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Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies – Autumn Term 2019
Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies
18 November 2019
Kirstie Blair (Strathclyde), ‘Excelsior! Inspirational Verse and the Victorian Industrial Worker’.
Our first Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies event of the new academic year takes place at 7.30 on Monday 18th November 2019, in room 106 of the School of Arts building, 43 Gordon Square. Professor Kirstie Blair (Strathclyde) will give a paper titled: ”Excelsior! Inspirational Verse and the Victorian Industrial Worker’.
This paper uses research from the ‘Piston, Pen & Press’ project to discuss the enormous popularity of inspirational, motivating verse, a genre usually critically disregarded. It examines the role such poetry played in the cultures of working-class self-improvement and mutual improvement, for both working-class writers and readers.
Prof Kirstie Blair is the author of numerous articles/chapters and three books on Victorian poetry and its wider impacts on Victorian culture: her latest study, Working Verse in Victorian Scotland: Poetry, Press and Community, has just been published by OUP. She is the PI on a 2-year AHRC project, ‘Piston, Pen & Press: Literary Cultures in the Industrial Workplace’, on which she works closely with a number of industrial heritage museums and creative partners. She is currently running a series of MOOCs on ‘Working Lives’, exploring the history of Victorian workers on the railways, in coal-mining, and in textile factories and mills.
The session is free and all are welcome, but since the venue has limited space it will be first come, first seated.
Forthcoming Events
Alison Booth (Virginia): ‘Illustrating the Life and Complete Works of George Eliot: Homes and Story-Worlds.’
Wednesday 5th February 2020, 6.00pm. The Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square
Deborah Lutz (Louisville): ‘Marginalia and Other Forms of Graffiti.’
Wednesday 11th March, 2020, 6.00pm. The Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square.
For more information on the Centre and its activities, see www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk
. . Category: Archived Events . Tags: Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, C19, Centre for C19th studies, English, George Eliot, history, poetry, VictorianCHASE Work Placement Opportunity – Editorial Internship in Academic Publishing Online.
CHASE Work Placement Opportunity
Editorial Internship in Academic Publishing Online
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth CenturyVacancy
Starting date: Monday 13 May 2019 for 12 months
£3675 per annum or £4175 per annum (with London Weighting) [equivalent to £21.85 or £24.85 per hour, worked out as 3.5 hours per week over 48 weeks]
The electronic, open-access journal, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century is seeking a postgraduate editorial intern in Academic Publishing Online. You will gain editorial, organizational and technical experience under the supervision of the General Editor, Dr Carolyn Burdett, and with the guidance of the Editorial Board and the journal’s publisher, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH).
Having established itself as an innovative electronic journal in 2005, amongst the earliest titles in the area of nineteenth-century studies and fully peer-reviewed and free to view, 19 is now part of the open-access world it has helped to create: it has professional typesetting and production, digital preservation, permanent identifiers, and a sustainable publisher in the OLH.
Interns have always been, and remain, integral to the journal’s developing strategies to retain quality and distinction in a rapidly changing academic publishing field. The post provides a vital service for the journal; it also provides highly enjoyable and challenging doctoral training provision, equipping humanities graduates with vital transferable skills and experience within the important industry context of academic publishing.
The internship will build skill and expertise in submitting and achieving publication of research material; editing special issues; developing publication projects in association with conferences and seminars; networking; presentation skills; and communication skills. It will equip you with real-world publishing training experience in an open-access environment.
Interns gain detailed knowledge of the entire process of article submission and peer review. They are trained by an incumbent intern and, in turn, train the next post-holder thus consolidating knowledge and communicating it effectively and in ‘real work’ environments.
The post is for 12 months part time (equivalent to a part time placement of 3 months (FTE)). Most of the work involved can take place wherever there is access to a computer. Each term there will be a team meeting held at Birkbeck, University of London (travel funding will be available).
Hours are necessarily flexible because of the nature of journal publication and work patterns will be agreed with the General Editor. However, the ‘norm’ is 3.5 hours per week, worked over a 48 week year.
Remuneration:
£3675 per annum
£4175 per annum (with London Weighting)
Eligibility
We invite applications from students with research interests in the nineteenth century.
Selection Criteria
Essential
- Excellent literacy skills
- Organizational and clerical skills
- Independence and initiative
- Research interests in Nineteenth-Century Studies
Desirable but NOT essential
- Web authoring and design skills
- Experience in electronic publishing
- Editing experience
- Organization of research activities such as Reading Groups, Seminars or Conferences
Application
Please include in your application a letter, outlining your reasons for applying for the post, and CV, together with the name of your supervisor, from whom we will require a reference, by 15 April 2019. Send to Dr Carolyn Burdett c.burdett@bbk.ac.uk to whom queries can also be addressed
Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed shortly after the deadline date.
Start date: Monday 13 May 2019
THIS POST IS OPEN TO BOTH FUNDED AND NON-FUNDED BIRKBECK RESEARCH STUDENTS IN CHASE.
. . Category: Vacancies . Tags: Academic Publishing, C19, English, history, Interdisciplinary, Intern, Internship, School of Arts, VacancyVacancy: BBK Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies seeks a Postgraduate Intern Deadline Extended 5th October 2018
Vacancy: BBK Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies seeks a Postgraduate Intern Deadline 5th October 2018
Vacancy: Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies:
Postgraduate Intern
Deadline Extended to 5th October 2018
The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies seeks a Postgraduate Intern
The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies invites applications from postgraduate research students studying at Birkbeck for an Internship to support and develop the activities of the Centre:
The Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
The Centre was first established in 1997 under the directorship of Professor Isobel Armstrong originally to bring together researchers in English, History of Art and History. It has since developed a reputation for its diverse events that attract national and international scholars. It hosts the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies, which sees speakers coming to Birkbeck throughout the year; it runs the successful annual Dickens Day; and organizes and hosts major conferences, workshops and symposia. The Centre also supports Postgraduate students wishing to organise and run their own events.
THE POSITION
- This Events Officer internship for the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies trains a student to develop, advertise, run, archive and curate a programme of public events:
PLANNING:
- Collect and generate ideas about speakers, emerging questions, and formats for events (Nineteenth-Century Forum, workshops, day conferences, etc);
IMPLEMENTING:
- Timetabling and scheduling, including liaising with Centre staff and speakers
- AV/IT: identifying speakers’ needs, liaising with relevant school AV/IT staff, booking and setting up IT
- Helping setting up speaker events in the Keynes Library and ensuring that it is returned to its original seating after the talk;
- helping to organise refreshments where appropriate;
- administering speaker expenses.
CENTRE’S WEBSITE:
- Overseeing and updating the website on a weekly basis; ensuring that all events are listed with appropriate links and any other relevant material;
- team-working skills: coordinating website updates with the editorial interns on the online journal 19 to ensure that the Centre and Journal websites support reach
- developing a dedicated PG /postdoc area of the website to showcase/advertise p/g activities(entering student’s activities in the website, such as the 19th reading group, conferences, blogs, etc.).
- Producing, archiving, and curating materials related to events and research activities
NETWORKS/PUBLICITY:
- Developing and overseeing strategies for the Centre’s profile on social networks (twitter, Facebook, etc);
- Producing, coordinating, and editing the Centre’s Blog, including commissioning and overseeing blog submissions, and liaising with relevant staff.
- Networking and linking researchers at different stages in their career
- Fostering and coordinating links between staff and the postgraduate community within the centre and its research clusters
- Developing a publicity strategy (sending information of Centre’s activities to other nineteenth-century websites; identifying and contacting other communities of practitioners to enhance interdisciplinary reach of the Centre’s activities).
INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS:
- Centre meetings – Attend and take minutes at termly Centre meetings; liaise with Centre Director/s about minutes/actions.
ELIGIBILITY:
- We invite applications from postgraduate research students from across the College with interests in the nineteenth century. Applicants should expect to be enrolled as students at Birkbeck until end of September 2019
SELECTION CRITERIA
Essential
- Research interests in Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Organizational and clerical skills
- Independence and initiative
Desirable but NOT essential
- organization of research activities such as Reading Groups, Seminars or Conferences
- Involvement in the activities of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Social media skills
REMUNERATION:
£16 per hour. The hours will be agreed on a flexible basis with the Centre Directors (spread across three terms to work out at an average of 3.5 hours per week for 35 weeks)
APPLICATION:
Please email a letter of application, outlining your reasons for applying for the post, and a CV, together with the name of your supervisor, from whom we will require a reference, to Dr Victoria Mills (v.mills@bbk.ac.uk) in the School of Arts by 5.00pm on Friday 5th October 2018
Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed shortly thereafter (date tbc but likely to be Tuesday 9 October)
Please direct any enquiries to Dr Victoria Mills (v.mills@bbk.ac.uk).
. . Category: Archived Vacancies . Tags: Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, C19, English and Humanities, History of Art, Intern, School of ArtsVacancy C19: Postgraduate Editorial Intern in Academic Publishing Online – deadline extended 5 October 2018
The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
seeks a Postgraduate Editorial Intern in Academic Publishing Online
The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies invites applications from Birkbeck’s postgraduate research students for an Internship in Academic Publishing Online to manage our web journal:
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Deadline for application: 5.00pm on Friday 5 October 2018
The Journal
Launched on 1 October 2005, 19 is an electronic publishing initiative originally designed to publicize and disseminate the research activities carried out by Birkbeck’s Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, and to provide practical research and professional development opportunities for the many postgraduate students undertaking research degrees in nineteenth-century studies at the College. The journal is now housed in the Open Library of Humanities https://www.openlibhums.org, allowing free and open access to its contents. It is fully peer-reviewed and aggregated with NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship). It is now recognized and respected as a leading journal in the field, known for exciting, leading research and as an innovative and field-setting example of Open Access practice.
The Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
The Centre was first established in 1997 under the directorship of Professor Isobel Armstrong originally to bring together researchers in English, History of Art and History. It has since developed a reputation for its diverse events that attract national and international scholars. It hosts the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies, which sees speakers coming to Birkbeck throughout the year; it runs the annual Dickens Day; and organizes and hosts major conferences, workshops and symposia. The Centre also provides opportunities for Postgraduate students to organise and run events.
The Position
The postgraduate editorial internship in Academic Publishing Online trains a student to manage 19, working with another intern under the supervision of the journal’s General Editor, Dr Carolyn Burdett, its section Editor, Dr Victoria Mills, and the Editor for systems, Dr David Gillott, and with the guidance of the Editorial Board. The appointee will participate fully in the day-to-day running of the journal and help manage the Centre’s website. Responsibilities include maintenance and resourcing of 19 and the Centre’s website; liaising with and between guest editor, authors and publisher; overseeing the smooth operation of the peer review system; supporting authors in securing image permissions; copy editing essays and other submitted materials; aiding the proofing processes; promoting and publicizing the journal; and taking an active role in web publishing initiatives, including innovation to increase the journal’s reach and influence. The postholder will be supported and mentored by an intern already in post and, in turn, will mentor the next intern. There will also be Centre-focused activity, including curation of the Centre’s presence in social media and elsewhere, and help with blog initiatives; contributing to the archiving of the Centre’s work; and participation in initiatives with postgraduate students working in the nineteenth century. Postholders will attend Centre meetings, and will be expected to be active participants and, where appropriate, helpers in the Centre’s programme of seminars, conferences and symposia.
Eligibility
We invite applications from postgraduate research students from across the College. Research interests in the nineteenth century are desirable but not essential, though we would expect applicants to have some interest in the period. Applicants should expect to be enrolled as students at Birkbeck until end of the academic year 2019-20. Exceptionally, students in their first year of MPhil/PhD can be appointed but the norm will be for students to have completed their first year of study.
Selection Criteria
Essential
- Excellent literacy skills
- Organizational and clerical skills
- Independence and initiative
- Good communication skills
Desirable but NOT essential
- Research interests in Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Web authoring and design skills
- Experience in electronic publishing
- Editing experience
- Organization of research activities such as Reading Groups, Seminars or Conferences
Remuneration
£16.00 per hour. The hours will be agreed on a flexible basis with the General Editor (spread across one calendar to work out at an average of 3.5 hours per week for 35 weeks)
Application
Please email a letter of application, outlining your reasons for applying for the post, and CV, together with the name of your supervisor, from whom we will require a reference, to Dr Carolyn Burdett (c.burdett@bbk.ac.uk) in the School of Arts by 5.00pm on Friday 5 October 2018. Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed early on in the autumn term (date tbc).
Please direct any enquiries to Dr Carolyn Burdett (c.burdett@bbk.ac.uk).
. . Category: Archived Vacancies . Tags: C19, English and Humanities, History of Art, Intern, Internship, School of Arts, Vacancy
London Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar Autumn 2017 Programme
London Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar Autumn programme 2017
from Frederick Marryat – The Children of the New Forest (1847)
The Autumn programme for the London Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar can be found at this link: https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/research-seminars/nineteenth-century-studies-seminar
3rd November: Dr Brian H Murray (KCL) and Prof. Rosemary Mitchell (Leeds Trinity) discuss historical fiction.
8th December: Prof. Julia Thomas (Cardiff), Dr. Luisa Calè (Birkbeck) and Dr. Mary Shannon (Roehampton) discuss nineteenth-century illustration.
Please forward to anyone who might be interested. Booking now open and hope to see you there!
Convenors Matthew Ingleby (QMUL) m.ingleby@qmul.ac.uk and Victoria Mills (Birkbeck) v.mills@bbk.ac.uk
. . Category: Archived Events . Tags: C19, English and Humanities, fiction, illustration, London Nineteenth-Century Studies, Nineteenth-Century Studies
Vacancy: BBK Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies seeks a Postgraduate Intern Deadline: 27 Sept 2017
Vacancy: Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies:
Postgraduate Intern
Deadline 27 Sept
The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies seeks a Postgraduate Intern
The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies invites applications from postgraduate research students studying at Birkbeck for an Internship to support and develop the activities of the Centre:
The Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
The Centre was first established in 1997 under the directorship of Professor Isobel Armstrong originally to bring together researchers in English, History of Art and History. It has since developed a reputation for its diverse events that attract national and international scholars. It hosts the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies, which sees speakers coming to Birkbeck throughout the year; it runs the successful annual Dickens Day; and organizes and hosts major conferences, workshops and symposia. The Centre also supports Postgraduate students wishing to organise and run their own events.
The Position
- This Events Officer internship for the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies trains a student to develop, advertise, run, archive and curate a programme of public events:
Planning:
- Collect and generate ideas about speakers, emerging questions, and formats for events (Nineteenth-Century Forum, workshops, day conferences, etc);
Implementing:
- Timetabling and scheduling, including liaising with Centre staff and speakers
- AV/IT: identifying speakers’ needs, liaising with relevant school AV/IT staff, booking and setting up IT
- Helping setting up speaker events in the Keynes Library and ensuring that it is returned to its original seating after the talk;
- helping to organise refreshments where appropriate;
- administering speaker expenses.
Centre’s website:
- Overseeing and updating the website on a weekly basis; ensuring that all events are listed with appropriate links and any other relevant material;
- team-working skills: coordinating website updates with the editorial interns on the online journal 19 to ensure that the Centre and Journal websites support reach
- developing a dedicated PG /postdoc area of the website to showcase/advertise p/g activities(entering student’s activities in the website, such as the 19th reading group, conferences, blogs, etc.).
- Producing, archiving, and curating materials related to events and research activities
Networks/publicity:
- Developing and overseeing strategies for the Centre’s profile on social networks (twitter, Facebook, etc);
- Producing, coordinating, and editing the Centre’s Blog, including commissioning and overseeing blog submissions, and liaising with relevant staff.
- Networking and linking researchers at different stages in their career
- Fostering and coordinating links between staff and the postgraduate community within the centre and its research clusters
- Developing a publicity strategy (sending information of Centre’s activities to other nineteenth-century websites; identifying and contacting other communities of practitioners to enhance interdisciplinary reach of the Centre’s activities).
Internal communications:
- Centre meetings – Attend and take minutes at termly Centre meetings; liaise with Centre Director/s about minutes/actions.
Eligibility:
- We invite applications from postgraduate research students from across the College with interests in the nineteenth century. Applicants should expect to be enrolled as students at Birkbeck until end of September 2018
Selection Criteria
Essential
- Research interests in Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Organizational and clerical skills
- Independence and initiative
Desirable but NOT essential
- organization of research activities such as Reading Groups, Seminars or Conferences
- Involvement in the activities of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Social media skills
Remuneration:
£15.43 per hour. The hours will be agreed on a flexible basis with the Centre Directors (spread across three terms to work out at an average of 3.5 hours per week for 40 weeks)
Application:
Please email a letter of application, outlining your reasons for applying for the post, and a CV, together with the name of your supervisor, from whom we will require a reference, to Dr Luisa Calè (l.cale@bbk.ac.uk) in the School of Arts by 5.00pm on Wednesday 27 September 2017.
Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed shortly thereafter (date tbc but likely to be Friday 5 October)
Please direct any enquiries to Dr Luisa Calè (l.cale@bbk.ac.uk).
. . Category: Archived Vacancies . Tags: Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, C19, English and Humanities, history, Intern, InternshipVacancy: BBK Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies seeks a Postgraduate Editorial Intern Deadline: 27 Sept 2017
The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
seeks a
Postgraduate Editorial Intern in Academic Publishing Online
The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies invites applications from postgraduate research students whose research is primarily focused on the nineteenth century for an Internship in Academic Publishing Online to manage our web journal:
19:
Interdisciplinary Studies
in the Long Nineteenth Century
Deadline for application: Wednesday 27 September 2017
The Journal
Launched on 1 October 2005, 19 is an electronic publishing initiative designed to publicize and disseminate the research activities carried out by Birkbeck’s Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, and to provide practical research and professional development opportunities for the many postgraduate students undertaking research degrees in nineteenth-century studies at the College. The journal is fully peer-reviewed, is aggregated with NINES, and currently uses the Open Journals System, allowing free and open access to its contents. It is now well-recognised and respected as a leading journal in the field, known for its exciting research and as a innovative and field-setting example of Open Access practice.
The Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
The Centre was first established in 1997 under the directorship of Professor Isobel Armstrong originally to bring together researchers in English, History of Art and History. It has since developed a reputation for its diverse events that attract national and international scholars. It hosts the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies, which sees speakers coming to Birkbeck throughout the year; it runs the annual Dickens Day; and organizes and hosts major conferences, workshops and symposia. The Centre also provides opportunities for Postgraduate students to organise and run events.
The Position
The postgraduate editorial intern in Academic Publishing Online trains a student to manage 19, working with another intern under the supervision of the journal’s General Editor, Dr Carolyn Burdett, its Images Editor, Dr Victoria Mills, and the Editor for journal systems, Dr David Gillott, and with the guidance of the Editorial Board. The appointee will participate fully in the day-to-day running of the journal and help manage the Centre’s website. Responsibilities include maintenance and resourcing of 19 and the Centre’s website; liaising with and between guest editor, authors and publisher; overseeing the smooth operation of the peer review system; supporting authors in securing image permissions; copy editing essays and other submitted materials; aiding the proofing processes; promoting and publicizing the journal; and taking an active role in web publishing initiatives, including innovation to increase the journal’s reach and influence.
The postholder will be supported and mentored by an intern already in post and, in turn, will mentor the next intern. There will also be Centre-focused activity, including curation of the Centre’s presence in social media and elsewhere, including help with blog initiatives; contributing to the archiving of the Centre’s work; and participation in initiatives with other postgraduate students working in the nineteenth century. Postholders will attend Centre meetings, and will be expected to be active participants and, where appropriate, helpers in the Centre’s programme of seminars, conferences and symposia.
Eligibility
We invite applications from postgraduate research students from across the College with interests in the nineteenth century. Applicants should expect to be enrolled as MPhil/PhD students at Birkbeck until end of the academic year 2017-18. Exceptionally, students in their first year of MPhil/PhD can be appointed but the norm will be for students to have completed their first year of study.
Selection Criteria
Essential
- Research interests in Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Organizational and clerical skills
- Independence and initiative
Desirable but NOT essential
- Web authoring and design skills
- Experience in electronic publishing
- Editing experience
- Organization of research activities such as Reading Groups, Seminars or Conferences
Remuneration
£15.43 per hour. The hours will be agreed on a flexible basis with the General Editor (spread across three terms to work out at an average of 3.5 hours per week for 40 weeks)
Application
Please email a letter of application, outlining your reasons for applying for the post, and CV, together with the name of your supervisor, from whom we will require a reference, to Dr Carolyn Burdett (c.burdett@bbk.ac.uk) in the School of Arts by 5.00pm on Wednesday 27 September 2017. Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed shortly thereafter (date tbc but likely to be Friday 5 October).
Please direct any enquiries to Dr Carolyn Burdett (c.burdett@bbk.ac.uk).
. . Category: Archived Vacancies . Tags: Academic Publishing, Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, C19, English and Humanities, history, Intern, InternshipBirkbeck 19 Century Reading Group 2017-18
Please see details below of the Birkbeck 19 Century Reading Group 2017-18
October 3rd: Middlemarch (Eliot) Room 106, 43 Gordon Square
November 7th: Portrait of a Lady (James) Room 106, 43 Gordon Square
December 5th: Little Women (Alcott) Room 106, 43 Gordon Square
January 9th: The Woodlanders (Hardy) Room 106, 43 Gordon Square
February 6th: Ruth (Gaskell) Room 106, 43 Gordon Square
March 6th: Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist: His Life and Adventures (Henry Cockton) Room 106, 43 Gordon Square
April 10th: New Grub Street (Gissing) Room 106, 43 Gordon Square
May 1st: Charlotte Mew poems and short stories Room 106, 43 Gordon Square
June 5th: The Way We Live Now (Trollope) Room 106, 43 Gordon Square
July 3rd: Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) Room 106, 43 Gordon Square
For further information please email C19@bbk.ac.uk
. . Category: Reading Groups . Tags: Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, C19, English and Humanities, Reading Groups
New issue of 19: The Arts and Feeling
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 23 (2016)
The Arts and Feeling – Issue 23
This issue of 19 on ‘The Arts and Feeling’ explores the ways in which Victorian writers, artists, composers, sculptors, and architects imagined, conceptualized, and represented emotion. Its diverse articles respond to and extend recent interdisciplinary work on emotions, sentimentality, and the senses, locating such work within wider debates about the physiology and psychology of aesthetic perception, the historicization of aesthetic response, and the role of media specificity in the production of affect. What were the expressive codes and conventions that resonated for the Victorians? And what of the terminology used today in academic discourse to locate, recognize, and describe feeling? ‘The Arts and Feeling’ interrogates such questions in relation to canonical artworks, like John Everett Millais’s Autumn Leaves or William Holman Hunt’s The Awakening Conscience. It investigates the role of feeling in religious visual and material culture, and in John Ruskin’s vision of architecture as an emotional art; it looks at Victorian exhibition culture and the ‘hurried’ nature of aesthetic response, and at women viewing art and the gendering of perception. Vernon Lee offers us ‘historic emotion’, while George Eliot’s The Mill of the Floss makes us think about feeling hungry. Richard Dadd’s Passions series stages interaction between madness, visual culture, and theatricality; and the Aesthetic Movement provides opportunity to reflect on the relationship between art and music and how, together, they both produce and repress emotion.
Victoria Mills
Introduction: Curating Feeling
Kate Flint
Feeling, Affect, Melancholy, Loss: Millais’s Autumn Leaves and the Siege of Sebastopol
Kate Nichols
Diana or Christ?: Seeing and Feeling Doubt in Late-Victorian Visual Culture
Sophie Ratcliffe
The Trouble with Feeling Now: Thomas Woolner, Robert Browning, and the Touching Case of Constance and Arthur
Lesa Scholl
‘For the cake was so pretty’: Tactile Interventions in Taste; or, Having One’s Cake and Eating It in The Mill on the Floss
Tim Barringer
Art, Music, and the Emotions in the Aesthetic Movement
Karen Lisa Burns
The Awakening Conscience: Christian Sentiment, Salvation, and Spectatorship in Mid-Victorian Britain
Karen Stock
Richard Dadd’s Passions and the Treatment of Insanity
Katherine Wheeler
‘They cannot choose but look’: Ruskin and Emotional Architecture
Sarah Barnette
Vernon Lee’s Composition of ‘The Virgin of the Seven Daggers’: Historic Emotion and the Aesthetic Life
Meaghan Clarke
On Tempera and Temperament: Women, Art, and Feeling at the Fin de Siècle
To download the articles, see: 19 – The Arts and Feeling
. . Category: Hill Valley Telegraph . Tags: 19, C19, English, history, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, The Arts and Feeling, Victorian