We have so many wonderful #bookreviews on our site! Read the extract of Benjamin Dabby’s review of @MDamkjaer’s, Time, Domesticity and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2016) here: doi.org/10.1093/jvcult… You can purchase Damkjaer’s book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9…

An #article by Sarah Olwen Jones explorers the domestic lives of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle & interprets what "home" represents — "…a sheltered theater box from which the occupants looked at the stage of the outside world…" Access the abstract here: doi.org/10.1080/135555…

The deadline to submit your paper or panel proposal for INCS 2023 in Knoxville has been extended to October 21! Details on the website. incs2023.com

#Submit a #paperproposal to be considered for the 2023 INCS Conference… Just in the nick of time! The deadline has been extended to THIS Friday, October 21, 2022. View the full CFP on the Conference website here: incs2023.com

In an #essay by Clayton Tarr, he discusses children's literature and consumer culture, where: "…the wonders and dangers of the marketplace… plac[ed] young protagonists in worlds where objects [similar to tables] come to life." Access the abstract here: doi.org/10.1093/jvc/vc…

Looking at lifted + laid rail tracks on my ONE MILE walk. Can't ignore Middlemarch + investments in colonial railways by George Eliot while she was writing with her step-sons away in Africa, attempting to farm, having failed to pass entry to the Indian civil service Nancy Henry

It's up! Our pandemic labour of love, Antipodean George Eliot, is now available to order. Here are some of the discoveries of our contributors, who were asked to rethink Eliot from surprising angles [a thread]...routledge.com/Antipodean-Geo…

In a previously published #blogpost Dr Victoria Nagy explains: "Since the advent of video games on home computers and consoles in the 1980s, there have been over twenty video games developed with Holmes as the protagonist." Click here to read the essay: jvc.oup.com/2015/12/07/vic…

A previous #essay by Sean McConnell analyzes the architecture of the courtroom at St. George's Hall, serving "as a reminder of the stark divide between rich and poor in nineteenth-century Liverpool" & discusses what occurs beyond the prison walls. Here: jvc.oup.com/2013/02/27/int…

An #essay Sarah Olwen Jones reflects on how the private space of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle’s home became "the centre of a certain cultural community that included an extended list of perhaps more well-known nineteenth-century personalities." Here: jvc.oup.com/2013/12/03/olw…

We are pleased to announce the next JVC Essay Prize competition. The aim of the prize is to promote scholarship among postgraduate research students working on the Victorian period in any discipline in the UK and abroad.  For more info: jvc.oup.com/2023/03/30/ess…

Incs2023 kicks off in Knoxville with a Demon Copperhead discussion ⁦Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies⁩ #incs2023

Touring the East Tennessee Historical Society Museum on the first day of #Incs2023 ⁦Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies⁩

What a wonderful Keynote on Heathcliff as child refugee by Josephine McDonagh ⁦Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies⁩ #incs2023

🚨Big Orange Give Day🚨Our Friends of English alumni group is matching any donations we receive today! This year we're fundraising to grow our internship programs, further supporting UT Knoxville students during their studies! securelb.imodules.com/s/1341/utaa/fo…

Judith Hendra's recent #blogpost discusses the domestic hearth as "a conflict zone, a place to mourn, a place to rejoice, a symbol of greed, or dysfunction, or human kindness" across novels and novellas from the 1840s through 1880s. Read here: jvc.oup.com/2024/03/01/the…

Image credit: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. ‘O God!’ I screamed and ‘O God!’ again and again for there before my eyes – pale and shaken, and half fainting….like a man restored from death – there stood Henry Jekyll!’ The scene at Dr Lanyon’s fireside from a 1930 reissue.

Check out our video profile of Prof. Nancy Henry Nancy Henry and her research and teaching about horses, featuring Clarence Brown, UT Libraries, and Elizabeth Taylor as well as the many horses in the recent Barbie movie. youtu.be/WqjS60g3Zm4

Dr. Arunima Datta weaves together the larger histories of colonialism, migration, adaptation, acculturation, and globalization through an incredible history of Indian curry in Britain. Check out 'Curry Tales of the Empire' today! Read here: jvc.oup.com/2021/05/27/cur…

Congratulations to graduating English major Casey Roddy on her award at the UT Arts & Sciences’s undergrad research symposium!! And to her faculty mentor Nancy Henry