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Victorian Periodicals Review

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Check your mailbox for a new issue of VPR! This double issue is packed with exciting scholarship, including our VanArsdel and Expanding the Field Prize winners and a Roots of RSVP interview with Brian Maidment. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54262 @RS4VP
Cover of VPR 57.1-2, burgundy background with photograph of Shevantibai Nikambe from her book, Ratanbai: A Sketch of a Bombay High Caste Hindu Young Wife (London: Marshall Brothers, 1895).

ALT Cover of VPR 57.1-2, burgundy background with photograph of Shevantibai Nikambe from her book, Ratanbai: A Sketch of a Bombay High Caste Hindu Young Wife (London: Marshall Brothers, 1895).

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Hello friends of VPR! Just thought we'd let you know that you can find us over here: @vpreditors.bsky.social
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Ryan D. Fong examines E. Pauline Johnson/Tekahionwake’s work for the Toronto periodical Saturday Night to show how she cannily negotiated the demands of a settler culture that was violently working to assimilate First Nations peoples. Read more in VPR56.4 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9…
Image of cover page for The White Wampum by E. Pauline Johnson/Tekahionwake, accompanied by text that says Ryan D. Fong, Stringing Verse-Wampum: E. Pauline Johnson, Haudenosaunee Knowledge, and Colonial Print Culture, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 56, number 4, winter 2023

ALT Image of cover page for The White Wampum by E. Pauline Johnson/Tekahionwake, accompanied by text that says Ryan D. Fong, Stringing Verse-Wampum: E. Pauline Johnson, Haudenosaunee Knowledge, and Colonial Print Culture, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 56, number 4, winter 2023

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Kristin Kondrlik @kekondrlik is seeking contributors to the RSVP Bibliography 2020-24. This project is a great way to keep up with new scholarship in our field, and all contributors will be acknowledged in the published work. For more info, visit rs4vp.org/call-for-contribut… @RS4VP
Black-and-white illustration of a man reading by fireplace. Text says: Call for contributors, the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is seeking reviewers for the 2020-2024 RSVP Bibliography

ALT Black-and-white illustration of a man reading by fireplace. Text says: Call for contributors, the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is seeking reviewers for the 2020-2024 RSVP Bibliography

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.@SophiavanOs examines the ethnographic portrayal of the Sámi in the nineteenth-century illustrated press to show how imperialist rhetoric was used to justify domestic colonies within Europe. Read more in VPR 56.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
Image of “Postcard Lappenlager,” original photograph taken by Jørgen Wickstrøm, courtesy of Tromsø University Museum, Kierulf Postcard Collection. Text says Sophie van Os, Contested Boundaries: Visual Representations of Travel to Colonial Regions within Europe, 1860–1900, VPR volume 56, number 4, winter 2023

ALT Image of “Postcard Lappenlager,” original photograph taken by Jørgen Wickstrøm, courtesy of Tromsø University Museum, Kierulf Postcard Collection. Text says Sophie van Os, Contested Boundaries: Visual Representations of Travel to Colonial Regions within Europe, 1860–1900, VPR volume 56, number 4, winter 2023

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Michelle Prain-Brice and Jennifer Hayward analyze the cultural transfer of the Ale-Quillén myth through C19 Chilean and Anglo-Chilean print culture. Learn more about the shifting narratives surrounding Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche people in VPR 56.4 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
Black-and-white photo of two Indigenous women from Star of Chile (ValparaĂ­so), August 27, 1904, 9. Image courtesy of the AnglophoneChile Project. Text says Michelle Prain-Brice and Jennifer Hayward, The Entangled History of Ale-QuillĂŠn: Imagining the Indigenous Woman in Nineteenth-Century Chile, VPR volume 56, number 4, winter 2023.

ALT Black-and-white photo of two Indigenous women from Star of Chile (ValparaĂ­so), August 27, 1904, 9. Image courtesy of the AnglophoneChile Project. Text says Michelle Prain-Brice and Jennifer Hayward, The Entangled History of Ale-QuillĂŠn: Imagining the Indigenous Woman in Nineteenth-Century Chile, VPR volume 56, number 4, winter 2023.

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.@CarolineBressey analyzes reports of violence endured by William King, an African American man who migrated to Australia and became ensnared in the Victoria prison system. Read about The Tocsin’s textual tactics and political limitations: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
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Porscha Fermanis examines ethnographic accounts of the Orang Asli of Malaysia to reveal how scientific periodicals shifted from context-driven studies of Indigenous peoples to an emphasis on numerical data such as cranial measurements. Read more in VPR56.4 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9…
Image of “Pawang,” by Robert Wilson Wilber, from Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia 1 (1847): 332. Collection of National Library, Singapore [Accession no. B03014448B]. Text says: Porscha Fermanis, Scientific Periodicals, Numerical Inscriptions, and Indigenous Lifeworlds in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia, Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 56, Number 4, Winter 2023.

ALT Image of “Pawang,” by Robert Wilson Wilber, from Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia 1 (1847): 332. Collection of National Library, Singapore [Accession no. B03014448B]. Text says: Porscha Fermanis, Scientific Periodicals, Numerical Inscriptions, and Indigenous Lifeworlds in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia, Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 56, Number 4, Winter 2023.

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VPR’s special issue “Race and Transnationalism” is hot off the press! Read guest editors Lars Atkin and Matt Poland’s introduction, “On Not Mastering Race and Transnationalism in Victorian Periodicals Studies,” here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
Cover image: Chiefs of the Six Nations, explaining their wampum belts to Horatio Hale, September 4, 1871. Photographed by James Newbury Edy. Courtesy of the Six Nations Public Library, https://vitacollections.ca/sixnationsarchive/2688456/image/1612574?n=15. Creative Commons License, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

ALT Cover image: Chiefs of the Six Nations, explaining their wampum belts to Horatio Hale, September 4, 1871. Photographed by James Newbury Edy. Courtesy of the Six Nations Public Library, https://vitacollections.ca/sixnationsarchive/2688456/image/1612574?n=15. Creative Commons License, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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I am delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 @VPReditors Prizes: rs4vp.org/2024-vpr-prize-win…. Congrats to Nilkantha Pal (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research) and @AdeleGuyton (KU Leuven).

2024 VPR Prize Winners Announced! – RSVP

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 VPR Prizes! Expanding the Field into Indian Children’s Periodicals This year’s Expanding the Field Prize goes to Nilkantha Pal (Indian Institute...

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: If you'd like to submit your essay for VPR's Expanding the Field Prize or the VanArsdel Prize, you have until July 1, 2024. @RS4VP
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Barbara D. Ferguson analyzes surprising responses to the fraud case against spiritualist medium D. D. Home. Check out VPR 56.3 to learn how the PMG’s correspondents turned a critical eye on the discourse of scientific authority: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
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Rob Breton argues that Eliza Cook redirected the rhetoric of “leveling up” to critique the middle classes in her popular journal. Learn how she affirmed working-class culture in VPR 56.3: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
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Marysa Demoor marks the 200th anniversary of @TheLancet by tracing its long history of battling misinformation from the 19th-c to the present. Read it in VPR 56.3: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
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The RSVP Bibliography: 2017-20 indexes scholarship on C19 journalism in Britain and across the empire. This installment includes a whopping 631 works! Check out this essential reference for the state of Victorian #PeriodicalStudies in VPR 57.3: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
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CFP: VPR's Expanding the Field Prize for an essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and ethnic composition of 19th-c periodical studies. Winner receives $500 and publication in VPR. Deadline June 15. rs4vp.org/awards @RS4VP @navsa @BAVS_UK
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Hello Grad Students! @VPReditors is now accepting essay submissions for the annual VanArsdel Prize, deadline June 15. Visit rs4vp.org/awards/vanarsdel-p… for more info. @RS4VP @navsa @BAVS_PGs
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Check out our latest issue for the RSVP Bibliography: 2017-20 and fabulous articles on the Lancet's 200th anniversary, the rhetoric of class improvement in Eliza Cook's Journal, and science versus spiritualism in the Pall Mall Gazette. muse.jhu.edu/issue/52556 @RS4VP
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We’re wrapping up VPR 56.2 with Andrea Stewart’s feminist approach to DH. Learn more about the set of digital tools she created using biodata for over seven hundred women writers of the long nineteenth century: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
Computer-generated image of a network, accompanied by text that says: Andrea Stewart, “Mapping the Multitudes, Discovering the Margins: Feminist-Focused Macro Network Analysis and a Visualization-Based Digital Archive as Coevolving Digital Humanities Tools,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 56, number 2, summer 2023.

ALT Computer-generated image of a network, accompanied by text that says: Andrea Stewart, “Mapping the Multitudes, Discovering the Margins: Feminist-Focused Macro Network Analysis and a Visualization-Based Digital Archive as Coevolving Digital Humanities Tools,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 56, number 2, summer 2023.

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Jasper Heeks demonstrates the unique attributes of digitized sources by tracing the transnational coverage of Australian street gangs. Discover the depth and breadth keyword searching can offer in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9… @RS4VP
Drawing of a larrikin, or street gang member, accompanied by text that says: JASPER HEEKS, “Searching for ‘larrikin*’: Using Digitised Newspapers to Trace the Transnational Coverage of Australian Street Gangs, 1870–98,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 56, number 2, summer 2023.

ALT Drawing of a larrikin, or street gang member, accompanied by text that says: JASPER HEEKS, “Searching for ‘larrikin*’: Using Digitised Newspapers to Trace the Transnational Coverage of Australian Street Gangs, 1870–98,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 56, number 2, summer 2023.

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