Happy Autumn Equinox! Bring on the fall vibes by checking out "Transatlantic Fairy Painting and Social Unrest in Victorian America," by Vanessa Meikle Schulman in our latest issue by using the link below. ⬇️ Project MUSE - Victorian Studies: Volume 67, Number 2, Winter 2025 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55623

📫 Be on the lookout for 67.2, our latest issue- hard copies are being sent out today! 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️

67.1 Essay Spotlight: "Gaslighting: The Material History of a Metaphor" Read Grace Franklin's essay on the material history underpinning the concept of psychological gaslighting: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

67.1 Essay Spotlight: "Roots/Routes of Empire: Mary Seacole and Scottish-Caribbean Identity" Read Kenneth McNeil's essay on how ideas of kinship and imperial networks shaped Mary Seacole's Scottish-Caribbean identity: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

Check out the IU Press blog post for our new issue 67.1 🎉 A big thank you to Mark Taylor, coeditor and contributor to the Victorian Idealisms Forum, for writing the post. His article, "Introduction: Victorian Idealisms," is now open-access on Project Muse. See links in the comment section.

Our latest issue, 67.1, is now live on Project Muse! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55087

📪 Check your mailboxes for our new issue 🎉 Realism and Idealism battle it out on 67.1's cover—a fitting image for this issue featuring the Victorian Idealisms Forum!

Here are some of the book reviews included in 66.4 of Victorian Studies! Take some time to read them as well as the other 26 reviews in this issue! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54490

Read the fourth featured essay in 66.4: Helena Michie’s “Deep History, Surface Histories: British Heritage and Arab Traces in Sicily 1870–1930,” which analyzes British travel writing on Sicily and its connections to British heritage. muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl....

Read the third featured essay in 66.4: Anna Barton’s “Editing Mary Elizabeth Coleridge: The Lyric as Archive,” which uses manuscript materials from Mary Elizabeth Coleridge to propose a model of archival lyric. muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl....

Check out the second featured essay in 66.4: @jakeromanow.bsky.social Jacob Romanow’s “Kipling’s Administrative Imaginary: Imperial Ignorance as Information Management.” Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

New blog post alert! Head to the IU Press blog to read Sierra Eckert and Milan Terlunen's post on their article, "What We Quote: Disciplinary History and the Textual Atmospheres of Middlemarch," which is featured in our latest issue. Link to blog post: iupress.org/connect/blog...

66.4 Featured Essay: Check out Sierra Eckert and Milan Terlunen’s article on quotation practices and the production of collective knowledge, “What We Quote: Disciplinary History and the Textual Atmospheres of Middlemarch.” The essay is open-access on Project MUSE, see link in comments.

Can you spot not one, but two squirrels? We found a furry friend as we photographed the cover of our newest VS issue, 66.4! Be sure to check our social media for more content about the featured essays. Also, check out the link below for the full issue on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54490

Today is World Theatre Day! To celebrate this day, read Michael Meeuwis’s “‘The Theatre Royal Back Drawing-Room’: Professionalizing Domestic Entertainment in Victorian Acting Manuals” and Gregory Vargo’s “Chartist Drama: The Performance of Revolt.”

Make sure to check your mail! The newest issue of Victorian Studies, 66.4, has been shipped and should be arriving in your mailbox soon.

It’s Women’s History Month! To honor the women who have come before us and who have helped us get to where we are, read about the impact that women had in the Victorian Era in the articles linked below. muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

International Women’s Day is just around the corner! Here is an article about a Victorian female author, Christina Rossetti. In Ashley Miller’s article, she discusses how Christina Rossetti’s poetry about fruitlessness and waste can provide a deeper understanding of female corporeality.

Whether you are writing, reading, or even crafting, paper has been an influential product throughout history. If you are interested in learning more about the publishing and paper industries in Victorian England, read “New Grub Street’s Ecologies of Paper” muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl....

Victorian Studies is launching its online submission portal! Starting March 1, 2025, please use our online portal for all submissions to the journal: scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/... There you can also find our style guide, as well as links to our IU Press blog and Project Muse archive.

In honor of London Fashion Week, here are two past articles “ReFashioning Men: Fashion, Masculinity, and the Cultivation of the Male Consumer in Britain, 1860-1914” muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... or “Clothing Napoleonic History in Vanity Fair and the Trumpet Major” muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

This is a @wehrlegig.games production, with a @victstudies.bsky.social lineage; we are proud that @colewehrle.bsky.social was an undergraduate intern with us years ago!

To those who are thankful Valentine’s Day has passed, it’s the perfect time to read this humorous Victorian broadside ballad, “The Love Letter. The lady's maid - the secret found out!!! or, A married man caught in a trap.” Image from London Low Life

In honor of Charles Dickens’s upcoming birthday, check out Eleanor Courtemanche’s article, “Payback Time: Dickens and Revolution.” This article discusses the political aspects of A Tale of Two Cities and provides a new perspective on the novel. Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

To ring in the new semester, check out Abigail Droge’s article, “Reading George Eliot with Victorian College Students” from Issue 63.2. We hope you enjoy this opportunity to not only read about past students but imagine future generations of scholars to come! muse.jhu.edu/article/801003

Victorian Era medicine looks quite different from today! If you would like to read more about some of the medical ideologies of the time and their effects on literature, read “Spiritual Pathology: Priests, Physicians, and The Way of All Flesh” from issue 54.4. muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

66.3’s final essay cluster, “Global Decadence, Global Victorian Studies,” is organized and introduced by Carolyn Lesjak, and features essays written by Colton Valentine @, Sourav Chatterjee, and Cherrie Kwok @cherriekwok.bsky.social.

66.3’s second essay cluster, “Textures of Empire,” is organized and introduced by Jason Rudy @jasonr75.bsky.social, and features essays written by Meghna Sapui @meghnasapui.bsky.social, Bassam Sidiki @super-bass.bsky.social, and Erin Cheslow.

In this post and the next two, we will introduce the contributors to 66.3! 66.3’s first essay cluster, “Stretch*,” is organized and introduced by Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social, and features essays written by Hosanna Krienke, Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social, and M.A. Miller.

New issue alert! 66.3 features essays originally presented at the 2023 NAVSA conference, held in Bloomington, Indiana. The conference’s theme, “Revision, Return, Reform,” is reflected in this issue’s three essay clusters: Stretch*, Textures of Empire, and Global Decadence, Global Victorian Studies.

Craving sweets this holiday season? To ring in National Fruitcake Day on Dec. 27, read Emily Allen’s “Culinary Exhibition: Victorian Wedding Cakes and Royal Spectacle” from issue 45.3: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

The day after Thanksgiving, celebrate National Listening Day with Sarah Mason’s “A Pause to the Roar: Silence in Dickens’s Little Dorrit” from issue 64.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

In honor of I Love to Write Day on Nov. 15, check out William N. Weaver’s “‘A School-Boy's Story': Writing the Victorian Public Schoolboy Subject" in issue 46.3. muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

If you haven’t checked out our most recent issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53294 66.2 is a special issue on religion and empire, guest edited by Sebastian Lecourt and Winter Jade Werner.

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