Knowledge Commons | Courtney Mahaney | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/cmahaney/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Courtney Mahaney is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:32:29 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5d336901b2c4c9a30115e15a778e90ec Rita Singer deposited Introduction ['Minoritised Languages and Travel' special collection] in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851820/ Sat, 15 Jul 2023 02:26:16 -0400 This introduction to the MLO special issue “Minoritised Languages and Travel” provides an overview of the pieces in this collection in context with historical travel accounts in German about nineteenth-century Wales.

The contributions in this collection lay bare frictions between traveller and travelee as well as the inherent instability of soc…[Read more]

]]> 0 da2c02e150849e838de2687ff5889d24 Shantanu Majee started the topic Translating 19th Century European Classic in Vernacular languages of South Asia in the discussion Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/victorian-studies/forum/topic/translating-19th-century-european-classic-in-vernacular-languages-of-south-asia-2/ Thu, 06 Jul 2023 09:38:55 -0400 call for papers

Traveling Texts: Translating Nineteenth Century European Classics in Vernacular languages of South Asia
Dr. Shantanu Majee, Dr. K Subramanyam

The proposed work is under consideration to be published in the Routledge series on ‘South Asian Literature in Focus’.

Sherry Simon and Paul St-Pierre in the Introduction to the…[Read more]

]]> 93dd240fb7be31133c6313af09f5f45b Stefan Fisher-Høyrem deposited Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1815911/ Fri, 30 Sep 2022 02:27:47 -0400 This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of ‘religion’ and ‘belief’, it offers an innovative rethinking of the his…[Read more]

]]> 0 43dc59cfe033387c2b4db0d0122f9a11 Dr Jen Baker deposited Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792866/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:24:23 -0400 From living dolls to spirits wandering in search of solace or vengeance, the ghostly youth is one of the most enduring phenomena of supernatural fiction, its roots stretching back into the realms of folklore and superstition. In this spine-tingling new collection Jen Baker gathers a selection of the most chilling hauntings and encounters with…[Read more]

]]> 0 89a23bad3e417ef286558001b66a795b Dr Jen Baker deposited Guardian Hosts and Custodial Witnesses: In loco parentis in Women’s Ghost Stories, 1852–1920 in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792864/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:24:10 -0400 In the mid nineteenthcentury, a subgenre of ghost stories emerged that had roots in a hybrid tradition of institutional religious doctrine and oral folkloric expressions of anxiety over the fate of the child’s soul in the afterlife. Given the persistently high infant mortality rates and increased public awareness of child abuse across the c…[Read more]

]]> 0 ab0cfdb0f08c076cbaf86fba0ea7c804 Dr Jen Baker deposited Death (un)Personified: Pronouns, Patriarchy, and the Child Ghost in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792862/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:23:54 -0400 in Vision, Contestation and Deception: Interrogating Gender and the Supernatural in Victorian Shorter Fiction, ed. Oindrila Ghosh (Avenel Press, 2021), pp.51-58

]]> 0 9329e8c502908cdb6edfef4f4cdd042d Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1781544/ Fri, 13 May 2022 02:24:28 -0400 Historically, tourism in Wales was invigorated by the reinvention of mountain scenery during the Romantic period when travellers gained new perspectives of the terrain from higher ground. It is also during this period that inns and guesthouses began keeping visitors’ books in which guests evaluated their surroundings and their hosts’ good ser…[Read more]

]]> 0 a774c68e89fea74d5dec37a6ff84e70e Gregory Tate deposited Evolution, Idealism, and Individualism in May Kendall's Comic Verse in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1752240/ Sat, 18 Sep 2021 02:29:27 -0400 This article argues that May Kendall's comic verse presents a sustained consideration of one of the most prominent intellectual trends in late-Victorian Britain: the revival of idealist philosophy. Kendall's poetry encapsulates and interrogates the connections between several important aspects of late-Victorian culture. Her thinking about idealism…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c17590c172eff21467e0beda0f3e0b2 Gregory Tate deposited Arthur Hugh Clough’s Pedigree in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744821/ Tue, 06 Jul 2021 02:24:13 -0400 The writings of Arthur Hugh Clough display a sustained interest in the relations between an individual, his or her generation, and the processes of historical change that distinguish and demarcate one generation from another. As someone who spent much of his life as a student and teacher, Clough was self-consciously aware of his location within an…[Read more]

]]> 0 e116fe801b8cedb21675a0b85a0f2a7a Rita Singer deposited Project report: Teithwyr Ewropeaidd i Gymru, 1750–2010/European Travellers to Wales, 1750–2010 in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739563/ Wed, 26 May 2021 02:27:53 -0400 For centuries, continental Europeans have come to Wales for numerous reasons. During the Romantic period some came seeking a rural idyll, whilst others in the Victorian era travelled as industrial spies, and during times of war many refugees escaped to Wales to find shelter from persecution. Not only have continental Europeans left their traces…[Read more]

]]> 0 45db4761b49c5fe1fa3a3e920a6d67d2 Scott Banville deposited CFP: Victorian Transitions, VISAWUS 2021 in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1725929/ Tue, 02 Feb 2021 02:24:01 -0500 The Victorian Era was one of transitions. Victorian Britain transitioned from a rural to urban society. It transitioned from an emergent empire to the dominant imperial power. It transitioned from a walking, water, wind, and animal-based transportation system to a steam-powered transportation system. It transitioned from a regional to national and…[Read more]

]]> 0 6bcc3163005a7c03dd2b6ba6a710e3d7 Scott Banville replied to the topic CFP: VISAWUS 2020: Victorian Transitions in the discussion Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/victorian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-visawus-2020-victorian-transitions/#post-41851 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:54:09 -0500 VISAWUS 2020 is now VISAWUS 2021. It will meet in Reno, NV Oct. 14-16, 2021.

Abstracts by April 1, 2021 to visawus2020@visawus.org.

Updated details: http://www.visawus.org/?page_id=12

 

]]> 10512e94fad2dfb9703ebce572d3bd9c Andrew C. Parker deposited Derrida and Victorian Studies - slides for roundtable discussion in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721975/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 03:56:08 -0500 This is the PowerPoint presentation to accompany my comments for the Theoretical Foundations of Victorian Studies roundtable on January 7, 2021.

]]> 0 501563308458c0802d06f411f53f24cc Ruth Kinna deposited Anarchism and the politics of utopia in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721778/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 02:24:59 -0500 This chapter discusses two early anarchist conceptions of utopianism, a romantic conception associated with Gustav Landauer and a rationalist ideal linked to Peter Kropotkin. I argue that the differences have been exaggerated. Landauer and Kropotkin followed different paths, but they formulated their responses to utopianism in the same context,…[Read more]

]]> 0 14505027c2a0bbb73f5d8a7d24df3c3a Ruth Kinna deposited William Morris and the Problem of Englishness in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721776/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 02:24:41 -0500 This article examines William Morris’s idea of Englishness, considered through a critique of his concept of fellowship or community. It looks at the charge
that Morris wrongly neglected the importance of nationality as a focus for organization in socialism, preferring instead an internationalist ideal, based on an
unworkable model of s…[Read more]

]]> 0 77cb83145105c348ba97c3a88dae75ff Ruth Kinna deposited Morris, Watts, Wilde and the democratization of art in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721775/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 02:24:24 -0500 This paper examines the politics of Morris’s understanding of art in socialism. At the centre of the analysis is the claim Morris makes for art’s democratisation and his commitment to the transformation of labour – into productive leisure – through art. The conditions for this transformation, namely, the abolition of commerce and the realisa…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c0a115210de0e54db047a275e2d05f0 Ruth Kinna deposited Anarchism, individualism and communism: William Morris's critique of anarcho-communism in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721774/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 02:24:07 -0500 This chapter discusses William Morris's rejection of anarchist communism as individualistic. The first discusses his treatment of anarchist communism as a generic form. It
examines his motivations for advancing the critique and sets out the key concepts on which he later relied to develop his analysis of decision-making. The relationship between…[Read more]

]]> 0 d60f26eb3656cf970410578fe1885fcf Ruth Kinna deposited The Jacobinism and patriotism of Ernest Belfort Bax in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721772/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 02:23:48 -0500 This article examines Ernest Belfort Bax's interpretation of the French Revolution and traces the impact that his idea of the Revolution had on his philosophy and his political thought. The first section considers Bax's understanding of the Revolution in the context of his theory of history and analyses his conception of the Revolution's legacy,…[Read more]

]]> 0 aaed69240b97a17177dea45001c5ea4b Rita Singer deposited Liberating Britain from Foreign Bondage: A Welsh Revision of the Wars of the Roses in L. M. Spooner’s Gladys of Harlech; or, The Sacrifice (1858) in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721594/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 02:29:30 -0500 In the ten years following the publication of the infamous Reports on the State of Education in Wales (1847) that had classified the Welsh population as a vice-ridden nation of working-class drunkards and promiscuous hoydens, the middle-classes in Wales strongly rejected this Anglo-centric condemnation at first in the press and, later on, in…[Read more]

]]> 0 9642130008d58b8d7eaa554b5f17d457 Ted Underwood deposited Reclaiming Ground for the Humanities in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1720170/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 02:28:30 -0500 Projects that bridge the humanities and sciences often attract attention from journalists, but evoke dismay from humanists who feel that their subjects of expertise have been misinterpreted. For the humanities to reclaim a place of pride in public conversation, humanists themselves need to embrace interdisciplinarity and take the lead in this…[Read more]

]]> 0 451aa8392d54b1acd48e5cefbcb30bae Rita Singer deposited A Welshman on the Water: The Portrayal of In-Betweener Identities in Richard Doddridge Blackmore’s The Maid of Sker (1872) in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1715513/ Wed, 04 Nov 2020 02:23:55 -0500 Published during a time of rapid colonial expansion, Richard Doddridge Blackmore's The Maid of Sker (1872) constitutes a conglomerate of fictional autobiography, historical and sensation novel. It takes the reader on a number of voyages to witness the most important British sea battles at the end of the eighteenth century. Considering the…[Read more]

]]> 0 8263d64cf1a50f67a6b1a2b61757d152 Gregory Tate deposited Humphry Davy and the Problem of Analogy in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688211/ Fri, 22 May 2020 16:28:05 -0400 Analogy, the comparison of one set of relations to another, was essential to Humphry Davy’s understanding of chemistry. Throughout his career, Davy used analogical reasoning to direct and to interpret his experimental analyses of the chemical reactions between substances. In his writing, he deployed analogies to organise and to explain his t…[Read more]

]]> 0 010994d8dae75229e9ddcfa892231294 Bill Hughes deposited CFP: ‘Ill met by moonlight’: Gothic encounters with enchantment and the Faerie realm in literature and culture University of Hertfordshire, 8‒10 April 2021 in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1687552/ Sat, 16 May 2020 16:25:30 -0400 As Prof. Dale Townsend has observed, the concept of the Gothic has had an association with fairies from its inception; even before Walpole’s 1764 Castle of Otranto (considered the first Gothic novel), eighteenth-century poetics talked of ‘the fairy kind of writing’ which, for Addison, ‘raise a pleasing kind of Horrour in the Mind of the Reader’…[Read more]

]]> 0 90148b11e04cc5ee76328db23e2bb6df Flavio Gregori replied to the topic CfP: The wonderful and the real from Gothic fiction to Fin-de-Siécle literature in the discussion Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/victorian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-the-wonderful-and-the-real-from-gothic-fiction-to-fin-de-siecle-literature/#post-29663 Fri, 20 Mar 2020 06:37:42 -0400 The deadline for uploading the articles is September 1st, 2020.

]]> 317a322f089a6b9cc1a3ba83bb70b92a Flavio Gregori started the topic CfP: The wonderful and the real from Gothic fiction to Fin-de-Siécle literature in the discussion Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/victorian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-the-wonderful-and-the-real-from-gothic-fiction-to-fin-de-siecle-literature/ Sat, 14 Mar 2020 16:24:57 -0400 The journal English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts, which I direct and is published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites to send article proposals on the topic:
The wonderful, the fantastic, and the preternatural and their verisimilar representation from the Gothic novel to Fin-de-Siècle Literature.
We'll be happy to co…[Read more]

]]> 93d0769fddf877f799743793587c64c3 Camilla Hoel deposited Secret Plots: The False Endings of Dickens's Novels in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1678770/ Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:25:26 -0500 Oliver Twist does not find wealth and family and live happily ever after. Amy Dorrit and Arthur Clennam never escape the workhouse. And Eugene Wrayburn does not revive to marry Lizzie Hexam and start a new and productive life. This article takes as its starting point the idea that a story can have ‘false’ endings and uses it as a way of app…[Read more]

]]> 0 c880b6f5a51b750125bce7348358fe9b Scott Banville started the topic CFP: VISAWUS 2020: Victorian Transitions in the discussion Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/victorian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-visawus-2020-victorian-transitions/ Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:32:51 -0500 VISAWUS 2020: Victorian Transitions
Reno, NV October 15-17, 2020
Keynote Speaker:  Jolene Zigarovich, University of Northern Iowa
The Silver Legacy Resort/Circus Circus

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The Victorian Era was one of transitions. Victorian Britain transitioned from a rural to urban society. It transitioned from an emergent empire to the dominant imperial…[Read more]

]]> ab7a588cf084e2acc7d3a05265950905 Ted Underwood deposited NovelTM Datasets for English-Language Fiction, 1700-2009 in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665490/ Fri, 04 Oct 2019 16:25:44 -0400 This report describes a collection of 210,305 volumes of fiction that researchers are encouraged to borrow for their own work. Alternately, readers can simply browse the report as a description of English-language fiction in HathiTrust Digital Library. For instance, how does the proportion of fiction written by British authors or by women change…[Read more]

]]> 0 b39b3fa2ac3c969f57dbf0fbe0a0ef15 Dr Jen Baker deposited CFP - Tales of Terror: Gothic and the Short Form in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659760/ Tue, 06 Aug 2019 16:26:14 -0400 The aim of this special issue of Gothic Studies (23/3, to be published Nov 2021) is to bring together research that does not simply consider Gothic short fiction and its artistic and cultural brethren as incidental, but integral to the design and effect and/or cultural significance of the piece because the short form in the Gothic tradition has,…[Read more]

]]> 0 2a2285e7f01e6b68c1517bc7164b4c02 Lukas Fuchsgruber deposited Berlin – Paris: Transnational Aspects of French Art Auctions in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659754/ Tue, 06 Aug 2019 16:25:45 -0400 In the valuation of works of art, the setting of a price is the last step, the result of a discursive attribution of quality; in this regard, aesthetic and commercial evaluations merge. The structure of this mediation is characterised by the concept of the “knowledge market;” knowledge that is ordered and able to spread is essential in order to…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f15881b2fdd0ba31f1f61b9177ecd27 Flavio Gregori started the topic Call for Articles (reopened): Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality” in the discussion Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/victorian-studies/forum/topic/call-for-articles-reopened-fictions-facts-and-effects-of-reality/ Wed, 10 Jul 2019 05:18:30 -0400 Call for Articles (reopened).
The journal English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts, published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of 'Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel'.
The new deadline for sending proposals is [Read more]

]]> da65b5f61e7a4878e767ea165cd396cc Sara Zadrozny deposited Women’s Ageing as Disease in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1639177/ Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:25:39 -0400 In the medical humanities, there has been a growing interest in diagnosing disease in fictional characters, particularly with the idea that characters in Charles Dickens’s novels may be suffering from diseases recognised today. However, an area that deserves greater attention is the representation of women’s ageing as disease in Victorian lit…[Read more]

]]> 0 c7c975918e9bae41d3f78f7efc916124 Flavio Gregori deposited CFP: 'Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel'. in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636784/ Sat, 30 Mar 2019 16:38:44 -0400 The journal 'English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts', published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars to send article proposals on the topic of
'Fictions, Facts and “Effects of Reality”: Questioning the Mimetic in the Nineteenth-Century Novel'.
We shall be happy to consider essays that address and probl…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7535243b74136c1a0c40b01a809de43 Lisa M Lane deposited Cram and Criticism: H.G. Wells and Late Victorian Education in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623124/ Wed, 07 Nov 2018 16:25:22 -0500 Before the publication of The Time Machine (1895), H. G. Wells’s early works provide insight into the challenges of the late Victorian educational system. Wells benefited from a unique set of educational reforms intended to provide education for the lower middle class. He did so in the capacities of a student taking examinations to earn grants f…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd950f8c940d0c67ee65837aedf40839 Paulo Vitor Airaghi deposited O JORNAL CENTRO ACADEMICO DO RIO DE JANEIRO: UM CENTRO DIFUSOR DE IDEIAS REPUBLICANAS NO SÉCULO XIX (1872-1873) in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1621717/ Sun, 21 Oct 2018 16:25:34 -0400 O objetivo do trabalho é analisar o jornal Centro Academico, publicado entre 1872 e 1873 por alunos da Faculdade de Medicina e Cirurgia do Rio de Janeiro e por alunos da Escola Central de Engenharia do Exército, como centro difusor de ideias republicanas durante o século XIX. Esse periódico diagnosticava o Império Brasileiro e, a partir diss…[Read more]

]]> 0 01e79bcc5b92f490e67d975e2ebd430d Gregory Tate deposited Keats, Myth, and the Science of Sympathy in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615929/ Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:26:54 -0400 This essay considers the connections between myth and sympathy in Keats’s poetic theory and practice. It argues that the ‘Ode to Psyche’ exemplifies the way in which Keats uses mythological narrative, and the related trope of apostrophe, to promote a restrained form of sympathy, which preserves an objectifying distance between the poet and the f…[Read more]

]]> 0 755f135ca3c3511137474d030507031f Gregory Tate deposited Austen's Literary Alembic: Sanditon, Medicine, and the Science of the Novel in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615928/ Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:26:22 -0400 This essay examines the representation of science in Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon. It argues that this text, written in the months before Austen’s death in 1817, points to a development in her understanding of the novel, one that associates the form with the emerging scientific disciplines of the early nineteenth century through its emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 6474ca68acfb80cc410b37a69f2e292f Gregory Tate deposited Infinite Movement: Robert Browning and the Dramatic Travelogue in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615927/ Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:26:03 -0400 Victorian Poetry 52 (2014), 185-203

]]> 0 b5a0fe3d2c2efeba9632ac7827fbc3b5 Gregory Tate deposited Arthur Hallam's Fragments of Being in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615926/ Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:25:44 -0400 Tennyson Research Bulletin 9 (2011), 454-462

]]> 0 10e0cd4f47059274770b5a7cac3a92fc Gregory Tate deposited Tennyson and the Embodied Mind in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615925/ Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:25:24 -0400 Victorian Poetry 47 (2009), 61-80

]]> 0 9e8046f3a9692548010881a829c3a918 Gregory Tate deposited ROBERT M. RYAN. Charles Darwin and the Church of Wordsworth in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615464/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:17:33 -0400 Review of English Studies 67 (2016), 1011-12

]]> 0 5c0b7456e5fbd908e3f396d0149f59c9 Gregory Tate deposited CAROLINE LEVINE. Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615463/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:17:13 -0400 Review of English Studies 66 (2015), 1001-3

]]> 0 114b2a53e0d35745814e7162cd610361 Gregory Tate deposited DEVIN GRIFFITHS. The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature between the Darwins. in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615462/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:16:53 -0400 0 7ddb5ba8fa31f318d980197ecd961a44 Gregory Tate deposited The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615461/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:16:33 -0400 Annals of Science 74 (2017), 335-6

]]> 0 1ef3bcc6266dde9caec1788e57c16ccc Gregory Tate deposited ‘“A fit person to be Poet Laureate”: Tennyson, In Memoriam, and the Laureateship’ in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615460/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:16:12 -0400 Tennyson Research Bulletin 9 (2009), 233-47

]]> 0 dc10285a3f9f02b514c6fe3b6e7e4232 Javier Arturo Velásquez Ruiz deposited Asimov lleva el universo holmesiano hacia la órbita de la ciencia ficción in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615046/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:48:51 -0400 The link between asimovian universe and Sherlock Holmes

]]> 0 2997d56494c385944c175ddd87e4f3fc Caitlin Duffy deposited Cartography of the Imperial Mind: The Dangerous Forms and Reforms of Dracula in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615043/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:47:51 -0400 The late Victorian era was imbued with progressive scientific reform and palpable anxiety regarding the future of the British empire. These two topics may seem distinct, but they find mutual expression in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, in which the soulless Count travels from Transylvania (literally, “beyond the forest”) and invades Engla…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd705aa3064fde770debbee42e930cda Ted Underwood deposited Why Literary Time Is Measured in Minutes in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610306/ Fri, 08 Jun 2018 04:12:38 -0400 Critics often discuss works of fiction by condensing them into a few resonant scenes. We are so attached to this strategy, in fact, that we sometimes apply it to history itself: New Historicists explicitly theorize the anecdote as an appropriately literary representation of the past. But why should minutes and hours be more literary than months…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e0c96297d544f9d535327685b9c0a5a Lukas Fuchsgruber deposited Experts and Auctioneers in Paris Art Auctions 1852-1862 in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608961/ Wed, 23 May 2018 04:12:53 -0400 From 1852 the Hôtel Drouot was the space where the French auctioneers (Commissaires-Priseurs) - who held a stately sanctioned monopoly - organized their auctions. By processing data from the art auction catalogue repertory by Frits Lugt and the extended version Art Sales Catalogues Online, it is possible to map the networks of art marketing at…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c165ba222c203532f8072702149dad2 Lukas Fuchsgruber deposited The Hôtel Drouot as the stock exchange for art. Financialization of art auctions in the nineteenth century in the group Victorian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1607065/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 04:17:02 -0400 Throughout historic developments, the publicly ascertained and published price of an artwork repeatedly served as a reference point for art theoretical discussion. Particular importance was attached to the auction sale price, since this financial evaluation of art was of such a public nature. While there is a long history of these ideas about the…[Read more]

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