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Victorian Periodicals Review
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The only refereed journal that concentrates on the editorial and publishing history of Victorian periodicals.
Submissions: https://rs4vp.org/vpr.
Subscriptions: https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/victorian-periodicals-review
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Many many thanks to our panelists, @kmalonephd.bsky.social (VPR), @devingarofalo.bsky.social (Victorian Poetry), and Janice Schroeder of @victorianreview.bsky.social for sharing their tips, tricks, wisdom, and insights!
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
VPR is seeking an Associate Editor to oversee book reviews and assist the editor with special features. This is a great opportunity for a #periodicals scholar looking to develop editorial and leadership skills. Applications are due December 15. Details at rs4vp.org/vpr-seeks-as... @rs4vp.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Rachel Calder examines how The Bookseller #tradejournal laid the foundation for the communication and information system that remains at the heart of today’s global #publishing industry. Read about founder Joseph Whitaker’s innovative strategies in VPR 58.1: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
September 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Drawing on a transatlantic archive, @miladaskalova.bsky.social explores the experience of time in asylum #periodicals. Learn how these publications served as instruments of both recalibration and resistance in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Nilkantha Pal investigates the emergence of children’s #periodicals in Bengali literary culture. Learn how these vernacular periodicals helped shape a literary selfhood among Bengali middle classes from the 1870s onward: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org #ExpandingTheField
September 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship – RSVP
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to…
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September 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
In VPR 58.1 @adeleguyton.bsky.social compares Pearson’s 1897 serialization of "The War of the Worlds" to #hgwells ’s later revisions for book publication. Discover how the serial narrator underscores the value of layperson experiences to scientific knowledge: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
NEW ISSUE ALERT! It's a happy day when you find the latest VPR in your mailbox. This number includes the 2024 VanArsdel and Expanding the Field essays as well as articles on asylum periodicals and the bookselling trade. Treat yourself to some delightful reading: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55567 @rs4vp.org
September 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Congrats to yevhenyashchuk.bsky.social for his #VanArsdelPrize winning essay “‘A Special Correspondent of the Times Sends a Telegram from Odessa’: Kyiv Newspapers, Victorian Media, and the Translation of the International Crisis in 1875–78.” Learn about VPR’s prizes at rs4vp.org/awards. @rs4vp.org
August 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Every issue of Victorian Periodicals Review includes reviews of new academic titles related to #periodicals studies. If you're a scholar interested in reviewing for VPR, just visit rs4vp.org/vpr to volunteer and indicate your areas of expertise. @rs4vp.org #RSVP2025
July 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Drawing on #PeriodicalStudies, #narratology, and #MediaTheory, Camille Stallings reveals the structures of anti-working-class bias in a range of journalistic genres. See how narrative techniques shape public opinion about the working classes in VPR 57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
July 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Anne-Marie Millim considers how #Dickens ’s journals championed the view that only a native speaker can master a language. Learn how contributors to #HouseholdWords and #AllTheYearRound worked to implement a prestige language in VPR 57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
July 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Annemarie McAllister examines the surprising success of the #Temperance Companion (1894–1901) in navigating the currents of the commercial market. Read about this weekly broadsheet’s adventurous female editor and its relationship to #NewJournalism in VPR57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
July 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social analyzes how Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett's detective stories, published as a series in local papers, interrogate capitalism from a feminist and socialist viewpoint. Read more in VPR 57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
July 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In VPR 57.4, Ali Hatapçı @alihatapci.bsky.social examines how the Gardeners’ Chronicle, The Builder, and The Field presented general news content to their specialist readers. Learn more about the surprising role of news in transforming class #periodicals: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
July 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
VPR's special issue "Currents and Currencies in the #Victorian #PeriodicalPress" is out now! Huge thanks to guest editors Victoria Clarke (@vjctorianist.bsky.social) and Annemarie McAllister. Check out their intro essay: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
July 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Just one week left to submit to the VanArsdel Prize! Give us your best essay and you might win 🤑 and publication in an upcoming issue of @vpreditors.bsky.social! Submissions guidelines here: rs4vp.org/awards/vanar...
#VanArsdelPrize #RSVPprizes #VictorianStudies
The Rosemary VanArsdel Prize – RSVP
The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a…
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June 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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⏰ Countdown's on! Just 1 week left to submit to VPR's Expanding the Field Prize! $500 + VPR publication for work that challenges our perceptions of Victorian periodical studies.
Deadline is June 15. rs4vp.org/awards/victo...
#ExpandTheField #RSVPprizes #DecolonizeVictorianStudies
Victorian Periodicals Review Expanding the Field Prize – RSVP
The RSVP Expanding the Field Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and ethnic composition of nineteenth-century periodical studies.…
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June 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The scholars and students behind “One More Voice” describe their work to identify, encode, publish, and analyze #BIPOC voices from #Victorian missionary #periodicals. See how this material can transform how we teach canonical texts like Jane Eyre in VPR 57.3: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
May 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Have a draft that disrupts the traditional boundaries of #VictorianStudies? Consider submitting it for VPR's Expanding the Field Prize, which honors essays that diversify #19thC periodical studies. Deadline is June 15. Details on our site: rs4vp.org/awards/victo...
#DecolonizeTheArchive #RSVPprizes
Victorian Periodicals Review Expanding the Field Prize – RSVP
The RSVP Expanding the Field Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and ethnic composition of nineteenth-century periodical studies.…
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May 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Putting the final touches on your final #19thC periodicals paper? Why not submit it to our VanArsdel Prize? Submissions are open through June 15! The best grad student essay on Victorian periodicals wins $500 + publication in VPR. rs4vp.org/awards/vanar...
#VanArsdelPrize #RSVPprizes
The Rosemary VanArsdel Prize – RSVP
The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a…
rs4vp.org
May 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Leslee Thorne-Murphy describes her students’ research and editing work for the Victorian Short Fiction Project, a peer-reviewed digital anthology. Learn how to translate humanities skill sets to life beyond the academy in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
May 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Iain Crawford argues that undergraduate research experiences are ever more important for demonstrating the value of English studies. Learn how periodicals are especially well-suited sites for student research in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
May 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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#Periodicals scholars (@rs4vp.org etc). How do you quantify your data? I'm researching adverts and the moment and have been using simple numbers (e.g. issue X has Y no. of advert content) as this is the most straightforward. However, space and sizing is a much more pressing issue for advert content!
May 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Rather than offering a lit survey framed by key contexts, Madeline B. Gangnes requires undergrads to actively excavate those contexts by reading non/fiction in periodicals. Check out VPR 57.3 to learn how digital #VictorianStudies courses can succeed at small colleges: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
May 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM