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Literary, social, and cultural studies of 19C Britain and beyond. Online submission portal: scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/ind… Please direct all inquiries to victstu@iu.edu

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy 160th birthday to H.G Wells! Celebrate Wells by reading Sebastian Egholm Lund’s “The Climate of Utopia: Victorian Hothouses and H.G Wells,” where he explores the ties between Victorian high society, the climate, and utopia in Wells’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 and 𝘈 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘜𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘢.
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It might not feel like it but winter is here! Our newest edition Winter 2026 (68.2) is live now on Project MUSE!
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Check out Alex Woloch’s “Criticism and Representation in Dorothy Van Ghent’s ‘The Dickens World’” in 68.1, where he analyzes the relationship between the logic of representation within Dickens’s realist aesthetics and the act of representation that takes place within Van Ghent’s critical essay.
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Check out Clara Dawson's blog post about her essay "Shadow Journeys: Avian Movements in Natural History and Poetry in the Nineteenth Century" where she explores the global trade in ornithology and its ties to slavery and empire.
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Our latest issue, 68.1, is hot off the press and live on Project MUSE! We are joined by a feathery friend today as we read Clara Dawson's article on birds in poetry in the nineteenth century and Alex Woloch's discussion of Dorothy Van Ghent's "The Dickens World." Project MUSE linked below.
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Over Spring Break, one of our interns visited the Oscar Wilde House in Dublin, Ireland! No. 1 Merrion Square North was Wilde's childhood home, and the site of Lady Jane Wilde's weekend literary salons. Photos 2 and 3 show the Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture, located in Monument Park.
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Happy Birthday to Charlotte Brontë! Born April 21, 1816, Brontë remains one of the most influential and acclaimed authors in English literary history. Read Ruth Livesey’s “Communicating with Jane Eyre: Stagecoach, Mail, and the Tory Nation."
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Check out Heather Brink-Roby’s article, “The Idea of the Majority,” new in 67.4! Here, Brink-Roby examines how Charles Kingsley's early novels embody the "contradictory uses, grounds, and alleged tendencies of thinking" around the "concept of the majority" (559). muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Check out Alex Murray’s blog post about his article “Gatekeeping: Publishers’ Readers, Gender, and the Literature of the 1890s,” which explores the often reactionary and sexist genre of the reader’s report during the complicated cultural politics of the 1890s.
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Spring has sprung in Bloomington! Enjoy the beautiful weather by taking a copy of our newest issue outside! 67.4 is hot off the press and live on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/issue/56511
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
March 3rd was World Wildlife Day! Check out Toby Harper's 65.2 article, "Fish Pain and Human Sport in Victorian Britain," where he examines Victorian anglers' beliefs about fish pain—"beliefs intertwined with ideas about race, food, civilization, and class" (247). muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
London Fashion Week has officially come to a close, and among the rising trends for Spring and Summer 2026 is lace! Check out Elaine Freedgood’s 2003 article, “‘Fine Fingers’: Victorian Handmade Lace and Utopian Consumption."
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The “Race and Global Victorian Studies” cluster in our 67.3 issue is open access! Read here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56184
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
67.3's cluster, "Media," includes Damian Sutton's essay, "1865: Cartes de Visite, the Lincoln Conspiracy, and the Evolution of Transnational Imagination." Sutton examines how artistic representations of Jack Sheppard influenced American "cartomania" in the context of the Lincoln assassination.
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Congrats to Sebastian Lund for receiving the 2025 INCS Richard Stein Essay Prize for his article, “The Climate of Utopia: H. G. Wells and Victorian Hothouses,” published in the 65.4 issue of Victorian Studies!
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
In our recent issue, read Casie LeGette’s “Remembering the Morant Bay Rebellion with Claude McKay,” which compares McKay’s “George William Gordon to the Oppressed Natives” with his well-known “If We Must Die,” first published in _The Liberator_ in 1919.
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Our latest special issue is hot off the press and live on Project Muse! 📬🎉 67.3 contains essays from @navsa.bsky.social's 2024 conference and covers three essay clusters: Political Events, Race and Global Victorian Studies, and Media. Read here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/issue/...
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
You may know of Charles Dickens’s 𝘈 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘭, but are you familiar with 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵’𝘴 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯? Add spookiness to this holiday season by reading Helen Groth’s article, “Reading Victorian Illusions: Dickens's Haunted Man and Dr. Pepper's ‘Ghost’” muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Is the winter weather inspiring you to pick up a good book and revamp your reading habits? Check out the article linked below from VS Volume 61.4 on Victorian reading practices inspired by authors John Henry Newman and the pictured Christina Rossetti, whose 195th birthday is tomorrow!
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
November 20th is Universal Children’s Day, a day that promotes the welfare of children. Check out Marjorie Stone’s article from 62.4 where she discusses Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s advocacy for the suffering children of the Victorian working-class.⬇️ muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
67.2 Article Spotlight: Join Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson in her article “Pieced Together: Scrapbooks, Imperial Archives, and the Many Lives of Mermanjan,” as she draws on different sets of “historiographical and theoretical texts" to answer a series of important questions. muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
67.2 Article Spotlight: Ahoy! Matthew P. M. Kerr’s article “Head-Chowder: Kipling’s Wasteless Waters” examines the relevance of Victorian literature to modern day maritime waste studies through the lens of Rudyard Kipling’s 𝐶𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑢𝑠. Batten down the hatches and heave-ho to the link below!
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
67.2 Essay Spotlight: “Aging and Generations in Margaret Oliphant’s Fiction” Reimagine the utilization of terms like “Baby-Boomer” and “Millennial” by reading Helen Kingstone’s essay on nineteenth-century ideas of generation in the work of Margaret Oliphant (1828-97): muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Love 𝘈 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵'𝘴 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 and ever wondered about changing depictions of fairies in the 19th-century U.S.? Check out Vanessa Meikle Schulman’s reflection on writing “Transatlantic Fairy Painting and Social Unrest in Victorian America” in our new blog post, available at the link in the comments!
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Good morning! Did you know that our latest issue 67.2 can now be accessed through Project MUSE online? Feel free to check it out and let us know which article you enjoyed the most in the comments below. ⬇️ muse.jhu.edu/issue/55623
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Happy Autumn Equinox! Bring on the fall vibes by checking out "Transatlantic Fairy Painting and Social Unrest in Victorian America," by Vanessa Meikle Schulman in our latest issue by using the link below. ⬇️ Project MUSE - Victorian Studies: Volume 67, Number 2, Winter 2025 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55623
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Project MUSE - Victorian Studies-Volume 67, Number 2, Winter 2025
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
📫 Be on the lookout for 67.2, our latest issue- hard copies are being sent out today! 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
67.1 Essay Spotlight: "Gaslighting: The Material History of a Metaphor" Read Grace Franklin's essay on the material history underpinning the concept of psychological gaslighting: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
67.1 Essay Spotlight: "Roots/Routes of Empire: Mary Seacole and Scottish-Caribbean Identity" Read Kenneth McNeil's essay on how ideas of kinship and imperial networks shaped Mary Seacole's Scottish-Caribbean identity: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Check out the IU Press blog post for our new issue 67.1 🎉 A big thank you to Mark Taylor, coeditor and contributor to the Victorian Idealisms Forum, for writing the post. His article, "Introduction: Victorian Idealisms," is now open-access on Project Muse. See links in the comment section.
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Our latest issue, 67.1, is now live on Project Muse! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55087
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
📪 Check your mailboxes for our new issue 🎉 Realism and Idealism battle it out on 67.1's cover—a fitting image for this issue featuring the Victorian Idealisms Forum!
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Here are some of the book reviews included in 66.4 of Victorian Studies! Take some time to read them as well as the other 26 reviews in this issue! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54490
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Read the fourth featured essay in 66.4: Helena Michie’s “Deep History, Surface Histories: British Heritage and Arab Traces in Sicily 1870–1930,” which analyzes British travel writing on Sicily and its connections to British heritage. muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl....
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Read the third featured essay in 66.4: Anna Barton’s “Editing Mary Elizabeth Coleridge: The Lyric as Archive,” which uses manuscript materials from Mary Elizabeth Coleridge to propose a model of archival lyric. muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl....
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Check out the second featured essay in 66.4: @jakeromanow.bsky.social Jacob Romanow’s “Kipling’s Administrative Imaginary: Imperial Ignorance as Information Management.” Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
New blog post alert! Head to the IU Press blog to read Sierra Eckert and Milan Terlunen's post on their article, "What We Quote: Disciplinary History and the Textual Atmospheres of Middlemarch," which is featured in our latest issue. Link to blog post: iupress.org/connect/blog...
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
66.4 Featured Essay: Check out Sierra Eckert and Milan Terlunen’s article on quotation practices and the production of collective knowledge, “What We Quote: Disciplinary History and the Textual Atmospheres of Middlemarch.” The essay is open-access on Project MUSE, see link in comments.
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Can you spot not one, but two squirrels? We found a furry friend as we photographed the cover of our newest VS issue, 66.4! Be sure to check our social media for more content about the featured essays. Also, check out the link below for the full issue on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54490
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Today is World Theatre Day! To celebrate this day, read Michael Meeuwis’s “‘The Theatre Royal Back Drawing-Room’: Professionalizing Domestic Entertainment in Victorian Acting Manuals” and Gregory Vargo’s “Chartist Drama: The Performance of Revolt.”
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Make sure to check your mail! The newest issue of Victorian Studies, 66.4, has been shipped and should be arriving in your mailbox soon.
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It’s Women’s History Month! To honor the women who have come before us and who have helped us get to where we are, read about the impact that women had in the Victorian Era in the articles linked below. muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
International Women’s Day is just around the corner! Here is an article about a Victorian female author, Christina Rossetti. In Ashley Miller’s article, she discusses how Christina Rossetti’s poetry about fruitlessness and waste can provide a deeper understanding of female corporeality.
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Whether you are writing, reading, or even crafting, paper has been an influential product throughout history. If you are interested in learning more about the publishing and paper industries in Victorian England, read “New Grub Street’s Ecologies of Paper” muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl....
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Victorian Studies is launching its online submission portal! Starting March 1, 2025, please use our online portal for all submissions to the journal: scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/... There you can also find our style guide, as well as links to our IU Press blog and Project Muse archive.
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
In honor of London Fashion Week, here are two past articles “ReFashioning Men: Fashion, Masculinity, and the Cultivation of the Male Consumer in Britain, 1860-1914” muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... or “Clothing Napoleonic History in Vanity Fair and the Trumpet Major” muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This is a @wehrlegig.games production, with a @victstudies.bsky.social lineage; we are proud that @colewehrle.bsky.social was an undergraduate intern with us years ago!
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
To those who are thankful Valentine’s Day has passed, it’s the perfect time to read this humorous Victorian broadside ballad, “The Love Letter. The lady's maid - the secret found out!!! or, A married man caught in a trap.” Image from London Low Life
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
In honor of Charles Dickens’s upcoming birthday, check out Eleanor Courtemanche’s article, “Payback Time: Dickens and Revolution.” This article discusses the political aspects of A Tale of Two Cities and provides a new perspective on the novel. Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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