Victorian Studies

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A special introduction to our issue 66.2 has been published on the IU Press blog! This post is written by the guest editors, Sebastian Lecourt and Winter Jade Werner, and the full introduction is open access on Project MUSE. iupress.org/connect/blog/a…

Happy Halloween! Feeling extra spooky? Celebrate by reading Johana Godfrey's "Untimely Women: Transgressive Histories in the Victorian Ghost Story" from issue 65.3: dx.doi.org/10.2979/vic.00…

Looking for some reading to celebrate National Book Month? Victorian Studies has you covered! Visit our Project Muse archive to learn more about Victorian novels. Check out Will Glovinsky’s “Narrative Guilt and the Victorian Novel” from issue 64.3: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/…

Congratulations to @aktange, whose article "Gestures of Connection: Victorian Technologies of Photography and Visible Mothering" (VS 65.2) just won NAVSA's Don Gray essay prize! Read about her archive of hidden mother photographs here muse.jhu.edu/article/911106

Check out Maha Jafri’s latest VS article on the reincarnational aesthetic in the works of George Eliot: doi.org/10.2979/vic.00…

Check out @jbartonscott new article on Anglicanism through the lens of Thomas Macaulay’s review of William Gladstone’s The State in its Relations with the Church: doi.org/10.2979/vic.00…

Check out Emma Mason’s latest VS article on William Barnes’ use of early Dorset Christianity and his rejection of Protestant imperialism: doi.org/10.2979/vic.00…

Check out Lucas Kwong’s new article analyzing visions of Yellow Peril in Richard Marsh’s The Joss: A Reversion: doi.org/10.2979/vic.00…

Check out Seth Koven’s new article on conscientious objection and smallpox vaccination in Britain and its colonial empire: doi.org/10.2979/vic.00…

66.2 features essays by Seth Koven, Lucas Kwong, Emma Mason, J. Barton Scott, and Maha Jafri, as well as a response essay by Gauri Viswanathan. These authors explore everything from disease, race, and language to secularism and reincarnation in relation to religion and empire.

Check your mailboxes! You don't want to miss our new issue! 📪📖🎉 66.2's guest editors Sebastian Lecourt and Winter Jade Werner write, "The ongoing difficulties presented by religion are crucial for Victorianists to address as our field pivots back to the topic of empire."

Check your mailboxes this week! Our latest issue, 66.2, has shipped. This is a special issue focusing on religion and empire. Thanks to our guest editors and contributors for their hard work!

Read Jessica Valdez’s new article on Ah Sin and the racialized meme of the “heathen Chinee” in the transatlantic 19th century: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/…

Read Carolyn Betensky’s new article on compartmentalization and serialization in North and South at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/…

Read @timjgao's new article on female pistol-wielding characters in Victorian novels here! muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/…

Read Mary Mussman's article on trans sapphism in our new issue, 66.1, at muse.jhu.edu/article/931274

New volume, new issue, new cover! Check your mailboxes this week for 66.1, featuring articles on trans Sapphism, Victorian novels and female pistol-wielding, Gaskell and compartmentalization, and the meme-ificiation of Bret Harte's Ah Sin.

Lauren Byler's latest Victorian Studies article analyzes how the Watson and Holmes graphic novels by @KarlBollers @rick_leonardi and @LARRYSTROMAN3 attack the white supremacy of Doyle's original text as characters' bodies cross the comic's gutters muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/…

Our latest issue, 65. 4 is live online! Featuring articles on the "Watson and Holmes" graphic novels, George Eliot's willed ethnonationalism, and H. G. Wells's climate politics. Check it out here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52591