Call for Papers: Victorian Literature and Science
The second issue of Victorian Network, guest edited by Dr Ian Henderson (King’s College London), seeks to showcase new research into the connections between Victorian literature and the sciences. Since the publication of Gillian Beer’s seminal Darwin’s Plots (1983), the study of Victorian science and literature as interrelated cultural practices has risen to be one of the largest and most dynamic fields within Victorian Studies. We are inviting submissions of no more than 7000 words that investigate the ways in which scientific disciplines, debates, practices and venues shaped the Victorian cultural imagination. A prize of £50 will be awarded to the best paper submitted. We reserve the right to withhold the prize.
Topics might include but are not limited to:
- The shared forms, aesthetics and poetics of literary and scientific discourses
- Victorian literature and nineteenth-century popular scientific entertainment
- Gendered scientific practices in Victorian literature and culture
- Science as a form of political / social critique in Victorian literature
- Literary criticism and science in the Victorian period
- Victorian culture and the imperial sciences
- Literary and scientific modes of ordering knowledge
- Affect and emotion in Victorian literature and science
We are also inviting postgraduates to present their research to a non-specialist readership by submitting short articles of circa 2000 words for our outreach page, Victorian Wire. The CfP and more details about the outreach project can be found on Victorian Wire. We are offering a prize of £25 to the best short article submitted. We reserve the right to withhold the prize.
All submissions should conform to MHRA style conventions and the in-house submission guidelines as set out here. The deadline for submissions to our next issue is November 1 2009.
Call for Papers: Crossing the Line: Affinities Before and After 1900
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. See here for more details and the Call for Papers.