Victorian Periodicals Review
RSVP's flagship journal, the Victorian Periodicals Review, is the place to publish and to learn about the latest developments in the vibrant and rapidly expanding field of 19th-century media studies.  The VPR features special issues, book reviews, announcements, and the indispensible annual bibliography.  Subscription to VPR automatically enrolls you as a member of RSVP, one of the most distinguished, dynamic, and collegial scholarly organizations in the world today.  RSVP has deliberately kept the cost of individual subscriptions low in order to make the riches of this splendid journal available to as many readers as possible.  The student rate, good for three years, is an even better bargain.

Click here to subscribe to the VPR, or to renew.

If you have any questions about your VPR subscription, contact the Press at this address:

The Johns Hopkins University Press
P.O. Box 19966
Baltimore, MD 21211-0966 USA
Phone: 1-800-548-1784 or International +1 410 516 6987
Fax: (410)516-3866
Email: jrnlcirc @ press.jhu.edu 

Any questions about contributing to the VPR should be sent to the Editor, Professor Kathryn Ledbetter, at vpr AT rs4vp.org, or in writing at the following address:

Kathryn Ledbetter
Department of English
Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666-4616

If you are a publisher with a book you would like to see reviewed in the VPR, please contact Book Review Editor Solveig Robinson at book.reviews AT rs4vp.org, or write to her at

Solveig C. Robinson
Director, Publishing and Printing Arts Program
Department of English, Knorr 107
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, WA 98447 

Editorial Board

  • Robert Terrell Bledsoe (Professor of English, University of Texas at El Paso).
  • Laurel Brake (Professor Emeritus of Literature and Print Culture, Birkbeck, University of London).
  • Julie Codell (Professor of Art History and English, Arizona State University).
  • Edward H. Cohen (William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English, Rollins College).
  • Marysa Demoor (Professor of English, University of Gent).
  • David Finkelstein (Research Professor of Media and Print Culture, Queen Margaret University College).
  • Linda K. Hughes (Addie Levy Professor of Literature, Texas Christian University).
  • Louis James (Emeritus Professor of Victorian and English Literature, University of Kent).
  • Aled Jones (Sir John Williams Professor of Welsh History, Aberystwyth University).
  • Christopher Kent (Professor of History, University of Saskatchewan).
  • Andrew King (Senior Lecturer, Department of Media, Canterbury Christ Church University).
  • Patrick Leary (Victoria Research Web).
  • Brian Maidment (Professor of English, University of Salford).
  • Sally Mitchell (Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Temple University).
  • Barbara Onslow (University of Reading).
  • Linda H. Peterson (Professor of English, Yale University).
  • Joel Wiener (Emeritus Professor of History, City University of New York).
Special Issues of VPR

Fortieth Anniversary Issue. VPR 41.1 (Spring 2008). Rosemary T. VanArsdel, guest editor.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Part I. Prelude.
  • Rosemary T. VanArsdel: '"The Great Unexplored Continent of 19th-Century Studies": Victorian Periodicals (David De Laura, 1968)'.
  • Part II. The Editors.
  • Michael Wolff: 'In the Beginning'.
  • Dorothy Deering: 'The Victorian Periodicals Newsletter (VPN), January, April and July 1970'.
  • Rosemary Vanarsdel: 'Hanging On: James Ellis, et al, 1970-1973'.
  • Hans De Groot: 'An Old Editor Remembers: VPN/VPR at Toronto, 1973-85'.
  • Merrill Distad: 'From VPN to VPR: The Toronto Years, 1973-1984'.
  • Rosemary T. VanArsdel: 'Coming of Age: the Barbara Quinn Schmidt Years, 1985-1993'.
  • Richard Fulton: 'The Long Transition: 1993-1996'.
  • William H. Scheuerle: 'Victorian Periodicals Review: 29:4 (Winter 1996) to 37:3 (Fall 2004)'.
  • Part III. The Bibliographers.
  • J. Don Vann: 'The Pioneer Bibliography'.
  • Larry K. Uffelman: 'The RSVP Checklist & Me: A Personal History'.
  • Rosemary VanArsdel: 'Victorian Periodicals Review Annual Bibliographies'.
  • Part IV. Epilogue.
  • Kathryn Ledbetter: 'Today and Tomorrow: Meeting the Digital Challenge'.

Periodical Pedagogy. VPR 39.4 (Winter 2006). Teresa Mangum, guest editor.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Teresa Mangum: 'Periodicals, Pedagogy, and Collaboration'.
  • Part I. Frameworks for Periodical Studies.
  • Mark W. Turner: 'Time, Periodicals, and Literary Studies'.
  • Linda K. Hughes: 'Victorian Literature and Periodicals: Mid-Victorian Culture Wars and Cultural Negotiations, A Graduate Seminar'.
  • Andrea Kaston Tange: '"Becoming a Victorian Reader": The Serial Reading Process in the Modern Classroom'.
  • Jennifer Phegley, Madaline Guilfoil, Kristin Huston, Erin Speck, Robert Haselwander: 'Collaboration and the Periodical Press: Assigning a Group Project to Uncover Victorian Publishing Practices'.
  • Part II. Interdisciplinarity and Periodical Studies.
  • Julianne Smith: 'Victorian Drama and Undergraduate Periodical Research'
  • Leigh G. Dillard, Patricia Okker, Nancy Martha West: 'Teaching Illustrations and Periodicals: Three Scholars Share Their Ideas and Materials'.
  • Part III. The Political Geographies and Periodical Studies.
  • Susan David Bernstein: 'Periodical Partners: A Context for Teaching Victorian Literature and Science'.
  • Karen Margaret Steele, 'Studying the Artful Contenders of Empire: The Poetics of the Irish News'.
  • Julie F. Codell, 'Imperial Differences and Culture Clashes in Victorian Periodicals' Visuals: The Case of Punch'.
  • Rechelle Christie: 'An Undergraduate American Literature and Identity Course Looks East to Great Britain'.
  • Conclusion: From Classroom to Career.
  • Teresa Mangum: 'Periodicals to Pedagogy to the Profession of Literary Studies'.

Interdisciplinary Work and Periodical Connections. VPR 38.2 (Summer 2005). Andrea Broomfield, guest editor.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Andrea Broomfield: 'Interdisciplinary Work and Periodicals Connections: An Issue in Honour of Sally H. Mitchell'.
  • Maria Frawley: 'Behind the Scenes of History: Harriet Martineau and The Lowell Offering'.
  • Linda K. Hughes: 'Constructing Fictions of Authorship in George Eliot's Middlemarch, 1871-1872'.
  • Jennifer Phegley: 'Domesticating the Sensation Novelist: Ellen Price Wood as Author and Editor of the Argosy Magazine'.
  • Solveig C. Robinson: 'Expanding a "Limited Orbit": Margaret Oliphant, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and the Development of a Critical Voice'.
  • Talia Schaffer: 'Craft, Authorial Anxiety, and the "Cranford Papers"'.
  • Clare Cotungo: '"Stay Away from Paris!" Frances Trollope Rewrites America'.

Australian, New Zealand, and South African Periodicals. VPR 37 (Winter 2004). Rosemary VanArsdel, guest editor.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Rosemary VanArsdel: Introduction to Special Issue
  • Elizabeth Webby: 'Images of Europe in Two Nineteenth-Century Australian Illustrated Magazines'.
  • Brian Cheadle: 'South African Serial Publications of the Anglo-Boer War'.
  • Terry Barringer: 'What Mrs. Jellyby Might Have Read. Missionary Periodicals; A Neglected Source.
  • Graham Law: Savouring of the Australian Soil?: On the Sources and Affiliations of Colonial Newspaper Fiction'.
  • Lucy Sussex: '"Bobbing Around" James Skipp Borlaise, Adam Lindsay Gordon, and Surviving in the Literary Market of Australia, 1860s'.
  • Meg Tasker: 'Two Versions of Colonial Nationalism: The Australian Review of Reviews v. the Sydney Bulletin'.

The 19th-Century Press in India, VPR 37 (Summer 2004). Julie Codell, guest editor.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Julie F. Codell: 'Introduction: The Nineteenth-Century News from India'.
  • Máire ní Fhlathúin: 'The Campaign Against Thugs in the Bengal Press in the 1830s'.
  • Edwin Hirschmann: 'The Hidden Roots of a Great Newspaper: Calcutta's Statesman'.
  • Debapriya Paul: 'Hindoo Patriot and Hurish Chunder Mookerjea: A Study in Colonial Resistance'.
  • Krishna Sen: 'Lessons in Self-Fashioning: Bamabodhini Patrika and the Education of Women in Colonial Bengal'.
  • Peter H. Hoffenberg: 'Promoting Traditional Indian Art at Home and Abroad: The Journal of Indian Art and Industry, 1884-1917'.
  • Julie F. Codell: 'Getting the Twain to Meet: Global Regionalism in East and West: A Monthly Review'.
  • Krishna Sen and Debapriya Paul: 'Archival Press Project, English Department, University of Calcutta: The Calcutta Review'.

 
 
Home • About • Contact • Constitution • VPR • Conferences • Join • Bibliography • Awards • Members • Links
Last updated 12 March 2009. Report broken links to webmaster @ rs4vp.org.