Showing posts with label VLC. Show all posts
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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Reminder: Victorian Literature and Culture special issue, "Victorian India" (10/15/2012)


Victorian Literature and Culture invites papers for a special issue devoted to Victorian India to be published in 2013. What was “Victorian India”?  Papers may treat any aspect of Victorian India, its Victorian culture and Anglophone Indian writing.

Topics might include but are not limited to:


  • Collecting India: the development of private and museum collections devoted to Indian materials in Britain or on the subcontinent.
  • Creating geography: cultural, historical, economic and other forms of “mapping” India in the nineteenth century.
  •  Foreign exchange: Indian commodities in Britain; British commodities in India.
  • The linguistic atlas: the teaching and learning of languages, classical and vernacular, in India and the teaching and learning of Indian languages in Britain.
  • Constructing canons: what literary texts written in nineteenth-century India have entered the canon of British literature?
  • What’s missing? How do the politics of reception shape the contours of the canons of anglophone and translated texts?
  • Material texts: technologies, economies and practices of publishing materials relating to India.
  • Visual vocabularies: representing the subcontinent in visual media.
  • Reproducing, displaying, and circulating visual images of India.
  • Genre and empire: how do different genres—poems, novels, stories, music hall performance, theatre—create Victorian India for British and/or Indian audiences.
  • World music: the impact of Indian arts on British culture in the nineteenth-century and vice versa.
  • Translation: literal and figurative dimensions of translating Indian languages in the long nineteenth century; translations from English into Indian languages in the period.
  • Making history: British historiographies of India; Indian historiographies and histories in the nineteenth century.
  • Transperipheral relations: among various colonies, “internal” and external; India-Britain-North America connections, etc.
Send inquiries to Mary Ellis Gibson, megibson@uncg.edu.  Completed papers should be formatted according to MLA style and submitted electronically in Word format to megibson@uncg.edu, no later than October 15, 2012.  A hard copy is not required but would be appreciated for submissions originating in the U.S.  Submit two paper copies along with electronic text to Mary Ellis Gibson, Elizabeth Rosenthal Professor of English, Department of English, 3143 MHRA, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 27412.

All papers will be reviewed by the special topics editor, as appropriate by members of the editorial board, and by the editors of Victorian Literature and Culture, Adrienne Munich and John Maynard.  For further information about the journal see http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/journal/victorian.

Friday, May 25, 2012

Reminder: Victorian Literature and Culture special issue, The Nineteenth-Century Pacific Rim (10/15/2013)


Victorian Literature and Culture
Special Issue: The Nineteenth-Century Pacific Rim
Guest editor: Tamara S. Wagner
Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2013

Victorian Literature and Culture seeks contributions to a special issue on The Pacific Rim, with a focus on its Victorian culture and Anglophone literature by regional writers as well as British settlers and travellers. Were the Victorians aware of the significance that the expanding settler empire, its intersection with that of other colonial powers, business routes across them, and increasingly also, critical representations of the imperialist metropole from the vantage point of emergent colonial centres had for nineteenth-century culture on a new, more global scale? How did they represent the area and geopolitical space that we have now come to know as the Pacific Rim? What were the effects of cultural exchanges on nineteenth-century music, architecture, art, museums, religion, literature, and on theories of the aesthetic or of culture at large? Did these effects change perceptions of the region and of the British Empire’s, or British presence’s, position within it?


To address the literature as well as the social and political issues of the Pacific Rim as a whole may have become a standard strategy in the discussion of contemporary politics and culture. Similarly, the study of nineteenth-century transatlanticism is now established as an acknowledged and continuously widening field. But how did the Victorians conceive of and describe travelling, doing business, and living in a diverse geopolitical region that encompasses such vastly different areas as the settler colonies of Australasia, the British Straits Settlements in Malaya and Singapore, the special status of Hong Kong, and the less formalised presence of the British in Japan or Korea?


This special issue extends the interdisciplinary, transnational analysis prompted by nineteenth-century transatlantic studies to the Pacific Rim. It invites analyses of the cultural developments and interchanges within the region as well as of the changing forms in which these developments manifested themselves in Victorian culture.

Please send inquiries and electronic submissions of full-length papers as attached word documents to tswagner at ntu.edu.sgThe completed papers should be formatted according to MLA style.

All papers will be reviewed by the special topics editor, as appropriate by members of the editorial board, and by the editors of _Victorian Literature and Culture,_ Adrienne Munich and John Maynard. For further information about the journal see
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/journal/victorian