Call for Proposals: VPFA 2013 Research Seminar Series (1/31/2013)

The Victorian Popular Fiction Association is now accepting proposals for the 2013 Research Seminar Series to be held in Senate House, London. Open to both the general public and the academic community, this series is part of the Association’s ongoing commitment to the dissemination of the latest research in the area as well as the revival of understudied texts and writers. Proposals may take the form of individual papers or panels of three and may be drawn from any aspect of Victorian popular literature and culture.

Queries and proposals should be sent to Dr Janice Allan (j.m.allan@salford.ac.uk) and Joanne Parsons (Joanne.Parsons@live.uwe.ac.uk).Those who wish to be considered for the Spring Seminar in April (date TBC) should submit their proposals by 31 January 2013.

Victorian Popular Fiction Association: http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/victorian/

CFP: RLS 2013 "Stevenson, Time and History" (2/15/2013; 7/8-10/2013)

RLS 2013: Stevenson, Time and History

8-10 July 2013

University of New South Wales

Sydney, Australia

Keynote Speaker: Professor Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge

Topics for discussion include: 

• History and historiography
• The historical novel
• Theories of evolution
• The ideas of progress
• Generation and degeneration
• Narrative temporalities
• Genealogy and ancestry
• Stages of life: childhood, youth, age
• Memory and nostalgia
• Change

Proposals for papers (250 words) should be emailed to Roslyn Jolly (r.jolly@unsw.edu.au) or Chris Danta (c.danta@unsw.edu.au). Deadline extended to 15 February 2013.

Deadline Extended: British Women Writers Conference (1/1/2013; 4/4-6/2013)

We have had requests to extend the deadline, so you (and all your friends and colleagues!) now have until January 1st to submit an abstract to the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference April 4-6, 2013 in Albuquerque, NM.

  

The English department at the University of New Mexico is pleased to host the 2013 British Women Writers Conference. The conference will be April 4-6, 2013 at the Hyatt in downtown Albuquerque, NM. The conference theme is “Customs,” and we look forward to a wide range of unique presentations on the topic. In fact, we have several potential publication opportunities for those who present at the conference! In addition, we are excited that our brilliant lineup of speakers includes:

Keynote Speakers

Devoney Looser and Pamela Gilbert

Plenary Panel

Diane Long Hoeveler, Kathy Psomiades, Linda Troost

Customs are often thought of as the habits or social norms that dictate behavior, sometimes so rigidly that they appear to be laws. Conversely, though, “custom” can refer to a product or service tailored to the “customer’s” individual specifications, or the taxes or duties on imports/exports, the governmental department charged with implementing such fees, or the place in which all items entering a country from foreign parts are examined for contraband.  Regardless of its particular connotation, “custom” denotes a sense of rigidity, restriction, or control; it is these forms of social, economic, and/or personal limitations that we wish to explore with this year’s conference. Prospective panelists are encouraged to think of “customs” broadly as the term might apply to British and Transatlantic women writers and their often-underrepresented contributions to literary studies. Potential topics related to this theme might include but are not limited to the following themes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British women’s writing:

• Habits, practices, and routines
• Fashions and manners
• Rituals and ceremonies (religious, political, social, and cultural)
• Trade issues in the local and/or global economy
• Business and mercantile transactions and expansion
• Trade and exchange (economic, cultural, philosophical, or trade in knowledge and ideas)
• Issues of circulation (monetary as well as other goods and services in the social, political, global, or domestic spheres)
• Debt and credit
• Traditions and conventions (how they are established as well as how they are upheld or subverted, modified, or re-imagined)
• Customers and patronage
• Taxation, duties, and tributes
• Law and legal systems

Please send abstracts of 250 words for individual paper presentations by January 1, 2013 to BWWC2013@gmail.com.

Check out our website at www.2013BWWC.com!

CFP: Literature, Community and its Limits (2/1/2013; 7/15-16/2013)

On the 30th anniversary of both Jean-Luc Nancy's La communauté désoeuvrée and Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, a conference, at the Institute of English Studies, University of London on 15-16 July 2013,  seeks to explore ways that "community" and literature (in its widest acceptation) are and have been conceived over the last 250 years. Through exploration of the past, the conference hopes to begin formulating new ways of thinking about how we do and can live together in an environment mediated by words on a page.

Besides continuing the questions asked by Anderson and Nancy, conference speakers might wish to address the following:

• How has literature been used to promote communities alternative to the hegemonic?
• What are the possibilities and limits of thinking community as a friendship group or coterie that generates literary output available beyond the limits of that group?
• What are the implications for community of human and non-human overlap?
• Is the idea of class as both socially active community and analytic concept really dead? If so - or if not - how far might economics rather than (literary) myth underpin concepts of community?
• To what extent are readers of a printed (or print-simulating) text really members of a community? How have such communities been imagined - and recorded?
• What alternative ways of conceiving community beyond Nancy and Anderson might be mobilised to help us understand literature (e.g. Wenger and Lave's "communities of practice")?
• How might the marginal be and have been conceived? What advantages, if any, accrue from this position vis-à-vis the community, to whom and in what circumstances?

The deadline for abstracts (250 words) is 1 February 2013. Please send copies of the abstract and 1-page CVs to both a.king@greenwich.ac.uk and L.Secomb@greenwich.ac.uk.

More detail can be found at
http://blogs.gre.ac.uk/english/2012/12/10/conference-call-for-papers/

Last Call: AVSA 2013 “'The Victorian Environment” (12/12/2012; 2/6-8/2013)

We are delighted to be able to announce that we will be joined by five distinguished keynote speakers for the ‘Victorian Environment’ conference, to be hosted at the University of Melbourne, 6-8 February, 2012:

• Professor Timothy Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University.
• Professor Tim Dolin, Curtin University
• Associate Professor Anna Johnston, the University of Tasmania
• Associate Professor Pablo Mukherjee, the University of Warwick
• Professor John Plotz, Brandeis University

We are still accepting abstracts (deadline, December 12th) and our call for papers follows below.  We hope that you will be able to join us for what looks set to be a very exciting conference.


Call for Papers
Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, 'The Victorian Environment'
The University of Melbourne, Australia
February 6-8, 2013

With the pressures of industrialism and the clustering of workers in urban centres, the Victorians were acutely aware that their environment was changing.  Torn between nostalgia for a countryside that was in jeopardy and exhilaration at the rapidity with which their surroundings altered, Victorian literature and culture reflects a world undergoing radical change.  Colonization and assisted emigration schemes expanded the scope of the environment still further, pushing the boundaries of the home environment on an unprecedented scale.  These untamed physical environments enabled new freedoms, but also posed hostile challenges that invited attempts to control the natural world.

We seek papers of no more than twenty minutes in length, which consider any aspect of how the Victorians engaged with or sought to retreat from their environment.   Note that submission of an abstract signals an intention to attend the conference and that absentee papers will not be permitted.

Topics might include:

• Landscape/cultivation of the land
• Natural disasters and responses to them
• Pollution, industrialism and place
• The weather/climate
• The country versus the city
• The natural world
• Sanitation, health, and disease
• Fire
• Water
• The colonial environment
• Emigration
• Seascapes
• Animals
• Science and the classification of nature
• Exploration and mapping
• Visualizing the Victorian environment
• Soundscapes and noise pollution
• Smells
• Excavation and archaeology
• The environment of Victorian studies in the present
• Nostalgia/the sense of an elsewhere
• Heritage/conservation

Please email abstracts of 200 words maximum and a brief biographical note to AVSA-2013@unimelb.edu.au  by no later than 12 December 2012.

Further information about the conference will be made available at www.avsa.unimelb.edu.au/AVSA2013.htm

CFP: Sherlock Holmes, Past and Present (1/15/2013; 6/21-22/2013)

This conference offers a serious opportunity to bring together academics, enthusiasts, creative practitioners and popular writers in a shared discussion about the cultural legacy of Sherlock Holmes. The Strand Magazine and the Sherlock Holmes stories contribute one of the most enduring paradigms for the production and consumption of popular culture in the twentieth- and the twenty-first centuries. The stories precipitated a burgeoning fan culture including various kinds of participation, wiki and crowd-sourcing, fan-fiction, virtual realities and role-play gaming. All of these had existed before but they were solidified, magnified and united by Sherlockians and Holmesians in entirely new ways and on scales never seen before. All popular culture phenomena that followed (from Lord of the Rings to Twilight via Star Trek) shared its viral pattern. This project aims to unpick the historical intricacies of Holmesian fandom as well as offering a wide variety of perspectives upon its newest manifestations. This conference invites adaptors of and scholars on Holmes, late-Victorian writing, and popular culture internationally to contribute to this scholarly conversation. Our aims are to celebrate Conan Doyle’s achievement, to explore some of the reasons behind Holmes’ enduring popularity across different cultures and geographical spaces, and to investigate new directions in Holmes’ afterlife. This conference will precede Holmes’ 160th birthday in 2014. It will launch a new volume of essays on Holmes co-edited by Dr. Jonathan Cranfield and Tom Ue, and form part of the larger celebrations in London and internationally.

Location:

Senate House, London

Dates:

21 and 22 June 2013

Possible Topics:

• Holmes and Detective Fiction
• Holmes and Science
• Becoming Holmes
• Holmes and Gender
• Holmes’ Costume
• Holmes in Retirement
• Holmes and His Boswell
• Holmes and Steampunk
• Holmes and Philosophy
• Holmes and Moriarty
• Holmes computer games
• Holmes/Victoriana in the graphic novel (From Hell, Grandeville...)
• Post-2000 film and television adaptation
• Fan letters addressed to Holmes

Submit proposals of 350 words and biographies of 150 words by email to BOTH Jonathan at J.L.Cranfield@ljmu.ac.uk AND Tom at ue_tom@hotmail.com by 15 January 2013.

Reminder: 2013 BWWC "Customs" (12/15/2012; 4/4-6/2013)

“Customs” 
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference

April 4-6, 2013 in Albuquerque, NM

The English department at the University of New Mexico is pleased to host the 2013 British Women Writers Conference. The conference will be April 4-6, 2013 at the Hyatt in downtown Albuquerque, NM. The conference theme is “Customs,” and we look forward to a wide range of unique presentations on the topic.

Customs are often thought of as the habits or social norms that dictate behavior, sometimes so rigidly that they appear to be laws. Conversely, though, “custom” can refer to a product or service tailored to the “customer’s” individual specifications, or the taxes or duties on imports/exports, the governmental department charged with implementing such fees, or the place in which all items entering a country from foreign parts are examined for contraband.  Regardless of its particular connotation, “custom” denotes a sense of rigidity, restriction, or control; it is these forms of social, economic, and/or personal limitations that we wish to explore with this year’s conference. Prospective panelists are encouraged to think of “customs” broadly as the term might apply to British and Transatlantic women writers and their often-underrepresented contributions to literary studies.

Potential topics related to this theme might include but are not limited to the following themes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British women’s writing:

• Habits, practices, and routines
• Fashions and manners
• Rituals and ceremonies (religious, political, social, and cultural)
• Trade issues in the local and/or global economy
• Business and mercantile transactions and expansion
• Trade and exchange (economic, cultural, philosophical, or trade in knowledge and ideas)
• Issues of circulation (monetary as well as other goods and services in the social, political, global, or domestic spheres)
• Debt and credit
• Traditions and conventions (how they are established as well as how they are upheld or subverted, modified, or re-imagined)
• Customers and patronage
• Taxation, duties, and tributes
• Law and legal systems

Please send abstracts of 250 words for panel proposals by November 15, 2012 and for individual paper presentations by December 15, 2012 to BWWC2013@gmail.com.

Check out our website at http://www.2013BWWC.com!

CFP: Neo-Victorian Cultures (3/1/2013; 7/24-26/2013)

Neo-Victorian Cultures

24-26 July 2013, 

Liverpool John Moores University

                 

While aesthetic, political and artistic returns to the Victorians have been prevalent throughout the twentieth century, the last decade has seen a particular surge in scholarly work addressing the seemingly ceaseless desire to reassess and adapt Victorian texts, theories, ideas and customs. Such work has focused in particular on manifestations of the neo-Victorian on page and on screen; this conference seeks to build on but also expand these debates by bringing together writers, practitioners and researchers working on the lasting presence of the Victorians since 1901 in a wide variety of realms, ranging from art and architecture to science, politics, economics, fiction and film. In doing so, the event aims to further expand the vibrant field of neo-Victorian studies both within and beyond the arts and humanities through an examination of the Victorians’ continuing influence on twentieth and twenty-first century culture. We therefore welcome and encourage abstracts from postgraduate students, academics and independent researchers from all academic realms in the hope of capturing the diverse work being done on Victorian afterlives across a wide spectrum of disciplines and across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Topics may include, but are by no means limited to, the following: 

• the ethics, politics and aesthetics of adaptation
• the gender and sexual politics of neo-Victorianism
• neo-Victorianism on page, screen and canvas
• neo-Victorian subcultures
• the Victorians in contemporary architecture, art and design
• neo-Victorian journalism/ the Victorian press and contemporary journalism
• the Victorians in contemporary science and medicine
• the neo-Victorian canon
• teaching neo-Victorianism
• the neo-Victorian marketplace; consuming and marketing the (neo-)Victorians
• Steampunk

Presentations should take the form of 20-minute papers. We also welcome proposals for fully-formed panels or roundtables. For individual papers, please submit a 300-word abstract as well as a short biographical note. For panel and roundtable proposals, please provide a brief outline of the session’s aims together with abstracts and biographical notes for each speaker and for the proposed panel chair or discussant. All proposals should be emailed to the organisers at organisers@neovictoriancultures.org.uk no later than 1 March 2013. Please do not hesitate to email us if you have any questions about the event.

We look forward to receiving your proposals and to welcoming you to LJMU in July!

The Organisers: Nadine Muller, Lucinda Matthews-Jones, and Jonathan Cranfield

Conference Website: http://www.neovictoriancultures.org.uk/

Call for Applications: Rare Book School 2013

Rare Book School announces its 2013 course schedule. Join us this summer as we celebrate 20 years at the University of Virginia, and 30 years in operation!

In 2013, RBS will offer courses at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (June–August), the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Library, and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven (June), the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (July) and at the Smithsonian Institution and Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC (October–November).

This year RBS adds seven new courses, highlighted in bold below, to our programming. Additionally, RBS is pleased to offer several courses of interest to scholars of the 19th century, including “The Printed Book in the West Since 1800,” taught by Eric Holzenberg, “The American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820-1940,” taught by Michael Winship, and “The History of 19th- and 20th-Century Typography & Printing,” taught by John Kristensen & Katherine McCanless Ruffin, a new course.

The online application for Summer courses will be available on the RBS website beginning in January 2013. Detailed course descriptions and advance reading lists are available at http://rarebookschool.org/

Summer 2013

10–14 June in Charlottesville, VA

H-30: The Printed Book in the West to 1800, Martin Antonetti

L-95: Born-Digital Materials: Theory & Practice, Matthew Kirschenbaum & Naomi Nelson

T-60: The History of 19th- & 20th-Century Typography & Printing, John Kristensen & Katherine McCanless Ruffin

H-90: Teaching the History of the Book, Michael F. Suarez, S.J.

G-55: Scholarly Editing: Principles & Practice, David Vander Meulen

17–21 June in Charlottesville, VA

I-10: History of Printed Book Illustration in the West, Erin C. Blake

M-20: Introduction to Western Codicology, Albert Derolez

C-60: Examining the Medical Book: History & Connoisseurship, Stephen Greenberg

L-65: Digitizing the Historical Record, Bethany Nowviskie & Andrew Stauffer

L-70: XML in Action: Creating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Texts, David Seaman

17–21 June in New Haven, CT

B-40: Medieval & Early Renaissance Bookbinding Structures, Christopher Clarkson

L-60: Introduction to Archives for Special Collections Librarians, Jackie Dooley & Bill Landis

M-90: Advanced Seminar: Medieval Manuscript Studies, Barbara A. Shailor

C-85: Law Books: History & Connoisseurship, Mike Widener

8–12 July in Charlottesville, VA

C-30: Developing Collections: Donors, Libraries & Booksellers, Tom Congalton, Johan Kugelberg & Katherine Reagan

B-10: Introduction to the History of Bookbinding, Jan Storm van Leeuwen

H-15: The History of the Book in America, c.1700–1830, James N. Green

G-20: Printed Books to 1800: Description & Analysis, David Whitesell

M-70: The Handwriting & Culture of Early Modern English Manuscripts, Heather Wolfe

22–26 July in Charlottesville, VA

I-20: Book Illustration Processes to 1900, Terry Belanger

M-10: Introduction to Paleography, 800–1500, Consuelo Dutschke

H-40: The Printed Book in the West Since 1800, Eric Holzenberg

L-30: Rare Book Cataloging, Deborah J. Leslie

L-25: Reference Sources for Researching Rare Books, Joel Silver

B-50: Advanced Seminar in the History of Bookbinding, Jan Storm van Leeuwen

22–26 July in Philadelphia, PA

H-25: 15th-Century Books in Print & Manuscript, Paul Needham & Will Noel

29 July–2 August in Charlottesville, VA

H-10: History of the Book, 200–2000, John Buchtel & Mark Dimunation

I-40: The Illustrated Scientific Book to 1800, Roger Gaskell

C-90: Provenance: Tracing Owners & Collections, David Pearson

G-10: Introduction to the Principles of Bibliographical Description, David Whitesell

H-50: The American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820–1940, Michael Winship

Fall 2013

28 October–1 November in Washington, DC

L-35: Advanced Rare Book Cataloging, Deborah J. Leslie

I-95: Hokusai & Book Illustration, 1800–1879, Ellis Tinios

CFP: Neo-Victorianism and Tactility panel (1/2/2013; 7/19-20/2013)

Dr Duc Dau and Dr Caitlin McGuinness are seeking to organise a panel for the conference “The Victorian Tactile Imagination,” 19-20 July 2013, at Birkbeck, University of London. They are looking for two papers to complete our panel on Victorian reimagining and tactility. Abstracts that complement their paper on amputation, illustration and fairy tales in Jane Campion's film The Piano would be highly desirable. But they are also open to anything that sounds interesting. Papers could be about novels, films, theatre, poems, graphic novels, or steampunk, among other things. The conference CFP can be found below. Please send abstracts of 400 words and a brief biographical note to Duc Dau at duc.dau@uwa.edu.au and Caitlin McGuinness at caitlinfmcguinness33@gmail.com by Wednesday 2 January.  Preliminary inquiries would be most welcome. 

Call for Papers
The Victorian Tactile Imagination conference

Birkbeck, University of London, 19-20 July 2013

Keynote speakers:
Professor Gillian Beer (University of Cambridge); Professor William Cohen (University of Maryland); Professor Hilary Fraser (Birkbeck, University of London); Dr Constance Classen (author of The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch)

“You people who can see attach such an absurd importance to your eyes! I set my touch, my dear, against your eyes, as much the most trustworthy, and much the most intelligent sense of the two”. (Wilkie Collins, Poor Miss Finch, 1872)

This conference will explore the various ways in which the Victorians conceptualised, represented, experienced, performed and problematized touch. What does touch signal in nineteenth-century art and literature, and how is it variously coded? How are hands and skin – tactile appendages and surfaces – imagined in the period? By investigating the Victorian imaginary of touch, the conference will address and reappraise some of the key concepts and debates which have shaped Victorian studies in the past twenty years – in particular the emphasis on visuality as the dominant mode via which subjectivities and power were effected in the period: not least Jonathan Crary’s influential thesis that the nineteenth century witnessed a pervasive ‘separation of the senses’. The conference aims to investigate instead the workings of a more textured vision and reanimate the interoperability of sight and touch in nineteenth century culture.

The conference will also extend and build upon recent critical studies that have begun to explore nineteenth-century tactility in relation to material culture, bodies, and the emotions. By focusing closely on touch and tactility, it aims to establish whether and in what terms we might talk about a Victorian ‘aesthetics of touch’, and to explore how touch constructs and disrupts, for example, class and gender identities. It will also consider the historical trajectories of touch, asking, for example, in what ways does touch mark or blur the divide between Victorianism and Modernism?

Proposals of up to 400 words should be sent to Heather Tilley at victoriantactileimagination@ gmail.com by 10 January 2013. Please also attach a brief biographical note. Proposals for panels of three papers are also welcome, and should be accompanied by a brief (one-page) panel justification.

Possible topics might include:

• Tactile/haptic aesthetics (representations of hands and touching; art historical writing on the senses; perspectival theory; nineteenth century sculpture; arts and crafts)
• Rethinking “visual” media and technologies (photography; stereoscopy; cinema)
• Touch in the Museum (handling/viewing objects; curating; museum policy)
• Readers and writers (material cultures of the book; embodied readers and writers; the writer’s hand)
• Social history (domestic violence; hands and work; the gloved hand)
• Travel and place (the imperial touch; haptic geographies)
• The hand, skin and dermal structures in design theory and evolutionary science
• Medicine (blindness; physiology of touch; the medical touch; nerve theory and motor function; pain)
• Theories of mind and body (psychophysiology; cognitive psychology; phenomenology; psychoanalysis)
• The gender and sexual politics of touch, the queer touch (lesbianism, tender masculinities)
• Histories of touch (inheriting and disrupting eighteenth century models of touch; anticipating Modernist touch).

The conference is organised by Birkbeck, University of London’s Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, with support from the Newcastle Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.

CFP: Special Issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies Summer 2013 (3/1/2013)

'Writing Bodies: Gender and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century'

Scholars are invited to submit articles for the Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies special issue 'Writing Bodies: Gender and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century'. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is a peer-reviewed, online journal committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture. The journal endorses a broad definition of gender studies and welcomes submissions that consider gender and sexuality in conjunction with race, class, place and nationality. This special issue aims to situate nineteenth-century gender studies within a wider conversation that is taking place regarding health, medicine, and embodiment across the humanities and social sciences, to address a critical gap in the conversations about the intersection of nineteenth-century gender politics and medicine.

Critical discussion of gender and medicine in the nineteenth century has often relied on a dichotomy in which 'male medical discourse' (Vertinsky, 1994) stands in opposition to the image of the female patient. Furthermore, most feminist research on gender and medicine in the nineteenth century has been done on the medicalisation or, in the fin de siècle, 'hysterisation' of women. This special issue proposes to problematise this dichotomy and expand the notion of gender and medicine to include topics which have previously been overlooked. Medical technologies, institutionalisation, and more complex approaches to the practitioner/patient relationship tend to be excluded from discussions of gender and embodiment in the nineteenth century, but they are essential to a comprehensive exploration of medicine as it evolved throughout the century.

Building off of works such as Catherine Judd's Bedside Seductions: Nursing and the Victorian Imagination, 1830-1880 (1998), Kristine Swenson's Medical Women and Victorian Fiction (2005), Miriam Bailin's The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction: The Art of Being Ill (2007), and Tabitha Sparks's The Doctor in the Victorian Novel: Family Practices (2009), this issue will seek to reformulate an approach to gender and medicine, which has traditionally been more interested in the role of women in the medical sphere. As well as discussing women in medicine, this issue will extend its reach to consider masculinity, sexualities, gender and the non-human, and the way that notions of gender influence medical narratives just as medicine influences constructions of gender.

We invite submissions that explore topics such as:

• Medical narratives
• Practitioners/patients
• Nursing
• The culture of medical journals
• Literary and artistic constructions of medicine and the body
• Medical technologies
• Institutionalisation of medicine
• The gendered body
• Emotive embodiment
• Illness narratives
• Constructions of disability
• Medicalisation of the body
• Anatomical texts
• Reproductive technologies and the rise of obstetrics
• Performativity and modes of looking
• Medical museums
• Sexology

We welcome articles of 5,000-8,000 words, and in MLA format. Please use US spelling and citations. With the submission you should also include a 250-300 word abstract and a 50 word biographical note, the latter which will be posted if accepted for publication. Please send an electronic version of your submission, in Word or .doc format, to both editors: Lena Wånggren (lena.wanggren@ed.ac.uk) and Ally Crockford (a.crockford@ed.ac.uk). The deadline for submissions is 1st March 2013.

We also welcome book reviews and review essays, especially on the themes of gender, the body, and medicine, but also on wider issues regarding gender in the nineteenth century. If you want to submit a book review, please contact the reviews editor Susan David Bernstein (sdbernst@wisc.edu).