Journal of Victorian Culture 27.3 is now online, featuring an exciting range of articles spanning topics from royal pregnancy to feminine hunting culture, libraries to the intertwined complexities of language, class and race in the nineteenth century. Travel is a prominent theme, with Sam Tett’s “‘Going home when it was not home’: Jamais Vu in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction” offering a literary history of jamais vu that demonstrates its importance as a ‘rich interdisciplinary category’ of great interest to scholars of the nineteenth century and beyond, while Farah Ghaderi and Himan Heidar’s “Performing the Self through Orientalizing the Kurds in Isabella Bird’s Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan” argues that travel writing offers a viable platform to perform a variety of selves. Aidan Cottrell-Boyce’s “‘Medical Popes’ and ‘Vaccination Protestants’: Anti-Catholicism and the Campaign against Compulsory Vaccination in Victorian England” is particularly topical, exploring anti-vaccination sentiment in the nineteenth century and noting how the Vaccination Acts of 1867 and 1871 were perceived, by some, as a violation of individual liberties.
The issue also features two free access articles: Louise Creechan’s “Killing the Letter: Alternate Literacies and Orthographic Distortions in Jude the Obscure” and Kathryn Gleadle and Beth Rodgers’ “A Library of Our Own Compositions’: The Minervian Library and Children’s Social Authorship in Victorian Orkney”.
Latest Issue:
Humbug and a ‘Welsh Hindoo’: A Small History of Begging, Race and Language in Mid-nineteenth Century Liverpool
Martin Johnes
Performing Plainness in Sarah Stickney Ellis’s Friends at Their Own Fireside: Or, Pictures of the Private Life of the People Called Quakers
Mona Albassam
From ‘a piece of grossness’ to ‘minute particularity’: Queen Victoria’s First Pregnancy in the British Press
Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge
Performing the Self through Orientalizing the Kurds in Isabella Bird’s Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan
Farah Ghaderi, Himan Heidari
‘Quite a pleasant little afternoon’s sport’: Imperial Femininity and Hunting Culture in Impressions of a Tenderfoot
Kristina Molin Cherneski
‘A Library of Our Own Compositions’: The Minervian Library and Children’s Social Authorship in Victorian Orkney
Kathryn Gleadle, Beth Rodgers
Killing the Letter: Alternate Literacies and Orthographic Distortions in Jude the Obscure
Louise Creechan
‘Going home when it was not home’: Jamais Vu in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Sam Tett
Ecumenism to Ontology: Stoker’s Theology of the Host
Madeline Potter
‘Medical Popes’ and ‘Vaccination Protestants’: Anti-Catholicism and the Campaign against Compulsory Vaccination in Victorian England
Aidan Cottrell-Boyce