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Victorian Studies is proud to announce its sixth annual NAVSA edition, forthcoming in volume 51, number 3, drawing on work from the 2008 conference at Yale. It features a plenary address by Catherine Hall, which focuses on the experiences of Thomas Babington Macaulay and the ways in which they contributed to the insular and assimilationist vision that he so memorably narrated in his great History of England.
Tim Barringer serves as respondent to a cluster of essays focusing on Aestheticism as an interdisciplinary, intermedial phenomenon. Beth Helsinger looks at the complex interaction between art and music in Rossetti's work; Andrea Wolk Rager reveals the vibrant social and political allegory underlying Edward Burne-Jones's Briar Rose series; and Rachel Teukolsky examines a hitherto neglected web of connections between James McNeill Whistler's formal innovations in painting, the rise of the sensation novel, and the shows of London.
Jonah Siegel responds to essays by Pamela Fletcher, Simon Goldhill, and Ruth Bernard Yeazell that illuminate the kinds of challenges Victorian art presented to its first audiences and today. Whether it's the erotically charged play with erudition of a Waterhouse, or the sentimental crowds shaping the experience of an exhibition, or the puzzling relationship between the title and the object in Turner, these topics demonstrate fundamental issues at stake in making and viewing art in the period.
See below for the original titles of the papers.
Paper Titles
Catherine Hall, "Macaulay's Nation"
Elizabeth Helsinger, "Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Persistence of Song"
Andrea Wolk Rager, "'Smite This Sleeping World Awake': Edward Burne-Jones and the Legend of the Briar Rose"
Rachel Teukolsky, "White Girls: Avant-Gardism and Advertising after 1860"
Pamela Fletcher, "'To Wipe a Manly Tear': The Aesthetics of Emotion in Victorian Narrative Painting"
Simon Goldhill, "See Josephus: Viewing First Century Sexual Drama with Victorian Eyes"
Ruth Bernard Yeazell, "Turner's Titles"