Issue 8.2 of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
Issue 8.2 of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
Issue 8.2 of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is now available at: www.ncgsjournal.com
This special issue, “Law and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England,” is guest edited by Julia McCord Chavez and Katherine Gilbert. It features the following articles and reviews:
Introduction
Julia McCord Chavez and Katherine Gilbert, “Introduction”
Articles
Christine L. Krueger, “The Queer Heroism of a Man of Law in A Tale of Two Cities”
Catherine Siemann, “Appellate Lawyers in Petticoats: Access to Justice in Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady”
Matthew Ingleby, “Bulwer-Lytton, Braddon, and the Bachelorization of Legal Bloomsbury”
Gregory Brennen, “Legal Fictions, Legal Limits: The Noble Patriarch and the Power of Law in Victorian Literature”
Danaya C. Wright, “Policing Sexual Morality: Percy Shelley and the Expansive Scope of the Parens Patriae in the Law of Custody of Children”
Clare McGlynn, “John Stuart Mill on Prostitution: Radical Sentiments, Liberal Proscriptions”
Colleen Fenno, “Testimony, Trauma, and a Space for Victims: Mary Wollsonecraft’s Maria: Or the Wrongs of Woman”
Reviews
Marlene Tromp, “The Case of the Brontës in Law and Fiction.” Review of Ian Ward’s Law and the Brontës.
Elsie B. Michie, “Global Capitalism and Nineteenth-Century Literature.” Review of Ayse Çelikkol’s Romances of Free Trade: British Literature, Laissez-Faire, and the Global Nineteenth Century.
Barbara Leckie, “I Don’t: The Failed-Marriage Plot and the Victorian Novel.” Review of Kelly Hager’s Dickens and the Rise of Divorce: the Failed-Marriage Plot and the Novel Tradition.
Thad Logan, “Imitations of Life, or Art (and Industry) at Home.” Review of Talia Schaffer’s Novel Craft: Victorian Domestic Handicraft and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.
Victorian Network: latest issue available
Publication Announcement: The Victorian Network
Latest issue now available
Production and Consumption in Victorian Culture and Literature
http://victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn
The Victorian Network Editorial Board would like to announce the publication of the new issue of The Victorian Network, a special number on the theme of Production and Consumption in Victorian Culture and Literature. A sparkling introduction by Guest Editor Dr. Ella Dzelzainis (University of Newcastle) ranges from Malthus to Marx, and papers from scholars world-wide similarly range across a wide spectrum of nineteenth-century writers, and approaches, focussing especially on the gendered dimension of our economic theme.
Please find the issue on the website here: http://victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn
On the website you can also find previous issues of Victorian Network, “The British Empire and Victorian Literature and Culture”, “Victorian Literature and Science”, “Crossing the Line: Affinities Before and After 1900″ and “Theatricality and Performance in Victorian Literature and Culture”.
The next issue, themed “Sex, Courtship and Marriage in Victorian Litereature and Culture”, is forthcoming in Winter 2012.
Issue 8.1 of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
Issue 8.1 of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
is now available at: http://www.ncgsjournal.com/issue81/issue81.htm
It includes the following:
Articles-
Georgina O’Brien Hill, “Charlotte Yonge’s “Goosedom””
Emily M. Hinnov, “‘Nothing more than a certain hue of brown’: Brownness as Metaphor for Robert Louis Stevenson’s Remnants of Fearful Femininity”
Sarah N. MacDonald, “Relationality in Working Women’s Autobiography”
Meaghan Malone, “Courting the Eye: Seeing Men in Jane Austen’s Persuasion”
Danielle Nielsen, “Survival and Acceptance in Flora Annie Steel’s On the Face of the Waters”
Cheryl A. Wilson, “Mona Caird’s Dancing Daughters”
Reviews-
Talia Schaffer, “The Scandal of Marrying for Money.” Review of Elsie B. Michie’s The Vulgar Question of Money: Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James.
Jennifer Phegley, “Authorship, Editorship, and Women’s Sensational Power in Mid-Victorian England.” Review of Beth Palmer’s Women’s Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture: Sensational Strategies.
Julie E. Fromer, “Tracing History through Material Culture: Indian Goods in Victorian Domestic Fiction.” Review of Suzanne Daly’s The Empire Inside: Indian Commodities in Victorian Domestic Novels.
Jessica Straley, “Mapping the Unmapped Territories of Female Resistance.” Review of Megan A. Norcia’s X Marks the Spot: Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790-1895.
Moving Dangerously: Women and Travel, 1850-1950
Moving Dangerously: Women and Travel, 1850-1950
13-14 April 2012, Newcastle University
Keynote Speakers: Alexandra Peat (University of Toronto) and Avril Maddrell (University of the West of England)
Proposals Due: 30 November 2011
The period between 1850 and 1950 is widely acknowledged to have been one of dramatic societal and cultural change, not least in terms of women’s experience of and relationship to travel. The rapid expansion of the travel networks both nationally and internationally towards the end of the nineteenth century coincided with the impact of first wave feminism, as the suffragette movement gathered momentum and the figure of the New Woman appeared. By 1950, new forms of technology and transport, and their widespread availability, had substantially altered women’s perception of and ability to travel.
This two-day international and interdisciplinary conference invites papers that explore the changing relationship of women and travel across key moments in modernity, such the First World War and its effects on women’s independence, the developments in British Imperial activity, and the boom in rail, air and sea travel. The conference aims to stimulate academic discussion on a range of topics relating to women and travel in the period ranging from 1850-1950. These topics include representations of women and travel in fiction and film, non-fictional portrayals and documentations, as well as archival work on first-hand accounts of women travellers. As such, we welcome papers from those working in the fields of Literature, History, Geography, Film and Media, Modern Languages, Gender/Women’s Studies, and Politics.
Potential paper topics might include considerations of: both published and unpublished travel-writings by women of the period; fictional accounts of travel written by women throughout the period; representations of women travellers in contemporary biography; representations of women and travel during the period in fiction and film, and the benefits of archival research into women and travel on contemporary understandings of women’s role in modernity.
Please send abstracts of 250 words for 20 minute papers to: moving@ncl.ac.uk by 30 November 2011.
The conference is presented in association with the Gender Research Group and the Long-Nineteenth Century Research Cluster at Newcastle University, and is supported by a grant from the Catherine Cookson Foundation.
Extended CFP: Rural Geographies
Rural Geographies of Gender and Space, Britain 1840-1920
23rd September 2011, University of Warwick
*CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED – 15th AUGUST*
Whilst discussions of gender and space in the nineteenth- to early-twentieth century have typically focused on “women and the city”, rural spaces offer equally productive contexts for exploring the intersections between gender and space in this period. As the socio-spatial relations of the country are impacted by the move into modernity, rural environments are revealed in literary and historical texts as sites of complex, contradictory and changing gendered codes.
This half-day symposium offers a long-overdue forum in which to resituate the rural as a vital context for understanding the meanings of gender and space in this period. By bringing together scholars from different disciplinary perspectives we aim to understand the diverse experiences of gendered rural spaces and contribute to discussions about theoretical approaches to the (rural)space-gender intersection.
Proposals are invited for short papers from scholars in literary studies, history, geography, and any other discipline; postgraduate and early career researchers are especially encouraged to apply. Themes for discussion could include:
- theories of gender and rural place: what do we mean by rural space, how do we theorise “the rural” as a spatial context, and how does gender intersect?
- the impact of modernity;
- mobility: walking, vagabonds, pedestrians, wayward women;
- labour, class and gender in the country;
- masculinities;
- different ruralities;
- visibility/ invisibility
Please send a 300-word proposal for 15 minute papers to the conference organisers Gemma Goodman and Charlotte Mathieson
Gemma.Goodman@warwick.ac.uk and c.e.mathieson@warwick.ac.uk
CFP: Rural Geographies of Gender and Space, Britain 1840-1920
Rural Geographies of Gender and Space, Britain 1840-1920
23 September 2011, University of Warwick
Proposals Due: 29 July 2011
Whilst discussions of gender and space in the nineteenth- to early-twentieth century have typically focused on “women and the city”, rural spaces offer equally productive contexts for exploring the intersections between gender and space in this period. As the socio-spatial relations of the country are impacted by the move into modernity, rural environments are revealed in literary and historical texts as sites of complex, contradictory and changing gendered codes.
This half-day symposium offers a long-overdue forum in which to resituate the rural as a vital context for understanding the meanings of gender and space in this period. By bringing together scholars from different disciplinary perspectives we aim to understand the diverse experiences of gendered rural spaces and contribute to discussions about theoretical approaches to the (rural)space-gender intersection.
Proposals are invited for short papers from scholars in literary studies, history, geography, and any other discipline; postgraduate and early career researchers are especially encouraged to apply. Themes for discussion could include:
- theories of gender and rural place: what do we mean by rural space, how do we theorise “the rural” as a spatial context, and how does gender intersect?
- the impact of modernity;
- mobility: walking, vagabonds, pedestrians, wayward women;
- labour, class and gender in the country;
- masculinities;
- different ruralities;
- visibility/ invisibility
Please send a 300-word proposal for 15 minute papers by 29th July to the conference organisers:
Gemma.Goodman@warwick.ac.uk and c.e.mathieson@warwick.ac.uk
