Month: May 2008

  • Darwin and the Evolution of Victorian Studies cfp

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    2009 is both the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species. Victorian Studies will mark the occasion with a special issue on “Darwin and the Evolution of Victorian Studies.” Since the publication of VS’s first Darwin issue in 1959, the study of Darwin and the relationship of his…

  • Society for Literature, Science and the Arts conference 2008

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    The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) will take place in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 13-16, 2008. The SLSA welcomes papers and panels on all topics of interest to SLSA members. This year, they also invite papers that touch on the theme of “Reiteration.” The deadline for…

  • Taylor, Jenny Bourne and Sally Shuttleworth (eds), Embodied Selves

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    Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts, 1830-1890, edited by Jenny Bourne Taylor and Sally Shuttleworth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998;repr. 2003). 456pp. £29 pb. ISBN 978-0198710424. Jenny Bourne Taylor and Sally Shuttleworth’s invaluable Embodied Selves achieves something quite different from Hunter and Macalpine’s seminal anthology Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry: 1535-1860 (1963). Taylor and Shuttleworth make…

  • Darwin, Tennyson and their readers conference

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    DARWIN, TENNYSON and their READERS: A Bicentenary Celebration, 1809 – 2009 A One-Day Conference to be held in Cambridge, Saturday 17th October 2009, 10am – 6pm. Plenary Speakers: Gillian Beer, George Levine Offers of Short Papers (20 minutes long) are invited. Please contact: Valerie Purton, Anglia Ruskin University (Valerie.Purton@anglia.ac.uk) by 1st October, 2008. 2009 will…

  • Lawlor, Clark, Consumption and Literature

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    Clark Lawlor, Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006). 248pp. £45 hb. ISBN  13: 978-0-230-02003. Clark Lawlor’s scholarly account of ‘consumption narratives’ is to be recommended as a well-informed and engaging contribution to the burgeoning field of interdisciplinary studies addressing the literary representation of disease. Consumption and Literature sets out…

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