In honor of the June 30th deadline for this year’s JVC Graduate Prize Essay, we are offering free access to the published articles of several previous winners. Take a look at the exciting and innovative work done by these up and coming scholars! 2011 (17.3) Bob Nicholson “You Kick the Bucket; We Do the Rest!’: Jokes and the Culture of Reprinting in the Transatlantic Press’ 2009 (15.1) Tiffany Watt-Smith ‘Darwin’s Flinch: Sensation Theatre and Scientific Looking in 1872 2007 (13.1)
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JVC Graduate Student Essay Prize 2013–14
The Journal of Victorian Culture successfully inaugurated an essay prize competition in 2007, and our past winners include Louise Lee, Tiffany Watt-Smith, and Bob Nicholson whose essays appear in issues 13.1 (2008), 15.1 (2010) and 17.3 (2012). We are pleased to announce the next competition. The aim of the JVC Essay Prize is to promote scholarship among postgraduate research students working on the Victorian period in any discipline in the UK and abroad. The essay, which must be no longer
Read moreTiffany Watt-Smith, ‘Darwin’s Flinch: Sensation Theatre and Scientific Looking in 1872’
Tiffany Watt-Smith won the Journal of Victorian Culture Graduate Prize Essay Competition, 2009. Published in JVC 15.1, her fascinating article explores the similarities between scientific observation and theatrical spectatorship, beginning with Charles Darwin’s self-conscious recollection in his Expressions of the Emotions of how he flinched before a puff-adder at the London Zoological Gardens. The author examines how Darwin’s scientific meditation on emotional gesture and expression was influenced by sensational performances in the theatre and the ways in which he encouraged
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