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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · 7d

✨ Here are some moments from the 9th From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria Conference: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ✨

📚 So many discussions had, presentations heard, and ideas exchanged. 📚

#QAQV9 #AcademicConference

From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · 8d

✨ Now that we’ve had a chance to catch our breath after all the excitement of #QAQV9, we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who made it what it was!
We’re thrilled with the quality of the papers and the rich discussions that followed each panel. We can’t wait to see you all again next time! 💙

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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · 8d

🎉The QAQV9 Conference is over — and what a success it was! 🎉

Huge thanks to everyone for your amazing contributions. We’re so grateful for this community and can’t wait to see you at the next one! 💙 Your energy and engagement made it unforgettable.

#QAQV9 #Academicconference #Victorian

From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · 15d

It's the final countdown🎶

🎤Jerome De Groot
A ‘Maternal Genealogy’ of the Historical Novel from Jane Porter to Louise Erdrich

🎤 Valerie Purton
Reliving the Past: Mourning in Dickens, Tennyson and Queen Victoria

🎤 Mina Gorji
Lyric Listening: Soundings in Romantic Poetry

#QAQV9

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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · 15d

🎉 Don't forget about our QAQV9 conference and the amazing keynote speakrs that we host! 🎉

Jerome De Groot 🗓 24 September | 🕙 10:15

Valerie Purton 🗓 25 September | 🕟 16:30

Mina Gorji 🗓 26 September | 🕐 13:00

Venue: Faculty of Modern Languages, Dobra 55, room: 1.110, Warsaw

#conference2025

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International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social · 19d

The next IGA conference will be at the University of Hull, England on 28-31 July 2026!

You can find the CFP and more information at hullgothic.wordpress.com

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · Sep 7

#18thc pals, pls RT: @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social & I are assembling a roundtable for the American Society for 18th-C Studies mting in Philly in April, on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century. Abstracts due 9/22. Pls help us think together about this fabulous novelist's wayward ways with our period & its 📚.

Olga Tokarczuk's Eighteenth Century, Co-chairs Katarzyna Bartoszyska and Deidre Shauna Lynch
We are assembling a roundtable on the novels of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. We hope to identify other scholars who are interested in how her fiction lays claim to the legacy of eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, repurposing the Enlightenment’s encyclopedism and universalism and its concepts of print communications, the public sphere, and the trans-national republic of letters. How do we re-see our period
—its modernity, its concerns with gender, nature, violence, nation—through the lens provided by this 21st-century Polish novelist? Alternately, how might we trace continuities from the eighteenth century to the present in the formal experiments or thematic concerns of novels such as Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and The Books of Jacob, and what new architectures of totality or concepts of voice might we discover by doing so?

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 19d

It’s here!! 🎉 The CfP for the FIFTH ANNE-VERSARY Anne Lister Soc’y Mtg, 3-4 Apr 2026 in Halifax! We seek proposals from scholars & researchers across the Listerverse, on any topic from Anne’s life & times to her afterlives. Due 1 Nov. For more details ➡️ english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-lis…

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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · 21d

+ an opportunity for remote participation

Midwest Victorian Studies Association @mvsa.bsky.social · 22d

Join us for MVSA 2026, “The Underground,” April 10-12, 2026, hosted by Xavier University Cincinatti, OH!

The application deadline is November 15, 2025.

See the full CFP here: midwestvictorian.org/conference/

Conference

“The Underground: Prohibition, Abolition, Expression”2026 Call for Papers April 10-12, 2026, hosted by Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. Baker Street Station on the Metropolitan Railway, 1863 &#…

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 22d

Publishing today!

Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social

The first book to examine ghostly presences (and absences) in #Gothic texts bit.ly/3I59Uzy
#Ghosts #GothicStudies

Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 29d

Check out our beautiful new website! victorianreview.org

Victorian Review – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies

victorianreview.org

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BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · 28d

Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Much looking forward to speaking in the Tennyson Talks Zoom series on 2 October: ‘“Among a World of Ghosts”: Tennyson’s Texts’. Joining details via the poster @engfac.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social

Poster of the Tennyson Talks 4th Series indicating that events are at 7.30pm London time on the first Thursday of each month, held via Zoom. Joining details can be obtained from Professor Valerie Purton.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 28d

Ruth Richardson in @thelancet.com discusses how “The Body-Snatcher” shows RL Stevenson’s “acute analysis of degrees of guilt; the complicit socialisation of maleness… the dark silences that can exist in social relations that pass as bonhomie”
#C19th #horror
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Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher

The core of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story The Body Snatcher probably derives from an urban legend from the Edinburgh region. It was written in the Scottish village of Pitlochry, where Stevenso...

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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · 28d

Chinoiserie in History, Culture, and at a Conference

In our latest blog post, Dr Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz comments on the #BACS2025 conference and discusses #chinoiserie, both as an element of #Victorian culture, but also as a theme that resonates in the present qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/chinoiserie/

Chinoiserie

Chinoiserie, the word itself coming from French, refers to the trend of importing paintings, porcelain, clothes and trinkets from China to display them in the houses of the wealthy as luxury items, wh...

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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · 29d

Our Agnieszka also wrote about her some time ago👇
qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/forgotten-wo...

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Sep 8

Join us at virtual @chawtonhouse.bsky.social for a Jane Austen Book Club event with @devoney.bsky.social to celebrate her new book, 'Wild for Austen'.
You may have thought Austen was a quiet spinster, but Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest.
Tickets here: chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/onl... #booksky

Online Talk: Devoney Looser, Wild for Austen - Chawton House

The first of a series of digital events for our Jane Austen Book Club with Devoney Looser, author of Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane.

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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · Sep 7

We’re excited to share the full schedule for #QAQV9 “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” conference ⤵
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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · Sep 7

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David Bowie's final project was a musical set in London

Shortly before his death, the star wrote dozens of notes for a musical set in 18th Century London.

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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · Sep 1

The QAQV9 conference’s list of panels concludes with bold rewritings and radical retellings. These panels explore evolving visions of womanhood—poetic, political, and deeply personal.

🌹 WOMANHOODS

📚 20th-CENTURY REWRITINGS

See you soon!

📍 24–26 September 2025 | University of Warsaw, Dobra 55

From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · Aug 20

📚 Here's another set of panels from our upcoming QAQV9 conference:

🌐 BORDER CROSSING IN THE 18th CENTURY II

🕰 DICKENS & THE PAST

🎨 RECOVERING THE PAST THROUGH THE ARTS

🌏 TRANSCULTURAL & TRANSTEMPORAL

📍 24–26 September 2025 | University of Warsaw, Dobra 5

#victorian #conference #dickens

From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · Aug 13

🏴‍☠️ Outlaws, Borders & Dangerous Books ✒️

Here's another set of panels for the upcoming QAQV9 conference:

🎭 BRITISH LITERATURE IN THE 1750s

🗡 REBELS & OUTLAWS

🌍 BORDER CROSSINGS

🚻 DICKENS & GENDER

📍 24–26 September 2025 | University of Warsaw, Dobra 55

We just can't wait!

From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · Aug 6

In her latest QAQV blog post, dr Magdalena Pypeć explores Dickens’s fight for education and sanitation — twin causes he saw as inseparable. From A Christmas Carol to 19th‑century ragged schools, she traces how cleanliness shaped learning.

Read it here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/dickens-dirt...

#dickens

Dickens, Dirt, and Education

One of the pressing social issues that deeply concerned Charles Dickens was the need for universal education and comprehensive sanitary reform, both of which he deemed essential to improving the lives...

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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · Jul 21

QAQV9 conference is coming!

📅 24–26 Sept 2025

📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw

Here's more of our panel highlights:

🖋 Eliza Haywood Intervenes

⚔️ Victorian Medievalisms

👀 The Victorians Look Back

📖 Emma Donoghue Looks Back

Stay tuned for more!

#victorian #conference

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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · Jul 11

In her latest QAQV blog post, dr Dorota Osińska explores how AI is reshaping the way we research, write, and teach. From students’ cautious curiosity to ChatGPT’s “hallucinated” Victorian poetry, she shares firsthand insights on the AI in academia.

Read it here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/reflections-...

Reflections on AI in Research, Writing, and Teaching

I was toying with the idea of using AI at the initial stages of research. Gathering ideas, inspirations, reading and doing the digging can be really time-consuming, almost a drag. Recently, I have bee...

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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · Jul 9

QAQV9 conference is coming!

24–26 Sept 2025

📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw

Here are some of our panels highlights:

✨ THE REGENCY STRIKES BACK

🧬 BIOFACTS & BIOFICTIONS

🏺 IT’S ALL ANCIENT HISTORY TO ME

🦇 GOTHICISING

Stay tuned for more!

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