Dive into Kandola's article, "Political Censorship on the Late-Victorian Stage: Rereading Oscar Wilde’s Vera; or, the Nihilist[s]." Kandola investigates the tensions between artistic expression and political constraints in late-Victorian England. Link in bio.

Stop clowning and read Peter Andersson's "The Imperturbable Seriousness of the Circus Buffoon: The Shakespearean Clown on the Threshold of Modern Comedy.” Andersson explores the fascinating evolution of the clown and the shift from Georgian pantomime to the modern clown we know today. Link in bio.

More than just man’s best friend. Check out “(Un)muzzled: Dogs in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Fiction” where Olivia Krauze discusses the ways in which dogs are used as a method of representing unprocessed emotion in the mid-nineteenth century realist novel. Link in bio.

Colleen Ballard explores the implications of reading and, as a result, daydreaming in fin de siècle fiction. As it appears in Christy Carew (1880), daydreaming allowed for personal autonomy in response to societal control. Read here: jvc.oup.com/2021/11/25/d...

Maggie Kalenak's article in issue 28.2 examines how the 1840 Postal Duties Act affected middle class "romantic culture [and how] correspondence became a venue for...couples to create and explore their emotional, sensual, and sentimental selves." Read here: academic.oup.com/jvc/article/...

‘Consider yourself kissed’: Intimacy, Engagement, and Material Culture in Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class English Love Letters

Abstract. The passage of the Postal Duties Bill in 1840 and the implementation of the penny post expanded the epistolary lives of English men and women, pa

Looking for a post-Mother's Day read? Take a look at this article by Jessica Cox, where she connects breast-feeding in Victorian advice books with “Mansplaining.“🤰🏼 Read here: doi.org/10.1093/jvcu...

The relationships between writing for academia and writing for fandoms isn't new, as Jeanette Laredo's exploration of fan activity surrounding BBC's Sherlock shows. Dive back into this blogpost from the JVC archive! Read here: jvc.oup.com/2012/04/30/i...

Look at this blogpost from the archives! Written by Rosalind White, this post highlights the connection between Lewis Carroll's fear of childhood gluttony and Alice's misadventures with the fare in Wonderland. Read here: jvc.oup.com/2016/07/01/r...

In 21.4, Meegan Kennedy offers a commentary on open annotation in the classroom. Learn how open annotation provides a frequent, collegial assignment to help students gain the habit of turning to specific moments in texts. Read here: academic.oup.com/jvc/article/...

Open Annotation and Close Reading the Victorian Text: Using Hypothes.is with Students

Abstract. Observers of the digital humanities often see them as shifting literary study away from close reading. However, the digital humanities also prese

Image credit: Illustration from Puck, v. 37, no. 954, (1895 June 19), back cover. Copyright 1895 Keppler & Schwarzmann.