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Literary, social, and cultural studies of 19C Britain and beyond. Online submission portal: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/victorianstudies/index Please direct all inquiries to [email protected]

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Feb 25

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.

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 22h

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Victorian Studies 67.2: Reflections on Writing Transatlantic Victorian Art History - Indiana University Press

By Vanessa Meikle Schulman (George Mason University) Read Schulman’s article "Transatlantic Fairy Painting and Social Unrest in Victorian America” free

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 22h

Love 𝘈 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵'𝘴 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 and ever wondered about changing depictions of fairies in the 19th-century U.S.? Check out Vanessa Meikle Schulman’s reflection on writing “Transatlantic Fairy Painting and Social Unrest in Victorian America” in our new blog post, available at the link in the comments!

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 8d

Good morning! Did you know that our latest issue 67.2 can now be accessed through Project MUSE online? Feel free to check it out and let us know which article you enjoyed the most in the comments below. ⬇️

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 15d

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

Project MUSE - Victorian Studies-Volume 67, Number 2, Winter 2025

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Aug 15

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...

Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Aug 11

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...

Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Victorian Studies 67.1: The Victorian Idealisms Forum - Indiana University Press

By Mark Taylor (Vassar College) **Read Taylor’s article “Introduction: Victorian Idealisms” free for a limited time on Project MUSE. In his Autobiography,

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Jul 15

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.

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Jun 23

📪 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!

Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Apr 24

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!

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Apr 21

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.

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Apr 16

Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Apr 14

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.

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Apr 10

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...

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Apr 7

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...

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Project MUSE - What We Quote: Disciplinary History and the Textual Atmospheres of Middlemarch

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Apr 3

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.

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Apr 1

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

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Mar 27

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Mar 27

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.”

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Mar 24

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.

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Mar 11

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.

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · Mar 5

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Project MUSE - Ripeness and Waste: Christina Rossetti's Botanical Women

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