November 2016 Newsletter Issue 16.3 Welcome all to a bumper issue of the BAVS Newsletter! It was, as ever, a true delight to see so many of you at the BAVS Executive BAVS Conference in Cardiff this year; it was our biggest President Postdoctoral conference ever and, by all accounts, one of our Hilary Fraser Representatives favourites. If you’d like to relive the experience, or if you Angie Dunstan weren’t able to make it, turn to p.5 for reports from this Past President Sarah Parker year’s conference reporters. Rohan McWilliam Postgraduate This coming January is the launch of a new collaborative venture between BAVS and BARS: C19 Matters. This Secretary Representatives event, aimed at ECRs, will be held at Chawton House Patricia Pulham Abby Boucher Library on the theme of public engagement. See p.3 for Briony Wickes details and information on how to register. Treasurer Vicky Holmes 2017 Conference Organisers Those of you interested in networks – of various kinds – throughout the nineteenth century will be thrilled to see Membership Secretary Claudia Capancioni the creation of the AHRC-funded research network James Emmott Alice Crossley ‘Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900’; you’ll find Committee Members information about that on p.55. Funding Officer Carolyn Burdett Emma Butcher Regenia Gagnier We have special discounts just for BAVS members on Ann Heilmann selected publications in the ‘Recent Publications’ Communications Officer Elisabeth Jay section, and there’s a chance to win a copy of Tim Alexandra Lewis Rosemary Mitchell Symonds’s latest Sherlock novel on the back page. Wendy Parkins Newsletter Editor Mark Richards This issue also hosts our first set of book reviews. If Joanna Taylor Arlene Young you have a book you’d like reviewing, or you’d like to review one yourself, the details can be found on p.31. Web & Publicity Officers Will Abberley As ever, if you have an event or publication you’d like to Claire Wood see in the Newsletter, or anything else you think would be of interest to BAVS members, please do get in touch. Joanna Taylor (Newsletter Editor) [email protected] CONTENTS UPCOMING EVENTS 2 NETWORKING 55 CONSUMING (THE) 5 RECENT PUBLICATIONS 57 VICTORIANS CONFERENCE REPORTS 21 CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS 70 (PRINT) REVIEWS 31 CALL FOR PAPERS 77 (CONFERENCES) FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES 43 QUIZ 81 Upcoming Events Victorian History Talks Kensington Palace Brunchtime lecture - The rise of Christmas shopping Saturday 3 December, 11.00-12.30 Explore the development of the festive shopping period, from window displays and advertising to the gifts given and received by Queen Victoria with historian Professor Mark Connelly. Brunchtime lecture - Panto and performance Saturday 14 January 2017, 11.00-12.30 He’s behind you! Discover the world of Victorian pantomime, music hall, theatre and performance with historian Kate Howard. For more information and to book tickets, please visit http://www.hrp.org.uk/kensington- palace/whats-on/talks-and-debates George Egerton and the fin de siècle Friday 7 – Saturday 8 April 2017 A two-day conference organised by the Modern & Contemporary Research Group at Loughborough University Keynote speaker: Professor Margaret D. Stetz (University of Delaware) This is the first conference dedicated to the life and work of George Egerton, the nom de plume of Mary Chavelita Dunne (1859–1945). Egerton is often discussed in relation to New Woman writing and scholars have tended to focus on her first two short story collections, Keynotes (1893) and Discords (1894). This conference seeks to go beyond the parameters of her early works, with the aim of recovering her wider oeuvre and reassessing her wider contribution to fin de siècle and early 20th century literature and drama. Enquiries should be addressed to Dr Nick Freeman ([email protected]) and Dr Anne-Marie Beller ([email protected]). 2 Nineteenth-Century Matters: Public Engagement Training Day Chawton House Library 28 January 2017 Are you a PGR or ECR working on the long nineteenth century? Are you interested in turning your research into public engagement? Want to network with likeminded individuals across humanities disciplines? If so, you will have the opportunity to learn new skills and develop ideas for future collaborations at this training day, which is hosted in the atmospheric Chawton House Library and draws together funders, academics, and heritage professionals. The keynote speaker will be Mark Llewellyn, the Director of Research for the AHRC. The day is sponsored by the British Association of Romantic Studies and the British Association of Victorian Studies. For further information, please visit this post Chawton House Library blog. Booking & Fees Registration: £35. Places are limited, so early booking is advisable. A number of fee waivers are available for ECRS without institutional affiliation or permanent academic employment. For details on registration and payment, please visit the Chawton House Library blog. C19 Matters is supported by BAVS and BARS. 3 19th Century Studies Research Networking Day and Inaugural Lecture by Prof Dominic Janes Keele University 25 April 2017 Colleagues in all areas of 19th century studies are invited to a research networking day at Keele University. This will be a chance to offer short papers, or lead discussions or recent research, particularly with reference to developing collaborative projects and exchanging ideas on grant applications. This will be followed by an inaugural lecture. If you are interested in the networking day you can contact Dominic Janes directly on [email protected]. If you want to attend the lecture only, or in addition to coming to the research day, you may book at https://www.keele.ac.uk/publiclectures/ Inaugural Lecture ‘Who Invented Oscar Wilde? Adventures in the History of Sexuality’ Tuesday 25th April - 18:00 - Westminster Theatre, Keele University Dominic Janes has made a career out of scandal; or, rather, out of studying images and lives that were once found scandalous. ‘I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad’, Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom—which erupted in laughter—and openly accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. Oscar Wilde Prefigured is Jane’s latest book. It is a study of the prehistory of this ‘queer moment’ in 1895. He has explored the complex ways in which men who desired sex with men in Britain expressed such interests through clothing, style, and deportment since the mid-eighteenth century. In this lecture he will tease out the means by which same-sex desires could be signalled through visual display in Georgian and Victorian Britain. Wilde, it turns out, was not the starting point for public queer figuration. He was the pivot by which Georgian figures and twentieth-century camp stereotypes meet. Drawing on the mutually reinforcing phenomena of dandyism and caricature of alleged effeminates, Dominic Janes will examine a wide range of images drawn from theatre, fashion, and the popular press to reveal new dimensions of identity politics, gender performance and queer culture. In this way he will continue his career- defining mission to push the boundaries of historical study and even, perhaps, shock, some of the more conservative cultural critics. 4 Consuming (the) Victorians: 2016 Annual Conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies Cardiff University, 31 August–2 September 2016 This year, some of the recipients of the BAVS Conference Bursary were asked to provide a conference report for the Newsletter. Further reflections on the conference can be found on the BAVS Researcher blog on the Victorianist website. For information about BAVS Conference bursaries for 2017, please contact the BAVS Funding Officer, Emma Butcher ([email protected]/[email protected]) and next year’s conference organisers, Alice Crossley ([email protected]) and Claudia Capancioni ([email protected]). Katie Bell (University of Leicester): television. Therefore the preliminary panel, ‘Global Dickens: Reimagining Dickens With a theme like ‘Consuming (the) Around the World’ was of tremendous value Victorians’, this year’s BAVS was sure to to my work and to my understanding of draw a diverse group of delegates, and Dickens-fandom. Melisa Klimaszewski indeed it did! Each brought to the table offered up particularly fascinating ideas on their own particular dish of research (to the South African film A Boy Called Twist, utilise the already given metaphor of and demonstrated that it perhaps does not consumption), and all were well provide the culturally diverse setting to coordinated, united under the larger idea of Dickens’s Oliver Twist as much as modernity defining what consuming means to us, and would like to think. She delved as well into meant to the Victorians. This topic covered how Dickens emerges in Black American both how the Victorians are viewed by rap culture through rappers such as Jay-Z’s modernity and also how the Victorians lived inclusion of Oliver Twist in his songs. the minutia of their lives, as was so brilliantly displayed by the keynote BAVS invited me to put forward my most speakers. Patricia Duncker examined the recent research on Edgar Allan Poe’s place nuances of new-Victorian fiction, Christina in the canon of Victorian literature, and I Bashford spoke on the craze of violins presented this on a panel titled ‘Victorian towards the end of the century, and Frank Afterlives and the Consumptions of the Trentmann’s research examined Victorian Victorians through Fandom, Adaptation and consumer culture. These keynote speakers Intertextuality’. All of the delegates on our set the tone each day for what was to come. panel gave papers which dealt with the concept of fandom, and thus all worked well My own area of research examines how the together as one cohesive argument about works of Charles Dickens (and to some the importance of fandom, fan-fiction, and degree the man himself) has been adaptation.