McWilliam, and Tony Nicholson. Attendance is free but attendees must register. Further details here: http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event145276.html

19: INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY   NO 16 (2013): W. T. STEAD: NEWSPAPER REVOLUTIONARY

Laurel Brake, James Mussell: ‘Introduction’
Graham Law, Matthew Sterenberg: ‘Old v. New Journalism and the Public Sphere; or, Habermas Encounters Dallas and Stead’
Lucy Delap, Maria DiCenzo: ‘“No one pretends he was faultless”: W. T. Stead and the Women’s Movement’
Stéphanie Prévost: ‘W. T. Stead and the Eastern Question (1875-1911); or, How to Rouse England and Why?’
Tom Lockwood: ‘W. T. Stead’s ‘Penny Poets’: Beyond Baylen’
Paul Horn: ‘“Two Minds With but a Single Thought”: W. T. Stead, Henry James, and the Zancig Controversy’
Sarah Crofton: ‘“Julia Says”: The Spirit-Writing and Editorial Mediumship of W. T. Stead’
Marysa Demoor: ‘When the King Becomes your Personal Enemy: W. T. Stead, King Leopold II, and the Congo Free State’
Tom Gretton: ‘From La Méduse to the Titanic: Géricault’s Raft in Journalistic Illustration up to 1912

http://19.bbk.ac.uk

Reviews

Notes on Contributors

1. Exhibiting Dickens at 200

Anne Humpherys

Articles

Asses and Aesthetes: Ritualism and Aestheticism in Victorian Periodical Illustration
JAMIE HORROCKS

2012 VanArsdel Prize:
Dreaming across Oceans: Emigration and Nation in the Mid-Victorian Christmas Issue
JUDE PIESSE

Illustrating the Accident: Railways and the Catastrophic Picturesque in The Illustrated London News
PAUL FYFE

“Nae mortal man should be entrusted wi’ sic an ingine”: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and the Tory Problem of Romantic Genius
MATT SALYER

“Both English and Jewish”: Negotiating Cultural Boundaries in Young Israel, 1897-1901
MADELYN TRAVIS

Retrospective: “’Tis Fifty Years Since”: The Making of Fiction for the Working Man, 1830-50
LOUIS JAMES

Book Reviews

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, edited by Joanne Shattock and Elisabeth Jay
SOLVEIG ROBINSON

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism, edited by Stephen Donovan and Matthew Rubery
ANN M. HALE

A subscription to VPR, which brings with it membership in the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, is only $35 ($30 for students): https://www.press.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/order.cgi?oc_id=1707. To learn more about VPR and RSVP, visit the website at www.rs4vp.org<http://www.rs4vp.org>.

The six essays in this volume offer a range of mediations prompted by the volume’s title.  These essays explore older and newer logics of “matching” and “counting” and “measuring” (whether statistical, geometric, or otherwise un/calculable); they register as well an upsurge in interest in formal-language, neurocognitive and medial-historical approaches. These essays invite us to think “bodies,” “multitudes,” and “subjectivity” along different axes. They ask us to think about the (romantic) one, the (romantic) proper name, quantity, and quality; they invite us to reflect on the status of poetry and measure, about the work of the novel as totalization, about models of mind, about calculuses of populations and food. Ranging through Wordsworth, Scott, Malthus, Babbage, and Galt (among others), this volume points to new directions in romanticist thinking while reconstructing the complexity of romantic-period thought.

Table of Contents:

• Brief Introduction
  Maureen N. McLane (NYU)

Gallery One

• “Of Tangled Webs and Busted Sets: Tropologies of Number and Shape in the Fiction of John Galt”
  Matthew F. Wickman (Brigham Young Univ., UT)
• “Notes and Queries on Names and Numbers”
  Marjorie Levinson (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
• “Number, Medium, Nature: Wordsworth and Babbage Compose the Universe”
  James Brooke-Smith (Univ. of Ottawa)
• “Afterword: “Emergent Complexity and ‘The The’: Making Romanticism Count”
  Maureen N. McLane (NYU)

Gallery Two

• “Lyric Mindedness and the ‘Automaton Poet’”
  John Savarese (Univ. of Texas, Austin)
• “Ranking and Romantic Lyric”
  Bo Earle (Univ. of British Columbia)
• “Docile Numbers and Stubborn Bodies: Population and the Problem of Multitude”
  Ron Broglio (Arizona State Univ.)
• “Afterword: Body, Number, Rank, Measure: Romantic Reckonings”
  Maureen N. McLane (NYU)

University of Birmingham, 27^th June 2013

Keynote speaker – Dr Matthew Rubery, Queen Mary University of London

Interdisciplinary postgraduate conference – call for papers

How did the rapid period of industrialisation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries help to shape societies and lifestyles in the West? What types of social changes, movements and developments characterise this time period? This interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, in affiliation with the Centre for the Study of Cultural Modernity and hosted by the College of Arts and Law, seeks to explore the various ways in which this century was one of ‘motion’, in every sense of the word. The conference title seeks to encapsulate both the uncertainty and upheaval of this period as well as the physical and cultural movements that occurred at this time. We invite papers addressing these themes from postgraduate researchers and early-career academics working on this period from a variety of backgrounds.

Topics could include, but are not limited to:

Cultural or social movements

• political movements
• the Women’s Movement
• arts movements (musical, artistic, literary)
• religious and philosophical
• popular cultural trends (food, fashion, advertising)

Physical movements

• mass movement of people (mobilisation of soldiers, migration from towns to cities)
• transatlantic and inter-continental travel (including emigration and immigration)
• leisure and tourism
• transport
• changing landscapes

Development and progress

• media (cinema, audio technology and radio, print media)
• scientific and medical advances
• technology
• economic growth and/or recession
• development of nationhood

These headings are suggestions only; we welcome proposals exploring crossovers between these topics, or addressing them from interdisciplinary perspectives. Abstracts of 250-300 words for 20 minute papers along with a short biographical note of no more than 50 words should be sent to pgculturalmodernity@contacts.bham.ac.uk by the 17^th May 2013. We welcome any questions that you may have; please do not hesitate to contact us at the above address.

For more information about the Centre for the Study of Cultural Modernity please visit their website:

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/culturalmodernity/index.aspx

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Articles:

• Steven Goldsmith, “Cracked Across”: Blake, Milton, and the Noise of History” (305-342)
• Mark Jones, ““Reading Keats to the Letter: e” (343-373)
• Christopher J. Scalia, “Transcendental Buffoonery: Jacob Dousterswivel and the Romantic Irony of Blackwood’s” (375-398)
• Andrew Allport, “The Romantic Fragment Poem and the Performance of Form” (399-417)
• Gillian Russell, “Killing Mrs. Siddons: The Actress and the Adulteress in Late Georgian Britain” (419-448)

Reviews:

• Catherine Burroughs, Review of Thomas McLean’s Further Letters of Joanna Baillie (449-452)
• Karen Weisman, Review of David Duff’s Romanticism and the Uses of Genre (453-455)
• Scott Krawczyk, Review of David Organising Poetry: The Coleridge Circle, 1790-17988 (455-460)
• Matthew Rowlinson, Review of Sarah Heggarty’s Blake’s Gifts: Poetry and the Politics of Exchange (461-463)
• Jonathan Lamb, Review of Carl Thompson’s The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination (463-467)
• Karen Fang, Review of Charles J. Rzepka’s Selected Studies in Romantic and American Literature, History, and Culture: Inventions and Interventions (467-470)

Reviews

VISAWUS, the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, announces its 18th annual conference:

“Victorian Modernities” November 14-16, 2013

Courtyard by Marriott, Portland City Center, Portland, Oregon USA

“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.” – Oscar Wilde

VISAWUS 2013 explores the Victorians’ enthusiasm and apprehension regarding modern progress and innovation.We encourage papers across all disciplines, including (but not restricted to) art history, literature, gender, history of science, history, material culture, political science, performance, life writings, journalism, photography, popular culture, and economics.

Keynote Speaker: Joseph Bristow (English, UCLA), author and editor of numerous works on Victorian and modern literature and theories and histories of sexuality, including Effeminate England: Homoerotic Writing after 1885 (1995), Sexuality (1997), The Fin-de-Siècle Poem: English Literary Culture and the 1890s (2005), and Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend (2009), is currently working on a project on “The Sex of Victorian Poetry” and editing the Journal of Victorian Culture and the Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture series.

Papers are solicited for topics such as:

To submit: By March 15, 2013, email 300-word abstracts and a 1-page CV (name on BOTH) to visawus2013@gmail.com.

Please note: Graduate student papers are eligible for the William H. Scheuerle Graduate Student Paper Award ($300.00).

Conference Hotel: Courtyard by Marriott, Portland City Center, Portland, Oregon USA

Looking for past VISAWUS conference information?

The 2005-2011 conference schedules are now archived online. Click here to view and download them, or browse the list below.

1996 – California State University, Northridge – Victorian Success – James R. Kincaid
1997 – California State University, Northridge – Victorian Sights and Sounds – Philippa Levine
1998 – Clark College (Vancouver, Washington) – Victorian Sexualities – Donald Hall
1999 – Clark College (Vancouver, Washington) – Victorianisms – Alison Winter
2000 – UCLA – Artifacts of Victorian Culture – Sally Mitchell
2001 – UCLA – The Victorian World – Chris Kent
2002 – Boise State University – Victorian Institutions – Linda K. Hughes
2003 – University of Texas (Austin) – Victorian Legacies – Martin Wiener
2004 – University of Washington (Seattle) – Victorian Innovations – Susan P. Casteras
2005 – University of New Mexico (Albuquerque) – Victorian Rituals, Celebrations, and Anniversaries – James R. Kincaid
2006 – Pepperdine University (Malibu) – The Presence of the Past in the Victorian Age – Philippa Levine
2007 – University of Colorado (Boulder) – Victorians in Motion – Lawrence Goldman
2008 – University of Washington (Seattle) – The Public and Private Politics of Victorian England – Antony Harrison
2009 – Coast Renaissance Hotel (Vancouver, British Columbia) – Victorian Markets and Marketing – Erika Rappaport – Joint Conference with the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
2010 – University of Hawaii (Honolulu) – Oceania and the East in the Victorian Imagination – Jane Samson
2011- University of Houston-Downtown – The Vulgar and the Proper: Victorian Manners and Mores – Helena Michie

Future Directions in Byron Studies
January 09-12 2014, Chicago

The Byron Society of America solicits paper proposals featuring new research and fresh methodologies applied to any aspect of Byron’s life or works for the 129th MLA Annual Convention (Chicago, 9-12 January 2014). Paper proposals should demonstrate a desire to expand the field of Byron studies by placing the poet and his works in conversation with understudied aspects of Romanticism and/or innovative approaches. Topics may include but are not limited to: material culture studies, object -oriented criticism, cosmopolitanism, nationalism, theories of empire, “spatial turn,” digital humanities, and/or the history of the book.

Preference will be given to junior faculty and graduate students.

A 250 word abstract and brief autobiography (one paragraph) are due by 25 March. Please send materials and inquiries to: Halina Adams (halinaad@udel.edu).