Victorian Network (ISSN 2042-616X) is a new online journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best postgraduate work in Victorian Studies. The journal is guest edited by established scholars in the field and peer-reviewed by other doctoral students. The first issue, themed “The British Empire and Victorian Literature and Culture” and guest edited by Dr Muireann O'Cinneide (National University of Ireland, Galway), is now available (see below). We are currently accepting submissions for our second issue on “Victorian Literature and Science”. The issue will be guest edited by Dr Ian Henderson (King’s College London). Please read the current Call for Papers for more details.
The third issue of Victorian Network will take the form of conference proceedings for ‘Crossing the Line: Affinities Before and After 1900′, a postgraduate conference hosted by the University of Liverpool, 28-29 January 2010. See here for further information and the Call for Papers.
Volume 1, Number 1 (Summer 2009)
Victorian Network: Guest Editor's Introduction
Muireann Ó Cinnéide
(University of Galway)
It is a great pleasure for me to introduce the first issue of this exciting new journal, Victorian Network. The journal, with generous support from the AHRC, provides a central forum for postgraduate students to publish their work, offering an important insight into the cutting-edge of Victorian Studies at the present time. The title Victorian Network represents Victorian culture in terms of interconnectivity rather than discrete ideas, disciplines and institutions. Links in the period between literature, history, painting, religion and science have been well-explored, but what ‘Network’ highlights, it seems to me, is a more interactive, vibrant, and essentially socialised sense of structures of connection. It also speaks to the value of facilitating Victorianist networks. The production of the journal itself brings together an editorial team of postgraduate students, working with a different guest editor for each issue, and will continue to involve new generations of postgraduate students in its development. Read the full text here
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| Victorian Network: Guest Editor's Introduction
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Muireann Ó Cinnéide |
| Spectral Economies at the Anglo-African Margin: Bertram Mitford’s Predatory Politics of Consumption
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Jane Ford |
| Inoculation and Empire: Cigarette's healing power in Ouida's Under Two Flags
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J. Stephen Addcox |
| Aristocracy for the Common People: Chinese Commodities In Oscar Wilde’s Aestheticism
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Qi Chen |
| Georgiana Molloy, Jane Porter and the Significance of Exploration Narratives for New Beginnings in a Strange Land
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Peta Beasley |
| Working for the Empire: Professions of Masculinity in H. G. Wells's The Time Machine and R. L. Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Theresa Jamieson |
