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The editors of Neo-Victorian Studies invite submissions from established and early career researchers and creative artists for the inaugural issue, to be published April-May 2008, on any topic related to the re-imagining of the nineteenth century from a twentieth/twenty-first century perspective. Contributions on the period’s cultural legacies in non-British contexts, e.g. Asian, African, North and South American frameworks, are equally welcome.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
theorising the neo-Victorian novel
intertextual/intervisual negotiations with the past
cultural traumas and practices of commemoration
refracting or ‘queering’ narratives of nation/empire
tracing patterns of environmental impact/destruction
the legacies of nineteenth century sexual politics
the heritage of Victorian social policy
rewriting histories of science and medicine
the biographical imagination
re-conceptualising children and childhood
the fascinations of criminality
spectrality, spiritualism, and the occult
the space of cultural memory/the sense of place
Submissions may include:
scholarly theoretical/critical articles of 6000-8000 words (plus bibliography)
short creative pieces (any genre)
polemical pieces
interviews
notices of work in progress
reviews of relevant critical and/or creative publications in the field
(for later issues) critical and/or creative responses to previous contributions
Please consult our website, for the journal's scope and aims and the submission guidelines.
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