| 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.
New Books on Literature 19, a project devoted to the timely reviewing of recent works in the field of nineteenth-century literature
Victorian Network is a new online journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best postgraduate work in Victorian Studies.
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Guarding Innocence: Moral Protectionism in Nineteenth Century Britain and America
3-4 Sep 2010, St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge
Representations of prostitution, sex work and sex trafficking between the 19th and 21st centuries
University of Exeter, 9th-10th September, 2010
"The Material Cultures of Periodicals"
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Annual Conference
Yale University, September 10-11, 2010
Damaging the Body: Gendering The Physical in Victorian Psychiatry
24th September 2010, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London
Victorians Institute Conference
By the Numbers: The Victorian Quantification of Everything; or From Zero to NINES in Under Two Centuries
October 1-3, 2010, University of Virginia
“Useful & Beautiful: The Transatlantic Arts of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites"
Conference and related exhibitions
7–9 October 2010, University of Delaware (Newark, DE) and Delaware Art Museum and the Winterthur Museum & Country Estate (Wilmington, DE)
2010 BrANCH Conference (British American Nineteenth Century Historians)
Jury's Inn, Liverpool, 8-10 October 2010
VISAWUS 15th annual conference:
Oceania and the East in the Victorian Imagination
October 28-30, 2010 - Honolulu, Hawai'i
Money/Myths
32nd Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association
March 3-6, 2011 at Arizona State University, Tempe & Phoenix, Arizona
Speaking Nature
INCS Conference
Mar 31-Apr 3, 2011, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
Victorian Epidemics
Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
Banff, Alberta April 29-30, 2011
W.T. Stead: Centenary Conference for a Newspaper Revolutionary
British Library, London, 16 and 17 April 2012
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