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Neo-Victorian Studies & Digital Humanities Week 2013
Portion of Babbage's difference engine, Harper's New Monthly Magazine 30.175 (Dec. 1864): 34. In the following days, JVC Online will feature a week of posts devoted to the connections between...
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Over a series of emails in October our editor Lucinda Matthews-Jones (LMJ) interviewed the artist Anthony Rhys (AR) on his striking, harrowing and mesmerising artworks of ‘Upset Victorians’. Click here...
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Review: Dracula (2013)
Richard Gough Thomas (Manchester Metropolitan University) Purists may be offended that NBC’s Dracula re-envisions the Count as a ruthless anti-hero who, disguised as an American industrialist, wages a...
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Dracula and Bram Stoker – a novelist’s review
by Ann Victoria Roberts 'Dracula' cover 1909 edition Would Bram Stoker recognise the characters in Sky’s new TV series? I doubt it. But Dracula the TV series is just one more twist on a popular theme,...
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Michael Roberts, “Like Judas Writing the Acts of the Apostles’*: Greville’s...
By Michael Roberts Charles Greville, The Greville Journals, Vol. 1, 1888. (Author’s Photo with permission of Macquarie University Library) Personal diaries are generally welcomed as a godsend by...
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The Global and the Local: NAVSA/BAVS/AVSA Conference Report
By Barbara Franchi, University of Kent The city of Venice is a labyrinth where the most different cultures and civilizations have met for centuries. So, no location could be better for the first...
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Sarah Olwen Jones, ‘Bringing the Carlyles to Life: Public Intimacies of a...
The Carlyles' Home, 24 Cheyne Row, Chelsea (Illustrated London News, 1881) By Sarah Olwen Jones My recent article, ‘Staging the Interior: The Public and Private Intimacies of Thomas and Jane Welsh...
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Patrick Allan-Fraser: Victorian Artist, Architect, Author, Collector &...
by Duncan McLaren Signature of Charles Dickens at foot of a letter to Patrick Allan-Fraser dated 19th April 1858. I’ve just been the inaugural writer-in-residence at Hospitalfield near Arbroath. The...
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The Martin Chuzzlewit Support Group (Part 1 of 2)
By Susan E. Cook (Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH) and Elizabeth Coggin Womack (Penn State Brandywine) Martin Chuzzlewit Serial Cover A book club can be an opportunity to share the...
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Christmas Greetings
Neil Armstrong (Teesside University) Christmas Card, designed by J.C. Horsley for Sir Henry Cole, 1843. V&A Museum no. L.3293-1987 In 1908 the writer George Sturt reflected in his personal journal...
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