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 original 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:
Religion and Sexuality/Chapter and Verse
Digital Victorians
Victorian Media
Calls for Papers: Victorian families
We invite submissions for a special issue of Victorian Review mapping out new ideas of the family in the 19th century including:
• adoption and foster care • cultural directives about proper filial behavior
• romantic marriage • sibling relationships
• perceived threats to the family • family formation in a colonial context
• the effect of changing marriage laws • family unions
• narratives of unusual or idealized families • discourses about primitive families
• primogeniture and inheritance • incest and familial unions
• same-sex and non-normative couples • lateral relations: cousins, uncles, aunts
• domestic fictions • ex-spouses, love triangles, bigamous relations
• families without parents • political/journalistic debates about familial roles
• servants, companions, governesses • in-laws, poor relations, extended family
We aim to showcase the subjects not usually considered in the nuclear family: the servant, the grandparent, the poor relation, the foster child, the ex-spouse. What does family look like when we see it as a permeable, flexible, shifting configuration? Thus, we particularly invite essays that resist the privileging of the nuclear family and work against the teleological narrative of the (heteronormative) courtship plot.
The deadline is April 1, 2012. Submit essays of not more than 8,000 words (including endnotes), in MLA style to both guest editors by email attachment. Please consult the Victorian Review website (http://web.uvic.ca/victorianreview/submissions.html) for further submission guidelines.
Kelly Hager, Simmons College Talia Schaffer, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY
kelly.hager@simmons.edu talia.schaffer@qc.cuny.edu
Editorial Team
Editors:
Mary Elizabeth Leighton (vreview@uvic.ca)
Judith Mitchell (mitchell@uvic.ca)
Lisa Surridge (lsurridg@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
Catherine Delyfer, University of Montpellier
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