About the Journal
ISSN 0848-1512
Victorian Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies welcomes submissions in all areas of Victorian studies. Our mandate is to publish the best international research in this interdisciplinary field, as well as to provide critical reviews of new books in Victorian studies by experts from around the world. Finally, our regular Victorian Review forum provides a unique venue in which diverse scholarly voices may address a topic from multiple points of view.
The journal, which began publication in 1972, is published twice annually by the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada and edited in the Department of English, University of Victoria, Canada. Members of the editorial team belong to the Canadian Association of Learned Journals and the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
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Coming Soon in Victorian Review:
Keynotes: Key Victorian Texts
Beyond Britain
Victorians and Disability
A Special Issue Guest-Edited by Christopher Keep and Jennifer Esmail
Calls for Papers
Victorian Natural Environments
Special Issue of the Victorian Review (Fall 2010)
Submission Date for Complete Papers: 15 September 2009
The Victorian Review invites submissions for a special issue devoted to Victorian Natural Environments. Recently, various Victorianist scholarly approaches have begun noting points of confluence with environmental and ecological studies. This issue of Victorian Review is aimed at recognizing these recent insights, considering how notions of natural environments have made an impact on Victorian cultures and values. Essays that address the political role of different configurations of societies, species, living spaces and the planet itself are especially encouraged. What environments did Victorians recognize as natural and unnatural? How did issues of physical and psychological containment impact on Victorians’ sense of themselves as natural agents? What performative systems circumscribed people’s self-identification as human or not quite human? How do environmental, animal and posthumanist studies contribute to our understanding of Victorian identity and society?
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
Environmental Art and Literature
Popular Science and Daily Lives
Paganism and Nature Spirituality
Acting Naturally in Different Class Contexts
Decadent Nature and Decadent Artifice
Aquariums, Zoos and Other Such Animal Environments
Genius Loci – Spirit of a Place
Anthropomorphism and Animals in the Domestic Environment
Eugenics, Social Darwinism and Criminal Neighbourhoods
Peacocks, Lap Dogs, and Other Animals of Artifice
Anthropology and Environments
Technological Environments and Nature
Essays must be between 5000 and 7000 words and formatted according to MLA guidelines. Queries and abstracts are welcome at any time, but please submit the full essay electronically to the guest editor by Sept. 15, 2009: Dennis Denisoff / Department of English / Ryerson University, Toronto / denisoff@ryerson.ca .
Editorial Team
Editors:
Rebecca Gagan (rmgagan@uvic.ca)
Mary Elizabeth Leighton (vreview@uvic.ca)
Judith Mitchell (mitchell@uvic.ca)
Lisa Surridge (lsurridg@uvic.ca)
Treasurer:
Rebecca Gagan (rmgagan@uvic.ca)
Copy Editor:
Susan Doyle (sdoyle@uvic.ca)
Design & Typesetting:
Jason Dewinetz (www.greenboathouse.com/dewinetz/)
Advisory Board
Suzy Anger, University of British Columbia
Nancy Armstrong, Brown University
Jason Camlot, Concordia University
Anne Clendinning, Nipissing University
Julie F. Codell, Arizona State University
Nicholas Daly, University College Dublin
Marysa Demoor, University of Ghent
Dennis Denisoff, Ryerson University
Joy Dixon, University of British Columbia
Donald E. Hall, West Virginia University
Janice Helland, Queen's University
Christopher Hosgood, University of Lethbridge
Linda K. Hughes, Texas Christian University
Judith Johnston, University of Western Australia
Christopher Keep, University of Western Ontario
Bernard Lightman, York University
Angus McLaren, University of Victoria
Claudia Nelson, Texas A&M University
Francis O'Gorman, University of Leeds
Linda H. Peterson, Yale University
Matthew Rowlinson, University of Western Ontario
Joanne Shattock, University of Leicester
Peter
Sinnema, University of Alberta
Marjorie Stone, Dalhousie University
Jenny Bourne Taylor, University of Sussex
Judith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins University