Victorian Periodicals Review

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13 Feb 2025
Check your mailbox for a new issue of VPR! This double issue is packed with exciting scholarship, including our VanArsdel and Expanding the Field Prize winners and a Roots of RSVP interview with Brian Maidment. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54262 @RS4VP
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13 Feb 2025
Hello friends of VPR! Just thought we'd let you know that you can find us over here: @vpreditors.bsky.social
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21 Oct 2024
Ryan D. Fong examines E. Pauline Johnson/Tekahionwake’s work for the Toronto periodical Saturday Night to show how she cannily negotiated the demands of a settler culture that was violently working to assimilate First Nations peoples. Read more in VPR56.4 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9…
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18 Oct 2024
Kristin Kondrlik @kekondrlik is seeking contributors to the RSVP Bibliography 2020-24. This project is a great way to keep up with new scholarship in our field, and all contributors will be acknowledged in the published work. For more info, visit rs4vp.org/call-for-contribut… @RS4VP
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18 Oct 2024
.@SophiavanOs examines the ethnographic portrayal of the Sámi in the nineteenth-century illustrated press to show how imperialist rhetoric was used to justify domestic colonies within Europe. Read more in VPR 56.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
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17 Oct 2024
Michelle Prain-Brice and Jennifer Hayward analyze the cultural transfer of the Ale-Quillén myth through C19 Chilean and Anglo-Chilean print culture. Learn more about the shifting narratives surrounding Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche people in VPR 56.4 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
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15 Oct 2024
.@CarolineBressey analyzes reports of violence endured by William King, an African American man who migrated to Australia and became ensnared in the Victoria prison system. Read about The Tocsin’s textual tactics and political limitations: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
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11 Oct 2024
Porscha Fermanis examines ethnographic accounts of the Orang Asli of Malaysia to reveal how scientific periodicals shifted from context-driven studies of Indigenous peoples to an emphasis on numerical data such as cranial measurements. Read more in VPR56.4 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9…
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20 Sep 2024
VPR’s special issue “Race and Transnationalism” is hot off the press! Read guest editors Lars Atkin and Matt Poland’s introduction, “On Not Mastering Race and Transnationalism in Victorian Periodicals Studies,” here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
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13 Jun 2024
EXTENDED DEADLINE: If you'd like to submit your essay for VPR's Expanding the Field Prize or the VanArsdel Prize, you have until July 1, 2024. @RS4VP
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7 Jun 2024
Barbara D. Ferguson analyzes surprising responses to the fraud case against spiritualist medium D. D. Home. Check out VPR 56.3 to learn how the PMG’s correspondents turned a critical eye on the discourse of scientific authority: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
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6 Jun 2024
Rob Breton argues that Eliza Cook redirected the rhetoric of “leveling up” to critique the middle classes in her popular journal. Learn how she affirmed working-class culture in VPR 56.3: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
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5 Jun 2024
Marysa Demoor marks the 200th anniversary of @TheLancet by tracing its long history of battling misinformation from the 19th-c to the present. Read it in VPR 56.3: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
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4 Jun 2024
The RSVP Bibliography: 2017-20 indexes scholarship on C19 journalism in Britain and across the empire. This installment includes a whopping 631 works! Check out this essential reference for the state of Victorian #PeriodicalStudies in VPR 57.3: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
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29 May 2024
CFP: VPR's Expanding the Field Prize for an essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and ethnic composition of 19th-c periodical studies. Winner receives $500 and publication in VPR. Deadline June 15. rs4vp.org/awards @RS4VP @navsa @BAVS_UK
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29 May 2024
Hello Grad Students! @VPReditors is now accepting essay submissions for the annual VanArsdel Prize, deadline June 15. Visit rs4vp.org/awards/vanarsdel-p… for more info. @RS4VP @navsa @BAVS_PGs
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24 May 2024
Check out our latest issue for the RSVP Bibliography: 2017-20 and fabulous articles on the Lancet's 200th anniversary, the rhetoric of class improvement in Eliza Cook's Journal, and science versus spiritualism in the Pall Mall Gazette. muse.jhu.edu/issue/52556 @RS4VP
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21 Dec 2023
We’re wrapping up VPR 56.2 with Andrea Stewart’s feminist approach to DH. Learn more about the set of digital tools she created using biodata for over seven hundred women writers of the long nineteenth century: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
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18 Dec 2023
Jasper Heeks demonstrates the unique attributes of digitized sources by tracing the transnational coverage of Australian street gangs. Discover the depth and breadth keyword searching can offer in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
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