News from Other Organizations

 

Although NAVSA reserves its e-mail distribution list for organization-related purposes, we are pleased to provide information about related activities:

• CFP: Victorian Memories: A One-Day Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference (16 July 2007; 15 September 2007)
• CFP: Victorians Institute Journal (VIJ): Victorian literature and the imaginary friend (1 September 2007)
• CFP: Politics and Propaganda: The 29th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (1 October 2007, 3-5 April 2008)
• CFP: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference on The Emergence of Human Rights (15 October 2007, 3-5 April 2008)
• "Female Marginalia: Annotating Empire," the 16th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference (15 October 2007; March 27-30, 2008)
• CFP: Graduate Students invited to compete for the Literature Compass 2007 Graduate Essay Prize (15 October 2007)
• CFP: Facts on File Companion to Literary Romanticism (31 October 2007)
• CFP: Third Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science (CFP deadline: Nov. 30)
• CFP: Evidence of Reading, Reading the Evidence (31 January 2008, 21-23 July 2008)
• CFP: Valancourt Books seeks proposals (no date)
• Conference Announcement: The 27th Annual Dickens Universe conference (29 July-4 August 2007)
• Conference Announcement: The Dickens Symposium (17-19 August 2007)
• Conference Announcement: Consecrated Women: Towards a History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (31 August 2007)
• Conference Announcement: The Victorians Institute Conference 2007: Victorian Secrets
• MLA's Options for Teaching Series: Teaching Laboring-Class British Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
• Colloquium Announcement: Political Theory for Victorian Studies? (28 March 2008)
• Journal Announcement: The first issue of the relaunched Victorian Review is available
• Journal Announcement: The fourth issue of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century has gone live
• Journal Announcement: Maney Publishing will publish The Hardy Review
• Resource Announcement: Rare Victorian Novels at the University of Glasgow

 

Victorian Memories: A One Day Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference)

Hosted by the University of Central England

To be held at Birmingham Central Library, Saturday 15 September 2007

Keynote Speakers: Professor David Amigoni (Keele University) and Professor Elisabeth Jay (Oxford Brookes University)

Admission: £6 (which includes morning/afternoon coffee and a buffet lunch). (Booking forms are available at the conference website: www.lhds.uce.ac.uk/english/?page=victorian-memories)

"There is the art of memory and there is the memory of art." — Jacques Derrida

This conference invites postgraduate students to address any aspect of memory in Victorian culture; including, but not limited to, literature, science, art, history and philosophy. Proposals should be no longer than 300 words. Deadline for proposals is 16 July 2007. Please send proposals to: victorianmemories@yahoo.co.uk

Papers are expected to be no longer than 20 minutes. Although this is a Victorian conference, we welcome proposals for papers on authors/artists/philosophers etc working outside of the United Kingdom (although it is necessary that papers are delivered in English). See below for further details or visit the conference website: www.lhds.uce.ac.uk/english/?page=victorian-memories.

I have a room whereinto no one enters
Save I myself alone:
There sits a blessed memory on a throne,
There my life centres.
--Christina Rossetti, "Memory"

"I did not forget. Was it my own wrong I remembered?" --Mrs. Clennam in Dickens's Little Dorrit

To remember or to forget? In their respective works, Dickens and Rossetti can be seen as participating in a wider discussion, taking place during the Victorian era, focusing on the role memory plays, both positively and negatively, in our lives. The Victorians were fascinated by the concept of memory and repeated attempts were made to discover why and how one remembers and forgets. But why is the notion of memory so important to the Victorians? And, as if the concept of memory itself could not be forgotten, why do the Victorians constantly return to analyse, theorise, and explore its possibilities?

Possible topics may include:

• Memories of the literary/artistic past; 'forgotten' Victorians; the posthumous memory/reputation of Victorian figures; Modernist and/or Postmodern 'memories' of the Victorian era
• Psychological theories of memory; memory and trauma; repressed memories; memory and subjectivity; dreams; ghosts
• 'False' memories; memory and the 'invention of tradition'; Amnesia/ Forgetting/Forgetfulness
• Nostalgia
• Memories of the oppressed; working class memories; (post)colonial memories
• Memory and narrative; genre; historical novels/events; diaries; confessions; (auto)biography; childhood memories; reminiscences and recollections; memoirs
• Memorials/monuments/commemorations; mementos/keepsakes/relics
• Memory and religion; death/ memory and mourning
• Gendering memory
• 'Memories' of the future/ experiences of déjà vu: (In Memoires for Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida claims: 'Memory projects itself toward the future').

Please send proposals (max 300 words) to: victorianmemories@yahoo.co.uk

Alternatively, you may post proposals to the conference organisers, Serena Trowbridge and Ryan Barnett, at the following address:

Victorian Memories’ Conference
English  Department
University of Central England
Perry Barr
Birmingham
B42  2SU

Please also send any questions or queries to the above email or postal addresses.

Deadline for proposals: 16 July 2007.

Conference website: www.lhds.uce.ac.uk/english/?page=victorian-memories

"Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary we all carry about with us." -- Miss Prism, in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest

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CFP: Victorians Institute Journal (VIJ):
Victorian literature and the imaginary friend (or bête noire)

1 September 2007

While we all agree it is naive to respond to characters in literary works as if they were embodied humans rather than words on a page, many works of the Victorian era are siren calls to the naive in even the most sophisticated readers. The editors of Victorians Institute Journal invite submissions of brief texts that sound the depths of this personal allure as we crash into the Scylla of what surely must be a fallacious analytic, or are pulled under in the whirling ecstasy of Charybdictic reading. Heathcliff, anyone? Submissions (two copies please) should be no longer than 4,000 words; the deadline for this special section will be 1 September 2007.

VIJ is an interdisciplinary, refereed scholarly annual now in its 35th year. Inquiries: vij@vcu.edu. Address for submissions: The Editors, Victorians Institute Journal / Dept. of English, Box 842005 / Virginia Commonwealth University / Richmond, VA 23284-2005.

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Politics and Propaganda: 29th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association

Florida International University, Miami, Florida April 3-5, 2008

Keynote Speaker: Sally Mitchell, Emerita Professor of English and Women's Studies, Temple University, "Political Women: The First Generation"

We welcome paper and panel proposals concerning any aspect of politics during the long nineteenth century, including but not limited to political figures, movements (Chartism, socialism, communism, anarchism, trades unions, reform), parties, campaigns, immigration, imperialism, suffrage, gender politics, war, slavery, nationalism, pacifism, uprisings, and revolutions.

Equally welcome are paper and panel proposals concerning propaganda, including but not limited to advertising, periodicals, promotion (including self-promotion), news, campaign materials, songs, slogans, cartoons, souvenirs, paraphernalia, monuments, posters, and public art.

Abstracts (250 words) for 20-minute papers, author's name and paper title in heading, with one-page c.v. by Oct. 1, 2007 to: Kathleen McCormack, Program Chair, Florida International University, mccormac@fiu.edu

Graduate students whose proposals are accepted can at that point submit a full-length version of the paper in competition for a travel grant to help cover transportation and lodging expenses.

Registration and accommodation information will be available on November 1, 2007: http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.htm

The conference will include a reception and tour at the Wolfsonian Museum-FIU, a leading museum of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century design, which also contains the country's largest collection of twentieth-century German, Italian, and American political propaganda, including prints, posters, drawings, books and serial holdings, and objects that document the rise and demise of fascist and other political movements.

We have also arranged a Biscayne Bay Boat Tour with local historian and scholar Dr. Paul George of the Historical Museum of Southern Florida. The tour will trace the development of Miami's coastline in the nineteenth century, including the influence of the first and second Seminole wars, as we view the Key Biscayne Lighthouse, the Cape Florida Lighthouse, and the Barnacle, the oldest house in Miami-Dade County still in its original location.

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CFP: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference on "The Emergence of Human Rights"

April 3-5, 2008

Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Interdisciplinary approaches to human rights in the nineteenth century could include: slavery and abolition; freedom of religion; legal rights; rights movements for women, children, workers; citizenship and empire; animal rights; rights theory; rights in popular culture, literature, and arts. 200 word abstracts by October 15, 2007 to Christine.Krueger@marquette.edu.

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"Female Marginalia: Annotating Empire"
The 16th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference

March 27-30, 2008
Indiana University, Bloomington
http://www.indiana.edu/~bwwc

Keynote Speakers: Susan Fraiman, Richard Menke, Helen Deutsch, & Claudia Johnson

This year's conference theme, "Female Marginalia: Annotating Empire," seeks to investigate the shifting site of margins and the act of marginalia. While we once spoke of 18th- and 19th-century women writers in terms of marginalization, our sense of "margins" has been expanded and challenged by the contribution of recovery efforts, by investigations of the technologies and sciences of the period, by changing intersections of gender and genre, and by the ever-growing conversations surrounding sexuality, racial, and colonial issues. As we recognize our own shifting margins—bringing to the center what was previously a footnote or an annotation—we must also recognize the ways in which women writers of the period actively negotiated and shaped their own shifting margins. To that end, we encourage submissions that reflect on women writers' textual engagement in de-centering, contouring, critiquing, supplementing, or contextualizing—in short, annotating—Britain's priorities at home and abroad. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches to the writers of this period, and we are especially interested in both the ways women writers of the period as well as current scholars of the period transform dominant conversations by continually reshaping and redefining the margins. We invite proposals for panels and individual papers that consider, but are not limited to, the following issues:

Authoring & Authorizing Global Margins:
*Transit & the Trans-Atlantic
*Mapping the Empire & Travel Writing
*Letters, Postcards & Carte de Vistes
*Annotating International & Domestic Policy
*Philanthropy at Home & Abroad

Tracing the Contours of Sexuality
*Silenced Sexual Identities & Experiences
*Sex Education
*Erotic Friendships
*Print Erotica
*Colonial Fetish

Mapping the Market’s Margins
*Print Market
*Marginal Genres: sequels, adaptations, journals & diaries, textbooks
*Commercial Exchange
*The Slave Trade & Abolition

Shaping the Textual Project
*Women’s Engagement in Scholarship & Reviews
*Reading & Writing Across Disciplinary Borders
*Recovering & Displacing Women’s Writing in the Canon
*Is the field of 18th- and 19th-century women’s writing still marginal?
*How has Feminist theory & criticism re-shaped the critical margins?

Negotiating Natural Boundaries
*Changing the intellectual and geographical landscape through technology
*Shifting discourses in the natural sciences
*Forging new frontiers in medicine
*Machines & Industrialization

Margins of Life
*From Birth to Death: the Margins of Mortality
*Marginal Bodies & Margins within Bodies

Individual proposals should include: a cover sheet including name, presentation title, technology requirements, university affiliation, address, e-mail address, phone number, and a brief biographical paragraph; and a 500-word abstract (please do not include any identifying information on abstract).

Panel proposals should include a coversheet with panel title, presenters’ names, presentation titles, technology requirements, university affiliations, addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and brief biographical paragraphs, followed by separate abstracts (500-word) for the panel topic and each presentation (please do not include any identifying information on abstracts).

Proposals must be submitted electronically as an attachment in .doc or .rtf format by October 15, 2007 to BWWC2008@indiana.edu

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The Literature Compass 2007 Graduate Student Essay Prize

The editors of Literature Compass invite submissions for the 2007 Graduate Essay Prize.

Win $200/£100 of free Blackwell books and have your article published in Literature Compass!

Winners will be chosen in each of 9 categories: Medieval; Renaissance; Shakespeare; Seventeenth Century; Eighteenth Century; Romanticism; The Victorians; Twentieth Century and Contemporary; American

Deadline: 15 October 2007

The prizes are open to all graduate students engaged in study at a college or university after their first degree and having not yet completed their doctorate.

Those entering can choose their own topic; however, as with articles already published on Literature Compass, submitted essays should have a survey element, putting the chosen topic in context for the non-specialist. The incorporation of advanced graduate work is strongly encouraged.

The upper word limit is 5000 words, including endnotes and bibliography.

Literature Compass Graduate Essays should be submitted by email as a Word document to: LICOeditorial@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com

Graduates must specify: which section they are entering their essay for; provide the details of their affiliation; provide their supervisor's name and email address. Winners will be announced at the 2007 MLA conference.

For more information, see www.literature-compass.com

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CFP: Facts on File Companion to Literary Romanticism (31 October 2007)

Contributors are sought for the above reference book due for publication in early 2009. The work aims to cover British and European works from the period 1780-1850 and which are typically given the label "Romantic."

Topics include:

• Author biographies and bibliographies (Blake, Wordsworth, Byron etc., as well as lesser-known male and female writers)
• Analyses of individual poems, plays, novels and non-fiction prose
• Literary themes and terms
• Historical events and personalities relevant to an understanding of the Romantic period

Essays will vary in length (from 500-2000 words).

For further information & list of topics etc., please see: http://companionromanticism.googlepages.com/home

Contact: Andrew Maunder, University of Hertfordshire, UK

E-mail: a.c.maunder@herts.ac.uk

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The Third Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science

Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited for the third annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science. The conference will be held at Keele University, from 27–29 March 2008. Plenary speakers include Frank Close, OBE (Professor of Physics, Exeter College, Oxford), Steven Connor (Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, Birkbeck College, London), and Helen Small (Fellow in English, Pembroke College, Oxford).

Papers may address topics in the interactions of literature and science in any period and any languages. Presenters need not be based in UK institutions.

We also invite panel proposals for three papers of 20 minutes or four papers of 15 minutes; members of the panel should be drawn from more than one institution.

Please send an abstract of no more than 400 words and a 100-word biographical note (or in the case of a panel, abstracts and notes for each speaker) to bsls@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk, by 30 November 2007. Please send abstracts in the body of messages; do not use attachments. Alternatively, abstracts and proposals may be posted to Dr Sharon Ruston, School of Humanities, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK.

Please address any queries to Dr Sharon Ruston at the email or postal address above.

CFP: Evidence of Reading, Reading the Evidence

A major international conference to be held at the Institute of English Studies, University of London

21-23 July 2008

Organised by the Open University and the Institute of English Studies

Keynote speakers: Kate Flint, Jonathan Rose, David Vincent

Studies centred on the history of reading have proliferated in the last twenty years. They have sprung from several different disciplines, encompassed different periods and geographical locations and chosen divergent methodologies, but their common quest has been to recover and understand the traces of a practice which is central to our understanding of human history, yet notoriously elusive.

One such approach is 'The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945' (RED), a project run by the Open University and the University of London. While RED is already proving its worth as a digital resource, its methodological parameters are necessarily limited and its vision therefore partial. What is needed in order for the study of the history of reading to progress beyond the boundaries of specific institutions, disciplines, methodologies, geographical locations and time periods is a forum in which as many diverse approaches as possible are brought into energetic debate.

This major 3-day conference, the first of its type, seeks to provide such a forum. We invite 20-minute papers from international students and scholars of any discipline - both within and outside the Humanities – who are interested in the history and practice of reading in any period or geographical location. Topics may include, but are by no means limited to:

• Theories of reading
• Issues of literacy
• National and transnational histories
• Readers and reading in fiction
• Reading communities
• Quantitative versus qualitative methodologies
• Genre reading
• Digital resources and their development
• Visual representations of reading
• Reading across disciplines/languages
• Using historical data in contemporary research fields
• The sociology, psychology, and neurology of reading experiences
• Evidence of reading from private audio recordings and blogs
• Finding, compiling, interpreting and preserving the evidence of reading

Paper titles, abstracts of no more than 300 words and short biographies should be sent electronically by 31 January 2008 to all three organisers: Dr Shaf Towheed (S.S.Towheed@open.ac.uk); Dr Rosalind Crone (r.h.crone@open.ac.uk); Dr Katie Halsey (Katie.Halsey@sas.ac.uk).

Conference website: http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2008/RED/index.htm

RED website: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/RED/

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Valancourt Books Seeks Proposals

Valancourt Books, an independent press specializing in new editions of neglected 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century literature, is seeking proposals from qualified editors for scholarly editions of Victorian novels. We have also recently launched a series focusing on popular literature of the 1890s for which we are actively soliciting proposals. For more information on the press, please visit http://www.valancourtbooks.com or contact James D. Jenkins, Publisher & Editor, at jjenkins@valancourtbooks.com

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The 27th Annual Dickens Universe Conference (29 July-4 August 2007)

The Dickens Project announces its 27th annual Dickens Universe conference, to be held at UC Santa Cruz, July 29-August 4. The featured novel for this year's week-long gathering is The PickwickPapers. Featured speakers include Robert L. Patten, James Eli Adams, Sally Ledger, Helena Michie, Jonathan Grossman, Alex Woloch, John Bowen, and others. The conference will conclude with a two-day symposium, August 2-4, on "Victorian Genres," with Herbert Tucker as keynote speaker. A special feature of this year's Dickens Universe program is a seminar for non-affiliated faculty, led by John Bowen. The conference also offers a 5-unit undergraduate summer session course. For more information about all these events, go to the Dickens Project web site: http://dickens.ucsc.edu/.

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The Dickens Symposium (17-19 August 2007)

The Dickens Society will have its 12th Annual Symposium in Montréal from 17-19 August 2007. More information is available here: http://people.uleth.ca/~goldie.morgentaler/Dickens_Symposium.html, including the program, information on accommodations, and a registration form.

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Consecrated Women: Towards a History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland

31 August 2007

Location: Institute of Historical Research, London

An exciting programme of medieval, early modern and modern papers on themes including:

• Provision of healthcare
• Wealth and influence
• Material culture and literary culture
• Canonical issues, constitutions and the approval of congregations

For booking please complete the booking form on the H-WRBI website at: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/bedford-centre/history-women-religious/events.html, or contact Dr. Carmen M. Mangion at c.mangion@history.bbk.ac.uk

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The Victorians Institute Conference 2007: Victorian Secrets (9-11 November 2007)

The 2007 annual meeting of the Victorians Institute will be held November 9-11 at the Ferguson Center on the campus of the University of Alabama. The theme of the 2007 conference is "Victorian Secrets," and the keynote address will be delivered by John Kucich, Professor of English at Rutgers University. For further information, visit the conference website: http://bama.ua.edu/~apionke/VI2007/VI2007welcome.htm

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Call for Essay Proposals for Volume on Teaching Laboring-Class British Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

For the MLA's Options for Teaching series, the Publications Committee has approved development of the volume Teaching Laboring-Class British Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, edited by Kevin Binfield and Tim Burke. The volume will serve as a resource on issues, materials, and methods for teaching this literature in a variety of genres. As currently planned, the volume will comprise eight sections: 1) Materials; 2) Defining the Field; 3) Teaching Forms of Laboring-Class Literature; 4) Teaching Themes in Laboring-Class Literature; 5) Representation and Self-representation; 6) Organizing the Field; 7) Teaching Contexts and Course Designs; and 8) Teaching Individual Writers.

If you are interested in contributing to the volume, please email a one- or two-page proposal to Kevin Binfield (kevin.binfield@murraystate.edu or MLAoptionsLC@murraystate.edu) or Tim Burke (timsiob@gmail.com) by 1 December 2007. You may also mail proposals to Kevin Binfield, Department of English and Philosophy, Faculty Hall 7C, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky 42071 USA.

Political Theory for Victorian Studies?

The University of Notre Dame will host a one-day public colloquium on this theme in the Spring of 2008 (March 28, the Friday after Easter). The day will offer a mixture of lectures, small panels and a seminar-style meeting, with participants including Amanda Anderson, Regenia Gagnier, Lauren M.E. Goodlad, Daniel S. Malachuk, and Andrew H. Miller. The goal of the event is to facilitate debate concerning current work by Victorianist literary and cultural historians who have been rethinking the field's recourse to concepts from political theory. The trend is especially apparent in work on Victorian liberalism. While this announcement is not a call for papers, interested scholars are invited to inquire whether a formal role in the proceedings remains open. Drop-in observers are also entirely welcome. For all inquiries about the event, please contact David Wayne Thomas (dthomas6@nd.edu). The University of Notre Dame is in South Bend, Indiana.

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Victorian Review: An Interdisciplinary Review of Victorian Studies 33.1 (Spring 2007)

The first issue of the relaunched journal Victorian Review is now available.

Contents include:

Special Forum: Victorian Studies and Interdisciplinarity, with contributions by Nancy Armstrong, Julie F. Codell, Nicolas Daly, Marysa Demoor, Dennis Denisoff, Donald E. Hall, Linda K. Hughes, Judith Johnston, Christopher Keep, Claudia Nelson, Francis O’Gorman, Linda H. Peterson, Matthew Rowlinson, Joanne Shattock, Peter Sinnema, Marjorie Stone, Jenny Bourne Taylor

Articles:

• Graham Law, "'A Vile Way of Publishing': Gissing and Serials"
• Monica Flegel, "'Facts and their Meaning': Child Protection, Intervention, and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Late Nineteenth-Century England"
• Rachel Heinrichs, "Critical Masculinities in Lady Audley's Secret"
• Anna Lepine, "'Virgin Solitiude': Envisioning a Textual Space for Spinsters in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley"

Single copies can be purchased for CA$20 (includes postage); information on subscription available from the journal website or contact the editors Alison Chapman (alisonc@uvic.ca) and Lisa Surridge (lsurridg@uvic.ca).

Coming soon in Victorian Review: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Interdisciplinarity; Victorian Things; Classical Myth and Victorian Literature; Beyond Britain

http://web.uvic.ca/victorianreview/index.html

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth-Century

www.19.bbk.ac.uk

Issue 4 (Rethinking Victorian Sentimentality)

Victorian sentimentality has too often been seen as an emotional and aesthetic blot on the landscape: its cast of pathetic children, fallen women, faithful animals, lachrymose deathbeds, hopeless sunsets and false dawns, fated quests, angelic mothers and innocents betrayed is familiar to the point of parody. This issue of 19 looks again at Victorian sentimentality, aiming to consider it critically yet sympathetically. The articles offer new discussions of Victorian sentimentality, ranging from mass-produced visual imagery to Tennyson and Longfellow to perhaps the greatest sentimentalist of them all, Dickens.

Guest Edited by Nicola Bown

Contributors:

• Emma Mason, "Feeling Dickensian feeling"
• Sally Ledger, "'Don't be so melodramatic!' Dickens and the affective mode"
• Kirstie Blair, "'Thousands of throbbing hearts': Sentimentality and community in popular Victorian poetry: Longfellow's Evangeline and Tennyson's Enoch Arden"
• Heather Tilley, "Sentiment and Vision in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth"
• Sonia Solicari, "Selling Sentiment: The Commodification of Emotion in Victorian Visual Culture"
• Marie Banfield, "From Sentiment to Sentimentality: A Nineteenth Century Lexigraphical Search"

Launched in October 2005, 19 is a peer-reviewed web journal for the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, providing a permanent and accessible home to the pioneering scholarship presented at its seminars and conferences. Visit our website for free access to current and past editions (including Interdisciplinarity; Periodicity; Literature and the Press), interactive media, scholarly debate, and links to nineteenth-century web resources.

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Maney Publishing to Publish The Hardy Review

Maney Publishing is to assume publication of the journal The Hardy Review on behalf of The Thomas Hardy Association (TTHA), Yale, USA. Maney will publish its first issue to coincide with the Association’s major international conference ‘Hardy at Yale’ in 2007.

The Hardy Review is the premier journal devoted to the scholarly study of Thomas Hardy, and will be the latest addition to Maney’s renowned humanities list. Its scope is broad, with past issues featuring symposia on Hardy and film, Hardy and dance, and individual papers from leading Hardy scholars. Currently an annual journal, Maney will increase the frequency to two issues per year from 2008.

For more information about The Hardy Review please visit www.maney.co.uk/journals/hdy

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Rare Victorian Novels at the University of Glasgow

A new website is now available (http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/novels/index.html) giving information about Glasgow University Special Collections Library’s collection of over 1800 volumes of nineteenth-century fiction, including particularly good holdings of silver fork novels and travel writing, as well as many rare items including some not found in any other UK research library. The project developing the website was supported by Glasgow University Chancellor’s Fund, directed by Dr Alice Jenkins and conducted by Dr Zsuzsanna Varga. The website includes both selective and extensive bibliographies to a number of 'clusters' of novels in the collection, as well as descriptions of the clusters and the collection itself, and access to a dedicated catalogue.

The website was launched formally in March, with a lecture by Professor Peter Garside (University of Edinburgh) on bibliographical research in Romantic and early Victorian fiction.

For further information on the website or the collection please contact Dr Alice Jenkins, Department of English, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK: a.jenkins@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk

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