Victorian Literature and Culture

We are proud to announce that 51.3 "Keywords Redux" is now available online. The issue features 47 mini-essays that collectively offer a snapshot of the field at present moment! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Our Summer 2023 is out and nearly the whole issue is available online ! Work by Patrick R. O'Malley, Jakob Kihlberg, Brian Reinken, Emma Eisenberg, Kimberly Cox et al., Ruth Livesey, and Talia Schaffer, plus a translation of Vernon Lee by Colton Valentine. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

We are also pleased to share Sharon Aronofsky Weltman's article "Melodrama, Purimspiel, and Jewish Emancipation", which won the same prize in 2020.

Congrats to Heidi L. Pennington: "Interpreting the Labor and Legacy of the Independent Literary Typist; or, the Typing of Ethel Kate Dickens" won The Nineteenth-Century Studies Association’s 2023 Article prize, and is free to access until 12 May 2023: cambridge.org/core/journals/….

Issue 51.1 now available! Articles by Chloe Flower, Zachary Fruit, Mark Taylor; a special cluster on Victorians in Location; a defamiliarization by Dustin Friedman; and a review by Megan Ward. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Editors Daniel Hack and Rachel Ablow are stepping down from VLC, and we are looking for a new editorial team to take over. See attached for more details.

We are proud to announce that Issue 50.4 of VLC is now available with work by Trish Bredar, Meghna Sapui, Sarah Bilston, Aviva Briefel, Stephen Donovan and Matthew Rubery, and Sarah Allison.

A reminder that VLC is still accepting Keywords Redux short essays through December 31. More info here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

If you haven't yet, check out VLC Issue 50.3, Fall 2022. A number of the article are open access and available to download directly from our website. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

To kick off the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference this weekend, check out these fully available recent highlights from VLC: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

We are excited to announce the call for papers for a special issue of VLC on INFRASTRUCTURE. For details, please see: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

We are excited to announce calls for papers for two special issues of VLC: KEYWORDS REDUX and THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF VICTORIANIST ACTIVISM. For details, please see cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Dr. Stetz's review essay is also free to read online: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

@KingstoneHelen's article "Panoramas, Patriotic Voyeurism, and the 'Indian Mutiny'" is open access here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

We are proud to announce the publication of our Summer issue! The issue features articles by @ProfChappell, @KingstoneHelen, Lanya Lamouria, @NRebryCoulthard, Anne DeWitt, and Heidi L. Pennington, as well as a review essay by Margaret Stetz! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Now I've bought an image licence for this beauty & sent off the files, my first proper #panoramas article is mostly done! It's about how panoramas represented the #IndianMutiny, and how painters & audiences dealt with the risk of voyeurism. Out in @VLCjournal sometime soonish...

Victorian botany: not so buttoned-up! From @VLCjournal 2022: Christopher Harrington on nectar gathering & the orgasm in Brontë's Shirley (data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/…).

Dr. Garofalo's article will also be free to download until the end of April 2022. Read it here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

@devingarofalo's article, "Victorian Lyric in the Anthropocene," won the same award last year.

We are proud to announce that Elizabeth Miller’s article “Drill, Baby, Drill,” published in 48.1, was just awarded @incsscholars' Richard Stein Essay Prize for 2020 (incsscholars.org/competitions-a…). Congratulations, Dr. Miller!