| I'm not sure I strictly consider myself a Victorianist - my real field of interest is the early twentieth century: but it's impossible to think about sex after 1900 without giving quite a lot of attention to 'Victorianism', both as an enduring force and something to be reacted against. |
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| Victorian sex factoids: some much-reiterated canards | Victorian Psychiatry: some suggestions for reading |
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'The Other in the Mirror: Sex, Victorians and
Historians' a piece in progress about problems
and stereotypes in thinking about Victorian
sexuality now with expanded and updated bibliography |
'The Great Scourge': Syphilis as a medical problem and moral metaphor, 1880-1916 A paper written for and given at a Courtauld Institute Symposium, 23 May 1998: Le Grand Mort. Twentieth Century Bodies, Sexuality, Death and Degeneracy, and unlikely to appear anywhere in exactly this form. |
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My publications, and reviews and recommended reading of particularly Victorian relevance.
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Because so many people still ask the question, are there any papers of/where are the papers of
The National Register of Archives and ARCHON:
essential first resort to find out where UK archives are held.
Two useful subject gateway sites: Genesis: developing access to women's history sources in the British Isles, and Mundus: missionary-related research resources (UK).
Victorian medicine and health: some suggestions of sources at the Wellcome Library
Portcullis, gateway to the archives of Parliament
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Victoria Research Web: a plethora of resources for the Victorianist, including the archives of the VICTORIA e-list
British Association for Victorian Studies
Australasian Victorian Studies Association
Victorians Institute & Journal
The Victorian Turkish Bath
Malcolm Shifrin's information exchange
The Victorian Women Writers Project
Online, and highly accurate, transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, including anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. A wonderful source for hard-to-find texts.
The Victorian Dictionary
a guide to the social history of Victorian London
with the in-progress list of Top Victorians
THE OSCHOLARS:
An Electronic Journal for the Exchange of Information on Current Research, Publications and Productions concerning Oscar Wilde and his Circle: and several other online journals and websites of fin de siecle interest
Special edition devoted to the homoerotic novel Teleny
Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London
'the work of an international group of scholars now assembling a complex visual, textual, and statistical representation of Victorian London--the largest city of the nineteenth-century world and its first urban metropolis'
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
NINES: Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies
NCSE: nineteenth-century serials edition:
getting Victorian newspapers and periodicals online
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
'a peer-reviewed, online journal committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture'
North American Victorian Studies Association
19 - Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century: online journal
Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA)
Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies
Victorian Working-Class Women Poets Archive
At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901
Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN)
Planet Century 19
'a meta-blog that collects contents of select 19th century blogs. It is maintained by Kelly Searsmith, Ph.D.'
Bruce Rosen's idiosyncratic selection of short bits about elements of Victorian history
Victorian Shrines: museums dedicated to Victorians
Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. & U.K., 1815-1914
'Drawn from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections... images of the texts of more than 450 separately published trial narratives printed in the United States or the United Kingdom from 1815 until 1914.... divorce, domestic violence, adultery, bigamy, breach of promise to marry, and the custody of children... murder and rape. Featured are trials concerning the wealthy and the renowned.... The larger part of the collection, however, consists of the stories of ordinary men and women thrust into the
public eye when their marriages and love affairs went wrong, or their relationships did not conform to social standards.'
GladCAT
is an electronic research resource invaluable not just for Gladstone scholars, but for all students of nineteenth century literature and culture, as well as for historians of the book and of reading.
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Romantic Disorder: predisciplinarity and the Divisions of Knowledge 1750-1850
Birkbeck College, University of London, 18-20 Jun 2009
NEH
seminar: The Decadent 1890s: English Literary Culture and the Fin de Siècle
Clark Library, Los Angeles, June 22-July 25 2009
Gladstone Bicentenary International Conference 2009
5-8 Jul 2009, University of Chester
Swinburne: A Centenary Conference
Institute of English Studies, Senate House (London) on 10th-11th July, 2009
Joint meeting of the British Association for Victorian Studies and the North American Victorian Studies Association, Hosted by the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group
Past vs Present
13-15 July 2009, Churchill College Cambridge
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference
Victorian Networks & the Periodical Press
University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 21-22 August 2009
Victorian Popular Novelists 1860-1900
10-12 September 2009, Institute for English Studies, Senate House, University of London
Edward Bouverie Pusey and the Catholic Revival
14-17 September 2009, Ascot Priory, Berks UK.
British Aestheticisms: Sources, Genres, Definitions, Evolutions
Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, 2-3 October 2009
Victorians Institute conference
Creativity and the Arts in Victorian Culture
October 16 & 17, 2009, Converse College Spartanburg, SC
31st Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association
Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century
The University of Tampa, March 11-13, 2010, Tampa, Florida
Fashioning the Neo-Victorian: Iterations of the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg,8-10 April 2010
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