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by Virginia Woolf
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Joyce Talk, Feb.2, 6:30
1.
The James Joyce Society: 2 February 2009 Meeting
THE JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY
Invites you to its 2 February 2009 Program,
a Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the American Publication of
Ulysses, at the Roger Smith Hotel, 501 Lexington Avenue at 47th Street, New
York, NY 10017.
The meeting will start promptly at 6:30 p.m.
Our program includes:
"a no uncertain quantity of obscene matter not protected by copriright
in the United Stars of Ourania":
Obscenity, Copyright, and the 1922 Ulysses
by
Paul Saint-Amour, Associate Professor of English, University of
Pennsylvania
and
Why I Love the ?34
by
Sebastian D. G. Knowles, Professor of English, Ohio State University,
and General Editor, University Press of Florida (James Joyce Series)
and
Joyce's Letter to Bennett Cerf
read by
Simon Loekle, Tyler
The James Joyce Society: 2 February 2009 Meeting
THE JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY
Invites you to its 2 February 2009 Program,
a Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the American Publication of
Ulysses, at the Roger Smith Hotel, 501 Lexington Avenue at 47th Street, New
York, NY 10017.
The meeting will start promptly at 6:30 p.m.
Our program includes:
"a no uncertain quantity of obscene matter not protected by copriright
in the United Stars of Ourania":
Obscenity, Copyright, and the 1922 Ulysses
by
Paul Saint-Amour, Associate Professor of English, University of
Pennsylvania
and
Why I Love the ?34
by
Sebastian D. G. Knowles, Professor of English, Ohio State University,
and General Editor, University Press of Florida (James Joyce Series)
and
Joyce's Letter to Bennett Cerf
read by
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Woolf Conference, NYC, June4th-7th
Woolf in the City conference abstracts due Feb. 1
Friday 9 January 2009 by Paula Maggio
Feb. 1 is the deadline for abstract submissions to the 19th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Woolf and the City, to be held June 4 to 7 at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus in New York City. Woolfians are invited to submit an abstract for an individual or panel presentation.
For details, download the Call for Papers. Abstracts should be sent as a Word document to woolf@fordham.edu with a separate sheet indicating name(s), institutional affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es). Conference organizer Anne Fernald asks that you include your contact information in the body of your email.
Direct questions about the conference or the Call for Papers to her graduate assistant Sarah Cornish at sarahcornish@gmail.com.
For futher information on the conference:
http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/english/news__events/2009_woolf_and_the_c_29890.asp
Registration will begin in February, 2009. Participants must register by mid-April to avoid a higher registration rate. Single day registration will be available on site.
We are currently finalizing our budget.
We anticipate a registration fee of approximately $150 for faculty with a reduced fee of approximately $100 for graduate students, retirees, part-time and unemployed workers. (This fee includes many, but not all, meals.)
The banquet on Saturday night will cost an additional $50 (est.).
Woolf Contest
JULIA BRIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE
The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain is holding an essay competition
in memory of acclaimed Woolf scholar and VWSGB Executive Council member Julia Briggs, who died in August 2007.
The competition is open to members and non-members (except for the
Executive Council and Editorial Committee of the VWSGB, the judges, and
families of the above). Entries should be sent to Ruth Webb, 15 Southcote
Road, London SE25 4RG, to arrive by 10 January 2009.
The competition rules are provided below. Entrants should read these
carefully. If you have any queries or would like an entry form and
confirmation slip, please email Sarah M. Hall on:
smhall123@yahoo.co.uk
COMPETITION RULES
The essay, on the topic 'Virginia Woolf and the Common Reader', should be
between 2,000 and 2,500 words in length. It should be the original work of
the named entrant, and previously unpublished in print or any other medium.
Student coursework is acceptable.
Entrants should supply THREE typed copies of the essay on A4 paper, printed on one side only, double-spaced (or 1.5) and in a font size no smaller than 10-point. The VWSGB regrets that no emailed entries will be accepted,
because of printing costs.
The competition will be judged by acclaimed Woolf scholars Lyndall Gordon
and Maggie Humm, and VWSGB Vice-Chair and Woolf biographer Ruth Webb. The decision of the judges is final. The VWSGB reserves the right not to award the prize if, in the judges' opinion, none of the entries attains the
required standard. Otherwise the winner will be contacted in mid-March.
The winner will receive a cheque for £250, presented at the VWSGB's AGM in central London on 4 April 2009, and the winning essay will be published in
the Virginia Woolf Bulletin. If the winner is unable to attend the AGM, the
prize will be sent by secure mail.
PLEASE NOTE
No entry will be accepted without the signed entry form, which should be
attached to the first page of the first copy of the essay. There should be
no personal details on the essay pages themselves. The VWSGB cannot return entries. Acknowledgement of receipt can only be given if the entrant
supplies an SAE containing the confirmation slip. (Entrants from outside
the UK should email Sarah M. Hall as above for confirmation of receipt.)
The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain is holding an essay competition
in memory of acclaimed Woolf scholar and VWSGB Executive Council member Julia Briggs, who died in August 2007.
The competition is open to members and non-members (except for the
Executive Council and Editorial Committee of the VWSGB, the judges, and
families of the above). Entries should be sent to Ruth Webb, 15 Southcote
Road, London SE25 4RG, to arrive by 10 January 2009.
The competition rules are provided below. Entrants should read these
carefully. If you have any queries or would like an entry form and
confirmation slip, please email Sarah M. Hall on:
smhall123@yahoo.co.uk
COMPETITION RULES
The essay, on the topic 'Virginia Woolf and the Common Reader', should be
between 2,000 and 2,500 words in length. It should be the original work of
the named entrant, and previously unpublished in print or any other medium.
Student coursework is acceptable.
Entrants should supply THREE typed copies of the essay on A4 paper, printed on one side only, double-spaced (or 1.5) and in a font size no smaller than 10-point. The VWSGB regrets that no emailed entries will be accepted,
because of printing costs.
The competition will be judged by acclaimed Woolf scholars Lyndall Gordon
and Maggie Humm, and VWSGB Vice-Chair and Woolf biographer Ruth Webb. The decision of the judges is final. The VWSGB reserves the right not to award the prize if, in the judges' opinion, none of the entries attains the
required standard. Otherwise the winner will be contacted in mid-March.
The winner will receive a cheque for £250, presented at the VWSGB's AGM in central London on 4 April 2009, and the winning essay will be published in
the Virginia Woolf Bulletin. If the winner is unable to attend the AGM, the
prize will be sent by secure mail.
PLEASE NOTE
No entry will be accepted without the signed entry form, which should be
attached to the first page of the first copy of the essay. There should be
no personal details on the essay pages themselves. The VWSGB cannot return entries. Acknowledgement of receipt can only be given if the entrant
supplies an SAE containing the confirmation slip. (Entrants from outside
the UK should email Sarah M. Hall as above for confirmation of receipt.)
Victorian Conference
THE VICTORIAN EVERYDAY
THE NORTHEAST VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
WELLESLEY COLLEGE
APRIL 3rd-5th, 2009
FRIDAY, APRIL 3rd
[Pre-conference: 12:30-2:00 pm Informal Panel for Wellesley Students,
Founders Hall 106]
1:00-4:00 pm Registration: Wang Campus Center, Information Desk
1:30-3:45 pm Exhibit: Ruskin, Browning, and Others: Wellesley College
Library, Special Collections (Space is limited and prior registration is
required; see below.)
4:00 pm Welcome: Margaret Clapp Library, Library Lecture Room
4:15-5:45 pm Common Words, Commonplace Sounds: Margaret Clapp Library,
Library Lecture Room
Rachel Teukolsky (Vanderbilt U), Moderator
* Daniel Pollack-Pelzner (Harvard U), “The Exotic Demotic: Wellerisms
and Everyday Language”
* Janice Schroeder (Carleton U), “Everyday Sound as Extraordinary in
Adam Bede”
* Jonathan Farina (Vanderbilt U), “Whoever explains a ‘but’: Everyday
Words and the Epistemology of Victorian Chatter”
5:45-7:00 pm Reception: Wang Campus Center, Anderson Forum
7:15 pm Shuttle to Babson College Executive Center
Informal buffet dinner at Babson
SATURDAY, APRIL 4th
8:00-9:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast: Pendleton Hall, Atrium
9:00-10:45 am Keynote Panel: Pendleton West 212
Tricia Lootens (U of Georgia), Moderator
* Tim Barringer (Yale U)
* Laurie Langbauer (U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
* Ruth Yeazell (Yale U)
10:45-11:00 am Coffee: Pendleton Hall, Atrium
11:00am-12:30 pm The Scientific Mundane: Pendleton West 212
Anna Henchman (Boston U), Moderator
* John Plotz (Brandeis U), “Primitive Habits: Significant Trivia and the
Birth of Victorian Anthropology”
* Mark Frost (U of Portsmouth), “Opening Our Eyes to the Everyday: John
Ruskin, Moss and Iron”
* Pascale McCullough Manning (U of Western Ontario), “Darwin’s
Autobiographies and the Post-evolutionary Everyday”
12:30-2:15 pm Lunch: Wellesley College Club, Main Dining Room
2:30-4:00 pm Everyday Poetics: Pendleton West 212
Carolyn Williams (Rutgers U), Moderator
* Andrea Gazzaniga (U of North Carolina, Charlotte), “An Everyday
Poetics: Processing Experience in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets
from the Portuguese”
* Jason Rudy (U of Maryland), “Everyday Poetry, London to Sydney”
* Marjorie Stone (Dalhousie U), “The Poetics and Practices of ‘Everyday
Life’: The Brownings’ Love Letters, the Dramatic Monologue, and the
Wellesley Manuscript of Aurora Leigh”
4:00-4:15 pm Coffee: Pendleton Hall, Atrium
4:15-5:45 pm Session A: Customary Worship: Pendleton West 212
Judith Wilt (Boston C), Moderator
* Amy King (St. John’s U), “Reverent Form: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Everyday”
* Paul Yeoh (Rutgers U), “Everyday in The Christian Year”
* Evan Horowitz (U of North Texas), “Everyday Afterlife”
4:15-5:45 pm Session B: Habitual Perception: Pendleton West 117
Jonathan Loesberg (American U), Moderator
* Benjamin Morgan (U of California, Berkeley), “A Lot of Art is Boring:
The Psychological Aesthetics of Grant Allen and Vernon Lee”
* Jennifer Judge (York U), “‘Walking bundles of habits’ or Creatures of
Volition?: The All-Importance of Habit in Victorian Theories of Character”
* Sara Maurer, (U of Notre Dame), “Mary Russell Mitford’s Our Village:
Keeping England in Place”
6:15 pm Reception: Wellesley College Club, Council Library,
7:00-10:00 pm Dinner Banquet: Wellesley College Club, Wall Room
SUNDAY, APRIL 5th
8:00-9:00 am Continental Breakfast: Pendleton Hall, Atrium
9:00-10:30 am Interpreting the Everyday: Pendleton West 212
Sean O’Toole (Baruch College, CUNY), Moderator
* Yuri Cowan (U of Toronto), “Medieval Things: Antiquarianism and
Victorian Historiographies of the Everyday”
* Maia McAleavey (Harvard U), “Desires of Touch: Marital Crisis and the
Everyday”
* Abigail Joseph (Columbia U), “Hyacinthus Goes to Salisbury: Wilde's
Trials and Errors of Transmission”
10:30-10:45 am Coffee: Pendleton Hall, Atrium
10:45 am-12:15 pm Daily Places: Pendleton West 212
Will Lee (Yeshiva U), Moderator
* Barbara Leckie (Carleton U), “Whose Everyday? Architecture, Print
Culture, and the Domestic Interiors of the Poor, 1840-70”
* Mary Wilson Carpenter (Queen’s U), “Inside a Victorian Hospital: The
Extraordinary Everyday”
* Robert Sulcer (Hofstra U), “Keeping School: Romancing the Everyday”
12:15-1:00 pm Conference Wrap-Up: Pendleton West 212
* David Kurnick (Rutgers U)
* Rosemarie Bodenheimer (Boston C)
______________________________________________________________
The Friday dinner is an informal buffet at Babson immediately following
the reception. The cost is $20.00 (soup/salad, main course, cookies,
coffee). There will be a cash bar.
The Saturday lunch, a convivial event at which topics are proposed and
voted on for the following year, is a long-standing tradition; everyone
is warmly encouraged to attend and participate.
Rooms are available at the Babson Conference Center located on the
campus of Babson College (231 Forest Street, Babson Park, MA 02457). The
conference rate is $155.00 (single or double, breakfast included). The
rate is guaranteed until February 28. Please book early. We will provide
a limited shuttle service (before the first morning panels, after the
Friday reception, after the last panel on Saturday, after the Saturday
night banquet) between Babson and Wellesley College. Here are the
directions for booking your Babson reservation on line:
1 Go to www.Babsonecc.com.
2. Click "Book a reservation" on the right hand side of the screen in
blue font.
3. A new page will open up displaying a calendar. On the top of the
screen there is a link to "Group Reservation." Click it.
4. This will bring you to the Group page. You will need to input the
group code -- NVSA09
5. From there it will walk you through making the reservation.
Or you may call Babson directly at 781-239-5816 or 781-239-4000. Mention
NVSA to get the group rate.
Please visit the NVSA website for directions, other dining options, and
to learn of other conference details: http://www.nvsa.org.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
REGISTRATION
Please return completed form by March 1. Make checks payable to
Wellesley College. Please write in memo area “NVSA Registration.” Please
direct all registration questions to Lisa Rodensky
(lrodensk@wellesley.edu) or Lisa Easley (leasley@wellesley.edu).
Send checks to: Lisa Easley, Department of English, 106 Central Street,
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481.
Transportation
If you are staying at Babson, please check here if you will need to use
the shuttle between Wellesley and Babson during the conference (we would
like to have an estimate so that we can reserve an appropriate van):
___ Yes, I will need to use the shuttle
Registration Meals
____ $85 Members ___ $20 Friday informal buffet dinner
____ $105 Non-Members (If vegetarian, please check here __)
____ $50 Students ___ $15 Saturday Luncheon – Faculty
____ $15 NVSA dues ___ $11 Saturday Luncheon – Students
____ $10 NVSA Student dues ___ $55 Saturday Banquet – Faculty
___ $35 Saturday Banquet – Students
__ Fish
__ Vegetarian
____ Total Remittance
Library Visits
The Wellesley College Library (Special Collections) will display
material from its Ruskin and Browning collections on Friday afternoon.
If you would like to view the material, please number preferred times.
Space is limited.
__ 1:30-2:15 pm Friday __ 2:15 – 3 pm Friday __ 3 – 3:45 pm Friday
Name _______________________________ Email
____________________________________
Address _______________________________ Phone
____________________________________
Academic Affiliation _____________________
THE NORTHEAST VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
WELLESLEY COLLEGE
APRIL 3rd-5th, 2009
FRIDAY, APRIL 3rd
[Pre-conference: 12:30-2:00 pm Informal Panel for Wellesley Students,
Founders Hall 106]
1:00-4:00 pm Registration: Wang Campus Center, Information Desk
1:30-3:45 pm Exhibit: Ruskin, Browning, and Others: Wellesley College
Library, Special Collections (Space is limited and prior registration is
required; see below.)
4:00 pm Welcome: Margaret Clapp Library, Library Lecture Room
4:15-5:45 pm Common Words, Commonplace Sounds: Margaret Clapp Library,
Library Lecture Room
Rachel Teukolsky (Vanderbilt U), Moderator
* Daniel Pollack-Pelzner (Harvard U), “The Exotic Demotic: Wellerisms
and Everyday Language”
* Janice Schroeder (Carleton U), “Everyday Sound as Extraordinary in
Adam Bede”
* Jonathan Farina (Vanderbilt U), “Whoever explains a ‘but’: Everyday
Words and the Epistemology of Victorian Chatter”
5:45-7:00 pm Reception: Wang Campus Center, Anderson Forum
7:15 pm Shuttle to Babson College Executive Center
Informal buffet dinner at Babson
SATURDAY, APRIL 4th
8:00-9:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast: Pendleton Hall, Atrium
9:00-10:45 am Keynote Panel: Pendleton West 212
Tricia Lootens (U of Georgia), Moderator
* Tim Barringer (Yale U)
* Laurie Langbauer (U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
* Ruth Yeazell (Yale U)
10:45-11:00 am Coffee: Pendleton Hall, Atrium
11:00am-12:30 pm The Scientific Mundane: Pendleton West 212
Anna Henchman (Boston U), Moderator
* John Plotz (Brandeis U), “Primitive Habits: Significant Trivia and the
Birth of Victorian Anthropology”
* Mark Frost (U of Portsmouth), “Opening Our Eyes to the Everyday: John
Ruskin, Moss and Iron”
* Pascale McCullough Manning (U of Western Ontario), “Darwin’s
Autobiographies and the Post-evolutionary Everyday”
12:30-2:15 pm Lunch: Wellesley College Club, Main Dining Room
2:30-4:00 pm Everyday Poetics: Pendleton West 212
Carolyn Williams (Rutgers U), Moderator
* Andrea Gazzaniga (U of North Carolina, Charlotte), “An Everyday
Poetics: Processing Experience in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets
from the Portuguese”
* Jason Rudy (U of Maryland), “Everyday Poetry, London to Sydney”
* Marjorie Stone (Dalhousie U), “The Poetics and Practices of ‘Everyday
Life’: The Brownings’ Love Letters, the Dramatic Monologue, and the
Wellesley Manuscript of Aurora Leigh”
4:00-4:15 pm Coffee: Pendleton Hall, Atrium
4:15-5:45 pm Session A: Customary Worship: Pendleton West 212
Judith Wilt (Boston C), Moderator
* Amy King (St. John’s U), “Reverent Form: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Everyday”
* Paul Yeoh (Rutgers U), “Everyday in The Christian Year”
* Evan Horowitz (U of North Texas), “Everyday Afterlife”
4:15-5:45 pm Session B: Habitual Perception: Pendleton West 117
Jonathan Loesberg (American U), Moderator
* Benjamin Morgan (U of California, Berkeley), “A Lot of Art is Boring:
The Psychological Aesthetics of Grant Allen and Vernon Lee”
* Jennifer Judge (York U), “‘Walking bundles of habits’ or Creatures of
Volition?: The All-Importance of Habit in Victorian Theories of Character”
* Sara Maurer, (U of Notre Dame), “Mary Russell Mitford’s Our Village:
Keeping England in Place”
6:15 pm Reception: Wellesley College Club, Council Library,
7:00-10:00 pm Dinner Banquet: Wellesley College Club, Wall Room
SUNDAY, APRIL 5th
8:00-9:00 am Continental Breakfast: Pendleton Hall, Atrium
9:00-10:30 am Interpreting the Everyday: Pendleton West 212
Sean O’Toole (Baruch College, CUNY), Moderator
* Yuri Cowan (U of Toronto), “Medieval Things: Antiquarianism and
Victorian Historiographies of the Everyday”
* Maia McAleavey (Harvard U), “Desires of Touch: Marital Crisis and the
Everyday”
* Abigail Joseph (Columbia U), “Hyacinthus Goes to Salisbury: Wilde's
Trials and Errors of Transmission”
10:30-10:45 am Coffee: Pendleton Hall, Atrium
10:45 am-12:15 pm Daily Places: Pendleton West 212
Will Lee (Yeshiva U), Moderator
* Barbara Leckie (Carleton U), “Whose Everyday? Architecture, Print
Culture, and the Domestic Interiors of the Poor, 1840-70”
* Mary Wilson Carpenter (Queen’s U), “Inside a Victorian Hospital: The
Extraordinary Everyday”
* Robert Sulcer (Hofstra U), “Keeping School: Romancing the Everyday”
12:15-1:00 pm Conference Wrap-Up: Pendleton West 212
* David Kurnick (Rutgers U)
* Rosemarie Bodenheimer (Boston C)
______________________________________________________________
The Friday dinner is an informal buffet at Babson immediately following
the reception. The cost is $20.00 (soup/salad, main course, cookies,
coffee). There will be a cash bar.
The Saturday lunch, a convivial event at which topics are proposed and
voted on for the following year, is a long-standing tradition; everyone
is warmly encouraged to attend and participate.
Rooms are available at the Babson Conference Center located on the
campus of Babson College (231 Forest Street, Babson Park, MA 02457). The
conference rate is $155.00 (single or double, breakfast included). The
rate is guaranteed until February 28. Please book early. We will provide
a limited shuttle service (before the first morning panels, after the
Friday reception, after the last panel on Saturday, after the Saturday
night banquet) between Babson and Wellesley College. Here are the
directions for booking your Babson reservation on line:
1 Go to www.Babsonecc.com.
2. Click "Book a reservation" on the right hand side of the screen in
blue font.
3. A new page will open up displaying a calendar. On the top of the
screen there is a link to "Group Reservation." Click it.
4. This will bring you to the Group page. You will need to input the
group code -- NVSA09
5. From there it will walk you through making the reservation.
Or you may call Babson directly at 781-239-5816 or 781-239-4000. Mention
NVSA to get the group rate.
Please visit the NVSA website for directions, other dining options, and
to learn of other conference details: http://www.nvsa.org.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
REGISTRATION
Please return completed form by March 1. Make checks payable to
Wellesley College. Please write in memo area “NVSA Registration.” Please
direct all registration questions to Lisa Rodensky
(lrodensk@wellesley.edu) or Lisa Easley (leasley@wellesley.edu).
Send checks to: Lisa Easley, Department of English, 106 Central Street,
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481.
Transportation
If you are staying at Babson, please check here if you will need to use
the shuttle between Wellesley and Babson during the conference (we would
like to have an estimate so that we can reserve an appropriate van):
___ Yes, I will need to use the shuttle
Registration Meals
____ $85 Members ___ $20 Friday informal buffet dinner
____ $105 Non-Members (If vegetarian, please check here __)
____ $50 Students ___ $15 Saturday Luncheon – Faculty
____ $15 NVSA dues ___ $11 Saturday Luncheon – Students
____ $10 NVSA Student dues ___ $55 Saturday Banquet – Faculty
___ $35 Saturday Banquet – Students
__ Fish
__ Vegetarian
____ Total Remittance
Library Visits
The Wellesley College Library (Special Collections) will display
material from its Ruskin and Browning collections on Friday afternoon.
If you would like to view the material, please number preferred times.
Space is limited.
__ 1:30-2:15 pm Friday __ 2:15 – 3 pm Friday __ 3 – 3:45 pm Friday
Name _______________________________ Email
____________________________________
Address _______________________________ Phone
____________________________________
Academic Affiliation _____________________
Victorian: Request for Papers
“Gender, the Professions and the Press” Special Issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is a peer-reviewed, online journal committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture. Contributions of 5,000-8,000 words are sought for a special number of NCGS on “Gender, the Professions and the Press” to be published in the summer of 2009.
In the nineteenth century, the professions made enormous use of journals and journalism to establish their collective identities. Taking advantage of the proliferation of online material from nineteenth-century periodicals, the special edition of NCGS we propose would focus on what periodicals and newspapers can tell us about the gendered aspects of these professional identities.
Jennifer Ruth in her Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel (Ohio State University Press, 2006) has argued provocatively that the novel attempted to theorise the professional in ways political economy failed to do. In fact, however, it is the periodical press that most extensively addresses the complex issues involved in professional identity. Of course the professions were discussed in fiction in periodicals (e.g. Trollope's "Editor's Tales" first published in St Paul's Magazine consider the role of the professional writer) and we should welcome discussion of the professions and gender in periodical fiction, but enormous numbers of non-fiction articles also appeared in general periodicals about all kinds of professions (E.M. Palmegiano's Health and British Magazines in the Nineteenth Century lists many concerned with the medical profession, for example, and the Wellesley Index is invaluable to locate material on other professions). Then again, hundreds of specifically professional periodicals arose with titles like the Accountant, Army and Navy Gazette, Builder, Engineer, Financial News, Missionary Chronicle, Schoolmaster and Schoolmistress. With varying degrees of detail, these portray lifestyles, working practices and networking procedures and etiquette besides the ostensible domain itself, providing rich and often unexpected insights into nineteenth-century gender relations.
The traditional professions of the church, law, medicine and the military were set up as exclusively male, and there was a strong patrilineal element in professional recruitment (sons either following fathers or entering a neighbouring profession). This of course does not mean these professions were or are “ungendered” as Anne Witz, Cynthia Cockburn and many others forcefully showed in the 1980s. They are, rather, tied to particular versions of masculinity, only one component of which (albeit a large one) was concerned with the exclusion of women. More recently Priti Joshi in her case study of Edwin Chadwick (Victorian Literature and Culture (2004), 32:2: 353-370) and John Tosh more generally have shown that the relationship between masculinity and the practice of a profession was not always easy. What can the periodical press tell us about the construction of masculinity in particular professions? How does the relationship between the two change over the century? How are the masculinities associated with the established professions - themselves divergent from one another - different from emergent ones such as chemists or engineers?
The limited inroads that women made into medicine and teaching have been studied since before Martha Vicinus’s famous Independent Women (1985), but there is still room for more work on women and the professions. Why and how for example, were women kept out of the law or engineering altogether? Why were there only a half-dozen women architects in the Census of 1901 and just 19 accountants in 1911? Perusal of the relevant journals may suggest some answers. H. Byerley Thomson's The Choice of a Profession (1857) noted that music, art, literature and acting were professions already open to women. While work has already been done on how gender was negotiated in these occupations, periodicals such as Actors by Gaslight, the Art Journal, the Musical Times or the Journalist offer new and specific source material on how both women and men trod the gender tightrope at work.
Finally, we should like to direct attention to the place of advertisements in professional journals. While advertisers paid careful attention to the readership profile of publications they appeared in, we find unequivocally women's products advertised in periodicals directed to professions which only men practised. Does this signify only control of women's consumption by men, or are other explanations possible? Perhaps a study of contemporary advertisers’ manuals on where to place products may yield some answers. We raise this issue only as an example of how advertisements can yield many kinds of data relevant to the study of gender.
The recent appearance of the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (British Library/ Academia Press, January 2009) as well as the online resources of ncse, the British Library, Gale-Cengage and others will be a significant aid to identifying hitherto neglected periodical sources. In drawing attention to periodicals, to their fiction, their non-fiction and their adverts for this special issue, we are seeking to generate through a vast but hitherto largely invisible textual palette an ever more finely shaded and sharper picture of nineteenth-century gender relations at work.
Enquiries are welcome, as are completed articles. Please send either to Andrew King (andrew.king@canterbury.ac.uk) or Marysa Demoor (marysa.demoor@ugent.be).
Articles (5,000-8,000 word) should be in MLA format with a brief biographical note which will be posted if accepted for publication. To facilitate the peer review process, please send two files—one with your article void of any identifying information and another with your brief biographical note. The deadline for completed submissions is 31 May 2009.
We look forward to an exciting issue.
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is a peer-reviewed, online journal committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture. Contributions of 5,000-8,000 words are sought for a special number of NCGS on “Gender, the Professions and the Press” to be published in the summer of 2009.
In the nineteenth century, the professions made enormous use of journals and journalism to establish their collective identities. Taking advantage of the proliferation of online material from nineteenth-century periodicals, the special edition of NCGS we propose would focus on what periodicals and newspapers can tell us about the gendered aspects of these professional identities.
Jennifer Ruth in her Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel (Ohio State University Press, 2006) has argued provocatively that the novel attempted to theorise the professional in ways political economy failed to do. In fact, however, it is the periodical press that most extensively addresses the complex issues involved in professional identity. Of course the professions were discussed in fiction in periodicals (e.g. Trollope's "Editor's Tales" first published in St Paul's Magazine consider the role of the professional writer) and we should welcome discussion of the professions and gender in periodical fiction, but enormous numbers of non-fiction articles also appeared in general periodicals about all kinds of professions (E.M. Palmegiano's Health and British Magazines in the Nineteenth Century lists many concerned with the medical profession, for example, and the Wellesley Index is invaluable to locate material on other professions). Then again, hundreds of specifically professional periodicals arose with titles like the Accountant, Army and Navy Gazette, Builder, Engineer, Financial News, Missionary Chronicle, Schoolmaster and Schoolmistress. With varying degrees of detail, these portray lifestyles, working practices and networking procedures and etiquette besides the ostensible domain itself, providing rich and often unexpected insights into nineteenth-century gender relations.
The traditional professions of the church, law, medicine and the military were set up as exclusively male, and there was a strong patrilineal element in professional recruitment (sons either following fathers or entering a neighbouring profession). This of course does not mean these professions were or are “ungendered” as Anne Witz, Cynthia Cockburn and many others forcefully showed in the 1980s. They are, rather, tied to particular versions of masculinity, only one component of which (albeit a large one) was concerned with the exclusion of women. More recently Priti Joshi in her case study of Edwin Chadwick (Victorian Literature and Culture (2004), 32:2: 353-370) and John Tosh more generally have shown that the relationship between masculinity and the practice of a profession was not always easy. What can the periodical press tell us about the construction of masculinity in particular professions? How does the relationship between the two change over the century? How are the masculinities associated with the established professions - themselves divergent from one another - different from emergent ones such as chemists or engineers?
The limited inroads that women made into medicine and teaching have been studied since before Martha Vicinus’s famous Independent Women (1985), but there is still room for more work on women and the professions. Why and how for example, were women kept out of the law or engineering altogether? Why were there only a half-dozen women architects in the Census of 1901 and just 19 accountants in 1911? Perusal of the relevant journals may suggest some answers. H. Byerley Thomson's The Choice of a Profession (1857) noted that music, art, literature and acting were professions already open to women. While work has already been done on how gender was negotiated in these occupations, periodicals such as Actors by Gaslight, the Art Journal, the Musical Times or the Journalist offer new and specific source material on how both women and men trod the gender tightrope at work.
Finally, we should like to direct attention to the place of advertisements in professional journals. While advertisers paid careful attention to the readership profile of publications they appeared in, we find unequivocally women's products advertised in periodicals directed to professions which only men practised. Does this signify only control of women's consumption by men, or are other explanations possible? Perhaps a study of contemporary advertisers’ manuals on where to place products may yield some answers. We raise this issue only as an example of how advertisements can yield many kinds of data relevant to the study of gender.
The recent appearance of the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (British Library/ Academia Press, January 2009) as well as the online resources of ncse, the British Library, Gale-Cengage and others will be a significant aid to identifying hitherto neglected periodical sources. In drawing attention to periodicals, to their fiction, their non-fiction and their adverts for this special issue, we are seeking to generate through a vast but hitherto largely invisible textual palette an ever more finely shaded and sharper picture of nineteenth-century gender relations at work.
Enquiries are welcome, as are completed articles. Please send either to Andrew King (andrew.king@canterbury.ac.uk) or Marysa Demoor (marysa.demoor@ugent.be).
Articles (5,000-8,000 word) should be in MLA format with a brief biographical note which will be posted if accepted for publication. To facilitate the peer review process, please send two files—one with your article void of any identifying information and another with your brief biographical note. The deadline for completed submissions is 31 May 2009.
We look forward to an exciting issue.
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