Victoriana

I'm not sure I strictly consider myself a Victorianist - my real field of interest is the early twentieth century: but it's impossible to think about sex after 1900 without giving quite a lot of attention to 'Victorianism', both as an enduring force and something to be reacted against.

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Victorian sex factoids: some much-reiterated canards Victorian Psychiatry: some suggestions for reading

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Two articles of my own of Victorian interest:

'The Other in the Mirror: Sex, Victorians and Historians' a piece in progress about problems and stereotypes in thinking about Victorian sexuality
now with expanded and updated bibliography


'The Great Scourge': Syphilis as a medical problem and moral metaphor, 1880-1916
A paper written for and given at a Courtauld Institute Symposium, 23 May 1998: Le Grand Mort. Twentieth Century Bodies, Sexuality, Death and Degeneracy, and unlikely to appear anywhere in exactly this form.

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My publications, and reviews and recommended reading of particularly Victorian relevance.

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Links

Archives and manuscripts
Interesting sites
Conferences

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Archives and manuscripts

Because so many people still ask the question, are there any papers of/where are the papers of
The National Register of Archives and ARCHON:
essential first resort to find out where UK archives are held.

Two useful subject gateway sites: Genesis: developing access to women's history sources in the British Isles, and Mundus: missionary-related research resources (UK).

Victorian medicine and health: some suggestions of sources at the Wellcome Library

Portcullis, gateway to the archives of Parliament

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Interesting Sites

Victoria Research Web: a plethora of resources for the Victorianist, including the archives of the VICTORIA e-list

British Association for Victorian Studies

Australasian Victorian Studies Association

Victorians Institute & Journal

The Victorian Turkish Bath
Malcolm Shifrin's information exchange

Charlotte M. Yonge web page

The W. T. Stead site

The Victorian Women Writers Project
Online, and highly accurate, transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, including anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. A wonderful source for hard-to-find texts.

The Victorian Dictionary
a guide to the social history of Victorian London
with the in-progress list of Top Victorians

THE OSCHOLARS:
An Electronic Journal for the Exchange of Information on Current Research, Publications and Productions concerning Oscar Wilde and his Circle: and several other online journals and websites of fin de siecle interest
Special edition devoted to the homoerotic novel Teleny

Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London
'the work of an international group of scholars now assembling a complex visual, textual, and statistical representation of Victorian London--the largest city of the nineteenth-century world and its first urban metropolis'

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals

NINES: Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies

Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies

NCSE: nineteenth-century serials edition:
getting Victorian newspapers and periodicals online

Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
'a peer-reviewed, online journal committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture'

North American Victorian Studies Association

19 - Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century: online journal

Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA)

Carlyle Letters Online

Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies

Victorian Working-Class Women Poets Archive

At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN)

Planet Century 19
'a meta-blog that collects contents of select 19th century blogs. It is maintained by Kelly Searsmith, Ph.D.'

Bruce Rosen's idiosyncratic selection of short bits about elements of Victorian history

Victorian Shrines: museums dedicated to Victorians

Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. & U.K., 1815-1914
'Drawn from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections... images of the texts of more than 450 separately published trial narratives printed in the United States or the United Kingdom from 1815 until 1914.... divorce, domestic violence, adultery, bigamy, breach of promise to marry, and the custody of children... murder and rape. Featured are trials concerning the wealthy and the renowned.... The larger part of the collection, however, consists of the stories of ordinary men and women thrust into the public eye when their marriages and love affairs went wrong, or their relationships did not conform to social standards.'

GladCAT
is an electronic research resource invaluable not just for Gladstone scholars, but for all students of nineteenth century literature and culture, as well as for historians of the book and of reading.

New Books on Literature 19, a project devoted to the timely reviewing of recent works in the field of nineteenth-century literature

Victorian Network is a new online journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best postgraduate work in Victorian Studies.

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Conferences

(Information on forthcoming conferences gratefully received)

31st Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association
Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century
The University of Tampa, March 11-13, 2010, Tampa, Florida

2010 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference
Family/Resemblance in the 19th Century
University of Texas at Austin, 25-27 March 2010

Poetry, Politics, and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century
An interdisciplinary conference, University of Sheffield, 26-27 March, 2010

DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies:
Medievalizing Britain
April 2, 2010, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida

18th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference
"Journeys"
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, April 8-11, 2010

Fashioning the Neo-Victorian: Iterations of the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg,8-10 April 2010

Fighting Victorians: disunion, polemic, controversy
NVSA 2010: Princeton University: April 16-18, 2010

Diverse Victorians
April 23-25, 2010, University of Iowa, Iowa City

Annual conference of the Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA)
"Re-Orienting the Victorians"
25-27 June 2010, Singapore, Nanyang Technological University.

NINES: Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship Summer Workshop
28 June to 2 July 2010, Dublin, Ireland

Fourth CHOMBEC Conference
Worlds to Conquer: the travelling virtuoso in the long 19th century
Victoria Rooms, Bristol, UK, 5-7 July, 2010

Victorian popular culture: Prose, stage and screen
Institute for English Studies, Senate House, University of London, 22 July to 24 July 2010

"The Material Cultures of Periodicals"
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Annual Conference

Yale University, September 10-11, 2010

Victorians Institute Conference
By the Numbers: The Victorian Quantification of Everything; or From Zero to NINES in Under Two Centuries
October 1-3, 2010, University of Virginia

VISAWUS 15th annual conference:
Oceania and the East in the Victorian Imagination
October 28-30, 2010 - Honolulu, Hawai'i

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