Victorian Studies Centre Spring Seminar Series 2015
Read about our Spring Seminar Series 2015, featuring a fascinating range of papers and topics.
Charles Dickens, Christmas Ghost Stories, and Victorian Magic Lantern Shows
In this special Victorian Christmas post, Jonathan Potter discusses the connection between Dickens’s seasonal ghost stories, nineteenth-century visual technologies, and magic lantern entertainments.
Nineteenth-Century Eugenic Ideology in BBC’s Ripper Street: ‘Am I Not Monstrous?’
Ruth Ashton reviews a recent episode of BBC’s Victorian crime drama Ripper Street, discussing the show’s representation of disability, heredity, and eugenic ideology in the late nineteenth century.
Victorian Studies Annual Lecture 2013: Prof Kathryn Hughes on George Eliot
The annual Victorian Studies lecture this year will be given by Prof. Kathryn Hughes (University of East Anglia) with a lecture entitled ‘Biography and Body Parts: The Mysterious Case of George Eliot’s Right Hand’. Click here for more details.
Special Event with guest speaker Dr Saswati Halder on George Eliot and ‘Green Space’
The Victorian Studies Centre will host a special seminar with guest speaker Saswati Halder of Jadavpur University, who will be speaking about ‘The Wilderness of Green Space: George Eliot’s Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss’.
Conference Report – Charting the Crimean War: Contexts, Nationhood, Afterlives
PhD researcher Rachel Anchor provides a report of the recent conference ‘Charting the Crimean War: Context, Nationhood, Afterlives’, a collaboration between the University of Leicester and the National Army Museum in London.
“Against the Errors and Corruptions of Rome”: Shakespeare and the Victorian Anti-Catholics – Doctoral Inaugural Lecture, 13th March 2013
Victorian Studies Centre PhD graduate Dr. Anjna Chouhan provides one of this year’s doctoral inaugural lectures, on the subject of Shakespeare and Victorian Anti-Catholicism.
‘Disraeli: The Romance of Politics’ – Book Launch and Public Lecture
The Victorian Studies Centre is pleased to host a book launch and public lecture by Prof. Robert O’Kell to mark the release of his monograph ‘Disraeli: The Romance of Politics’.
Call for Papers: Charting the Crimean War: Contexts, Nationhood, Afterlives – Friday 28th June 2013, National Army Museum, London
The University of Leicester will host a conference on the legacy of the Crimean War in collaboration with the National Army Museum, London. Read the call for papers here.
Victorian Studies Spring Seminar Programme Announced
The Victorian Studies Centre is delighted to announce the programme for our upcoming annual Victorian Studies Spring Seminar series, featuring papers on Victorian India, Socialism in the nineteenth century, and Oscar Wilde.
Conference Report: ‘Victorian Persistence’, Université Paris Diderot
Rachel Anchor provides a report of the recent conference on ‘Victorian Persistence’, held at Université Paris Diderot.
Call for Papers: Nineteenth Century Numbers: British Association for Victorian Studies Annual Conference 2013
BAVS announce the call for papers for their 2013 annual conference on the subject of ‘Nineteenth-Century Numbers’. Read about the conference here.
Victorian Studies Annual Lecture 2012: Prof. Peter Mandler – ‘The Creative Destruction of the Victorian City’
Read a report of our recent annual Victorian Studies lecture, delivered by Prof. Peter Mandler (University of Cambridge) on ‘The “Creative Destruction” of the Victorian City’.
Picturing Nineteenth-Century Authors: from Austen to Brontë
Senior lecturer in Romantic and Victorian Literature Dr. Julian North discusses her current research on portraits of nineteenth-century authors – including Jane Austen, Lord Byron, and Charlotte Brontë.
Welcome to the Victorian Studies Centre Blog
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