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NAVSA Issue of Victorian Studies

The new issue of Victorian Studies (50.2: Winter 2008) continues the annual tradition of reprinting papers of especial interest from the most recent NAVSA conference. This year, the editors chose Philippa Levine's plenary address to the Victoria conference, while Catherine Robson focused on the presence of poetry and Erika Rappaport on the material turn in Victorian studies.

 

 

Philippa Levine, "States of Undress: Nakedness and the Colonial Imagination"

 

 

The Presence of Poetry

Emily Harrington,
"Michael Field and the Detachable Lyric"

Natalie Houston,
"Newspaper Poems: Material Texts in the Public Sphere"

Meredith Martin,
"Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Stigma of Meter"

Catherine Robson,
"The Presence of Poetry: Response"

 

 

Imperial Possessions, Cultural Histories, and the Material Turn

Aviva Briefel,
"Hands of Beauty, Hands of Horror: Fear and Egyptian Art at the Fin de Siècle"

Suzanne Daly,
"Spinning Cotton: Domestic and Industrial Novels"

Claire Wintle,
"Career Development: Domestic Display as Imperial, Anthropological, and Social Trophy"

Erika Rappaport,
"Imperial Possessions, Cultural Histories, and the Material Turn: Response"