Digital Forum – Journal of Victorian Culture Online

Just Like Us: Victoria, Albert and the middle-class family (part 1 of 4)

December 3, 2019 David Tomkins Digital Forum, Exhibitions, Published in JVC, Victorians Beyond the Academy, Victorians on Display

In behaving publicly much like members of the mid-nineteenth-century middle class, Victoria and Albert achieved great influence – both by making their subjects aspire to be like them, and by displaying their contemporaneity with those they ruled. This examination of aspects of the royal family’s domestic life, and of the image they presented to the nation, makes reference to selected diary entries and correspondence of Queen Victoria, and to imagery illustrating how Victoria and Albert might appear to their contemporaries almost as being ‘just like us’.

DIGITAL FORUM: ‘The Future of Academic Journals’ (21:1)

February 1, 2016 lucinda matthews-jones Digital Forum, Digitizing the Victorians, Published in JVC

‘The Future of Academic Journals’ edited by Zoe Alker, Christopher Donaldson and James Mussell. This Digital Forum offers perspectives on the opportunities and challenges presented by the use of digital technologies in academic publishing, networking and communication. It features position papers from three participants in the ‘Victorian Studies Journals: Coming of Age’ roundtable that convened at BAVS 2015: Lucinda Matthews-Jones, James Mussell and Helen Rogers. Collectively, these three scholars offer incisive reflections on the ways that scholars and publishers have

Timothy Alborn, ‘A Digital Window onto Writing History Research Notes’

October 9, 2015 lucinda matthews-jones Digital Forum, Digitizing the Victorians, Published in JVC

Timothy Alborn is Professor of History at Lehman College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He has published widely on British history in such journals as Victorian Studies, Journal of Victorian Culture, and Journal of Modern History; as well as two books: Conceiving Companies: Joint-Stock Politics in Victorian England (Routledge, 1998) and Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society, 1800-1914 (Toronto, 2009). His current research focuses on the cultural and financial history of gold in Great Britain

Susan E. Cook: Deep Reading the Victorians (Part 3 of 3)

December 2, 2014 lucinda matthews-jones Digital Forum

Susan E. Cook, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English Southern New Hampshire University In Part 1 and Part 2 of this post I described Nicholas Carr’s argument about digital vs. print reading, and described my own experience reading East Lynne using a nineteenth-century print edition rather than a more contemporary edition. It is my sense that Carr flattens out the print/digital reading question by treating each more or less monolithically, describing print reading as “deep” reading and digital as “shallow.”

Lara Rutherford-Morrison – A Book to Sink One’s Teeth Into: Part Two

October 8, 2014 lucinda matthews-jones Digital Forum, Published in JVC

Lara Rutherford-Morrison – University of California, Santa Barbara Part Two: Bringing the Body into the Digital Book. You can read part two here. When people talk about the downsides of e-books, they often complain that e-books lack a connection between reader and body—without the physical texture, weight, and smell of the book and its pages, the e-book can seem (forgive the pun) rather bloodless. Interactive e-book apps, like PadWorx’s Dracula: The Official Stoker Family Edition (2010), attempt to draw the body back into

Digital Forum: Open Access

December 23, 2013 lucinda matthews-jones Digital Forum, Published in JVC

Jim Mussell (University of Leeds) The British Government’s endorsement of the Finch Report (officially titled ‘Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications: Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings’) last year raised the profile of open access and it has remained on the agenda ever since. As the research ecosystem in the UK adapts, the underlying economics and politics of journal publication are under scrutiny as never before. While the Finch report’s

Thinking about Open Access in the Humanities and Social Sciences

July 9, 2013 lucinda matthews-jones Digital Forum

Katie McGettigan & Jo Taylor, Keele University JISC Conference: Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1-2 July 2013 So you spend three or four years chained to your computer. You read so many books and articles that your dreams start to conform to the MHRA style guide. You have moments of pure excited joy and (usually longer) moments of unadulterated despair. And at the end of it all, you produce your thesis, your article, or your book.

‘Stone of Venice’ Reading Group 2

May 19, 2013 lucinda matthews-jones Digital Forum

Information on the discussion group can be found here Vol. II. Chapter VI. The Nature of Gothic Leader: Jonathan Memel PhD Candidate, University of Exeter jogm201@exeter.ac.uk John Ruskin’s appendix to The Stones of Venice, ‘Modern Education’, provides a number of discussion points for Victorianists interested in education, training and democracy. Ruskin begins by attacking a model of education which prizes classical learning over applied, practical knowledge. He states that teaching should better prepare students for their role in the world.

Andrew Hobbs and Claire Januszewski, The Local Press as Poetry Publisher, 1800-1900

August 24, 2012 lisa hager Digital Forum

The local press as poetry publisher, 1800-1900 English local newspapers probably published around two million poems during the nineteenth century – more, if we include Scottish, Irish and Welsh papers. Although poetry in periodicals is acknowledged in recent research and scholarly databases, newspaper poetry has received less attention. Studies of working-class poets acknowledge in passing that much of their writing was first published in the local press, before moving on to more prestigious (but less widely read) publication in volume