Victorian Periodicals Review
@vpreditors.bsky.social
The only refereed journal that concentrates on the editorial and publishing history of Victorian periodicals.
Submissions: https://rs4vp.org/vpr.
Subscriptions: https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/victorian-periodicals-review
Submissions: https://rs4vp.org/vpr.
Subscriptions: https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/victorian-periodicals-review
VPR is seeking an Associate Editor to oversee book reviews and assist the editor with special features. This is a great opportunity for a #periodicals scholar looking to develop editorial and leadership skills. Applications are due December 15. Details at rs4vp.org/vpr-seeks-as... @rs4vp.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
VPR is seeking an Associate Editor to oversee book reviews and assist the editor with special features. This is a great opportunity for a #periodicals scholar looking to develop editorial and leadership skills. Applications are due December 15. Details at rs4vp.org/vpr-seeks-as... @rs4vp.org
Rachel Calder examines how The Bookseller #tradejournal laid the foundation for the communication and information system that remains at the heart of today’s global #publishing industry. Read about founder Joseph Whitaker’s innovative strategies in VPR 58.1: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
September 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Rachel Calder examines how The Bookseller #tradejournal laid the foundation for the communication and information system that remains at the heart of today’s global #publishing industry. Read about founder Joseph Whitaker’s innovative strategies in VPR 58.1: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
Drawing on a transatlantic archive, @miladaskalova.bsky.social explores the experience of time in asylum #periodicals. Learn how these publications served as instruments of both recalibration and resistance in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Drawing on a transatlantic archive, @miladaskalova.bsky.social explores the experience of time in asylum #periodicals. Learn how these publications served as instruments of both recalibration and resistance in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
Nilkantha Pal investigates the emergence of children’s #periodicals in Bengali literary culture. Learn how these vernacular periodicals helped shape a literary selfhood among Bengali middle classes from the 1870s onward: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org #ExpandingTheField
September 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Nilkantha Pal investigates the emergence of children’s #periodicals in Bengali literary culture. Learn how these vernacular periodicals helped shape a literary selfhood among Bengali middle classes from the 1870s onward: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org #ExpandingTheField
In VPR 58.1 @adeleguyton.bsky.social compares Pearson’s 1897 serialization of "The War of the Worlds" to #hgwells ’s later revisions for book publication. Discover how the serial narrator underscores the value of layperson experiences to scientific knowledge: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
In VPR 58.1 @adeleguyton.bsky.social compares Pearson’s 1897 serialization of "The War of the Worlds" to #hgwells ’s later revisions for book publication. Discover how the serial narrator underscores the value of layperson experiences to scientific knowledge: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
NEW ISSUE ALERT! It's a happy day when you find the latest VPR in your mailbox. This number includes the 2024 VanArsdel and Expanding the Field essays as well as articles on asylum periodicals and the bookselling trade. Treat yourself to some delightful reading: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55567 @rs4vp.org
September 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
NEW ISSUE ALERT! It's a happy day when you find the latest VPR in your mailbox. This number includes the 2024 VanArsdel and Expanding the Field essays as well as articles on asylum periodicals and the bookselling trade. Treat yourself to some delightful reading: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55567 @rs4vp.org
Congrats to yevhenyashchuk.bsky.social for his #VanArsdelPrize winning essay “‘A Special Correspondent of the Times Sends a Telegram from Odessa’: Kyiv Newspapers, Victorian Media, and the Translation of the International Crisis in 1875–78.” Learn about VPR’s prizes at rs4vp.org/awards. @rs4vp.org
August 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Congrats to yevhenyashchuk.bsky.social for his #VanArsdelPrize winning essay “‘A Special Correspondent of the Times Sends a Telegram from Odessa’: Kyiv Newspapers, Victorian Media, and the Translation of the International Crisis in 1875–78.” Learn about VPR’s prizes at rs4vp.org/awards. @rs4vp.org
Every issue of Victorian Periodicals Review includes reviews of new academic titles related to #periodicals studies. If you're a scholar interested in reviewing for VPR, just visit rs4vp.org/vpr to volunteer and indicate your areas of expertise. @rs4vp.org #RSVP2025
July 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Every issue of Victorian Periodicals Review includes reviews of new academic titles related to #periodicals studies. If you're a scholar interested in reviewing for VPR, just visit rs4vp.org/vpr to volunteer and indicate your areas of expertise. @rs4vp.org #RSVP2025
Drawing on #PeriodicalStudies, #narratology, and #MediaTheory, Camille Stallings reveals the structures of anti-working-class bias in a range of journalistic genres. See how narrative techniques shape public opinion about the working classes in VPR 57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
July 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Drawing on #PeriodicalStudies, #narratology, and #MediaTheory, Camille Stallings reveals the structures of anti-working-class bias in a range of journalistic genres. See how narrative techniques shape public opinion about the working classes in VPR 57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
Anne-Marie Millim considers how #Dickens ’s journals championed the view that only a native speaker can master a language. Learn how contributors to #HouseholdWords and #AllTheYearRound worked to implement a prestige language in VPR 57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
July 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Anne-Marie Millim considers how #Dickens ’s journals championed the view that only a native speaker can master a language. Learn how contributors to #HouseholdWords and #AllTheYearRound worked to implement a prestige language in VPR 57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
Annemarie McAllister examines the surprising success of the #Temperance Companion (1894–1901) in navigating the currents of the commercial market. Read about this weekly broadsheet’s adventurous female editor and its relationship to #NewJournalism in VPR57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
July 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Annemarie McAllister examines the surprising success of the #Temperance Companion (1894–1901) in navigating the currents of the commercial market. Read about this weekly broadsheet’s adventurous female editor and its relationship to #NewJournalism in VPR57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social analyzes how Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett's detective stories, published as a series in local papers, interrogate capitalism from a feminist and socialist viewpoint. Read more in VPR 57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
July 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social analyzes how Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett's detective stories, published as a series in local papers, interrogate capitalism from a feminist and socialist viewpoint. Read more in VPR 57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
In VPR 57.4, Ali Hatapçı @alihatapci.bsky.social examines how the Gardeners’ Chronicle, The Builder, and The Field presented general news content to their specialist readers. Learn more about the surprising role of news in transforming class #periodicals: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
July 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
In VPR 57.4, Ali Hatapçı @alihatapci.bsky.social examines how the Gardeners’ Chronicle, The Builder, and The Field presented general news content to their specialist readers. Learn more about the surprising role of news in transforming class #periodicals: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
VPR's special issue "Currents and Currencies in the #Victorian #PeriodicalPress" is out now! Huge thanks to guest editors Victoria Clarke (@vjctorianist.bsky.social) and Annemarie McAllister. Check out their intro essay: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
July 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
VPR's special issue "Currents and Currencies in the #Victorian #PeriodicalPress" is out now! Huge thanks to guest editors Victoria Clarke (@vjctorianist.bsky.social) and Annemarie McAllister. Check out their intro essay: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
The scholars and students behind “One More Voice” describe their work to identify, encode, publish, and analyze #BIPOC voices from #Victorian missionary #periodicals. See how this material can transform how we teach canonical texts like Jane Eyre in VPR 57.3: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
May 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The scholars and students behind “One More Voice” describe their work to identify, encode, publish, and analyze #BIPOC voices from #Victorian missionary #periodicals. See how this material can transform how we teach canonical texts like Jane Eyre in VPR 57.3: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
Leslee Thorne-Murphy describes her students’ research and editing work for the Victorian Short Fiction Project, a peer-reviewed digital anthology. Learn how to translate humanities skill sets to life beyond the academy in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
May 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Leslee Thorne-Murphy describes her students’ research and editing work for the Victorian Short Fiction Project, a peer-reviewed digital anthology. Learn how to translate humanities skill sets to life beyond the academy in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
Iain Crawford argues that undergraduate research experiences are ever more important for demonstrating the value of English studies. Learn how periodicals are especially well-suited sites for student research in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
May 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Iain Crawford argues that undergraduate research experiences are ever more important for demonstrating the value of English studies. Learn how periodicals are especially well-suited sites for student research in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
Rather than offering a lit survey framed by key contexts, Madeline B. Gangnes requires undergrads to actively excavate those contexts by reading non/fiction in periodicals. Check out VPR 57.3 to learn how digital #VictorianStudies courses can succeed at small colleges: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
May 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Rather than offering a lit survey framed by key contexts, Madeline B. Gangnes requires undergrads to actively excavate those contexts by reading non/fiction in periodicals. Check out VPR 57.3 to learn how digital #VictorianStudies courses can succeed at small colleges: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Melissa Free uses C19 children’s periodicals in undergrad classes to deepen student investment in the period and foster appreciation of the research process. Read about her research assignments for BOP and GOP in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org #VictorianStudies
May 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Melissa Free uses C19 children’s periodicals in undergrad classes to deepen student investment in the period and foster appreciation of the research process. Read about her research assignments for BOP and GOP in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org #VictorianStudies
In Megan Burke Witzleben’s gen ed course, students connect Victorian serials with modern mass media. Check out VPR’s new pedagogy issue to learn how she uses the London Journal’s 1863 serialization of Lady Audley’s Secret to undiscipline the classroom: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
May 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In Megan Burke Witzleben’s gen ed course, students connect Victorian serials with modern mass media. Check out VPR’s new pedagogy issue to learn how she uses the London Journal’s 1863 serialization of Lady Audley’s Secret to undiscipline the classroom: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
VPR’s special issue “Periodical Pedagogy Today” is out now! Thanks to guest editor Lindsy Lawrence @lmltelegraph.bsky.social for gathering a stellar set of essays on using 19th-c periodicals in the classroom. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org #VictorianStudies
May 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
VPR’s special issue “Periodical Pedagogy Today” is out now! Thanks to guest editor Lindsy Lawrence @lmltelegraph.bsky.social for gathering a stellar set of essays on using 19th-c periodicals in the classroom. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org #VictorianStudies
Brian Maidment, past president and friend of RSVP, passed away on Jan 28. This past summer, he spoke with Marysa Demoor for our Roots of RSVP series and reflected on a long career of studying mass circulation print culture. Read the interview in VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Brian Maidment, past president and friend of RSVP, passed away on Jan 28. This past summer, he spoke with Marysa Demoor for our Roots of RSVP series and reflected on a long career of studying mass circulation print culture. Read the interview in VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.bsky.social
Graham Law draws attention to the neglected journalistic careers of E.S. Dallas and J.C. Parkinson, including new discoveries of their work for the Daily News as special correspondents in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. Read it in VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Graham Law draws attention to the neglected journalistic careers of E.S. Dallas and J.C. Parkinson, including new discoveries of their work for the Daily News as special correspondents in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. Read it in VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.bsky.social
Carley Robertson analyzes the PMG’s claims that Babington White's Circe was plagiarized from a French novel. Though framed as a battle for literary integrity, PMG’s attacks reveal how gender influenced the literary marketplace. Read more in VPR 57.1-2 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Carley Robertson analyzes the PMG’s claims that Babington White's Circe was plagiarized from a French novel. Though framed as a battle for literary integrity, PMG’s attacks reveal how gender influenced the literary marketplace. Read more in VPR 57.1-2 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.bsky.social
Clare Burnett demonstrates that Australian newspapers published a more diverse range of fiction than imperial publishing regulations would suggest. Read about it in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Clare Burnett demonstrates that Australian newspapers published a more diverse range of fiction than imperial publishing regulations would suggest. Read about it in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.bsky.social