CFP: "Popular Culture" Second issue of helden.heroes.heros (1/31/2014)

CFP: "Popular Culture"

Second issue of helden.heroes.heros 

Deadline: January 31, 2014 

The second issue of e-journal helden.heroes.heros published at Freiburg University is going to be concerned with the representation of the heroic in popular culture. Though not exclusively Victorian in interest, contributions from the Victorian community would be much appreciated.

CFP: “Popular Culture” – second issue of e-journal helden. heroes. héros.

Whether heroes of Antiquity such as Ulysses or Achilles, biblical heroes like David or Judith, medieval folk heroes like Robin Hood or Joan of Arc, heroes of national revolution such as Danton or Marat, literary heroes and anti-heroes like Don Quijote or Faust or contemporary superheroes such as Lara Croft or Batman, heroes and heroines were always used as canvas and identificatory figures for individuals, social groups or societies as a whole.

Although a “postheroic age” is often postulated today, one can perceive a new boom of the heroic not only but especially within popular culture nowadays. Thereby, traditions are challenged by new types of heroes and hybrid forms and processes of trivialisation and diffusion stand alongside scepticism and taboos. helden.heroes.héros. e-journal on cultures of the heroic, an open-access journal published by the collaborative research center “Heroes – Heroization – Heroisms” at Freiburg University is exploring this tension between exceptionality of heroic figures and the social groups which they both stabilize and question.

Since the heroic can only ever be visible through representation and groups of followers can only be constituted through the medial dissemination of hero narratives, the second issue of the journal (summer 2014) will be concerned with the issue of “Popular Culture”. The issue will focus on figures, modes of presentation, media-specific phenomena and functions of popular representations of the heroic. What are characteristics of popular heroes? In which media are heroes and their heroic acts presented and who is selecting them? Are there connections between today’s heroes and the folk heroes of earlier times? These and similar questions should be discussed in the submitted contributions.

The Call for Papers is directed at researchers from all humanities and social sciences who are dealing with the representation of the heroic in popular media – not only of the 20thand 21st century, but of all ages. Contributions will be selected based on peer review and abstracts of 2000 characters (including spacing) as well as a short CV should be submitted until January 31, 2014 to: e-journal@sfb948.uni-freiburg.de

                                                                        

helden. heroes. héros. e-journal on cultures of the heroic.

www.helden-heroes-heros.de

Reminder: Victorian Network "Victorian Bodies and Body Parts" (11/30/2013)

"Victorian Bodies and Body Parts"
Victorian Network
Deadline: November 30, 2013

Victorian Network is an MLA-indexed online journal devoted to publishing and promoting the best postgraduate work in Victorian Studies.

The ninth issue of Victorian Network, guest edited by Professor Pamela K. Gilbert (University of Florida), is dedicated to a reassessment of the place of the human body in the Victorian literary and cultural imagination. Rapid medical and scientific advances, advancing industrialization and new forms of labour, legal reforms, the rise of comparative ethnology and anthropology, the growth of consumer culture, and the ever changing trends of Victorian fashion are just a few of the many forces that transformed how Victorians thought about the human body and about the relationship between the embodied, or disembodied, self and the object world.

Nineteenth-century configurations of the body have long been of interest to Victorian scholars. However, recent years have seen the field reconfigured by the emergence of a range of exciting new and theoretically sophisticated approaches that harness the insights of the new materialism, thing theory, cultural phenomenology and actor-network theory to explorations of Victorian embodiment, bodies and body parts.

The editorial board are inviting submissions of no more than 7000 words, on any aspect of the theme.  Possible topics include but are by no means limited to the following:

• embodied experience and the senses
• the body in stillness and in motion: practices of confinement and mobility
• consumerism, fashion and the stylized body
• the body and technology
• bodies of empire and colonialism
• bodies and body parts on display: anatomical museums, ethnological shows, hospital ward tours
• sciences of the body: medicine, biology, ethnology, statistics, etc.
• bodies, sex and gender
• health and illness
• affective bodies and embodied emotions
• labour power and the body as property
• the poetics and aesthetics of the human body
• human and animal bodies before and after Darwin

All submissions should conform to MHRA style conventions and the in-housesubmission guidelines.
 Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2013. Contact: victoriannetwork@gmail.com

CFP: Victorian Network Victorian Bodies and Body Parts (11/30/2013)

Deadline: November 30, 2013

Victorian Network is an MLA-indexed online journal devoted to publishing and promoting the best postgraduate work in Victorian Studies.

The ninth issue of Victorian Network, guest edited by Professor Pamela K. Gilbert (University of Florida), is dedicated to a reassessment of the place of the human body in the Victorian literary and cultural imagination. Rapid medical and scientific advances, advancing industrialization and new forms of labour, legal reforms, the rise of comparative ethnology and anthropology, the growth of consumer culture, and the ever changing trends of Victorian fashion are just a few of the many forces that transformed how Victorians thought about the human body and about the relationship between the embodied, or disembodied, self and the object world.

Nineteenth-century configurations of the body have long been of interest to Victorian scholars. However, recent years have seen the field reconfigured by the emergence of a range of exciting new and theoretically sophisticated approaches that harness the insights of the new materialism, thing theory, cultural phenomenology and actor-network theory to explorations of Victorian embodiment, bodies and body parts.

The editorial board are inviting submissions of no more than 7000 words, on any aspect of the theme.  Possible topics include but are by no means limited to the following:

• embodied experience and the senses
• the body in stillness and in motion: practices of confinement and mobility
• consumerism, fashion and the stylized body
• the body and technology
• bodies of empire and colonialism
• bodies and body parts on display: anatomical museums, ethnological shows, hospital ward tours
• sciences of the body: medicine, biology, ethnology, statistics, etc.
• bodies, sex and gender
• health and illness
• affective bodies and embodied emotions
• labour power and the body as property
• the poetics and aesthetics of the human body
• human and animal bodies before and after Darwin

All submissions should conform to MHRA style conventions and the in-housesubmission guidelines.
 Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2013. Contact: victoriannetwork@gmail.com

CFP: Supernatural Studies Association Journal "Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century" (11/31/2013; 3/31/2013)

CFP: Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century (abstracts: November 31, 2013, articles: March 31, 2014)

Supernatural Studies Association Journal

supernaturalstudies@gmail.com

The Supernatural Studies Journal is now accepting proposals for a themed issue on the supernatural in the nineteenth century (due Winter 2014), guest edited by Janine Hatter and Sara Williams.

Articles may examine any aspect of the representation of the supernatural within the context of worldwide literature, arts and material culture in the nineteenth century. We welcome any approach, but request that authors minimize jargon associated with any single-discipline studies.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
folklore & mythology, monstrosity, hybridity, vampires, shapeshifters, goblins, fairies and fairy tales, ghosts and hauntings, demons and angels, possession and/or mind control, death and dying, burial rites, occult, mysticism, spiritualism and séances, spirit photography, religion, superstition, voodoo, culture, philosophy, desire, politics, gender, race, sexuality and class.

Additionally, we are seeking reviews of books that engage with elements of the nineteenth century supernatural (800-1,000 words in length).

For articles: please send a 300-500 word abstract (or complete article, if available) and C.V. by November 31, 2013. All submissions will be acknowledged. Notification of acceptance will be e-mailed by December  15,2013. If your abstract is accepted, the full article (3,000 - 6,000 words, including references using MLA style) will be March 31, 2014.

For reviews: please send a C.V. and description of the book you would like to review, or alternatively, see the journal’s website for available books.

Further information, including Submission Guidelines, are available at the journal site: supernaturalstudies.org.

Please e-mail submissions to both j.hatter@hull.ac.uk and s.williams2@hull.ac.uk. If emailing the journal directly at supernaturalstudies@gmail.com please quote ‘nineteenth century’ in the subject box.

CFP: Friends of Arther Machen "Faunus"

The Friends of Arthur Machen are inviting submissions to their journal Faunus. 

This hard-bound journal has appeared twice yearly since the
inauguration of the Friends in the 1990s, and consists of both
articles of interest to admirers of Machen and examples of his work,
often articles and pieces not easily available in any other form. It
is not peer reviewed and has a tradition of accessible though rigorous
scholarship. Articles of between 2,500 and 5,000 words are encouraged,
although those falling outside of these parameters will certainly be
considered. Contributors will receive copies of the relevant issue,
which is also distributed to members of the Friends. For membership
information, please see: http://www.arthurmachen.org.uk/machsoc.html#renew

Please contact James Machin at jmachi01@mail.bbk.ac.uk if you're interested in submitting or have any questions.

CFP: Romancing the Long British 19th Century (3/1/2014)

Journal of Popular Romance Studies

Romancing the Long British 19th Century

The long British nineteenth century (1789-1914) appears to have the long global twentieth century (including the first decades of the twenty-first) in its thrall. Regency and Victorian settings proliferate in popular romance fiction, ranging from scenes of domestic life within the United Kingdom to British espionage in Europe and British colonial settlements. Retellings and “sequels” of Jane Austen’s novels line our (digital) bookshelves and fill fan-fiction websites, spilling over most recently into the YouTube sensation The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. Such adaptations of Austen’s novels, along with film and TV versions of the Brontë sisters’ Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, and Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, suggest that modern audiences cannot get enough of stories about Georgians, Victorians, and Edwardians in love.

The Journal of Popular Romance Studies seeks papers on this enduring love affair with 19th-century Britain. Why does a period that is historically associated with the establishment of the Industrial Revolution, the consolidation of the Empire, and the coalescing of middle-class mores now strike us as a particularly “romantic” era? How do popular and middlebrow media from around the world construct, interpret, and recast the world of 19th c. Britain, broadly construed? What do these interpretations say about our current moment and our modern (or postmodern) thoughts and feelings about romance?

We welcome submissions that explore these and related questions from any disciplinary or theoretical angle. We invite papers that cover different media, including (paper and digital) literature, film, TV, online content, and marketing.

This Special Issue of The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is guest edited by Jayashree Kamble and Pamela Regis. Please submit scholarly papers of no more than 10,000 words, including notes and bibliography, by March 1, 2014, to An Goris, Managing Editor, at managing.editor@jprstudies.org. Submissions should be Microsoft Word documents, with citations in MLA format. For more information on how to submit a paper, please visit http://jprstudies.org/submissions/

Survey Call: How do you use academic journals and social media?

Lucinda Matthews-Jones and Helen Rogers are writing a paper called ‘Doing Things Differently: Writing, Academic Journals and Social Media in the Online World’. Notwithstanding our title, we want to start by examining how one scholarly community – all those studying or interested in the nineteenth century – currently accesses and engages with print and digital media.

We would like to know about your experience and views, whether or not you regularly read journals, visit academic blogs and websites, tweet or use facebook. We aim to map what our community is doing now, rather than what we ought or should be doing! Our findings, we hope, will help all of us think more creatively and proactively about how we exploit online media to change the way we read, write, publish and share our work. Equally, it may illuminate aspects and strengths of traditional forms of scholarly communication that we wish to preserve.

Please take a few minutes to answer our online survey. https://cs.createsurvey.com/publish/survey?a=29HnYR

We will be presenting initial findings based on the survey at a paper (13 May) we are giving at the Institute for Humanities and Social Science Research, Manchester Metropolitan University, (Lecture Theatre 5, Geoffrey Manton Building, 5.30-7.30). Over the summer we aim to make our paper available for online comment and discussion before we publish the final version.

Thank you for your time.

Lucinda Matthews-Jones (Journal of Victorian Culture Online) and Helen Rogers (Journal of Victorian Culture)

Reminder: UPSTAGE: a Journal of Turn-of-the-Century Theatre (6/24/2013)

UPSTAGE, a peer-reviewed online publication dedicated to research in turn-of-the-century (1880-1914) dramatic literature, theatre, and theatrical culture, is seeking submissions for its Summer 2013 issue. This is a development of the pages published under this name as part of THE OSCHOLARS, and is now an independently edited journal in the Oscholars group published by Rivendale Press at www.oscholars.com, as part of our expanding coverage of the different cultural manifestations of the fin de siècle. UPSTAGE is indexed by the Modern Language Association.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the work of Shaw, Schnitzler, Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, von Hofmannsthal, and their contemporaries in Western and Eastern Europe and beyond.

UPSTAGE welcomes a variety of theoretical and critical methodologies.

We are interested in receiving: 

• Scholarly articles of approximately 3000 words
• Book reviews of approximately 500 words
• Reports on work in progress (book manuscripts, Master’s theses, and doctoral dissertations) (approximately 500-1000 words)
• Reviews of contemporary productions of turn-of-the-century plays (or plays about the turn of the nineteenth century) and announcements of future productions (approximately 500 words) 

Please e-mail your submissions by June 24, 2013, as MS Word attachments only, to both

Dr. Helena Gurfinkel, Department of English Language and Literature, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, USA at hgurfin@siue.edu

and

Dr. Michelle C. Paull, Drama Programme, St. Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, TW1, 4SX, England, at michelle.paull@smuc.ac.uk

Submissions should conform to the latest version of the MLA style. In order to undergo masked peer-review, scholarly articles must be submitted in the following way: the author’s contact information and brief bio should appear in the body of the e-mail, while the Word attachment should contain no identifying information. 

CFP: Popular Entertainment Studies

Popular Entertainment Studies an international peer-reviewed online journal, intends to publish the March 2014 issue (Vol.5, no.1) with the special focus of popular entertainments in times of war.

We believe that the topic may be of interest to all Victorianists in that it encompasses the long nineteenth century from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the outbreak of World War One. We would welcome expressions of interests in the topic and suggestions for what might be included.

In the first instance please contact:

Victor Emeljanow,General Editor

Popular Entertainment Studies

Victor.Emeljanow@newcastle.edu.au

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.

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.sg. The 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

Reminder: special number of Victorian Periodicals Review on the theme of "Work and Leisure" (6/30/2012)

  

This is a reminder that the deadline to submit essays on the theme of Work and Leisure for special number of Victorian Periodicals Review is fast approaching. I also need to inform you of a change of email address to which you should send your essay. Please find again the CFP that was distributed last summer.


Essays of 6,000-7,000 words are sought for a special number of Victorian Periodicals Review on the theme of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.

Much of the Victorian Press was built on an interdependency of work and leisure. But what was the “leisure” that the press promoted and how different was it from work? Reading the press itself is obviously an insufficient answer: reading could be work for teachers, reviewers or those trying to entertain children or colleagues. To what extent, indeed, was leisure but a ruse? How far did the Victorian press inscribe women’s domestic labour as a form of leisure, or male work as pleasurable? More generally, how did the press fit into the wider context of the entertainment industry: the theatre, travel, music, exhibitions, sport - and shopping?

Not all of the press was devoted to leisure and its limits. What of that enormous sector that unashamedly named their focus as work-related: the trade and professional press, newspaper pages devoted to the stock market and commodity prices, articles worrying over women in the workplace, over the masculinity of the civil servant, or over the demands of labourers on strike?

Finally, what of the “cultural work” of the Victorian press? What was the function of the press in and on society? How might that cultural work relate to the pleasures of leisure?

Please submit completed manuscripts by 30 June 2012 (for publication in 2013) in Word (no PDFs please) to andrew.king@canterbury.ac.uk. In the meantime, informal queries or expressions of interest are welcome.

Please submit completed manuscripts by 30 June 2012 (for publication in 2013) in Word (no PDFs please) to a.king@greenwich.ac.uk. (Please note my new email address as given here.)

I look forward to the pleasure of reading your submission.
With best wishes,

Andrew King

University of Greenwich

Reminder: Sex, Courtship and Marriage in Victorian Literature and Culture (5/30/2012)

CFP: Sex, Courtship and Marriage in Victorian Literature and Culture

Victorian Network is an MLA-indexed (from 2012) online journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best postgraduate work in Victorian Studies.

The sixth issue of Victorian Network, guest edited by Dr Greta Depledge (Royal Holloway), is dedicated to a reassessment of nineteenth-century constructions and understandings of sex, courtship and marriage. Although the heteronormative and companionate marriage was vital for economic and reproductive reasons - as well as romantic impulses - recent scholarship has illuminated its status as but one of several diverse paradigms of marriage/sexual relationship accessible to the Victorians
Across the nineteenth century, profound crises of faith, extensive legal reforms and the new insights afforded by the emergent discipline of anthropology all contributed to a culture of introspection about the practice of marriage, at the same time as advances in science and medicine opened up new interpretations and definitions of sexual practices and preferences.

We are inviting submissions of no more than 7000 words, on any aspect of the theme. Possible topics include but are by no means limited to the following:
 

• Victorian narratives of queer desire: text and subtext
• Representations of women’s sexuality (angels, whores and spinsters)
• Prudishness and censorship: “deviant” novels and scandalous dramas
• Adultery, bigamy, divorce and other affronts to the ideal of companionate marriage
• Transgressive relationships
• Nineteenth-century marriage law, including prohibited degrees of affinity, property reform and breach of promise
• Representations of sexual innocence and experience (virginity, puberty and prostitution
• Subversion of traditional courtship narratives
• Sex and class: adventuresses, mistresses, sex workers and blackmail
• Customs of the country: courtship conventions, betrothals and bridal nights
• Performance, stylization and parody: gender scripts, consumer culture, theatrical subversion

All submissions should conform to MHRA style conventions and the in-house submission guidelines. The deadline for submissions is 30 May 2012.

Contact: victoriannetwork@gmail.com
Website: http://www.victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn

Reminder: OScholars Conan Doyle Special (5/30/2012)

Articles of between 1500 and 2500 words are sought for a special issue of the OScholars to be edited by Karen Devlin. Submissions will be accepted by Karen Devlin on the basis of an abstract of c.250 words and will then be double-blind peer reviewed. Subjects may include but are not limited to:

• Conan Doyle and Scotland
• Conan Doyle and Ireland
• Conan Doyle and his contemporaries
• The literary legacy of Conan Doyle
• The influence of Maupassant on Conan Doyle
• The 'Sherlockian' or 'Holmesian' phenomenon
• London as metonym in the work of Conan Doyle
• Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot
• Conan Doyle as mediaevalist
• Conan Doyle and masculinity
• Conan Doyle's depiction of women
• Conan Doyle and imperialism
• Pastiche parodies and plagiarism

Contributors are encouraged to look beyond the Holmes canon. Abstracts should be sent to Karen Devlin at oscholars2012@gmail.com to arrive not later than 30th May 2012. 

Reminder: “Extending Families” Special Issue: Victorian Review, Fall 2013 (4/1/2012)

We invite submissions for a special issue of Victorian Review mapping out new ideas of the family in the 19th century including:

• adoption and foster care
• cultural directives about proper filial behavior
• romantic marriage
• sibling relationships
• perceived threats to the family
• family formation in a colonial context
• the effect of changing marriage laws
• family unions
• narratives of unusual or idealized families
• discourses about primitive families
• primogeniture and inheritance
• incest and familial unions
• same-sex and non-normative couples
• lateral relations: cousins, uncles, aunts
• domestic fictions
• ex-spouses, love triangles, bigamous relations
• families without parents
• political/journalistic debates about familial roles
• servants, companions, governesses
• in-laws, poor relations, extended family

We aim to showcase the subjects not usually considered in the nuclear family: the servant, the grandparent, the poor relation, the foster child, the ex-spouse. What does family look like when we see it as a permeable, flexible, shifting configuration? Thus, we particularly invite essays that resist the privileging of the nuclear family and work against the teleological narrative of the (heteronormative) courtship plot.

The deadline is April 1, 2012. Submit essays of not more than 8,000 words (including endnotes), in MLA style to both guest editors by email attachment. Please consult the Victorian Review website (http://web.uvic.ca/victorianreview/submissions.html) for further submission guidelines.

Kelly Hager, Simmons College  
kelly.hager@simmons.edu           

Talia Schaffer, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY

talia.schaffer@qc.cuny.edu

Reminder: UpStage: A Journal of Turn-of-the-Century Theatre summer 2012 issue (6/30/2012)

UpStage, a peer-reviewed online publication dedicated to research in turn-of-the-century dramatic literature, theatre, and theatrical culture, is seeking submissions for its Summer 2012 issue. This is a development of the pages published under this name as part of THE OSCHOLARS, and is now an independently edited journal in the OSCHOLARS group published by Rivendale Press at www.oscholars.com, as part of our expanding coverage of the different cultural manifestations of the fin de siècle.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the work of Shaw, Schnitzler, Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, von Hofmannsthal, and their contemporaries in Western and Eastern Europe and beyond.

UpStage welcomes a variety of theoretical and critical methodologies.

We are interested in receiving:

• Scholarly articles of approximately 3000 words
• Book reviews of approximately 500 words
• Reports on work in progress (book manuscripts, Master’s theses, and doctoral dissertations) (approximately 500-1000 words)
• Reviews of contemporary productions of turn-of-the-century plays (or plays about the turn of the nineteenth century) and announcements of future productions (approximately 500 words)

Please e-mail your submissions by June 30, 2012, as MS Word attachments only, to both

Dr. Helena Gurfinkel, Department of English Language and Literature, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, USA at hgurfin@siue.edu and Dr. Michelle C. Paull, Drama Programme, St. Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, TW1, 4SX, England, at michelle.paull@smuc.ac.uk.

Submissions should conform to the latest version of the MLA style. In order to undergo masked peer-review, scholarly articles must be submitted in the following way: the author’s contact information and brief bio should appear in the body of the e-mail, while the Word attachment should contain no identifying information.

CFP: The Pre-Raphaelite Society Essay Prize (12/31/2012)

The John Pickard Essay Prize

You are invited to enter a monograph of not more than 2000 words for The John Pickard Essay Prize. The monograph may be on any individual related to the Pre-Raphaelite circle.

The winner will receive £100 prize and publication in the Spring 2013 Review and subsequently the essays of runners-up may also be published.  The final decision will be made by the Committee of the Pre-Raphaelite Society. Entries are to be received by the Editor by 31st  December 2012, and may be emailed to serena@serenatrowbridge.co.uk or serena.trowbridge@bcu.ac.uk.

CFP: NCGS Special Issue "Gender and the Law in Nineteenth-Century England" (5/15/2012)

Nineteenth-Century 

Gender Studies

http://www.ncgsjournal.com/

Special Issue "Gender and the Law in Nineteenth-Century England" (Summer 2012)

The nineteenth century was a period rife with watershed moments in the history of law and gender in England. It is also a period marked by contradictions: legislation that granted women greater rights under the law took place in fits and starts, and was never unaccompanied by cultural and social backlash. The period began, in 1801, with a national census that revealed women outnumbered men by 400,000, and ended with the repeal of the discriminatory Contagious Diseases Acts (1866) and the passage of the First Married Woman's Property Act (1870).  Debates about the relationship between women and the law, and their attendant questions (e.g. Were women legal persons? Could they be?), permeated the legislation, court cases, newspapers, serials, and novels of the day. The roles, and legal power, of English men were also in flux during the period. The rise of industrialism, as well as the middle class, challenged the masculinity of the landed and leisured male aristocrat. Laws that granted women greater rights in marriage, divorce, and ownership of earnings and property served to challenge the centrality of the male patriarch in traditional family structures. In turn, masculinity became increasingly defined by both state-sponsored and independent imperial ventures in the colonies. And by the end of the nineteenth century, a new version of manhood came into being. The rise of the aesthetes, as represented by the publicity surrounding Oscar Wilde, and the criticism of the aesthetes, as symbolized by his rather public trial, serve as the most infamous example of events that brought to light growing anxieties about masculinity, sexuality, and the law.

This special issue of NCGS invites scholars from across the arts and humanities to contribute their work on the intersections between law, gender, femininity, masculinity, and sexuality. Topics that might be addressed include:

• Queen Victoria
• Marriage, Motherhood, and/or Families (including the Child Custody Act, the Matrimonial Causes Act, and the Married Woman's Property Act)
• Governesses and their relationship to legal families
• Property and inheritance
• Authorship and the International Copyright Act
• Education (including the establishment of Queen’s College, London; Bedford College; and Girton College)
• The “odd” women (singletons)
• Women and reform movements (including the Voting Act and the Equal Franchise Act)
• Labor laws (including the Ashley’s Mines Act and the Factory Acts)
• Health Care and the Contagious Diseases Act
• Criminal Justice (including Prostitution, Sodomy Trials, and Prisons)
• Imperialism, colonialism, and gender
• Masculinities
• Performance

Please send complete papers (of between 5,000 and 8,000 words) electronically for consideration to the guest editors of the special issue (Prof. Katherine Gilbert and Prof. Julia Chavez) at the following email addresses: kgilbert@drury.edu and JChavez@stmartin.edu

Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2012

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 is a collaborative effort that brings together scholars from a variety of universities to create a unique voice in the field. We endorse a broad definition of gender studies and welcome submissions that consider gender and sexuality in conjunction with race, class, place and nationality. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies publishes two regular issues a year, in addition to a specially-themed summer issue, and accepts submissions year-round.

CFP: Neo-Victorian Studies General Issue 2012/13

Neo-Victorian Studies is currently soliciting scholarly and creative work for its 2012/13 general issue.  The editors welcome articles from established and early career scholars and creative artists on any topic related to the exploration of nineteenth-century legacies from twentieth/twenty-first-century perspectives.  We encourage papers that push the understanding or cultural memory of the ‘Victorian’ beyond its usual temporal and geographical boundaries, investigating the politics of memorialisation, appropriation, adaptation and revision within inter-disciplinary frameworks and across multimedia. We seek work that expands current theoretical concepts of neo-Victorianism and actively interrogates the conditions under which the nineteenth century re-appears in and continues to inform our globalised present. We welcome work on issues as diverse as historical trauma; nationalism and legacies of empire; the politics of nostalgia; ‘the repressive hypothesis’; cultural and economic neo-colonialism/reverse colonisation; aesthetic and political ideologies; the ‘neo-Victorian’ as hybrid genre, mode, or trace; and the 'after-lives' of Victorian figures, texts and artworks. We invite projects that explore the different genres, cultures and spaces of re-doing the nineteenth century or that examine the neo-Victorian as style, performance and practice.

In addition to

• scholarly theoretical/critical articles of 6000-8000 words (plus bibliography)
• creative pieces (any genre of creative writing or creative arts)

 NVS also invites:

• polemical pieces
• interviews
• notices of work in progress
• reviews of relevant critical/creative publications in the field
• critical/creative responses to previous contributions

Please direct enquiries and send electronic submissions via email with Word Document attachment to the General & Founding Editor, Marie-Luise Kohlke at neovictorianstudies@swansea.ac.uk. Please consult our submission guidelines, prior to submission.

Reminder: Neo-Victorian Studies special issue 2012 "The Other Dickens: Neo-Victorian Appropriation and Adaptation" (2/29/2012)

As part of the bicentenary celebrations of Dickens's birth, the editors of a special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies on 'The Other Dickens: Neo-Victorian Appropriation and Adaptation' invite contributors to consider the 'other' Dickens - those aspects of Dickens's life and work that have been the subject of recent revision, reappraisal, and transformation in contemporary culture. The special issue will aim to critically assess our persisting fascination with this canonical Victorian figure and, more generally, the 'Dickensian' cultural legacy of the Victorian age in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We would especially welcome papers and creative pieces which address the continued influence of Dickens on neo-Victorian studies, in literature, in bio-fiction, as well as in film and television adaptations of his novels.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Dickens and adaptation/re-writings
• Dickens and the legacies of Empire
• International/trans-cultural Dickens in the age of globalisation
• Dickens and contemporary politics (social reforms, the 'Big Society', philanthropy)
• Dickens and twenty-first-century material/commodity culture and consumerism
• Dickens and revisions of gender in the private and public spheres
• Dickens and neo-Victorian nostalgia
• Gothicised Dickens/Dickens's ghosts
• Dickens and Dickens's women in bio-fiction
• Dickens and (self-)performance/performing the past

Please send a 500 word proposal for a 6,000-8,000 word chapter to the guest editors Elodie Rousselot (Elodie.Rousselot@port.ac.uk) and Charlotte Boyce (charlotte.boyce@port.ac.uk) by 29 February 2012, adding a short biographical note. Completed articles and/or creative pieces will be due by 15 July 2012 and should be sent as a Word.doc attachment via email to the guest editors, with a copy to neovictorianstudies@swansea.ac.uk. Please consult the NVS website http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/ for further submission guidelines.