EXTENDED DEADLINE: 10th MAY – CFA: Victorians and the Law
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 10th MAY
Call for Papers: Victorians and the Law
Victorian Network is an MLA-indexed online journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best postgraduate work in Victorian Studies.
The eighth issue of Victorian Network, guest edited by Dr Cathrine Frank (University of New England), will take a fresh look at the interfaces between literature and legal cultures in the Victorian period. From the Reform Acts through the growth of colonial law to the establishment of divorce courts, nineteenth-century legislature shaped and responded to the same cultural developments – the rise of the middle class, industrialisation, imperial expansion, and shifting ideas about gender, to name but a few – that were also eagerly debated by literary writers. The politics and aesthetics of many nineteenth-century novelists, poets and playwrights were informed by a sustained engagement with legal debates and practices. Their works often reflected on, and sometimes challenged, the law’s construction of civic, social and gender identities, while also casting a critical (or appraising) eye over the bureaucratic apparatus on which legal practice was built.
We are inviting submissions of no more than 7000 words. Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to, the following:
- wills, trusts and guardianship accounts: the materiality of the legal archive
- Victorian trials, sensation and theatricality
- criminal law, lawlessness, realist epistemologies and the detective plot
- Victorian law and gender
- the reaches of the law: imperialism and the legal & literary creation of colonial identities
- intersections between genres of legal and literary writing
- “brought up a barrister”: nineteenth-century authors, legal training, professionalization and the bar
- radical politics, social change and the working class in Victorian literature and the law
- debates about rights to intellectual and literary property
- the spaces and cultural venues of legal practice
All submissions should conform to MHRA style conventions and the in-house submission guidelines. The deadline for submissions to the next issue is 10th May, 2013. Contact: victoriannetwork@gmail.com
CFA/CFP Deadline Approaching: Victorians and the Law
CFA/CFP Deadline Approaching: Victorians and the Law
Victorian Network is an MLA-indexed online journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best postgraduate work in Victorian Studies.
The eighth issue of Victorian Network, guest edited by Dr Cathrine Frank (University of New England), will take a fresh look at the interfaces between literature and legal cultures in the Victorian period. From the Reform Acts through the growth of colonial law to the establishment of divorce courts, nineteenth-century legislature shaped and responded to the same cultural developments – the rise of the middle class, industrialisation, imperial expansion, and shifting ideas about gender, to name but a few – that were also eagerly debated by literary writers. The politics and aesthetics of many nineteenth-century novelists, poets and playwrights were informed by a sustained engagement with legal debates and practices. Their works often reflected on, and sometimes challenged, the law’s construction of civic, social and gender identities, while also casting a critical (or appraising) eye over the bureaucratic apparatus on which legal practice was built.
We are inviting submissions of no more than 7000 words. Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to, the following:
*wills, trusts and guardianship accounts: the materiality of the legal archive
*Victorian trials, sensation and theatricality
*criminal law, lawlessness, realist epistemologies and the detective plot
*Victorian law and gender
*the reaches of the law: imperialism and the legal & literary creation of colonial identities
*intersections between genres of legal and literary writing
*“brought up a barrister”: nineteenth-century authors, legal training, professionalization and the bar
*radical politics, social change and the working class in Victorian literature and the law
*debates about rights to intellectual and literary property
*the spaces and cultural venues of legal practice
All submissions should conform to MHRA style conventions and the in-house submission guidelines. The deadline for submissions to our next issue is 1 April, 2013. Contact: victoriannetwork@gmail.com
UWE LONG NINETEENTH-CENTURY NETWORK
University of the West of England LONG NINETEENTH-CENTURY NETWORK
Free Staff and Research Students/ Research Paper Programme 2012-13
Thursday 22 November 2012: 17.30-19.00 : Lady Chapel
Dewi Evans (Cardiff University) ‘”A Momentary Contact with Reality”: Reading and Otherness in E.M. Forster and M.R. James’
Thursday 13 December 2012: 17.30-19.00 : Lady Chapel
Ross Belson (UWE) ‘Memoirs of a Scandalous Woman? The Letters of Caroline Norton’
Thursday 7 February 2013: 17.30-19.00 : Lady Chapel
Laura Foster (Cardiff University) ‘”Is Not This Cruelty, Barbarity, Almost Surpassing Belief?”: The Representation of the Workhouse Master in Nineteenth-Century Culture’
Lucy Andrew (Cardiff University) ‘From “Blind-Alley” Labourer to Boy Detective: Promoting the Ideology of the “Conforming” Adolescent in the Harmsworths’ Juvenile Story Papers of the 1890s’
Thursday 14 February 2013: 17.30-19.00 : Lady Chapel
Dr Helen Frisby (UWE) ‘Salt and Mirrors, Waking and Telling the Bees: The Moral Economy of the Victorian Folk Funeral’
Wednesday 14 March 2013: 17.30-19.00 : Lady Chapel
Dr Samantha Matthews (Bristol University) ‘Abominable Albums and Autographs: Wordsworth, Album poetry and Scribal Publication’
Thursday 11 April 2013: 17.30-19.00 : Lady Chapel
Joanne Ella Parsons (UWE) ‘David Copperfield’s Dietary Discipline’
Ryan Sweet (Exeter University) ‘Frightening Physiognomy: One-Eyedness and Primitive Ocular Prosthesis in Nicholas Nickleby’
Thursday 9 May 2013: 17.30-19.00 : Lady Chapel
Caroline Morris (UWE) ‘Biographical Objects & the Changing Rhetoric of Display in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century’
Wednesday 12 June 2013: 17.30-19.00 : Lady Chapel
Dr Gill Ballinger (UWE): ‘Countering the “Contract-Bargain”: The Role of Private Credit in David Copperfield’
All papers will take place at UWE’s St Matthias Campus, Oldbury Court Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 2JP For directions to the campus see http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/comingtouwe/campusesmapsandtravel/stmatthiascampus.aspx
For further information about this series, or about UWE LNCN, please contact Prof. William Greenslade, Department of Arts: William.Greenslade@uwe.ac.uk or Joanne Ella Parsons Joanne.Parsons@live.uwe.ac.uk
CFP: Victorian Network Conference
‘Other Worlds: Victorian Network Conference’
3 Dec 2012, Senate House, University of London
Keynote Speakers: Dr John Holmes (Reading) and Professor Cora Kaplan (KCL)
CFP Deadline: 14thSeptember 2012 (Open to all)
From other lands to other planets to other dimensions, the nineteenth-century imagination thrived on the idea of ‘elsewhere’. Alongside a developing rhetoric of geographically and intellectually bounded identities grew a fascination with alterity. Other Worlds seeks to explore the many ways in which Victorians looked beyond their quotidian spheres to imagined alternatives. We invite submissions which explore nineteenth-century modes of thought which position themselves as other, alternative, transcendent, secret or hidden.
This conference also seeks to explore how we, as a network of Victorian scholars, construct the ‘other Victorian’. We use ‘Victorian’ to denote a period of time, describe our research, talk of a people and a nation. Yet this casual use is juxtaposed with a tacit recognition of the instability of the term and its homogenizing tendency as it collapses differences to construct an ideologically seamless era. Abandoning the quest for what ‘Victorian’ really means – an inevitable failure – this conference seeks to embrace the multiplicity of worlds that the term denotes and inhabits and the rebellious tendencies of the ‘Victorians’ themselves towards the idea of a single world.
Other Worlds aims to bring together scholars working in a wide range of disciplines to explore in greater depth the many fields of thought covered by the conference theme. Papers might deal with some of the following topics:
- Private worlds; confessional writing; secrecy
- The spiritual world; prayers, religious writing; heaven, hell and purgatory
- Fantastical and imaginary worlds
- Children’s writing; childhood fantasy
- Marginal or subversive communities
- Travel, exploration, unknown countries
- Alternative histories
- The Victorians as ‘other world’
Please send abstracts of around 250 words to otherworldsconference@gmail.com along with a brief biography by 14thSeptember 2012.
Other Worlds is a joint conference between King’s College London and Victorian Network and is organised by Sarah Crofton, Melissa Dickson and Fariha Shaikh. It is supported by the AHRC.
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.
CFP: Sex, Courtship and Marriage in Victorian Literature and Culture
CFP: Sex, Courtship and Marriage in Victorian Literature and Culture
Victorian Network
Deadline for submissions: 30 May 2012
Victorian Network is an MLA-indexed (from 2012) online journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best postgraduate work in Victorian Studies.
The sixth issue of Victorian Network, guest edited by Dr Greta Depledge (Royal Holloway), is dedicated to a reassessment of nineteenth-century constructions and understandings of sex, courtship and marriage. Although the heteronormative and companionate marriage was vital for economic and reproductive reasons – as well as romantic impulses – recent scholarship has illuminated its status as but one of several diverse paradigms of marriage/sexual relationship accessible to the Victorians
Across the nineteenth century, profound crises of faith, extensive legal reforms and the new insights afforded by the emergent discipline of anthropology all contributed to a culture of introspection about the practice of marriage, at the same time as advances in science and medicine opened up new interpretations and definitions of sexual practices and preferences.
We are inviting submissions of no more than 7000 words, on any aspect of the theme. Possible topics include but are by no means limited to the following:
· Victorian narratives of queer desire: text and subtext
· Representations of women’s sexuality (angels, whores and spinsters)
· Prudishness and censorship: “deviant” novels and scandalous dramas
· Adultery, bigamy, divorce and other affronts to the ideal of companionate marriage
· Transgressive relationships
· Nineteenth-century marriage law, including prohibited degrees of affinity, property reform and breach of promise
· Representations of sexual innocence and experience (virginity, puberty and prostitution)
· Subversion of traditional courtship narratives
· Sex and class: adventuresses, mistresses, sex workers and blackmail
· Customs of the country: courtship conventions, betrothals and bridal nights
· Performance, stylization and parody: gender scripts, consumer culture, theatrical subversion
All submissions should conform to MHRA style conventions and the in-house submission guidelines. The deadline for submissions is 30 May 2012.
Contact: victoriannetwork@gmail.com
